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New Ga. Guide Now Available from UGA

The 2008 Georgia County Guide is now available for purchase from the University of Georgia.

This annual guide, now in its 26th edition, is compiled by UGA’s Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development, a unit of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. The public information in the book comes from 90 federal, state and private agencies.

Using more than 1,400 variables, it provides the latest figures on agriculture, courts and crime, economics, education, government, health, housing and households, labor, natural resources, population, public assistance, transportation and vital statistics for all of Georgia’s 159 counties and the state.

According to Sue Boatright, a CAES research coordinator and the guide’s editor, the guide "has evolved over time to become the premier source of county-level data.”

The information is commonly used by realtors, educators, political consultants, county planners and architects and many others to make community decisions, she said.

“It provides a snapshot of a county using a broad spectrum of data,” Boatright said. “The guide is a valuable tool for planners and decisions makers.”

Information is free online at www.georgiastats.uga.edu. The book costs $20 and past editions are available. Microsoft Excel spreadsheets of all of the data in the book cost $50.

To order, go to the Web site www.countyguide.uga.edu, or send a request and check to the Office of Communications, 117 Hoke Smith Annex, Athens, GA 30602-4356.