"c VAR 0133 02009 BLD PMTS 830-933 MD= 1E-37 " "c REF 0133 LOC 1177 WIDTH 9 DK 19 COL 53-61 " "c EXP DEC= 2 " "c " "c VALUE OF BUILDING PERMITS PER CAPITA, RIGGLEMAN (CURRENT " "c DOLLARS) " "c -------------------------------------------------------- " "c " "c NBER SERIES: 02009 " "c AREA COVERED: U.S., 3 TO 65 CITIES " "c UNITS: CURRENT DOLLARS PER CAPITA " "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ADJUSTMENT: NONE " "c SOURCE: JOHN R. RIGGLEMAN,"VARIATIONS IN BUILDING ACTIVITY " "c IN UNITED STATES CITIES," UNPUBLISHED PH.D. DISSERTATION, " "c THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, 1934.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 02010 " "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, " "c BASED MAINLY ON OTHER INFORMATION, SUCH AS REAL ESTATE " "c VALUATIONS. VALUE FIGURES ARE FOR RESIDENTIAL AND " "c NONRESIDENTIAL BUILDING COMBINED, INCLUDING ADDITIONS AND " "c ALTERATIONS. THE DATA COVER MANHATTAN, BOSTON, AND " "c WASHINGTON D.C., FROM 1830 THROUGH 1848. THE COVERAGE THEN " "c INCREASES 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 SERIES " "c ARE DOMINATED BY MANHATTAN BEFORE 1870, AND TO SOME EXTENT " "c FOR A FEW YEARS AFTER THAT. " "c THIS SERIES 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 SEE LIPSEY & PRESTON, PP. 249-250. " "c " "c ORIGINALS MISSING; NOT PROOFREAD. " "c ............................................................... "