An authoritative guide for data on the economic, social, and political lives of Americans. Produced by the Census bureau, the Statistical Abstract provides exhaustive information from the 1997 Census, and gives complete up-to-date information on the United States from national, state, and regional levels.   This guide also contains more than 1,000 additional charts and tables covering every facet of American behavior, which are organized by age, state and geographical area and other variables. Information in this edition includes: population statistics by age, sex, race and metropolitan area; income, consumers expenditures and wealth distribution; vital information on births, teen births rates and infant mortality, deaths and marriages; law enforcement data including drug-related arrest rates, hate crimes, and delinquency cases, and banking and finances, debt, interest rates, and the stock and bond markets.