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STAT-USA (Commerce Department)

State of the Nation includes thousands of current and time series tables on national income, trade, prices, treasury notes, employment, etc.
GLOBUS, National Trade Data Bank and Trade Opportunities Program Bulletin analyze the business climate in foreign countries and provide trade leads (contacts, requests for proposals)
Includes basic foreign trade statistics
Includes current press releases of detailed Consumer, Producer, and International price indexes

Statistical Universe (UMich Only)

Indexes and abstracts federal government statistics since 1974; business, association and state government data since 1980; international agency since 1983
Full text of most federal tables available online beginning 2007 and international beginning 2008
Power searches indexes individual tables in federal and state statistical abstracts and provides the data
Search abstracts searches annotations for all publications in the data base and provides some hot links

Turner Construction Cost Index

Commercial construction cost index based on 1967=100
Quarterly data shows index number and percent change from previous year
National data only

U.S.: Gross Domestic Product Price Deflator (FRB - St. Louis)

Quarterly price deflator data since the first quarter, 1947

United States: BankRate

Allows for comparison in salary and cost of living between two U.S. Cities.
Examples include: rent, electricity, pizza, movies, health care, etc.

Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers

The Bureau of Labor Statistics began calculating the Consumer Price Index in 1913. Estimates dating back to 1800 appear in Historical Statistics of the United States to 1970, Table E135-166. The base year is 1967. Because the base year of the CPI changes, we have also downloaded the most current data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics web site available as of March 1999. Since July 1998, historic CPI data is only calculated using the 1982-84 base year.

Virtual Relocation

Compares cost of living index (100=average) between any two of 800 U.S. cities
Includes comparisons on 2000 square foot homes, property and sales taxes, income tax, median household income, crime, education, auto insurance and the weather

What is the Dollar Worth?

Annual consumer price index since 1913
Calculate value of dollar between any given year

World Development Indicators (UMich Only)

World Bank data base with 593 series of demographic, economic, and environmental information for 226 countries
Time series covers 1960 to present when annual data are available for a given country
While focused on economics, the subject coverage is wide ranging.