NBER Macrohistory: VI. Distribution of Commodities

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VI. Distribution of Commodities

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db dat doc a06073 U.S. Consumer Outlay, Total, in Current Prices 1919-1943
db dat doc a06074 U.S. Consumer Outlay, Total, in Constant 1929 Prices 1919-1943
db dat doc a06075 U.S. Consumer Outlay, Perishable Goods, in Constant 1929 Prices 1919-1943
db dat doc a06076 U.S. Consumer Outlay, Semi-Durable Goods, in Constant 1929 Prices 1919-1943
db dat doc a06077 U.S. Consumer Outlay, Durable Goods, in Constant 1929 Prices 1919-1943
db dat doc a06078 U.S. Consumer Outlay, Services, in Constant 1929 Prices 1919-1943
db dat doc a06080 U.S. Consumer Outlay, Perishable Goods, in Current Prices 1919-1943
db dat doc a06081 U.S. Consumer Outlay, Semi-Durable Goods, in Current Prices 1919-1943
db dat doc a06082 U.S. 1919-1943
db dat doc a06083 U.S. Consumer Outlay, Services, in Current Prices 1919-1943
db dat doc m06001a U.S. Retail Trade Index 07/1914-12/1919
db dat doc m06001b U.S. Retail Trade Index 01/1919-12/1927
db dat doc m06002a U.S. Index of Department Store Sales, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1919-12/1946
db dat doc m06002a2 U.S. Department Store Sales, Adjusted For Trend, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1939-04/1944
db dat doc m06002aa U.S. Department Store Sales, Adjusted For Trend and Price Changes, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1919-04/1940
db dat doc m06002ab U.S. Index of Department Store Sales 1919-1963 01/1919-12/1963
db dat doc m06002b U.S. Index of Department Store Sales 01/1919-12/1963
db dat doc m06002ba U.S. the Physical Volume of Department Store Sales, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1919-04/1944
db dat doc m06002c U.S. Deflated Purchases of Department Stores 02/1919-08/1939
db dat doc m06002d U.S. Deflator For Department Store Sales 01/1919-04/1944
db dat doc m06003a U.S. Index of Mail Order House Sales, Adjusted For Trend and Price Change, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1919-12/1943
db dat doc m06003aa U.S. Catalog Sales, Total Sales, Two Mail Order Houses 01/1911-12/1919
db dat doc m06003ab U.S. Catalog Sales, Total Sales, Two Mail Order Houses 01/1919-12/1944
db dat doc m06003ac U.S. Catalog Sales, Total Sales, Two Mail Order Houses 01/1945-01/1957
db dat doc m06003ad U.S. Total Sales, Catalog and Store, Two Mail Order Houses 01/1956-01/1959
db dat doc m06004a U.S. Index of Sales By Five and Ten Cent Variety Store Chains, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1919-03/1934
db dat doc m06004b U.S. Index of Sales By Five and Ten Cent Variety Store Chains, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1929-11/1943
db dat doc m06004c U.S. Sales By Variety Chain Stores, Firms With Four Or More Stores 01/1935-12/1951
db dat doc m06004d U.S. Sales By Variety Store Chains, Firms With Eleven Or More Stores 01/1951-08/1956
db dat doc m06005 U.S. Index of Sales Per Store, Variety Chain Stores 01/1919-03/1940
db dat doc m06006 U.S. Vendor Performance, Percent Reporting Slower Deliveries 01/1946-02/1967
db dat doc m06007a U.S. Restaurant Chains, Sales Per Store 01/1920-12/1923
db dat doc m06007b U.S. Three Restaurant Chains, Average Sales Per Restaurant 01/1923-11/1938
db dat doc m06008a U.S. Sales By Grocery Chain Stores, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1919-12/1943
db dat doc m06008b U.S. Sales By Grocery Chain Stores 01/1935-12/1951
db dat doc m06008c U.S. Sales of Grocery Chain Stores 01/1951-05/1956
db dat doc m06009 U.S. Variety Chain Store Sales, Adjusted For Trend, Price, and Seasonal Changes 01/1919-12/1943
