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98th Congress, 2d Session

Economic Indicators
NOVEMBER

1984

Prepared for the Joint Economic Committee by the




Council of Economic Advisers

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON : 1984

JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE
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ROGER W. JEPSEN, Iowa, Chairman
LEE H. HAMILTON, Indiana, Vice Chairman
SENATE
WILLIAM V. ROTH, JR. (Delaware)
JAMES ABDNOR (South Dakota)
STEVEN D. SYMMS (Idaho)
MACK MATTINGLY (Georgia)
ALFONSE M. D'AMATO (New York)
LLOYD BENTSEN (Texas)
WILLIAM PROXMIRE (Wisconsin)
EDWARD M. KENNEDY (Massachusetts)
PAUL S. SARBANES (Maryland)

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AUGUSTUS F. HAWKINS (California)
DAVID R. OBEY (Wisconsin)
JAMES H. SCHEUER (New York)
CHALMERS P. WYLIE (Ohio)
MARJORIE S. HOLT (Maryland)
DAN LUNGREN (California)
OLYMPIA J. SNOWE (Maine)

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TOTAL OUTPUT, INCOME, AND SPENDING
GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT
According to revised estimates for the third quarter of 1984, gross national product (GNF) rose $50.5 biHion or
5.7 percent, both at annual rates. Real GNP (GNP adjusted for price changes) rose 1.9 percent (annual rate) and
the implicit price deflator, 3.7 percent (annual rate). In the second quarter, GNP rose 10.7 percent, real GNP rose
7.1 percent, and the deflator rose 3.3 percent.
BILLIOhJS OF DOLLARS (RATIO SCALE)
4,000

BILLIONS OF DOLLARS (RATIO S>CALE)
4,000

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ANNUAL RATES

^. E3,600

x^

3,600

3,200

2,800

E
=

--——'

^

3,200

—

x-^H

__
__

2,800

GNP
IN CURRENT DOLLARS

E

V--1r-~^

2,400

2,400

—

2,000

2,000

1,600

~-^C

—

IK

GNP
1972 DOLLAR

1,600
^^

U \

J

«»**"*""

1,200

"MI
1976

i i i
1977

1

1 1
1978

1

1 1

1 1 1
1980

1979

I

1
1981

I I I
1982

\

\

1

\

i

1,200

1

1984

1983

COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

[Billions of current dollars; quarterly data at seasonally adjusted annual rates]

Period

1972
1973
1974
1975

1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1982: I
II

m
IV

1983- I

II
III
IV

1984- I

II

IIP

Gross
national
product

,185.9
,326.4
,434.2
,549.2
,718.0
,918.3
2,163.9
2,417.8
2,631.7
2,957.8
3,069.3
3,304.8
3,026.0
3,061.2
3,080.1
3,109.6
3,173.8
3,267.0
3,346.6
3,431.7
3,553.3
3,644.7
3,695.2

Personal
consumption
expenditures

737.1
812.0
888.1
976.4
1,084.3
1,204.4
1,346.5
1,507.2
1,668.1
1,849.1
1,984.9
2,155.9
1,931.3
1,960.9
2,001.3
2,046.1
2,070.4
2,141.6
2,181.4
2,230.2
2,276.5
2,332.7
2,360.8

Gross
private
domestic
investment

195.0
229.8
228.7
206.1
257.9
324.1
386.6
423.0
401.9
484.2
414.9
471.6
436.2
431.2
415.9
376.2
405.0
449.6
491.9
540.0
623.8
627.0
662.3

Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis.




Government purchases of
goods and services

Exports and imports of goods and
services

Federal
Net
exports

0.7
14.2
13.4
26.8
13.8
40
— 1.1
13.2
23.9
28.0
19.0
-8.3
27.7
35.5
6.6
6.3
19.6
-6.5
164
-29.8
51 5
-58.7
-89.9

Exports

Imports

Total
Total

77.5
109.6
146.2
154.9
170.9
182.7
218.7
281.4
338.8
369.9
348.4
336.2
359.4
366.3
346.3
321.7
328.5
328.1
342.0
346.1
358.9
362.4
369.3

76.7
95.4
132.8
128.1
157.1
186.7
219.8
268.1
314.8
341.9
329.4
344.4
331.7
330.8
339.7
315.4
308.9
334.5
358.4
375.9
410.4
421.1
459.2

253.1
270.4
304.1
339.9
362.1
393.8
431.9
474.4
537.8
596.5
650.5
685.5
630.9
633.7
656.3
681.0
678.8
682.2
689.8
691.4
704.4
743.7
762.0

101.7
102.0
111.0
122.7
129.2
143.4
153.6
168.3
197.0
228.9
258.9
269.7
249,8
245.0
261.6
279.4
273.0
270.5
269.2
266.3
267.6
296.4
302.8

National
defense

73.1
72.8
77.0
83.0
86.0
92.8
100.3
111.8
131.2
153.7
179.5
200.5
168.4
175.3
183.3
191.0
194.7
199.3
200.9
207.2
213.4
220.8
220.4

Nondefense

28.5
29.1
33.9
39.7
43.2
50.6
53.3
56.5
65.9
75.2
79.4
69.3
81.4
69.7
78.2
88.4
78.3
71.3
68.3
59.1
54.2
75.6
82.4

State and
local

151.4
168.5
193.1
217.2
232.9
250.4
278.3
306.0
340.8
367.6
391.5
415.8
381.1
388.7
394.7
401.6
405.8
411.6
420.6
425.1
436.8
447.4
459.3

Final
sales

1,175.7
1,307.9
1,420.1
1,556.1
1,706.2
1,895.3
2,137.4
2,403.5
2,641.5
2,931.7
3,095.4
3,318.3
3,043.1
3,072.1
3,095.5
3,170.8
3,216.8
3,286.4
3,350.9
3,419.0
3,479.5
3,594.1
3,626.8

GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT IN 1972 DOLLARS
[Billions of 1972 dollars; quarterly data at seasonally adjusted annual rates]

Period

1972
1973
1974

1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1982: I

n
m
IV

1983: I

n.
m
IV

1984- I

n
mr

Nonresidential
fixed

Residential fixed

1,185.9
1,254.3
1,246.3
1,231.6
1,298.2
1,369.7
1,438.6
1,479.4
1,475.0
1,512.2
1,480.0
1,534.7

