Archive for February, 2008

Tax Collection by Type of Return 2006

Published by Catherine on February 24, 2008 in Bar Chart, Tax collection and United States. 2 Comments

From the IRS Tax Stats at a Glance, I have graphed the percent of returns compared to percent of dollars collected (before refunds), broken out by the type of tax: Individual, Employment, Corporate, Excise, Estate, and Gift.

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Infoplease.com

Published by Catherine on February 23, 2008 in New Data Sites. 0 Comments

Infoplease.com has a selection of data tables and articles on Poverty and Income in the United States. For example: Distribution of Household Income by Race

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Adoption of New Technology since 1900

Published by Catherine on February 18, 2008 in Consumption, Line Graph and United States. 11 Comments

Historical graph showing the adoption of new technologies in the United States (designed by Nicholas Felton that I found via the New York Times). For example look at percentage of households that had telephones over the last 100 years and compared this to the time it took for cellphones to be adopted.

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Comparing share of wealth by region/countries

Published by Catherine on February 10, 2008 in Africa, Americas, Asia, China, Europe, India, Pie chart and Wealth - Share of. 0 Comments

Instead of income this graph focuses on personal net worth. I found the pie chart at Metrics 2.0, depicting the share of personal wealth by region in 2000.

Regional wealth share

Average wealth amounted to $144,000 per person in the USA in year 2000, and $181,000 in Japan. Lower down among countries with wealth data are India, with per capita assets of $1,100, and Indonesia with $1,400 per capita.

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Highest Paid American Athletes 2007

Published by Catherine on February 3, 2008 in Athletes, Bar Chart and Income - Individual. 1 Comment

In honor of the the Super Bowl, I am posting Sports Illustrated’s Fortunate 50 top-earning American athletes (earnings include salary, winnings, bonuses, and endorsements). However, only one of the players in today’s game made the list, Tom Brady of the New England Patriots, Rank: 47.

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Income of United States, Japan, India, China, and Indonesia since 1500 magnifying glass

I found a nice table of this data on SportsColumn.com. Salaries are based on current or most recently completed seasons (exception: 2007 for NFL). For winnings-based sports (auto racing, golf, tennis), 2006 calendar year amounts used.

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