"c VAR 0134 02010 BLD PMTS 830-933 MD= 1E-37 " "c REF 0134 LOC 1186 WIDTH 9 DK 19 COL 62-70 " "c EXP DEC= 1 " "c " "c VALUE OF BUILDING PERMITS PER CAPITA, AS PER CENT OF TREND, " "c RIGGLEMAN (CONSTANT DOLLARS) " "c ----------------------------------------------------------- " "c " "c NBER SERIES: 02010 " "c AREA COVERED: U.S., 3 TO 65 CITIES " "c UNITS: 1913 DOLLARS PER CAPITA AS PERCENT OF TREND (SEE " "c BELOW) " "c ANNUAL COVERAGE: 1830-1933 " "c QUARTERLY COVERAGE: NONE " "c MONTHLY COVERAGE: NONE " "c SEASONAL ADJUSTMENT: NONE " "c SOURCE: JOHN R. RIGGLEMAN,"VARIATIONS IN BUILDING ACTIVITY " "c IN UNITED STATES CITIES," UNPUBLISHED PH.D. DISSERTATION, " "c THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, 1934. " "c " "c NOTES: THE BASIC DATA FOR THIS SERIES AND FOR SERIES 02009 " "c AND 02254 ARE RIGGLEMAN'S COMPILATIONS AND ESTIMATES OF THE " "c VALUE OF BUILDING PERMITS FOR AN INCREASING NUMBER OF U.S. " "c CITIES. IN THE EARLY YEARS THEY ARE LARGELY ESTIMATES, BASED " "c MAINLY ON OTHER INFORMATION, SUCH AS REAL ESTATE VALUATIONS. " "c VALUE FIGURES ARE FOR RESIDENTIAL AND NONRESIDENTIAL " "c BUILDING COMBINED, INCLUDING ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS. " "c THE DATA COVER MANHATTAN, BOSTON, AND WASHINGTON, D.C., " "c FROM 1830 THROUGH 1848. THE COVERAGE THEN INCREASES " "c GRADUALLY TO A TOTAL OF TEN CITIES BY 1868, AND TO " "c SIXTY-FIVE CITIES FOR 1900 AND SUBSEQUENT YEARS (FOR " "c SPECIFIC CITIES COVERED EACH YEAR, SEE COLEAN AND NEWCOMB, " "c "STABILIZING CONSTRUCTION: THE RECORD AND POTENTIAL," (NEW " "c YORK, 1952), APPENDIX N, TABLE 4, FN. C, P. 240.) THE " "c SERIES ARE DOMINATED BY MANHATTAN BEFORE 1870, AND TO SOME " "c EXTENT FOR A FEW YEARS AFTER THAT. " "c SERIES 02009 REPRESENTS THE AGGREGATE VALUE OF BUILDING " "c PERMITS IN THE CITIES COVERED, DIVIDED BY A COMBINED " "c POPULATION ESTIMATE FOR THESE CITIES. THE POPULATION " "c ESTIMATES ARE BASED ON CENSUS FIGURES, WITH STRAIGHT-LINE " "c INTERPOLATION BETWEEN CENSUS YEARS. " "c THIS SERIES REPRESENTS THE PER CAPITA FIGURES IN SERIES " "c 02009, DEFLATED BY A COST INDEX (1913 = 100), AND EXPRESSED " "c AS PERCENTAGES OF THE ORDINATES OF A LONG-TERM LINE. THE " "c COST INDEX WAS CONSTRUCTED BY RIGGLEMAN USING " "c AMERICAN APPRAISAL CO. INDEXES. "ENGINEERING NEWS-RECORD" " "c INDEXES, AND, FOR EARLIER YEARS, A COMBINATION OF BUILDING " "c WAGE RATES AND SOFTWOOD LUMBER PRICES. SEE COLEAN AND " "c NEWCOMB, "STABILIZING CONSTRUCTION", APPENDIX N, TABLE 4, " "c FN. B, P. 240. " "c SEE ALSO LIPSEY & PRESTON, PP. 249-250. " "c " "c ORIGINALS MISSING; NOT PROOFREAD. " "c ............................................................... " -1 1830. 1933. 50.7000 66.9000 100.500 119.900 131.400 138.200 181.000 87.7000 73.9000 66.3000 57.4000 59.2000 49.5000 43.5000 49.5000 60.0000 82.9000 103.600 103.000 116.800 143.600 150.300 167.400 173.500 162.400 149.700 152.900 140.600 89.7000 95.9000 102.500 67.9000 58.8000 70.7000 42.2000 60.6000 82.2000 95.3000 110.200 119.100 119.000 126.600 98.6000 95.5000 81.6000 82.2000 68.1000 62.9000 55.1000 64.1000 71.0000 82.3000 92.8000 100.500 105.700 118.600 122.300 126.000 120.400 143.400 158.000 137.800 141.700 103.800 92.9000 117.800 97.1000 104.500 87.2000 101.900 70.4000 99.2000 97.5000 95.8000 107.800 135.200 134.400 114.200 102.200 143.100 124.900 121.300 131.500 105.800 94.3000 94.5000 100.000 50.7000 25.4000 60.6000 54.7000 82.9000 142.900 139.500 138.300 165.900 152.900 138.700 126.100 110.600 61.9000 52.0000 22.4000 16.3000