737.1
767.9
762.8
779.4
823.1
864.3
903.2
927.6
931.8
950.5
963.3
1,009.2

121.0
138.1
135.7
119.3
125.6
140.3
158.3
169.9
165.8
175.0
166.9
171.0

63.8
62.3
48.2
42.2
51.2
60.7
62.4
59.1
47.1
44.5
37.9
53.7

10.2
17.2
11.6
-6.7

1,483.5
1,480.5
1,477.1
1,478.8

953.7
958.9
964.2
976.3

175.2
166.9
163.9
161.5

1,491.0
1,524.8
1,550.2
1,572.7

982.5
1,006.2
1,015.6
1,032.4

1,610.9
1,638.8
1,646.5

1,044.1
1,064.2
1,065.6

Gross
national
product

Government purchases of
goods and services

Exports of goods
and services

Gross private
domestic investment

Personal
consumption
expenditures

Federal

Change
in
business
inventories

Net
exports

Exports

Total

Imports

Total

National
defense

Nondefense

State
and local

Final
sales

7.8
13.3
16.0
7.3
44
11.3
104
-3.6

0.7
15.5
27.8
32.2
25.4
22.0
24.0
37.2
50.3
43.8
29.7
12.6

77.5
97.3
108.5
103.5
110.1
112.9
126.7
146.2
159.1
160.2
147.6
139.5

76.7
81.8
80.7
71.4
84.7
90.9
102.7
109.0
108.8
116.4
118.0
126.9

253.1
253.3
260.3
265.2
265.2
269.2
274.6
278.3
284.3
287.0
292.7
291.9

101.7
95.9
96.6
97.4
96.8
100.4
100.3
102.1
106.4
110.3
117.0
116.2

73.1
68.3
66.9
66.4
64.9
65.4
65.7
67.4
70.0
73.5
79.1
84.7

28.5
27.6
29.7
31.0
31.8
35.0
34.7
34.8
36.4
36.7
37.9
31.5

151.4
157.4
163.6
167.8
168.4
168.8
174.3
176.2
177.9
176.8
175.7
175.7

1,175.7
1,237.1
1,234.7
1,238.4
1,290.4
1,356.4
1,422.6
1,472.2
1,479.4
1,500.9
1,490.4
1,538.3

36.2
37.6
36.8
40.8

-6.7
-4.0
-6.4
-24.6

34.9
34.1
25.7
24.1

152.2
155.1
146.6
136.7

117.3
121.0
120.9
112.6

290.2
287.0
292.8
300.6

114.8
111.0
117.2
124.8

75.7
78.1
80.6
81.9

39.1
32.9
36.6
42.9

175.4
176.0
175.7
175.8

1,490.3
1,484.5
1,483.5
1,503.4

161.6
165.3
172.6
184.5

46.2
53.4
57.2
57.8

-16.5
-6.1
.9
7.2

22.9
13.6
11.9
2.0

138.2
137.0
141.6
141.0

115.3
123.4
129.7
139.1

294.3
292.4
292.0
288.8

119.0
117.2
115.6
113.0

83.3
84.8
84.4
86.3

35.7
32.3
31.2
26.7

175.3
175.2
176.4
175.8

1,507.5
1,530.9
1,549.3
1,565.4

193.3
202.9
210.5

60.6
60.8
60.1

31.6
20.3
30.0

-8.3
-11.4
-26.6

144.9
144.7
147.8

153.2
156.2
174.4

289.5
302.1
306.8

112.2
123.2
125.4

87.1
89.6
89.1

25.2
33.6
36.3

177.3
178.9
181.4

1,579.3
1,618.5
1,616.5

Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis.

IMPLICIT PRICE DEFLATORS FOR GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT
[1972=100; quarterly data are seasonally adjusted]
Personal consumption
expenditures
Period

Gross
national
product

Total

Gross private
domestic investment

Durable
goods

Nondurable
goods

Services

Exports and imports of
goods and services

Government purchases of goods and
services
Federal

Nonresidential
fixed

Residential fixed

Exports

Imports
Total

National
defense

Nondefense

State
and local

100.00
105.75
115.08
125.79
132.34
140.05
150.42
163.42
178.42
195.60
207.38
215.34

100.0
105.7
116.4
125.3
131.7
139.3
149.1
162.5
179.0
194.5
206.0
213.6

100.0
101.7
108.2
117.3
123.9
129.2
136.4
145.0
156.2
167.1
174.5
177.7

100.0
108.5
123.4
132.5
137.2
143.6
153.4
169.9
• 188.1
202.5
208.7
213.0

100.0
104.7
113.0
121.6
129.6
139.3
150.0
162.3
178.8
196.8
213.6
226.0

100.0
103.8
115.4
132.2
138.6
146.3
157.2
170.8
186.2
202.2
209.5
206.4

100.0
109.1
120.3
131.0
140.7
158.0
178.3
200.5
218.5
234.1
241.3
246.4

100.0
112.7
134.8
149.6
155.3
161.9
172.6
192.5
212.9
230.9
236.0
241.0

100.0
116.7
164.6
179.6
185.6
205.5
214.1
246.1
289.4
293.8
279.3
271.5

100.0
106.3
114.9
126.0
133.5
142.8
153.1
164.8
185.2
207.6
221.4
232.1

100.0
106.6
115.1
124.9
132.4
141.9
152.7
166.0
187.5
209.1
227.0
236.6

100.0
105.6
114.2
128.2
135.7
144.6
153.8
162.5
180.8
204.7
209.8
220.0

100.0
107.0
118.0
129.4
138.3
148.4
159.7
173.7
191.5
208.0
222.8
236.7

n ..
in

203.98
206.77
208.53
210.27

202.5
204.5
207.6
209.6

172.8
174.0
175.5
175.6

207.1
207.4
209.6
210.5

207.9
211.4
215.6
219.4

208.7
210.4
208.8
210.1

241.7
241.8
241.8
240.0

236.2
236.2
236.2
235.3

282.9
273.3
280.9
280.1

217.6
220.7
223.2
223.8

222.5
224.5
227.4
233.1

208.2
211.7
213.9
206.2

217.2
220.8
224.7
228.4

1983: I
II
III.
IV

212.87
214.25
215.89
218.21

210.7
212.8
214.8
216.0

176.6
176.8
178.0
179.3

210.2
212.6
214.5
214.8

221.9
224.9
227.3
229.7

207.1
205.2
205.1
208.1

245.2
243.0
248.7
248.3

237.7
239.4
241.5
245.4

267.8
271.0
276.3
270.3

229.4
230.8
232.8
235.6

233.7
234.8
237.9
240.0

219.4
220.3
219.1
221.4

231.5
234.9
238.4
241.8

1984: I
II r
Ill

220.58
222.40
224.44

218.0
219.2
221.5

179.0
179.5
179.3

217.4
216.4
217.8

232.6
236.0
239.8

206.3
207.4
208.3

249.4
255.9
258.6

247.7
250.4
249.8

267.9
269.6
263.3

238.5
240.6
241.4

245.1
246.4
247.3

215.5
225.1
227.1

246.4
250.0
253.J

1972

1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1982: I

IV

Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis.




