US Macroeconomic Data for 1959Q1 - 2009Q3
Number of Observations - 203
Number of Variables - 14
Variable name definitions:
year - 1959q1 - 2009q3
quarter - 1-4
realgdp - Real gross domestic product (Bil. of chained 2005 US$,
seasonally adjusted annual rate)
realcons - Real personal consumption expenditures (Bil. of chained 2005
US$,
seasonally adjusted annual rate)
realinv - Real gross private domestic investment (Bil. of chained 2005
US$, seasonally adjusted annual rate)
realgovt - Real federal consumption expenditures & gross investment
(Bil. of chained 2005 US$, seasonally adjusted annual rate)
realdpi - Real private disposable income (Bil. of chained 2005
US$, seasonally adjusted annual rate)
cpi - End of the quarter consumer price index for all urban
consumers: all items (1982-84 = 100, seasonally adjusted).
m1 - End of the quarter M1 nominal money stock (Seasonally adjusted)
tbilrate - Quarterly monthly average of the monthly 3-month treasury bill:
secondary market rate
unemp - Seasonally adjusted unemployment rate (%)
pop - End of the quarter total population: all ages incl. armed
forces over seas
infl - Inflation rate (ln(cpi_{t}/cpi_{t-1}) * 400)
realint - Real interest rate (tbilrate - infl)
Compiled by Skipper Seabold. All data are from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis [1] except the unemployment rate which was taken from the National Bureau of Labor Statistics [2].
[1] Data Source: FRED, Federal Reserve Economic Data, Federal Reserve Bank of
St. Louis; http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/; accessed December 15,
2009.
[2] Data Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor;
http://www.bls.gov/data/; accessed December 15, 2009.
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