What is New Hampshire? (A collection of data for those seeking answers)

There are many ways to describe New Hampshire and many ways to understand New Hampshire . By living and working here, we all come to understand the state through direct contact with its people, places, and politics.  This package of graphs, tables, and text captures the reality of New Hampshire in a different way: through things that can be measured, compared, and tracked over time.  The collection is a reference book that the Center compiled for the 2005 associates of Leadership New Hampshire.  Many of the graphs are from reports the NH Center for Public Policy Studies has published over the last few years.  Others come from the 2003 Kids Count report, the State Data Center operated by the NH Office of Energy and Planning, the US Census, and Governing Magazine’s most recent State and Local Source Book.  The final section of the package, starting on page 59, invites readers to consider the state’s tradition of local control by comparing their hometowns with other towns in the state.  The section includes instructions on how to navigate the US Census web page to access a host of information about “Our Towns.”

  What is New Hampshire, 2004 edition - October 2004