CHANGES IN GNP, PERSONAL CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES, AND
RELATED PRICE MEASURES
[Percent change from previous period; quarterly data at seasonally adjusted annual rates]
Personal consumption expenditures

Gross national product
Period

10.1
11.8
8.1
8.0
10.9
11.7
12.8
11.7
8.8
12.4
3.8
7.7
-.2
4.7
2.5
3.9
8.5
12.3
10.1
10.6
14.9
10.7
5.7

1972
1973

1974
1975
1976...

1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1982: I

n
m

IV
1983- I
II

rn

Constant
(1972)
dollars

Current
dollars

„...
,

IV
1984: I

n .r
ni

5.7
5.8
-.6
-1.2
5.4
5.5
5.0
2.8
3
2.5
-2.1
3.7
-4.6
-.8
-.9
.5
3.3
9.4
6.8
5.9
10.1
7.1
1.9

Implicit
price
deflator

Chain price
index

4.2

5.8
8.8
9.3
5.2
5.8
7.4
8.6
9.2
9.6
6.0
3.8
4.6
5.6
3.4
3.4
5.0
2.6
3.1
4.4
4.4
3.3
3.7

Fixedweighted
price index
(1972
weights)

4.1
6.0
9.1
9.2
5.7
6.1
7.6
8.9
8.9
9.5
6.6
4.3
6.0
5.3
5.8
5.0
3.4
4.3
4.4
4.1
4.9
4.1
3,9

NOTE.—Annual changes are from previous year and quarterly changes are from previous quarter.

9.6
10.2
9.4
9.9
11.0
11.1
11.8
11.9
10.7
10.9
7.3
8.6
8.6
6.3
8.5
9.3
4.8
14.5
7.6
9.2
8.6
10.2
4.9

4.0
6.0
9.4
9.1
5.8
6.3
7.8
9.5
9.8
9.7
6.4
4.2
5.6
4.7
5.8
4.6
3.3
4.1
4.7
3.9
5.0
4.3
4.0

Implicit
price
deflator

Constant
(1972)
dollars

Current
dollars

5.8
4.2
-.7
2.2
5.6
5.0
4.5
2.7
.5
2.0
1.4
4.8
2.9
2.2
2.2
5.1
2.6
10.0
3.8
6.8
4.6
7.9
.6

Chain price
index

3.7
5.7
10.1
7.6
5.1
5.8
7.0
9.0
10.2
8.7
5.9
3.7
5.5
4.0
6.1
4.0
2.2
4.1
3.7
2.3
3.8
2.2
4.3

Fixedweighted
price index
(1972
weights)

3.6
6.1
10.4
7.7
5.3
6.0
7.3
9.3
10.7
9.2
6.1
4.1
5.7
4.2
6.3
5.0
2.5
4.4
3.7
3.6
4.7
3.3
3.9

3.5
6.1
10.4
7.8
5.3
6.2
7.4
9.7
11.1
9.4
5.9
4.0
5.4
3.7
6.6
4.9
1.9
4.5
3.9
3.4
4.9
3.1
4.0

Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis.

NONFINANCIAL CORPORATE BUSINESS—OUTPUT, COSTS, AND
PROFITS
[Quarterly data at seasonally adjusted annual rates]
Current-dollar cost and profit per unit of output (dollars) 1

Gross domestic
product of aonfinaneial
corporate business
(billions of dollars)
Period
Current
dollars

1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
„
1982: III..
IV
W83: I
II
Ill
IV
19S4- I
II
Ill p
1

1972
dollars

678.0
759.4

678.0

818.9

708.2
694.2
745.5
795.8
846.3

890.0
1,001.3
1,128.4
1,276.2
1,416.8
1,540.7
1,739.2
1,778.4
1,917.7
1,787.8
1,772.4
1,812.3
1,887.6
1,956.6
2,014.2
2,084.2
2,146.9
2,169.1

731.9

876.1
859.5
883.3
857.4
896.4
858.5
846.5
855.7
886.2

912.4
931.1
956.9
979.5
980.9

Total
cost and
profit 2

1.000
1.038
1.156
1.2.82

1.343
1.418
1.508
1.617
1,793
1.969
2.074

2.139
2.083
2.094

2.118
2.130
2.144
2.163
2.178
2.192
2.211

Capital
consumption
allowances
with
capital
consumption
adjustment
0.092
.093
.112
.137
.141
.145
.155
.171
.198
.217
.245
.243
.247
.254
.250
.243
.241
.239
.236
.234
.238

Indirect
business
taxes ®

0.113
.114
.127
.140
.141
.141
.144
.149
.172
.201
.210
.219
.211
.217
.218
.222
.220
.219
.217
.218
.220

Output is measured by gross domestic product of nonfinancial corporate business in 1972 dol-

lars.
2

This is equal to the deflator for gross domestic product of nonfinancial corporate business with
the decimal point shifted two places to the left.




Compensation of
employees

0:659

.692
.786
.837
.878
.928
.998
1.094
1.218
1.307
1.397
1.409
1.404
1.419
1.421
1.408
1.400
1.408
1.415
1.414
1.432
3

Corporate profits with inventory
valuation and capital consumption
adjustments
Net
interest

Total

0.028
.031
,042
.044
.040
.040
.044
.050
.065
.076
.©84
,077
.080
.081
.079
.076
.077
.077
.078
.081
.083

0.107
.107
.090
.124
.144
.163
.168
.154
.140
.167
.138
.191
.141
.123
.151
.182
.206
.221
.233
.246
.238

Profits
tax
liability

0.049
.055
.059
.059
.071
.075
.079
.079
.078
.072
.052
,065
.052
.043
.049
.064
.073
.072
.078
.079
.067

Profits
after
tax 4

0.058
.053
.030
.065
.073
.088
.089
.075
.062
.095
.086
.126
.089
.080
.102
.118
.133
,149
.155
.167
.171

Output
per hour
of all
employees (1972
dollars)

Compensation per
hour of
all
employees
(dollars)

7.664
7.849
7.555
7.774
7.998
8.141
8.209
8.194
8.118
8.271
8.357
8.634
8.406
8.398
8.464
8.617
8.728
8.725
8.801
8.863
8.817

5.052
5.429
5.937
6.507
7.021
7.555
8.191
8.961
9.884
10.811
11.677
12.166
11.801
11.913
12.027
12.131
12.224
12.283
12.454
12.528
12.630

Indirect business tax and nontax liability plus business transfer payments less subsidies.
With inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments.
Sources: Department of Commerce (Bureau of Economic Analysis) and Department of Labor
(Bureau of Labor Statistics).
4

NATIONAL INCOME
[Billions of dollars; quarterly data at seasonally adjusted annual rates]

