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Numbers on the Professional Speaking Industry
by Dan Poynter, CSP.
Fellow, Gold Coast Institute
http://speakingstatistics.com/sites/para/speaking/index.cfm

Here are some interesting facts and figures about the professional speaking industry. (For statistics on the Parachute Skydiving industry, see Parachute Statisics).

Sources are noted when known. Many of the statistics reference web sites or email addresses. These are the people and organizations that originally published the information. The statistic is not necessarily on the referenced site. Contact the person or organization through the email address or web site for more information on the number.

Before quoting a statistic, it is strongly recommended that you contact the source and verify the number. We may have misinterpreted the data. The sites usually have far more information on the industry than what we quoted. Acquire background information including how the statistics were obtained.

Some statistics are dated; they are the latest we could find. Historical numbers can be compared with current ones to forecast trends. Figures are for the United States unless otherwise noted.

You may repeat any of these numbers as long as you cite http://speakingstatistics.com/sites/para/resources/statistics.cfm and the reference, if noted, as the sources. Remember, without this Document, you would not have found the statistic.

Outlook—State of the Industry

"The health of the meetings industry mirrors that of business and the economy in general. Increased meetings, particularly those requiring international travel, are fuel for a worldwide economic engine and are signs of continued steady growth in the meetings industry in 2005 and its supporting effect on a stabilizing, recovering world economy."
--Meeting Professionals International, Futurewatch 2005 survey.
http://www.mpiweb.org/aboutmpi/home/futurewatch2005.pdf

"While two years ago, 32 percent of planners reported the need to cancel a meeting, only 20 percent of planners canceled in 2004. Furthermore, only 28 percent of planners had a meeting that failed to fulfill its room commitment in 2004, down from 37 percent two years ago. And where food and beverage were concerned, only 13.6 percent had a meeting that failed to reach contracted levels, down from 20.6 in 2002."
--Successful Meetings "State of the Industry Report". --
http://www.successmtgs.com/successmtgs/images/pdf/2005SOI.pdf

The size of the meetings industry

Figures may be for small intra-company meetings up to large conventions.

2004: $102.3 billion (USD) is spent on business meetings and events, worldwide. The meetings industry is expected to grow again in 2005, with increases in key areas, including budgets, employment, employee training, proposal activity, number of attendees per meeting or event and expenditures per meeting or event.
--MPI Futurewatch 2005 survey.
http://www.mpiweb.org/aboutmpi/home/futurewatch2005.pdf

Approximately 11 million meetings occur in the U.S. each and every day. Most professionals attend a total of 61.8 meetings per month
-- Effective Meetings, http://www.effectivemeetings.com/meetingbasics/meetstate.asp referencing a network MCI Conferencing White Paper. Meetings in America: A study of trends, costs and attitudes toward business travel, teleconferencing, and their impact on productivity (Greenwich, CT: INFOCOMM, 1998), 3.

37% of employee time is spent in meetings.
-- National Statistics Council
http://e-meetings.mci.com/meetingsinamerica/uswhitepaper.php3

More than 50% of meeting time is wasted.
-- Effective Meetings, http://www.effectivemeetings.com/meetingbasics/meetstate.asp referencing Robert B. Nelson and Peter Economy, Better Business Meetings (Burr Ridge, IL: Irwin Inc, 1995), 5.

Most professionals who meet on a regular basis admit to
Daydreaming: 91%
Missing meetings: 96%
Missing parts of meetings: 95%
73% say they have brought other work to meetings
39% say they have dozed during meetings
-- Effective Meetings, http://www.effectivemeetings.com/meetingbasics/meetstate.asp referencing A network MCI Conferencing White Paper, Meetings in America: A study of trends, costs and attitudes toward business travel, teleconferencing, and their impact on productivity (Greenwich, CT: INFOCOMM, 1998), 10.

The number of meetings is increasing. 46% of those polled agreed.
-- Effective Meetings, http://www.effectivemeetings.com/meetingbasics/meetstate.asp referencing A network MCI Conferencing White Paper. Meetings in America: A study of trends, costs and attitudes toward business travel, teleconferencing, and their impact on productivity (Greenwich, CT: INFOCOMM, 1998), 3.