db dat doc m06010 U.S. Sales of Chain Shoe Stores, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1919-08/1929
db dat doc m06011 U.S. Sales of Retail Chain Stores, Drug Chains, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1919-12/1929
db dat doc m06012a U.S. Index of Wholesale Trade Sales, Nine Lines 01/1919-12/1928
db dat doc m06012b U.S. Wholesale Total Sales, Eight Lines, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1923-12/1929
db dat doc m06013 U.S. Index of Wholesale Trade, Groceries Sales 01/1919-12/1929
db dat doc m06014 U.S. Index of Wholesale Trade Sales, Meats, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1921-12/1929
db dat doc m06015 U.S. Index of Wholesale Trade Sales, Dry Goods, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1919-12/1930
db dat doc m06016 U.S. Index of Wholesale Trade, Men's Clothing Sales 01/1919-12/1929
db dat doc m06017 U.S. Wholesale Trade Index, Boots and Shoes 01/1919-12/1929
db dat doc m06018 U.S. Wholesale Trade Index, Drugs 01/1920-12/1930
db dat doc m06019 U.S. Index of Wholesale Distribution, Furniture Sales 01/1921-12/1929
db dat doc m06020 U.S. Index of Wholesale Trade, Hardware Sales 01/1919-12/1930
db dat doc m06021 U.S. New Orders of Merchant Pig Iron 01/1919-12/1926
db dat doc m06022 U.S. New Orders of Steel Sheets 01/1919-12/1936
db dat doc m06024 U.S. U.S. Steel Corporation, Unfilled Orders, End of Month 06/1910-09/1933
db dat doc m06026 U.S. New Orders of Locomotives, Including Undated Orders FIRST, 1941 - FOURTH, 1961 01/1941-12/1955
db dat doc m06027aa U.S. New Orders of Freight Cars 01/1913-12/1941
db dat doc m06027ab U.S. New Orders of Freight Cars FIRST, 1941-SECOND, 1953; FOURTH, 1953-FIRST, 1955 01/1941-07/1964
db dat doc m06028a U.S. Orders of Railroad Passenger Cars FIRST, 1920-SECOND, 1942 01/1920-05/1920, 07/1920, 09/1920-10/1920, 12/1920-01/1921, 03/1921-04/1921, 07/1921-08/1921, 10/1921, 12/1921-09/1942
db dat doc m06028b U.S. New Orders of Passenger Train Cars FIRST, 1934 - FIRST, 1957 01/1934-07/1964
db dat doc m06029 U.S. Index of Orders For Machine Tools and Forging Machinery 01/1919-06/1947
db dat doc m06030 U.S. New Orders of Bath Tubs 04/1917-12/1931
db dat doc m06031 U.S. Lavatories, New Orders 04/1917-12/1931
db dat doc m06032 U.S. Sinks, New Orders 04/1917-12/1931
db dat doc m06033 U.S. Miscellaneous Sanitary Ware, New Orders 04/1917-12/1931
db dat doc m06035 U.S. New Orders of Architectural Terra Cotta 01/1919-06/1940
db dat doc m06036a U.S. Sales Books, New Orders 01/1919-12/1935
db dat doc m06036b U.S. Sales Books, New Orders 01/1935-08/1942
db dat doc m06037 U.S. Sales of Ironing Machines 01/1933-11/1939
db dat doc m06042 U.S. Manufacturers' Sales of Electric Household Refrigerators 07/1930-07/1939
db dat doc m06046 U.S. Index of Wholesale Trade Sales, Groceries 01/1923-12/1938
db dat doc m06047 U.S. Index of Wholesale Trade Sales, Drugs 01/1923-12/1938
db dat doc m06048 U.S. Index of Wholesale Trade Sales, Shoes 01/1923-08/1933
db dat doc m06049 U.S. Index of Wholesale Trade Sales, Dry Goods 01/1923-03/1935
db dat doc m06050 U.S. Index of Wholesale Trade Sales, Electrical Supplies 01/1928-12/1938
db dat doc m06051 U.S. Index of Wholesale Trade Sales, Hardware 01/1923-12/1938
db dat doc m06052 U.S. Index of Wholesale Trade Sales Of Groceries 01/1920-11/1942; 01-11/1943
db dat doc m06053 U.S. Index of Wholesale Trade Sales Of Groceries 01/1923-01/1940
db dat doc m06054 U.S. Sales of Twenty-Four Wholesale Grocery Firms 01/1926-12/1937
db dat doc m06056 U.S. New Orders, Fabricated Steel Plate 01/1923-06/1940
db dat doc m06057 U.S. Magazine Advertising, Linage 01/1912-07/1958