Period

National
income

Compensation of
employees1

Proprietors' income with
inventory valuation and
capital consumption
adjustments

Farm

1972

1973
1974..
1975
1976
.
1977
1978
1979
... .
1980
1981
1982
1983
1982- I
H

in

1983:

IV
I
II

m

IV
1984- I
H
Ill"
1

718.0
801.3
877.5
931.4
,036.3
,152.1
,301.1
,458.1
,599.6
,765.4
,864.2
,984.9
,834.2
,857.7
,876.3
,888.7
1,921.3
1,962.4
2,000.7
2,055.4
2,113.4
2,159.2
r
2,191.9

963.6
1,086.2
1,160.7
1,239.4
1,379.2
1,550.5
1,760.3
1,966.7
2,116.6
2,363.8
2,446.8
2,646.7
2,422.3
2,443.9
2,452.4
2,468.6
2,527.0
2,609.0
2,684.4
2,766.5
2,873.5
2,944.8
2,983.4

Nonfaim

58.1
61.0
62.2
65.4
75.0
84.8
92.2
100.2
95.6
93.7
89.2
107.9
86.8
88.5
89.5
92.1
98.3
106.8
112.1
114.6
122.5
126.3
127.5

18.7
32.8
26.5
24.6
19.1
19.1
26.3
31.9
21.8
31.5
21.8
13.8
30.0
19.2
12.7
25.4
16.4
10.1
11.2
17.3
32.5
23.4
r
27.0

Corporate profits with inventory valuation and capital consumption
adjustments

Rental
income of
persons
with
capital
consumption
adjustment

Total

96.6
108.3
94.9
110.5
138.1
167.3
192.4
194.8
175.4
189.9
159.1
225.2
159.9
161.7
163.3
151.6
179.1
216.7
245.0
260.0
277.4
291.1
281.5

Inventory
valuation
adjustment

Profits
before tax

Total

21.0
22.6
23.5
23.0
23.5
24.8
26.6
27.9
31.5
42.3
51.5
58.3
47.8
48.3
52.9
57.0
57.7
59.0
56.2
60.4
61.0
62.0
63.0

Includes employer contributions for social insurance. (See also p. 5.)

Profits with inventory valuation
adjustment and without capital
consumption adjustment

100.6
125.6
136.7
132.1
166.3
194.7
229.1
252.7
234.6
221.2
165.5
203.2
167.6
169.8
168.9
155.8
161.7
198.2
227.4
225.5
243.3
246.0
223.7

94.0
105.6
96.7
120,6
151.6
178.5
205.1
209.6
191.7
197.6
156.0
192.0
161.3
160.9
158.8
143.2
157.3
186.1
208.1
216.3
229.8
238.7
223.3

Capital
consumption
adjustment

-6.6
-20.0
-40.0
-11.6
-14.7
-16.2
-24.0
-43.1
-42.9
-23.6
9.5
-11.2
-6.3
-8.9
-10.1
-12.6
-4.3
-12.1
193
-9.2
-13.5
-7.3
r
-A

2.7
2.7
-1.8
-10.1
-13.5
11.3
-12.7
-14.8
-16.3
-7.6
3.1
33.2
-1.4
.8
4.5
8.4
21.7
30.6
36.9
43.6
47.6
52.3
r
58.2

Net
interest

51.2
60.2
76.1
84.5
87.2
102.5
121.7
153.8
192.6
241.0
260.9
256.6
263.6
268.5
257.7
253.8
254.2
254.2
259.2
258.9
266.8
282.8
292.5

Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis.

PERSONAL CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES
[Billions of dollars, except as noted; quarterly data at seasonally adjusted annual rates]

Period

1972
1973
1974
1975
1976

.. .
..

1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1982:

I
II
HI
IV
1983: I
II
III
IV
1984: I
II
III"...

Total
personal
consumption
expenditures

737.1
812.0
888.1
976.4
1,084.3
1,204.4
1,346.5
1,507.2
1,668.1
1,849.1
1,984.9
2,155.9
1,931.3
1,960.9
2,001.3
2,046.1
2,070.4
2,141.6
2,181.4
2,230.2
2,276.5
2,332.7
2,360.8

Durable goods
Total
durable
goods

111.1
123.3
121.5
132.2
156.8
178.2
200.2
213.4
214.7
235.4
245.1
279.8
239.4
241.6
244.5
255.0
259.4
276.1
284.1
299.8
310.9
320.7
318.5

Motor
vehicles
and
parts

Furniture and
household
equipment

52.4
57.1
50.4
55.8
72.6
84.8
95.7
96.6
90.7
101.9
108.7
129.3
106.2
105.1
108.1
115.3
115.3
128.4
132.0
141.7
147.7
152.3
150.0

41.7
47.1
50.6
53.5
59.1
65.7
72.8
81.8
86.3
92.3
94.4
104.1
92.1
94.4
94.5
96.6
99.1
102.4
105.2
109.8
113.0
116.6
116.4

Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis.




Retail sales of new
passenger cars
(millions of units)

Nondurable goods

Other

16.9
19.2
20.5
22.9
25.2
27.7
31.7
35.1
37.7
41.2
42.1
46.4
41.2
42.1
41.9
43.1
45.0
45.3
46.9
48.2
50.3
51.7
52.1

Total
nondurable
goods

300.6
333.4
373.4
407.3
441.7
478.8
528.2
600.0
668.8
730.7
757.5
801.7
746.4
750.6
762.5
770.6
775.2
796.9
811.7
823.0
841.3
858.3
861.1

Food

154.9
172.1
193.7
213.6
230.6
249.8
275.9
311.6
345.1
373.9
392.8
416.5
384.2
390.6
396.0
400.3
406.7
413.6
420.5
425.1
433.9
442.1
448.4

Clothing
and
shoes

Gasoline
and oil

55.4
61.4
64.8
69.6
75.3
82.6
92.4
99.1
104.6
114.3
118.8
127.0
118.0
118:0
119.0
120.0
121.6
127.1
126.8
132.5
136.1
142.2
139.3

25.4
28.6
36.6
40.4
44,0
48.1
51.2
66.6
84.8
94.6
90.4
90.0
93.4
88.6
89.9
89.6
86.7
89.5
92.1
91.7
92.0
92.8
90.1

Other

64.9
71.2
78.2
83.7
91.9
98.2
108.8
122.8
134.3
147.9
155.6
168.2
150.8
153.4
157.6
160.6
160,3
166.7
172.2
173.6
179.3
181.2
183.4

Services

325.3
355.2
393.2
437.0
485.7
547.4
618.0
693.7
784.5
883.0
982.2
1,074.4
945.4
968.6
994.2
1,020.6
1,035.8
1,068.6
1,085.7
l,10f.5
1,124.4
1,153.7
1,181.2