2005: "In the last two years, the number of meetings held in all categories increased by margins ranging from nearly 30 percent to more than 183 percent."
--Successful Meetings "State of the Industry Report". -- http://www.successmtgs.com/successmtgs/images/pdf/2005SOI.pdf

2001: Total spending for the meeting and convention industry was $102.3 billion, as determined by the total value of output delivered to final demand as a result of delegate, association, exhibitor, corporate and incentive traveler expenditures.
--Convention Industry Council
Http://www.conventionindustry.org

Meeting size (attendance

2004: Sales meetings down 21%
Conventions down 23.2%
Training and education increased 25%
--Successful Meetings "State of the Industry Report". -- http://www.successmtgs.com/successmtgs/images/pdf/2005SOI.pdf

Budgets for meetings

2003: -1%
2004: +3%
2005: +5% (forecast)
--MPI Futurewatch 2005 survey.
http://www.mpiweb.org/aboutmpi/home/futurewatch2005.pdf

2005. Meeting planners reported their budgets
72% Remained the same or increased
26% Budgets increased
6% Budgets climbed more than 10%
But corporate planners expected a decrease.
http://www.meetingsfocus.com/displayarticle.asp?id=4578

2005 International budgets for meeting planners
European: +6.5%
Canadian: +5%
U.S.: +4.6%
--MPI Futurewatch 2005 survey.
http://www.nsaspeaker.org/media_center/speaking_stats.shtml

2004: Meeting planners in the U.S., Canada and Europe project an overall average meetings budget decrease of 1.1 percent in 2004 vs. 2003.
U.S. planners alone project a 1.7 percent decline in average meetings budgets.
--MPI Futurewatch 2005 survey.
http://www.mpiweb.org/aboutmpi/home/futurewatch2005.pdf

2003: Most NSA members say speaking budgets are shrinking.
--National Speakers Association
http://www.nsaspeaker.org/2003_survey_results.shtml

2002: Meeting revenue dropped 6.4 percent, on average but is projected to stabilize in 2003.
--Convene magazine's "13th Annual Meetings Market Survey," http://www.pcma.org/resources/convene/archives/displayArticle.asp?ARTICLE_ID=4700

Average meeting budget
2000: $225,410
2002: $214,481
--Successful Meetings "State of the Industry Report". http://www.successmtgs.com/successmtgs/images/pdf/2005SOI.pdf

2004: The medical industry seems to be the healthiest in terms of
meetings, while manufacturing seems the weakest.
planners expect training and education meetings to see the biggest boost in 2005,
--Successful Meetings "State of the Industry Report". -- http://www.successmtgs.com/successmtgs/images/pdf/2005SOI.pdf

How did Association meeting budgets compare in 2003 over 2002?
43% up
38% no change
21% down
--Convene magazine's "13th Annual Meetings Market Survey," http://www.pcma.org/resources/convene/archives/displayArticle.asp?ARTICLE_ID=4700

Training budgets

2004: +5%
2005: +7%
--MPI Futurewatch 2005 survey.
http://www.mpiweb.org/aboutmpi/home/futurewatch2005.pdf

2004: Organizations spent more on training; most was spent on customer-service employees.
Hours of formal training increased to 28 to 38 hours per employee.
--ASTD 2004 State of the Industry Report
http://www.astd.org/NR/rdonlyres/49A44CD8-2A3E-471F-B80E-42504F4A1726/0/SOIR_2004_Executive_Summary.pdf

Amount spent on professional speakers

2002. There was a 32 percent increase in budgets for speakers.
--Successful Meetings "State of the Industry Report". -- http://www.successmtgs.com/successmtgs/images/pdf/2005SOI.pdf

Speakers and entertainment account for
2003: 8.6%
2004. 9.3%
of expenditures for events sponsored by associations.
--Convene magazine's "13th Annual Meetings Market Survey," http://www.pcma.org/resources/convene/archives/displayArticle.asp?ARTICLE_ID=4700

2003. 71% of the survey respondents of the NSA membership said the average fees for the services professional speakers provide were the same or higher in 2003 as compared to 2002.
--National Speakers Association
http://www.nsaspeaker.org/media_center/speaking_stats.shtml

2004. Average expenditure for speakers per meeting.
Corporate: $4,330.
Association: $9,316
--Successful Meetings "State of the Industry Report". -- http://www.successmtgs.com/successmtgs/images/pdf/2005SOI.pdf

