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objectives within and among Federal departments and agencies. It also controls the administration of the Federal budget, while routinely providing the President with recommendations regarding budget proposals and relevant legislative enactments.

OMB See Office of Management and Budget.

100-percent data Population and housing information collected from both the long form and the short form for every inhabitant and household in the United States, and tabulated for all geographic levels down to the census block. See also geographic hierarchy, long form, sample data, short form.

Organized territory Any area that lies within an established legal entity, such as a State, county, MCD, or incorporated place. See also unorganized territory.

Outlier See exclave.

Outlying Area An entity, other than a State or the District of Columbia, under the jurisdiction of the United States; for the 1990 census, this included American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, and several small islands in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. The Census Bureau treated other entities as outlying areas in earlier censuses. The Census Bureau uses Puerto Rico and the Outlying Areas to refer to these areas as a group.

Parish A type of governmental unit that is the primary legal subdivision of Louisiana, similar to a county in other States.

Parish governing authority district (PGAD) A type of nonfunctioning MCD found in Louisiana used for reporting decennial census data.

Part That portion of a geographic entity contained within some higher-level geographic entity, the boundary of which transects the first entity. See also administrative entity, geographic entity, geographic hierarchy, legal entity, statistical entity.

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