Domestics

Imports

9.3
9.6
7.4
7.0
8.5
9.0
9.2
8.2
6.6
6.2
5,8
6.8
5.8
5.7
5.6
6.0
6.0
6.9
6.9
7.4
8.2
8.3
8.0

1.6
1.8
1.4
1.6
1.5
2.1
2.0
2.3
2.4
2.3
2.2
2.4
2.2
2.0
2.2
2.5
2.3
2.3
2.3
2.6
1
2.1
2.3

SOURCES OF PERSONAL INCOME
Personal income increased $17.7 billion (annual rate) in October, following a rise of $22.5 billion in September.
Wages and salaries rose $4.2 billion in October compared to a rise of $12.3 biflion in September.
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS*(RATIO SCALE)
3,200
2,800

BILLIONS OF DOLLARS*(RAT!O SCALE)
3,200
2,800

TOTAL PERSONAL INCOME

2,400

2,400

2,000

2,000

1,600

1,600

1,200

1,200

WAGE AND SALARY DISBURSEMENTS
1,000

1,000

800

800

600

600

"\
OTHER INCOME

400

400

-"X
TRANSFER
PAYMENTS
200

200

160

160
111

120 U

1976

1977

I I 11 1 1 1 I
1978

ninli

1979

I II I ill 11| I
1981

1980

ILL
1982

1983

* SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ANNUAL RATES
SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

120
1984

COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

[Billions of dollars; monthly data at seasonally adjusted annual rates]

Period

Total
personal
income

Wage and
salary
disbursements J

Proprietors' income 3
Other labor
income l 2

Farm

Nonfarm

Rental
income of
persons 4

Personal
dividend
income

Personal
interest
income

Transfer
payments 5

Less:
Personal
contributions
for social
insurance

Nonfarm
personal
income 6

1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983

1,168.6
1,265.0
1,391.2
1,540.4
1,732.7
1,951.2
2,165.3
2,429.5
2,584.6
2,744.2

765.7
806.4
889.9
983.2
1,106.3
1,237.6
1,356.7
1,493.1
1,568.7
1,659.2

55.8
64.5
75.9
89.4
102.5
114.9
128.0
140.0
155.5
173.1

26.5
24.6
19.1
19.1
26.3
31.9
21.8
31.5
21.8
13.8

62.2
65.4
75.0
84.8
92.2
100.2
95.6
93.6
89.2
107.9

23.5
23.0
23.5
24.8
26.6
27.9
31.5
42.3
51.5
58.3

29.1
29.9
36.5
39.6
45.3
50.8
56.8
64.3
66.5
70.3

112.4
123.2
132.5
152.8
179.4
218.7
266.0
331.8
366.6
376.3

141.2
178.3
194.3
207.9
223.8
250.3
297.6
337.3
376.1
405.0

47.9
50.4
55.5
61.1
69.8
81.1
88.7
104.5
111.4
119.6

1,131.8
1,229.1
1,359.3
1,506.5
1,689.7
1,899.3
2,119.5
2,371.2
2,532.1
2,701.1

1983- Oct
Nov
Dec

2,814.9
2,834.2
2,860.4

1,706.0
1,712.2
1,727.9

180.1
182.1
184.3

14.8
15.8
21.4

114.7
114.6
114.5

58.9
60.9
61.3

72.2
72.9
73.3

387.5
387.8
389.4

403.3
410.8
412.2

122.6
122.9
123.9

2,771.0
2,789.4
2,810.1

1984:

2,897.4
2,923.5
2,940.6
2,968.5
2,978.8
3,006.5
3,027.0
3,045.4
3,067.9
3,085.5

1,747.6
1,755.1
1,764.6
1,785.3
1,789.8
1,804.3
1,812.4
1,816.9
1,829.2
1,833.4

186.3
188.1
189.9
191.7
193.5
195.3
196.7
198.1
199.5
201.0

30.1
36.5
30.9
25.4
21.4
23.5
25.5
27.4
28.2
28.6

120.7
122.9
123.8
125.7
126.2
127.1
127.1
127.1
128.2
128.3

61.1
60.8
61.2
61.6
62.0
62.4
62.6
62.9
63.3
63.7

74.0
75.0
76.0
76.9
77.1
77.6
78.0
78.2
79.4
79.8

396.6
403.8
411.4
418.4
425.6
432.9
440.6
448.1
455.2
462.0

410.2
410.9
412.8
414.9
414.8
415.9
417.1
419.9
418.8
423.1

129.1
1,29.5
130.1
131.3
131.5
132.5
133.0
133.3
134.1
134.4

2,838.3
2,857.9
2,880.5
2,913.8
2,928.1
2,953.5
2,971.8
2,988.1
3,009.6
3,026.6

Jan

Feb
Mar
May
June
July r
Sept r
Oct p

1
The total of wage and salary disbursements and other labor income differs from compensation of
employees (see p. 4) in that it excludes employer contributions for social insurance and the excess of
wage accruals over wage disbursements.
^ Consists of employer contributions to private pension, health, and welfare funds; workers' injury
compensation; directors' fees; and a few other minor items.
3
With inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments.




4

With capital consumption adjustment.
Consists mainly of social insurance benefits, direct relief, and veterans payments.
Personal income exclusive of farm proprietors' income, farm wages, farm other labor income,
and agricultural net interest.
8

6

Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis.

DISPOSITION OF PERSONAL INCOME
Real per capita disposable income rose again in the third quarter of 1984.
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS * (RATIO SCALE)
2,800

BILLIONS OF DOLLARS * (RATIO SCALE)
2,800

DOLLARS * (RATIO SCALE)
12,000
11,000 — PER CAPITA DISPOSABLE PERSONAL INCOME
10,000
9,000
8,000

DOLLARS * (RATIO SCALE)
12,000
11,000
10,000
9,000

CURRENT DOLLARS

8,000

7,000

7,000

6,000

6,000
1972 DOLLARS

5,000

5,000
4,000

4,000

I i i

3,000

1976

1977

I

1979

1978

I I
1980

I

1981

1982

I

|

I 3,000

1984

1983

* SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ANNUAL RATES
COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Period

Personal
income

Less:
Personal
tax and
nontax
payments

Equals:
Disposable
personal
income

Less:
Personal
outlays 1

Equals:
Personal
saving

Per capita
disposable personal
income
Current
dollars

1972
dollars

Billions of dollars

1972
1973
1974
1975.
1976
1977 . ..
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983

951.4
1 065 2
1,168.6
1 2650
1,391.2
1 5404
1,732.7
1 951 2
2,165.3
24295
2,584.6
2,744.2