What professional speakers charge

Average: $3,500, plus travel.
Emerging speakers: $500, plus travel.
Non-celebrity speakers: $1,000 to $5,000, plus travel
Experienced and nationally-recognized speakers: $5,000 to $100,000.
--National Speakers Association
http://www.nsaspeaker.org/media_center/speaking_stats.shtml

2003: (See the charts on the NSA web site for fees charged for keynotes, breakouts, training, public seminars, facilitation, coaching and consulting).
--National Speakers Association
http://www.nsaspeaker.org/2003_survey_results.shtml

Number of meetings

2004: Meeting planners in the U.S., Canada and Europe forecast a growth in the number of meetings.
--MPI Futurewatch 2005 survey.
http://www.mpiweb.org/aboutmpi/home/futurewatch2005.pdf

90% of all planners expect to hold the same or more meetings in 2005.
http://www.meetingsfocus.com/displayarticle.asp?id=4578

Number of attendees--Audience size

2003:
64.4% of NSA members reported their average audience size was less than 100 attendees.
--National Speakers Association http://www.nsaspeaker.org/media_center/speaking_stats.shtml
http://www.nsaspeaker.org/2003_survey_results.shtml

2004: +5%
2005: +6%
--MPI Futurewatch 2005 survey.
http://www.mpiweb.org/aboutmpi/home/futurewatch2005.pdf

2005: Attendance during the 12 months prior to the survey appears to be rising.
Association and independent planners: 28% reported an increase; up from 6% who reported an increase in 2004.
Independent planners: 27% reported an increase; up 7.5% from 2004
Corporate planners: 24% reported an increase; up 6.6% from 2004.

Types of presentations preferred

NSA members most often address corporation and association audiences.
--National Speakers Association
http://www.nsaspeaker.org/media_center/speaking_stats.shtml
http://www.nsaspeaker.org/2003_survey_results.shtml

2004. 75% of attendees find informational speakers more appealing and 50% find panel discussions and motivational speakers more appealing.
-- Meetings and Conventions 2004 attendee survey, http://www.nsaspeaker.org/media_center/speaking_stats.shtml

2003: Percent of NSA members who provided.
81.4%: Keynote and general session presentations
76.6%: Training
76.1%: Breakout sessions
--National Speakers Association
http://www.nsaspeaker.org/media_center/speaking_stats.shtml

2005: Program breakouts.
Association planners choosing activity options.
Golf +18%
Spousal programs: +12.9%
Casino outings: +5.8%
Attractions & theme parks: +13.2%
Spa activities: +12.1%

Corporate planners choosing activity options.
Golf: -11%
Spousal programs: -4.3%
Casino outings: -5.8%
Spa activities: -9.4%

Independent planners choosing activity options.
Casino/Gaming activities: +6.3%
--Meetings Focus
http://www.meetingsfocus.com/displayarticle.asp?id=4578

81 percent of meeting planners prefer to book or hear motivational speakers, industry leaders or business executives.
-- Meeting Professional International's (MPI) 2004 online survey.
http://www.nsaspeaker.org/media_center/speaking_stats.shtml

2004: Learning content was delivered to:
Managerial and executive development
Information technology
Business processes
Industry-specific content.
In that order.
--ASTD 2004 State of the Industry Report
http://www.astd.org/NR/rdonlyres/49A44CD8-2A3E-471F-B80E-42504F4A1726/0/SOIR_2004_Executive_Summary.pdf

Lead time for planning meetings

Domestic programs: Meeting planners start organizing
Management meetings 15.4 weeks out
Sales gatherings 16.1 weeks
Training meetings 20.5 weeks
Incentives 28.3 weeks
Conventions 44.5 weeks.

International meetings have longer lead times in all categories, from
23.1 weeks for sales to 49.0 for conventions.
--Successful Meetings "State of the Industry Report". -- http://www.successmtgs.com/successmtgs/images/pdf/2005SOI.pdf

2003: A majority of NSA members say that lead times are shrinking.
--National Speakers Association
http://www.nsaspeaker.org/2003_survey_results.shtml

2005: Meetings are not being booked as far in advance.
http://www.meetingsfocus.com/displayarticle.asp?id=4578

Meeting planners who use the Internet as a planning tool

2000: 41%
2002: 55%
"Planners know that Web familiarity is vital, and are correspondingly hungry for knowledge."
--Successful Meetings "State of the Industry Report". -- http://www.successmtgs.com/successmtgs/images/pdf/2005SOI.pdf