db dat doc m06058a U.S. Index of Total Advertising, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1914-12/1943
db dat doc m06058b U.S. Index of Total Advertising, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1943-12/1946
db dat doc m06058c U.S. Index of Total Advertising, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1944-12/1953
db dat doc m06058d U.S. Index of Total Advertising, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1953-08/1958
db dat doc m06059 U.S. Index of Wholesale Sales Of Shoes, Revised, Deflated, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1919-12/1942
db dat doc m06060 U.S. Pairs of Shoes Sold At Retail, Seasonally Adjusted FIRST, 1926-FOURTH, 1941 01/1926-12/1941
db dat doc m06061 U.S. Retail Sales of Shoes 01/1926-02/1942
db dat doc m06062 U.S. Index of Wholesale Sales Of Shoes, Revised 01/1919-12/1942
db dat doc m06063 U.S. Ratio of Unfilled Orders To Shipments, Manufacturers Of Durable Goods, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1953-09/1968
db dat doc m06064 U.S. Manufacturer's Unfilled Orders, Total, Narrow Version I, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1953-10/1968
db dat doc m06065 U.S. Manufacturer's Unfilled Orders, Total, Narrow Version Ii, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1953-09/1968
db dat doc m06066a U.S. Manufacturers' Unfilled Orders, All Industries 01/1947-12/1960
db dat doc m06066b U.S. Manufacturers' Unfilled Orders, All Industries, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1947-09/1968
db dat doc m06067 U.S. Manufacturers' Unfilled Orders, Fabricated Metal Products 01/1953-12/1965
db dat doc m06068 U.S. Manufacturer's Unfilled Orders, All Other Durable Goods Industries 01/1953-12/1965
db dat doc m06069 U.S. Manufacturer's Unfilled Orders, Nondurable Goods Industries, Total 01/1947-12/1965
db dat doc m06070 U.S. Manufacturers' New Orders, All Industries 01/1947-12/1965
db dat doc m06079 U.S. Index of Orders, Total, Associated Industries Of Massachusetts 07/1924-07/1941 SOURCE: VICTOR ZARNOWITZ, ORDERS, PRODUCTION AND INVESTMENT: A CYCLICAL AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS, TABLE A-1,
db dat doc m06084a U.S. Manufacturers' Index of New Orders Of Durable Goods, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1929-12/1939
db dat doc m06084b U.S. Manufacturers' New Orders of Durable Goods, Value 01/1939-12/1947
db dat doc m06084c U.S. Manufacturers' New Orders of Durable Goods, Value 01/1947-06/1969
db dat doc m06089a U.S. Sales By Retail Stores 01/1935-12/1946
db dat doc m06089b U.S. Sales By Retail Stores 01/1946-09/1974
db dat doc m06091 U.S. Index of New Orders, Durable Goods 01/1920-08/1933 SOURCE: COMPUTED BY NBER USING WEIGHTS IN SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS, SEPTEMBER 1928, PP. 19-20.
db dat doc m06092a U.S. Manufacturers' Shipments, Total, Value, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1929-07/1944
db dat doc m06092b U.S. Manufacturers' Shipments, Total, Value 01/1942-09/1963
db dat doc m06092c U.S. Manufacturers' Shipments, Total, Value, Seasonally Adjusted FIRST,1926 - FOURTH,1938 01/1939-09/1963
db dat doc m06092d U.S. Manufacturers' Shipments, Total, Value 01/1947-03/1969
db dat doc m06093 U.S. Metal Cutting Type Machine Tools, Gross New Orders, Total 01/1945-03/1963
db dat doc m06094a U.S. Wholesale Sales, Total Trade, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1939-12/1948
db dat doc m06094b U.S. Wholesale Sales, Merchant Wholesalers, Total, Department of Commerce 01/1948-08/1969
db dat doc m06095a U.S. Sales By Retail Stores Excluding Food Stores, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1935-12/1946
