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Guide to economic indicators / Norman Frumkin.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frumkin, Norman.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic indicators--United States.
- Economic indicators.
- Business cycles.
- United States.
- Business cycles--United States--Statistics.
- United States--Economic conditions--Statistics.
- Economic conditions.
- Genre:
- Statistics.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2006]
- Contents:
- Data Sharing and Confidentiality of Federal Government Statistical Data xv
- 1 Average Weekly Earnings 3
- 2 Average Weekly Hours 7
- 3 Balance of Payments 11
- 4 Balance of Trade 17
- 5 Bank Loans: Commercial and Industrial 23
- 6 Bankruptcies: Personal 26
- 7 Capacity Utilization 31
- 8 Consumer Attitude Indexes 35
- 9 Consumer Credit 42
- 10 Consumer Credit Delinquency 45
- 11 Consumer Price Index 48
- 12 Corporate Profits 56
- 13 Distribution of Income 61
- 14 Distribution of Wealth 68
- 15 Employment 73
- 16 Employment Cost Index 84
- 17 Farm Parity Ratio 88
- 18 GDP Price Measures 92
- 19 Government Economic Transactions: Expenditures, Receipts, Surplus/Deficit 96
- 20 Gross Domestic Product 103
- 21 Help-Wanted Advertising Index 113
- 22 Home Sales: New and Existing Houses 117
- 23 House Prices: New and Existing Houses 122
- 24 Housing Affordability Index 128
- 25 Housing Starts 132
- 26 Housing Vacancy Rate 136
- 27 Import and Export Price Indexes 140
- 28 Industrial Production Index 144
- 29 Interest Rates 148
- 30 International Investment Position of the United States 155
- 31 Inventory-Sales Ratios 159
- 32 Job Gains and Losses 163
- 33 Job Openings and Labor Turnover 167
- 34 Leading, Coincident, and Lagging Indexes 171
- 35 Manufacturers' Orders 178
- 36 Mortgage Loan Applications 182
- 37 Mortgage Delinquency and Foreclosure 185
- 38 Non-Manufacturing Business Activity Index 188
- 39 PMI 191
- 40 Personal Income and Saving 195
- 41 Poverty 200
- 42 Producer Price Indexes 207
- 43 Productivity: Business Sector 213
- 44 Retail Sales 221
- 45 Selected Services Revenue 225
- 46 Stock Market Price Aggregates and Dividend Yields 229
- 47 Unemployment 238
- 48 Unit Labor Costs: Business Sector 251
- 49 Value of the Dollar 255
- Appendix Note on Sampling and Nonsampling Errors in Statistical Surveys 263.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-270) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles R. Anderson Endowment Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0765616467
- 0765616475
- OCLC:
- 60491935
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