Venues-Geographic

2005: 23% of U.S. meetings are held outside the U.S.; up 1% from 2004.
6% Europe
5% Canada
3% Central America
2% South America
3% Asia

29% (forecast) of Canadian meetings are held outside of Canada; 13% in the U.S.
--MPI Futurewatch 2005 survey.
http://www.mpiweb.org/aboutmpi/home/futurewatch2005.pdf

2005: U.S. meeting planners selected
9% Convention centers
11% Restaurants, country clubs, & unique venues
10% Conference centers and universities
15% Airport & Suburban hotels
25% Resort hotels
32% City Hotels

--MPI Futurewatch 2005 survey.
http://www.mpiweb.org/aboutmpi/home/futurewatch2005.pdf

Tele-Conferencing (Audio, Video & Web)

In 2004, face-to-face meetings were being replaced with Web casting, teleconferencing, videoconferencing or satellite broadcasts.
58% confirmed that teleconferencing was substituting for some meetings while 49 percent reported the same increase for videoconferencing.
--Successful Meetings "State of the Industry Report". -- http://www.successmtgs.com/successmtgs/images/pdf/2005SOI.pdf

2003-2004. More than half of technology-based delivery was online and at least 75 percent of online learning was self-paced.
Projected increase for 2004 is 29-35%.
--ASTD 2004 State of the Industry Report
http://www.astd.org/NR/rdonlyres/49A44CD8-2A3E-471F-B80E-42504F4A1726/0/SOIR_2004_Executive_Summary.pdf

Video-conferencing units shipped (U.S.)
1996: 300,000
1997: 1.4 million
-- Effective Meetings, http://www.effectivemeetings.com/meetingbasics/meetstate.asp referencing Sam Greengard, "Videoconferencing: Making the Right Connections," in Beyond Computing, par. 21 [online magazine] (1997 [cited 14 April 1999]); available from World Wide Web at http://www.beyondcomputingmag.com/archive/1997/11%2D97/connect.html

A five-person meeting conducted in-person (involving plane travel for four of the attendees) is more than seven times more expensive than a meeting conducted by audio-conference, and nearly three times as expensive as a videoconference:
In-person meeting $5,197.50
Audio-conference $ 689.24
Video-conference $1,700.69
--MCI Conferencing whitepaper. See this document for more figures.
http://e-meetings.mci.com/meetingsinamerica/uswhitepaper.php3

2003: The overall market for live e-learning applications and services will increase 30 percent in 2004 giving it a three-year compound average growth rate of 22.7 percent, and making it the fastest growing sector of the overall corporate training market by a substantial margin.
--The Simba Report and quoted by
http://www.webex.com/pr/pr314.html

2004: 56.3% of meeting planners believe that the use of alternative meeting means, such as Web-, video-, and tele-conferencing, will increase in the next year.
--Successful Meetings "State of the Industry Report". -- http://www.successmtgs.com/successmtgs/images/pdf/2005SOI.pdf

2004: Size of the teleconferencing industry.
Audio-conferencing market: $2.1 billion,
Video-conferencing market: $285 million
Web-conferencing market: $119 million. The Web conferencing market is the fastest growing almost quadrupling in size every year, and will touch $2.8 billion in 2005.
–Forbes

The $2.9 billion global teleconferencing market is growing at almost 48 percent a year and will touch almost $10 billion in 2005.
–Wainhouse Research

830,000 desktop videoconferencing systems worldwide are used in business..
–Presentations Magazine

North American businesses will be paying out $2.8 billion on streaming video technology by 2005, up from a lowly $140 million last year.
–Jupiter Media Metrix

The US represents 86 percent of the audio-conferencing market worldwide market.
–TeleSpan Publishing Corporation

2000: The web-conferencing market and its vendors experienced a nearly 178 percent rate.
–Frost & Sullivan

Web-conference users by year
2000: 13.4 million
2001: 30 million
2005: 161 million (estimate).
--International Data Corp. as reported in
–The Industry Standard

--ConferZone
http://www.conferzone.com/about/download/cz_stat.pdf

PowerPoint usage

More than 400 million copies of the program are currently in circulation.
20 to 30 million PowerPoint-based presentations are given around the globe each day.
--Tad Simons, Presentations.com
http://www.presentations.com/presentations/delivery/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000482464

