By the Numbers

“They’ll go back to being engineers after they’ve discovered that business school doesn’t make them millions of dollars. They’ll see the stock market doesn’t do them much good, so they might as well do something constructive.” – former banker Felix Rohatyn, responding to a question about the number of students choosing business school over engineering in the United States, in The New York Times Magazine

20

Percent of American women who had five or more children in 1976 (six percent had seven or more)

4

Percent who had five or more in 2006 (0.5 percent had seven or more)

9.8

Percent, the unemployment rate in Lee County, FL, which includes Fort Meyers, in November

7

Million dollars, the value of the nearly 3,000 marijuana plants confiscated in Lee County in 2008

14.3

Billion, the number of online videos that Internet users watched in the United States in December

30

Billion dollars, the estimated energy savings that have come as a result of California’s strict energy-efficient building codes since 1975

15

Billion dollars, the amount of money saved in energy bills each year because of federal refrigerator standards

Sources: United States Census Bureau; The New York Times; CNN.com; Rolling Stone