"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"c              IN UNITED STATES CITIES," UNPUBLISHED PH.D. DISSERTATION,     "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           ...............................................................  "