Macroeconomic Time Series for the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and France / National Bureau of Economic Research.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 7644.

ICPSR ; 7644

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history--1918-.

Economic history.

Economic indicators.

United States.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

2007-03-26.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1984.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

This collection contains an array of economic time series data pertaining to the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, primarily between the 1920s and the 1960s, and including some time series from the 18th and 19th centuries. These data were collected by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and they constitute a research resource of importance to economists as well as to political scientists, sociologists, and historians. Under a grant from the National Science Foundation, ICPSR and the National Bureau of Economic Research converted this collection (which existed heretofore only on handwritten sheets stored in New York) into fully accessible, readily usable, and completely documented machine-readable form. The NBER collection -- containing an estimated 1.6 million entries -- is divided into 16 major categories: (1) construction, (2) prices, (3) security markets, (4) foreign trade, (5) income and employment, (6) financial status of business, (7) volume of transactions, (8) government finance, (9) distribution of commodities, (10) savings and investments, (11) transportation and public utilities, (12) stocks of commodities, (13) interest rates, and (14) indices of leading, coincident, and lagging indicators, (15) money and banking, and (16) production of commodities. Data from all categories are available in Parts 1-22. The economic variables are usually observations on the entire nation or large subsets of the nation. Frequently, however, and especially in the United States, separate regional and metropolitan data are included in other variables. This makes cross-sectional analysis possible in many cases. The time span of variables in these files may be as short as one year or as long as 160 years. Most data pertain to the first half of the 20th century. Many series, however, extend into the 19th century, and a few reach into the 18th. Th... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07644

Contents:

Part 1: Construction, Dataset 02A; Part 2: Construction, Dataset 02B; Part 3: Construction, Dataset 02C; Part 4: Prices, Dataset 04A; Part 5: Prices, Dataset 04B; Part 6: Security Markets, Dataset 11A; Part 7: Foreign Trade, Dataset 07A; Part 8: Income and Employment, Dataset 08A; Part 9: Income and Employment, Dataset 08B; Part 10: Income and Employment, Dataset 08C; Part 11: Financial Status of Business, Dataset 09A; Part 12: Volume of Transactions, Dataset 12A; Part 13: Government Finance, Dataset 15A; Part 14: Distribution of Commodities, Dataset 06A; Part 15: Savings and Investments, Dataset 10A; Part 16: Transportation and Public Utilities, Dataset 03A; Part 17: Stocks of Commodities, Dataset 05A; Part 18: Interest Rates, Dataset 13A; Part 19: Indexes of Leading, Coincident, and Lagging Indicators,Dataset 16A; Part 20: Money and Banking, Dataset 14A; Part 21: Production of Commodities, Dataset 01A; Part 22: Production of Commodities, Dataset 01B

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2008-01-04.

Start: 1785; and end: 1968.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.