Guide to Economic Indicators

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780765604378
• ISBN10: 076560437X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-09-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The widely-used desk reference on the major statistical indicators of the U.S. economy is now revised and expanded with more than 40% new material, including 10 new indicators dealing with the economy's social impact, and updated tables on the 60-plus indicators covered in previous editions.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Preface	xii
Using this Book	xv
Average Weekly Earnings	3	(4)
Average Weekly Hours	7	(4)
Balance of Payments	11	(7)
Balance of Trade	18	(6)
Bank Loans: Commercial and Industrial	24	(4)
Bankruptcies: Personal	28	(5)
Business Failures	33	(5)
Business Optimism Indexes	38	(4)
Business Starts	42	(4)
Capacity Utilization	46	(5)
Consumer Attitude Indexes	51	(8)
Consumer Credit	59	(4)
Consumer Credit Delinquency	63	(4)
Consumer Price Index	67	(9)
Corporate Profits	76	(5)
CRB Futures Price Index	81	(4)
Distribution of Income	85	(7)
Distribution of Wealth	92	(7)
Employment	99	(13)
Employment Cost Index	112	(5)
Experimental Recession Indexes	117	(6)
Farm Parity Ratio	123	(5)
GDP Price Measures	128	(5)
Government Budgets and Debt	133	(11)
Gross Domestic Product	144	(11)
Growth Cycles	155	(7)
Help-Wanted Advertising Index	162	(4)
Home Sales: New and Existing Houses	166	(6)
Housing Affordability Index	172	(5)
Housing Starts	177	(4)
Import And Export Price Indexes	181	(5)
Industrial Production Index	186	(4)
Interest Rates	190	(8)
International Investment Position of The United States	198	(5)
Inventory-Sales Ratios	203	(5)
Job Quality Index	208	(5)
Leading, Coincident, and Lagging Indexes	213	(8)
Manufacturers' Orders	221	(4)
Money Supply	225	(5)
Mortgage Delinquency and Foreclosure	230	(4)
Non-Manufacturing Business Activity Index	234	(4)
Personal Income And Saving	238	(6)
Poverty	244	(8)
Producer Price Indexes	252	(8)
Productivity: Business Sector	260	(8)
Purchasing Managers' Index	268	(5)
Retail Sales	273	(4)
Stock Market Price Indexes and Dividend Yields	277	(12)
Unemployment	289	(8)
Unit Labor Costs: Business Sector	297	(4)
Value of The Dollar	301	(10)
Bibliography	311	(4)
Index	315