2003: Survey on what audiences found most annoying about the PowerPoint presentations they saw.
The speaker read the slides to us 60.4%
Text so small I couldn't read it 50.9%
Full sentences instead of bullet points 47.8%
Slides hard to see because of color choice 37.1%
Moving/flying text or graphics 24.5%
Annoying use of sounds 22.0%
Overly complex diagrams or charts 22.0%
--Dave Paradi
http://www.communicateusingtechnology.com/articles/pptsurvey_article.htm

Number of professional speakers

The National Speakers Association (NSA) has
1973: 80 members (founding year)
1980: 1,620 members
2003: 3,500 members.

NSA's membership increased by 20 percent in 10 years.
(The number of members dropped when membership requirements were raised).
--National Speakers Association
http://www.nsaspeaker.org/media_center/speaking_stats.shtml
http://www.nsaspeaker.org/chapters/index.shtml

2004: Toastmasters International charters its 10,000th club and have more than 200,000 members in 90 countries.
--Toastmasters International
http://www.toastmasters.org/artisan/detail.asp?CategoryID=1&SubCategoryID=4&ArticleID=25&Page=1

2004: NSA has 36 local chapters in the United States.
--National Speakers Association.
http://www.nsaspeaker.org/search/chapter_directory.xpl

2004: CAPS has 11 chapters in Canada
--Canadian Association of Professional Speakers.
http://www.canadianspeakers.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=7

Who are professional speakers?

2003: Ages of NSA membership
46.6% are between the ages of 46 and 55.
--National Speakers Association
http://www.nsaspeaker.org/media_center/speaking_stats.shtml
http://www.nsaspeaker.org/2003_survey_results.shtml

2003: Gender of NSA members
52.3% male
47.7% female.
--National Speakers Association
http://www.nsaspeaker.org/2003_survey_results.shtml

2003: Most NSA members have been speaking professionally more than 10 years.
--National Speakers Association
http://www.nsaspeaker.org/2003_survey_results.shtml

2003: Educational background of NSA members.
35.2% Masters degree
13.5% Doctorates
--National Speakers Association
http://www.nsaspeaker.org/2003_survey_results.shtml

2003: 64.5% of NSA members are full-time speakers.
--National Speakers Association
http://www.nsaspeaker.org/2003_survey_results.shtml

2003: NSA members get more than half of there bookings from bureaus and agents.
--National Speakers Association
http://www.nsaspeaker.org/2003_survey_results.shtml

2003: Most NSA members give between 20 and 50 presentations each year.
--National Speakers Association
http://www.nsaspeaker.org/2003_survey_results.shtml

2005: Less than 10% of the speakers who are members of the International Federation for Professional Speakers hold the Certified Professional Speaker (CSP) designation.
--National Speakers Association
http://www.nsaspeaker.org/find_speaker/why_csp.shtml

2005: 18 Canadians have qualified for the Certified Professional Speaker (CSP) designation.
--Canadian Association of Professional Speakers.
http://www.canadianspeakers.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=38

Professional speaker income

2003: The annual personal income of 28 percent of NSA members is between $75,000 and $150,000 with 10.2 percent in excess of $200,000.
--National Speakers Association http://www.nsaspeaker.org/media_center/speaking_stats.shtml

Speaking frequency

2002: 47% of NSA members conducted an average of 35 speaking engagements annually.
--National Speakers Association http://www.nsaspeaker.org/media_center/speaking_stats.shtml

The business of speaking

2003: NSA members.
Nearly four in five members own their own speaking business.
79.1 percent work out of their homes.
--National Speakers Association http://www.nsaspeaker.org/media_center/speaking_stats.shtml

Fifty-eight percent of the respondents do not have any staff. Among those who do have staff members, the typical staff size is one person.
--National Speakers Association http://www.nsaspeaker.org/media_center/speaking_stats.shtml

Hotel occupancy rates

2004 (first 10 months): up 3.7 percent over the same period in 2003.
--Smith Travel Research (STR), Hendersonville, TN. As reported in Meetings Focus
http://www.meetingsfocus.com/displayarticle.asp?id=4578

Length of meetings

Meetings are getting shorter and more is being packed into each day.
http://www.meetingsfocus.com/displayarticle.asp?id=4578

Who are the meeting planners?