141 0
150 7

170.2
168 9
196.8
2264
258.7
301 0
336.5
387 7
404.1
404.2

8103
914 5
9983
1 096 1
1 1944
1 3140
1,474 0
1 650 2
1,828.9
2 041 7
2,180.5
2,340.1

Per capita personal
consumption
expenditures
Current
dollars

1972
dollars

Dollars
757 7
835 5
913 2
1 001 8
1 111 9
1 236 0
1 3846
1 553 5
1,718 7
1 904 7
2,044 5
2,222.0

52 6
79 0
85 1
94 3
82 5
78 0
894
96 7
110 2
137 4
1360
118.1

3 860
4 315
4667
5 075
5477
5 965
6 621
7 331
8 032
8 874
9385
9,977

3 860

4 080
4009
4051
4 158
4 280
4441
4 512
4487
4561
4555
4,670

Percent
change in
real per
capita
disposable
personal
income

Saving as
percent of
disposable
personal
income

Population
(thousands) 2

Percent

3,511

2.9

4 521
4972
5468
6048
6 695
7,326
8 037
8,543
9,192

3 623
3,566
3 609
3,774
3 924
4,057
4 121
4,092
4 131
4,146
4,303

57
— 1.7
10

3 511
3 831
4 152

2.6
29
3.8
1.6
— .6
16

—.a

2.5

6.5
8.6
8.5
8.6
6.9
5.9
6.1
5.9
6.0
6.7
6.2
5.0

209,924
211,939
213,898
215,981
218,086
220,289
222,629
225,106
227,694
230,068
232,351
234,542

231,513
232,027
232,634
233,230

Seasonally adjusted annual rates

1982: I
II

404.4
411.4
398.5
402.0

2,132.0
2,156.8
2,195.8
2,237.5

1 9895
2,020.1
2,061.3
2,107.3

142 6
136.7
134.5
130.2

9 209
9,295
9,439
9,593

4548
4,546
4,548
4,578

8342
8,451
8,603
8,773

4 119
4,133
4,145
4,186

— 2.1
2

Ill
IV

2,536.5
2,568.2
2,594.3
2,639.5

.2
2.7

6.7
6.3
6.1
5.8

1983: I
II
Ill
IV

2,662.8
2,714.4
2,763.3
2,836.5

401.4
411.6
395.8
407.9

2,261.4
2,302.9
2,367.4
2,428.6

2,133.4
2,206.1
2,248.4
2,300.0

128.0
96.7
119.0
128.7

9,675
9,832
10,082
10,318

4,591
4,619
4,694
4,776

8,858
9,143
9,290
9,475

4,203
4,296
4,325
4,386

1.1
2.5
6.7
7.2

5.7
4.2
5.0
5.3

233,742
234,230
234,811
235,385

1984: I
II
Ill r....

2,920.5
2,984.6
3,046.7

418.3
430.3
440.6

2,502.2
2,554.3
2,606.1

2,349.6
2,409.5
2,441.8

152.5
144.8
164.3

10,608
10,806
10,999

4,865
4,930
4,965

9,651
9,869
9,963

4,426
4,502
4,497

7.7
5.5
2.9

6.1
5.7
6.3

235,875
236,369
236,945

1
Includes personal consumption expenditures, interest paid by consumers to business, and personal transfer payments to foreigners (net).




2
Includes Armed Forces abroad. Annual data are averages of quarterly 9ata, which are averages
for the period.
Source: Department of Commerce (Bureau of Economic Analysis and Bureau of the Census).

FARM INCOME
In the second quarter of 1984, according to preliminary estimates, gross farm income fell $1.9 billion (annual rate)
and net farm income fell $4.6 billion.
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS * (RATIO SCALE)

BILLIONS OF DOLLARS * (RATIO SCALE)

200

200

—

160

•

_^-"*—

__^1
1OA

100

—

120

inn
—

—

80

160

—

AROSS PA CM iwr OME

^

-* i

^•'*-

^^

fin
—

—

60

XA

—

—

40

40
**"%
+*

^

^

y

>•— '

***"J

"\
I

§

f %
* 1
1 L

\/

\/

i i i
1976

\ \ i
1977

1

1

1978

1

1

1
1979

1

i i i

\

1980

1 1
1981

1

j
1
1

f%

%
I
%

% I
%f
t

10

/\ -

V

/**
/
1

%^
*
%

§** •
§

^^%

20

NET FARM INCOME /

N^

,.-'

A

1

.

\

/

\
\
\

V

1

1982

20

X

*
^

I I 1
1983

* SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ANNUAL RATES
SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

1

1

1

10

1984

COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

[Billions of dollars; quarterly data at seasonally adjusted annual rates]
Income of farm operators from farming
Net farm income

Gross farm income
Period

Cash marketing receipts
Total1

Total

Livestock and
products

Crops

Value of
inventory2
changes

Production
expenses

Current
dollars

1967 dollars 3

1976
1977
1978 ...
1979
1980 ....
1981
1982
1983

102.9
108.7
127.2
150.4
150.2
167.9
161.8
151.4

95.4
96.2
112.9
131.8
140.5
142.6
144.8
138.7

46.3
47.6
59.2
68.6
67.8
69.2
70.1
69.2

49.0
48.6
53.7
63.2
72.7
73.3
74.6
69.5

-1.5
1.1
.8
4.9
-5.5
7.9
-2.6
-11.7

82.7
88.9
99.5
118.1
128.9
136.9
139.5
135.3

20.1
19.8
27.7
32.3
21.2
31.0
22.3
16.1

11.8
10.9
14.2
14.9
8.6
11.4
7.7
5.4

1982: I

169.9
160.9
153.3
163.2

146.7
143.0
141.2
148.1

69.8
70.8
70.7
69.2

76.9
72.2
70.5
78.9

4.0
-.7
52
-8.3

140.0
141.4
140.1
136.4

29.9
19.5
13.2
26.8

10.6
6.8
4.5
9.1

1983: I
II
HI
IV..

153.3
147.3
148.5
156.6

144.6
138.3
143.7
128.3

70.4
68.7
67.6
70.1

74.2
69.6
76.1
58.2

-11.4
144
-16.8
-4.4

135.6
135.2
134.7
135.8

17.7
12.1
13.8
20.8

6.0
4.1
4.6
6.9

1984:

171.3
169.4

134.1
141.7

73.3
71.4

60.8
70.3

3.8
8.9

140.5
143.2

30.8
26.2

10.0
8.5

H.

m
IV

I
IIp.

1
Cash marketing receipts and inventory changes plus Government payments, other farm cash
income, and nonmoney income furnished by farms.
2
Physical changes in end-of-year inventor}' of crop and livestock commodities valued at average
prices during the year.




