Explore GovDocs | MLibrary

Results filtered by "Cost of Living"

CPI Calculator

Defense Department Official Per Diem Rates

Domestic Per Diem Rates (General Services Administration)

Economic Time Series (Ted Bos)

Monthly national, state and metropolitan labor force, unemployment, and unemployment rate data collected by the federal government since the 1970s
Money supply, savings deposits and ratios, treasury bill rates, loans, disposable personal income
National data includes employment by industry
ASCII format for easy viewing

EIU City Data (UMich Only)

Covers major cities in the U.S. and abroad
Provides cost of individual consumer products or services in local currency or U.S. or Euro dollars since 1990
Food products, alcohol and tobacco, rent, cost of maid service

EPI Data Zone

Expenditures on Children by Families (USDA)

Estimates of the annual cost of raising a child through age 18
Data arranged by family income, age of child, and type of expense (housing, food, education)
Annual reports archived since 1995

Historic Consumer Price Index, 1800-1998 (UMich)

Annual CPI, 1800-1912, copied from Historical Statistics of the United States
Monthly CPI, 1913-June 1998, using Bureau of Labor Statistics tabulation
Both use the base 1967=100
Updates to the 1967 base year were suspended after June 1998;
Historic CPI Data (Base=1982-84) is available on the BLS web site on a monthly basis since 1913

How Far Will My Salary go? (CNN Money)

Will show the salary needed to obtain the same standard of living as well as changes in groceries, houskng, utilies, trasnportation and health care

How Much is That?

Purchasing power of the U.S. dollar since 1665 and British pound since 1264
Historic interest rates, price of gold, and GDP for both countries with many series dating back 800 years
U.S. and British exchange rates with 40 other countries for a minimum of 90 years