2000: 18.5% men
2002: 31% men
2004: 38% men
--Successful Meetings "State of the Industry Report". -- http://www.successmtgs.com/successmtgs/images/pdf/2005SOI.pdf

2005: Meeting planners
82% Women; up 3.4% over 2004.

2005: Independent planners
56% Women; up 13% over 2004
--http://www.meetingsfocus.com/displayarticle.asp?id=4578

2004: Meeting Professional International has 17,200 members
--Presentations.com
http://www.presentations.com/presentations/business_resources/industry_links.jsp#iapp

The language of professional speaking

Professional Speaking is English-language based. Country associations are members of the International Federation of Professional Speakers. In each country English is either the first or second language.

2005 FEDERATION MEMBERS
Australia
Canada
Malaysia
New Zealand
Singapore
South Africa
United Kingdom
United States

2005 FEDERATION CANDIDATES
South Korea
The Netherlands

--National Speakers Association
http://www.nsaspeaker.org/chapters/if_contacts.shtml

Books , by the way, are English-language based. Both entertainment (fiction) and information (nonfiction) are predominantly in English. For Example, go into a bookstore in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , and almost all the books are in English.

1/3 of the books in the world are sold in the US
47% are sold in the US , Canada and the UK .
-- Para Publishing.
http://speakingstatistics.com/sites/para/resources/statistics.cfm

Web use is dominated by the English language 2004:
35.2% English
13.7% Chinese
9% Spanish
6.9% German
4.2% French
3.9% Korean
3.8% Italian
3.1% Portuguese
1.7% Dutch
--Global Reach
http://global-reach.biz/globstats/index.php3

For additional statistics and information on the professional-speaking industry, see the sites referenced above and

Asian Association of Convention & Tourist Bureaus.
http://www.aacvb.org/

Convention Industry Council
http://www.conventionindustry.org/

Data on Meeting & Events
http://www.domeresearch.com/html/about.htm

ESI International
http://www.esi-intl.com/public/index.asp

European Federation of Conference Towns
http://www.efct.com/

International Association of Assembly Managers
http://www.iaam.org/

International Association of Convention & Tourist Bureaus
http://www.iacvb.org/iacvb/index.asp

International Association of Professional Congress Organisers
http://www.iapco.org/

International Congress & Convention Association
http://www.iccaworld.com/spps/sitepage.cfm?catid=32&expNav=1
http://www.iccaworld.com/spps/sitepage.cfm?catID=33%20&expnav=1

International Institute of Learning
http://www.PMsolutions.com/

Joint Meetings Industry Council
http://www.conventionindustry.org/

Meeting Professionals International
http://www.mpiweb.org/

PM Solutions
http://www.PMsolutions.com/

Project Management Institute.
http://www.pmi.org/info/default.asp

Society of Incentive and Travel Executives
http://www.site-intl.org/

Union of International Associations
http://www.uia.org/

World Tourism Organization
http://www.world-tourism.org/

The Meeting Planners Handbook, Working with Speakers.
http://www.meetingnews.com/meetingnews/cp/amex/index.jsp

Successful Meetings
http://www.successmtgs.com/successmtgs/reports_analysis/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000819444

Meeting News
http://www.meetingnews.com/meetingnews/reports_analysis/index.jsp

Convene ; the journal of the PCMA
http://www.pcma.org/resources/convene/archives/displayArticle.asp?ARTICLE_ID=4700

Other Sources for Statistics of all types.

American Demographics
http://www.adage.com/section.cms?sectionId=195

An independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion.
http://www.pollingreport.com/

Gallup Organization
http://www.Gallup.com/poll/

Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/home.htm

CIA Fact book download
http://www.cia.gov/cia/download2002.htm

FedStats
http://www.fedstats.gov/
United States Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau.
http://www.census.gov/

Bureau of Justice Statistics
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/

National Center for Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/

National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

Bureau of Transportation statistics
http://www.bts.gov/

National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr

UK Statistics
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/default.asp

"There are three kinds of statistics: lies, damned lies and statistics"
—Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman.

Questions about the professional speaking industry?
Contact Dan Poynter , CSP.
805-968-7277
DanPoynter@ParaPublishing.com
http://speakingstatistics.com/sites/para/speaking/index.cfm
© Dan Poynter , 2005