db dat doc m06095b U.S. Sales By Retail Stores, Excluding Food Stores, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1946-03/1969
db dat doc m06096 U.S. Manufacturers' New Orders, Machinery and Equipment Industries, Value 01/1953-09/1968
db dat doc m06097 U.S. New Orders and Contracts For Plant And Equipment, Value, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1948-12/1969
db dat doc m06098 U.S. Buying Policy, Production Materials, Percent Reporting, Committments 60 Days Or Longer 01/1950-11/1967, EXCLUDING 07/1951, 07/1952, 07/1953, 07/1954, 07/1955, 07/1956, 07-08/1957
db dat doc m06099 U.S. Buying Policy, Capital Expenditures, Percent Reporting, Committments 6 Months Or Longer 05/1955-06/1967 EXCLUDING 07/1955, 07/1956, 07-08/1957
db dat doc m06100a U.S. Month To Month Change in Manufacturers' Unfilled Orders, Durable Goods Industries 02/1939-12/1947
db dat doc m06100b U.S. Change in Manufacturers' Unfilled Orders, Durable Goods Industries 01/1947-09/1969
db dat doc m06101 U.S. Metal Cutting Machine Tools, Gross New Orders, Domestic 09/1945-08/1966
db dat doc m06102a U.S. Manufacturing and Trade Sales, Total, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1939-12/1948
db dat doc m06102b U.S. Manufacturing and Trade Sales, Total 01/1948-03/1969
db dat doc m06103a U.S. Manufacturers' Sales of Producers' Durable Equipment, Value, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1948-12/1954
db dat doc m06103b U.S. Manufacturers' Sales of Producers' Durable Equipment, Value 01/1953-08/1968
db dat doc m06104 U.S. Sales As Per Cent of Inventories, Total, Seasonally Adjusted 01/1948-03/1969
db dat doc m06105 U.S. Manufacturers' Sales of Producers' Durable Equipment Plus Construction Put in Place, Value, Seasonally Adjusted FIRST,1948-FOURTH,1952; FIRST-FOURTH,1967 01/1948-08/1968
db dat doc m06106a U.S. Manufacturers' Unfilled Orders, Durable Goods Industries, End of Month 01/1939-12/1947
db dat doc m06106b U.S. Manufacturers' Unfilled Orders, Durable Goods Industries, End of Month 01/1947-09/1969
db dat doc m06107 U.S. Metal Cutting Type Machine Tools, Cancellations of New Orders 01/1945-06/1963
db dat doc m06109 U.S. Manufacturers' New Orders, Defense Products 01/1953-09/1969
db dat doc m06111 U.S. Index of New Machinery Orders For Export 01/1957-02/1969
db dat doc m06112 U.S. Department Store Merchandising, Outstanding Orders, End of Month 01/1940-11/1963
db dat doc m06113 U.S. Manufacturers' New Orders For Exports of Durable Goods Excluding Motor Vehicles and Parts 10/1962-09/1968
db dat doc m06114 U.S. Manufacturers' Unfilled Orders, Electrical Machinery, Total 01/1953-12/1965
db dat doc m06115 U.S. Manufacturers' Unfilled Orders, Machinery Except Electrical, Total 01/1953-12/1965
db dat doc m06116 U.S. Manufacturers' Unfilled Orders, Transportation Equipment, Total 01/1953-12/1965
db dat doc m06117 U.S. Manufacturers' Shipments, Durable Goods Industries 01/1947-12/1965
db dat doc m06118 U.S. Manufacturers' Shipments, All Other Durable Goods Industries, Total 01/1953-12/1965
db dat doc m06119 U.S. Manufacturers' Shipments, Nondurable Goods Industries, Total 01/1947-12/1965
db dat doc m06120 U.S. Manufacturers' Shipments, Primary Metals, Total 01/1953-12/1965
db dat doc m06121 U.S. Manufacturers' Shipments, Blast Furnaces, Steel Mills 01/1953-12/1965
db dat doc m06122 U.S. Manufacturers' Shipments, Fabricated Metal Products 01/1953-12/1965
db dat doc m06123 U.S. Manufacturers' Shipments, Machinery Except Electrical, Total 01/1953-12/1965
db dat doc m06124 U.S. Manufacturers' Shipments, Electrical Machinery, Total 01/1953-12/1965