3

Income in current dollars divided by the consumer price index (Department of Labor).

Source: Department of Agriculture, except as noted.

CORPORATE PROFITS
In the third quarter, according to preliminary estimates, corporate profits before tax fell $22.3 billion (annual rate)
and after-tax profits fell $10.9 billion.
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS
320

BILLIONS OF DOLL ARS
320

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ANNUAL RATES

280

280

^ PROFITS BEFORE TAX

,

»^s

/I

240

—

f

f\ \
V^

200

s

160 -

"^N

PR OFITS AFTER L M

^

\
V

„«»*'

./''

—

120

\

JIT****

**•—-—.

%

\V-C>"*^

160

'""X _
120

^/

TAX LIABILITY

80

/ / —'

7"^"\
PROFITS'

"^

£>-""~

200
—

/
\
\^»—-^

on

240

\ _

u^ /

""**" **\\

4

."-'''

r'

^ "

\—

UNDISTRIBlJTED
40

40

0

\

\

1

\

1976

1

1

1977

!

1 1

1

I

1

1

I

1

1

1 1
1981

1980

1979

1978

1

I I i

1982

1983

1

SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

1 1

0

1984

COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

[Billions of dollars; quarterly data at seasonally adjusted annual rates]
Profits (before tax) with inventory valuation adjustment

l

Profits after tax

Domestic industries

Total

2

Total

1972 ...
1973
1974 ....

1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1982: I. ...
II

Ill
IV

1983- I
II
Ill
IV

1984: I
II

III"
1
2

94.0
105.6
96.7
120.6
151.6
178.5
205.1
209.6

191.7
197.6
156.0
192.0
161.3
160.9
158.8
143.2
157.3
186.1
208.1
216.3
229.8
238.7
223.3

85.3
92.0
80.4
107.6
137.4
163.4
185.4
179.0
161.9
173.2
133.6
167.2
139.8
138.6
136.5
119.7
134.9
162.4
180.6
190.8
204.1
217.5
202.7

Financial

15.3
15.9
15.0
11.8
17.1
23.1
31.0
30.3
26.9
19.5
19.6
29.6
13.6
19.0
21.0
24.9
28.4
32.0
29.5
28.5
28.7
28.9
26.9

Total 3

70.0
76.0
65.4
95.8
120.3
140.3
154.4
148.6
134.9
153.7
114.0
137.6
126.2
119.6
115.5
94.8
106.5
130.4
151.1
162.3
175.4
188.6
175.8

See p. 4 for profits with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments.
Includes rest of the world, not shown separately.




Profits
before tax

Nonfinancial

Period

Manufacturing

40.7
45.5
39.0
52.6
69.2
78.3
86.9
85.6
72.9
84.9
54.5
65.2
58.0
57.4
60.4
42.4
44.9
59.3
73.8
82.9
89.8
92.3

Tax
liability

Wholesale and
retail
trade

13.4
13.9
12.5
21.3
22.4
26.6
26.9
27.1
23.6
31.8
25.9
33.4
30.2
25.3
24.0
24.1
25.3
33.0
35.9
39.5
40.6
47.0
3

100.6
125.6
136.7
132.1
166.3
194.7
229.1
252.7
234.6

221.2
165.5
203.2

167.6
169.8
168.9
155.8
161.7
198.2
227.4
225.5
243.3
246.0
223.7

Total

41.6
49.0
51.6
50.6
63.8
72.7
83.2
87.6
84.8
81.1
60.7
75.8
62.9
62.9
61.9
55.0
59.1
74.8
84.7
84.5
92.7
95.8
84.4

58.9
76.6
85.1
81.5
102.5
122.0
145.9
165.1
149.8
140.0
104.8
127.4
104.7
106.9
107.0
100.8
102.6
123.4
142.6
141.1
150.6
150.2
139.3

Dividends

Undistributed
profits

24.4
27.0
29.9
30.8
37.4
40.8
47.0
52.7
58.6
66.5
69.2
72.9
69.2
68.6
69.0
70.2
71.1
71.7
73.3
75.4
77.7
79.9
81.3

34.5
49.6
55.2
50.7
65.1
81.2
98.9
112.4
91.2
73.5
35.6
54.5
35.5
38.2
38.1
30.6
31.4
51.7
69.3
65.6
72.9
70.2
58.0

Includes industries not shown separately.

Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Inventory
valuation
adjustment

-6.6
-20.0
-40.0
-11.6
-14.7
-16.2
-24.0
-43.1
-42.9
23 6
-9.5
-11.2
-6.3
-8.9
-10.1
12 6
-4.3
-12.1
-19.3
-9.2
-13.5

r71

GROSS PRIVATE DOMESTIC INVESTMENT
According to revised estimates for the third quarter, business fixed investment rose $17.7 billion (annual rate) and
residential investment outlays fell $0.2 billion. There was a $68.5 billion increase in inventories following an
increase of $50.6 billion in the second quarter.
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS

BILLIONS OF DOLLARS
700

700

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ANNUAL RATES

600

GROSS PRIVATE DOMESTIC
INVESTMENT

V

500

600

>
/

/

500

h-/

^ N,

^-r^-^T\
A
^ONRESIDENTI AL ^"^
XED INVESTME NT
I
*•**

400
f

300

VJ

s

\X

^

300

*•**

200

RESIDENTIAL
FIX ED INVESTMEh41

—

L.-..\

100

,'"""^
\*--/

1

\ \ \

1

\

1

1

1978

1977

1976

1

1

1

1979

1

1

1

I 1 1

—
100

CHANGE 1 M BUSINESS S^'-'
/'
INVEh TORIES

%

"X

_

>'"

i i i

1

1982

1981

1980

•

.'-"'

\

"""""

1

400

_
—

******

200

100

f,,<''

, "*

-"

—

<,***

1

1 1 1

1

1983

-100

1984

COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

[Billions of dollars; quarterly data at seasonally adjusted annual rates]
Gross
private
domestic
investment

Period

1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979

,..

.

1980
1981
1982
1983.... .....

.

1982- I

n
in
IV

1983:

I

n
m ..,

.

IV....

