Macroeconomic Data

General | GDP | Consumption | Investment | Government Spending | Net Exports | Saving | Jobs | Prices | Wages | Inequality | Money | Interest Rates | Dollar |

Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)
Economic Report of the President (Annual)

U.S. Census Bureau

Statistical Abstract of the United States (Annual)

Bureau of Economic Analysis

Bureau of Labor Statistics (data)

Resources for Economists

Gross Domestic Product and Its Components

Gross Domestic Product (Nominal, Real)

Real Potential Gross Domestic Product, an estimate of a theoretical concept

Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions, NBER

Components of GDP

• Consumption (nominal, real)
• Investment (nominal, real)
• Government Consumption Expenditures & Gross Investment (nominal, real)
• Net Exports (nominal, real)

National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) Tables (bea.gov)

A Guide to the NIPA's  (PDF)

A Guide to the NIPA's by Eugene P. Seskin and Robert P. Parker, Survey of Current Business, March 1998.

An article about how the U.S. Commerce Department actually measures GDP. This article contains links to the Commerce Department's valuable and exhaustive store of macroeconomic data on the U.S. economy from as far back as 1929.

Consumption

Disposable Personal Income (Nominal, Real)

Consumer Confidence Index

Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index

Interest Rates

Wealth

• Census Bureau (Tables)
• Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States, Federal Reserve.

• Real Estate: NAR, OFHEO-HPI,

• Dow Jones Averages

• World Distribution of Household Wealth, World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University

Government Finances

• Government Current Expenditures

• Government Current Receipts

• Net Government Saving ( = Receipts – Expenditures)

Saving

• Personal Saving (Nominal)

• Personal Savings Rate (= [Personal Saving / Disposable Personal Income] × 100)

• Gross Private Saving
• Gross Government Saving
• Gross Saving (= Gross Private Saving + Gross Government Saving)

Investment

Real Gross Private Domestic Investment (Nominal, Real)

Prices

• Consumer Price Index For All Urban Consumers (Monthly Data)
• Latest figures (BLS)
• Latest Consumer Basket (BLS)
• More detailed data (BLS)
• Adjusting for Inflation (Calculator)
• More Inflation Calculators (NASA)
• The Annual PNC Christmas Price Index

Consumer Price Indexes (CPI)
Producer Price Indexes (PPI)
BLS Handbook of Methods, Chapter 17. Consumer Price Indexes

Inflation

• University of Michigan Inflation Expectation

Productivity

Productivity Home Page, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor.

• Labor Productivity Home Page, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor.
• Multifactor Productivity Home Page, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor.

Jobs

• Civilian Labor Force

• Civilian Non-institutional Population

• Civilian Participation Rate ( = [Labor Force ÷ Population] × 100)

• Unemployed

• Civilian Unemployment Rate ( = [Unemployed ÷ Labor Force] × 100)

• Details (BLS, FRED)

Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS Handbook of Methods, Chapter 1. Labor force data derived from the Current Population Survey (Frequently Asked Questions)
Employment Comparisons by Race and Sex
Employment status of the civilian non-institutional population, 1939 to date
Employment status of the civilian non-institutional population 16 years and over by sex, 1970 to date

Inequality and Poverty

U.S. Historical Income Data, Census data

• mean and median income of households and families
• inequality among households and families

Poverty (Census Bureau)

Wages

Wages

May 2005 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates

U.S. Minimum Wage

• Changes over time
• Variation over states

Collective Bargaining

Money

Monetary Aggregates (M1, M2)

Money Multiplier (M1)

Monetary Trends
Discount Rate

Interest Rates

• Effective Federal Funds Rate

• Bank Prime Loan Rate

• 10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Rate

• 30-Year Conventional Mortgage Rate

Value of the Dollar

• Trade Weighted Exchange Index

• Exchange Rates

• Currency-wise

Foreign Transactions

• Exports (nominal, real)

• Imports (nominal, real)

• Balance on Current Account (nominal)

• U.S. Trade & International Transactions

• BEA

Compiled by UDAYAN ROY
November – December 2006