db dat doc m06125 U.S. Manufacturers' Shipments, Transportation Equipment, Total 01/1953-12/1965
db dat doc m06126 U.S. Manufacturers' New Orders, Primary Metals 01/1953-12/1965
db dat doc m06127 U.S. Manufacturers' New Orders, Blast Furnaces, Steel Mills 01/1953-12/1965
db dat doc m06128 U.S. Manufacturers' New Orders, Fabricated Metal Products 01/1953-12/1965
db dat doc m06129 U.S. Manufacturers' New Orders, Machinery Except Electrical, Total 01/1953-12/1965
db dat doc m06130 U.S. Manufacturers' New Orders, Transportation Equipment 01/1953-12/1965
db dat doc m06131 U.S. Manufacturers' New Orders, Electrical Machinery 01/1953-12/1965
db dat doc m06132 U.S. Manufacturers' Unfilled Orders, Primary Metals, Total 01/1953-12/1965
db dat doc m06133 U.S. Manufacturers' Unfilled Orders, Blast Furnaces, Steel Mills 01/1953-12/1965
db dat doc m06134 U.S. Manufacturer's New Orders, All Other Durable Goods Industries 01/1953-12/1965
db dat doc m06135 U.S. Manufacturer's New Orders, Total, Nondurable Goods Industries 01/1947-12/1965
db dat doc m06136 U.S. Advance Buying On Principal Materials, Per Cent Buying 30 Days Or Less 01/1946-06/1960
db dat doc m06137 U.S. Advance Buying On Principal Materials, Per Cent Buying 60 Days Or Longer 01/1946-09/1962
db dat doc m06138 U.S. Buying Policy, Per Cent Reporting Committments 90 Days Or Longer 01/1950-08/1960
db dat doc m06139a U.S. Orders, Per Cent Expanding 01/1948-05/1957
db dat doc m06139b U.S. Orders, Per Cent Expanding, Cumulative 01/1948-05/1957
db dat doc q06024 U.S. U.S. Steel Corporation, Unfilled Orders SECOND, 1902 - FOURTH, 1911
db dat doc q06026a U.S. Locomotives Ordered By Railroads FIRST, 1870 - FOURTH, 1926
db dat doc q06026b U.S. Locomotives Ordered By American Railroads For Domestic Use FIRST, 1925 - FOURTH, 1950
db dat doc q06026c U.S. New Orders of Locomotives, Including Undated Orders FIRST, 1941 - FOURTH, 1961 01/1941-12/1955
db dat doc q06027a U.S. Orders For Freight Cars Placed By American Railroads For Domestic Use FIRST, 1870-FOURTH, 1924
db dat doc q06027ab U.S. New Orders of Freight Cars FIRST, 1941-SECOND, 1953; FOURTH, 1953-FIRST, 1955 01/1941-07/1964
db dat doc q06027b U.S. Orders For Freight Cars Placed By American Railroads For Domestic Use FIRST, 1924-SECOND, 1932, FOURTH, 1932-FOURTH, 1950
db dat doc q06028a U.S. Orders of Railroad Passenger Cars FIRST, 1870-FOURTH, 1926
db dat doc q06028b U.S. Orders of Railroad Passenger Cars FIRST, 1920-SECOND, 1942 01/1920-05/1920, 07/1920, 09/1920-10/1920, 12/1920-01/1921, 03/1921-04/1921, 07/1921-08/1921, 10/1921, 12/1921-09/1942
db dat doc q06028c U.S. New Orders of Passenger Train Cars FIRST, 1934 - FIRST, 1957 01/1934-07/1964
db dat doc q06060 U.S. Pairs of Shoes Sold At Retail, Seasonally Adjusted FIRST, 1926-FOURTH, 1941 01/1926-12/1941
db dat doc q06085 U.S. Personal Consumption Expenditures, Total FIRST, 1939 - FOURTH, 1967
db dat doc q06086 U.S. Personal Consumption Expenditures, Durable Goods FIRST, 1939 - FOURTH, 1967
db dat doc q06087 U.S. Personal Consumption Expenditures, Nondurable Goods FIRST, 1939 - FOURTH, 1967
db dat doc q06088 U.S. Personal Consumption Expenditures, Services FIRST, 1939-FOURTH, 1967
db dat doc q06090a U.S. Index of Orders Of Railroad Equipment FIRST, 1870 - FOURTH, 1926
db dat doc q06090b U.S. Index of Orders Of Railroad Equipment FIRST, 1922 - SECOND, 1942
db dat doc q06090c U.S. Index of Orders Of Railroad Equipment FIRST, 1941 - FOURTH, 1955
db dat doc q06092c U.S. Manufacturers' Shipments, Total, Value, Seasonally Adjusted FIRST,1926 - FOURTH,1938 01/1939-09/1963
db dat doc q06110 U.S. Net Sales, All Manufacturing Corporations FIRST, 1947-THIRD,1969

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