1984- I .
II
HIr

,

,

Total

Total

Nonfarm
structures

Farm
structures

Producers'
durable
equipment

Total

Nonfarm

195.0
529.8
,228.7
206.1
257.9
324.1
386.6
423.0
401.9
484.2
414.9
471.6

121.0
143.3
156.6
157.7
174.1
205.2
248,9
290.2
308.8
353.9
349.6
352.9

44.1
51.0
55.9
55.4
58.8
64.4
78.7
98.3
110.9
135.3
142.1
129.7

76.9
92.3
100.7
102.3
115.3
140.8
170.2
191.9
197.9
218.6
207.5
223.2

63.8
68.0
57.9
55.3
72.0
95.8
111.2
118.6
102.9
104.3
91.4
132.2

61.5
65.6
54.8
52.4
68.8
92.0
107.0
114.0
98.1
99.8
86.6
127.6

0.7
.7
1.3
1.0
1.1
1.5
1.7
1.7
1.8
1.3
1.5
1.0

1.5
1.7
1.8
1.9
2.1
2.3
2.5
2.9
3.0
3.2
3.3
3.6

10.2
18.5
14.1
-6.9
11.8
23,0
26.5
14.3
-9.8
26.0
-26.1
-13.5

9.6
15.2
16.0
-10.5
13.9
21.9
25.4
8.6
45
18.2
240
-3.1

436.2
431.2
415.9
376.2

365.7
351.2
342.2
339.3

148.8
142.7
138.4
138.4

216.9
208.5
203.8
201.0

87.5
90.9
89.0
97.9

83.4
85.9
84.5
92.5

1.0
1.7
1.3
2.1

3.2
3.3
3.3
3.3

17 0
-10.9
153
-61.1

20 9
-9.5
-11.1

405.0
449.6
491.9
540.0

334.6
339.3
353.9
383.9

130.4
125.6
126.2
136.6

204.2
213.6
227.8
247.3

113.3
129.8
142.3
143.4

108.9
125.3
137.7
138.7

1.0
.9
.9
.9

3.4
3.5
3.7
3.8

42 9
-19.4
4.3
12.7

-32.6
54
11.6
14.1

623.8
627.0
662.3

398.8
420.8
438.5

142.2
150.0
153.3

258.7
270.7
.-285.1

151.2
155.6
155.4

146.4
150.5
150.1

.9
1.0
1.2

3.9
4.1
4.0

73.8
50.6
68.5

60.6
47.0
59.5

Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis.




Structures

Producers'
durable
equipment

Change in business
inventories

Residential fixed investment

Nonresidential fixed investment

EXPENDITURES FOR NEW PLANT AND EQUIPMENT
According to tJie Commerce Department July-August survey, business spending for new plant and equipment for
the year 1984 is expected to be 14.3 percent above the 1983 level; spending for 1983 was 4.8 percent below the
1982 level.
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS (RATIO SCALE)

BILLIONS OF DOLLARS (RATIO SCALE)

500

500

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ANNUAL RATES

400

400
ALL INDUSTRIES

300

200

300

200

NONMANUFACTURING
(Surveyed Quarterly)

MANUFACTUR NG

100

100

80

80

60

60

40

40

I I
1976

1977

1978

I
1979

I

I
1982

1981

1980

1984

1983

JL/ SEE FOOTNOTE 4 BELOW
SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

[Billions of dollars; quarterly data at seasonally adjusted annual rates]

Addenda

Industries surveyed quarterly
Manufacturing
Period

All
industries

1976
150.91
1977 . .
174.68
203.54
1978
1979. .. .
240.22
1980
264.44
1981 ..
289.37
1982
•282.71
1983 .
269.22
1984 4
307.60
1982: III... 279.61
rv... 269.80
1983: I
261.71
II
261.16
III... 270.05
IV... 283.96
1984: I
293.15
II 4 302.70
HI4 . 316.22
IV . 318.33

Total

Durable
goods

59.95
69.22
79.72
98.68
115.81
126.79
119.68
111.53
130.39

28.47
34.04
40.43
51.07
58.91
61.84
56.44
51.78
62.73

118.26
110.23

56.61
50.51
50.74
48.48
53.06
54.85
58.94
60.20
64.82
66.98

109.86
108.79
111.12
116.36
122.78
127.67
134.46
136.67

Nonmanufacturing
Nondurable
goods

31.47
35.18
39.29
47.61
56.90
64.95
63.23
59.75
67.66
61.65
59.72
59.12
60.31
58.06
61.50
63.84
67.46
69.64
69.69

Total

l

90.96
105.4§
123.82
141>54
148.63
162.58
163.03
157.69
177.21
161.36
159.58
151.85
152.38
158.93
167.60
170.37
175.03
181.76
181.66

Mining

7.44
9.24
10.21
11.38
13.51
16.86
15.45
11.83
13.11
14.57
13.41
12.03
10.91
11.93
12.43
13.95
12.13
13.24
13.14

1
Excludes forestry, fisheries, and agricultural services; medical services; professional services;
social services and membership organizations; and real estate, which, effective with the April-May
1984 survey, are no longer surveyed quarterly. See last column ("nonmanufacturing surveyed annually") for data for these industries.
2
"All industries" plus the part of nonmanufacturing that is surveyed annually.
3
Consists of forestry, fisheries, and agricultural services; medical services; professional services;

10



Transportation

8.89
9.40
10.68
12.35
12.09
12.05
11.95
11.20
12.46
11.29
12.33
11.04
10.88
11.00
11.86
11.46
12.95
12.86
12.58

Public
utilities

Commercial
and
other 1

22.37
26.79
29.95
33.96
35.44
38.40
41.95
42.00
44.33

52.27
60.03
72.99
83.85
87.59
95.27
93.68
92.67
107.30

43.02
43.00

92.48
90.83

41.61
41.48
42.22
42.69
43,62
44.61
44.06
45.02

87.17
89.10
93.79
100.62
101.35
105.35
111.60
110.92

Total
nonfarm
business2
171.45
198.08
231.24
270.46
295.63
321.49
316.43
302.50

Nonmanufacturing

Manufacturing

59.95
69.22
79.72
98.68
115.81
126.79
119.68
111.53
130.39
118.26
11023
10986
108.79
111 12
116.36
122.78
127.67
13446
136.67

Total

111.50
128.87
151.52
171.77
179.81
194.70
196.75
190.97

Surveyed
quarterly

Surveyed
annually 3

90.96
105.46
123.82
141.54
148.63
162.58
163.03
157.69
177.21

20.54
23.40
27.70
30.24
31.18
32.12
33.72
33.28

161.36
159.58
151.85
152.38
158.93
167.60
170.37
175.03
181.76
181.66

social services and membership organizations; and real estate.
4
Planned capital expenditures as reported by business in late July and August 1984, corrected
for biases.
NOTE.—For details about the reduced industry coverage of the plant and equipment survey, see
Suroey of Current Business, January 1984.
Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis.

EMPLOYMENT, UNEMPLOYMENT, AND WAGES
STATUS OF THE LABOR FORCE
Seasonally adjusted civilian employment rose 347,000 in October and unemployment fell 29,000.
MILLIONS OF PERSONS*
116

MILLIONS OF PERSONS*
116

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

112

112

108

108

104

104

100

100

V
CIVILIAN

96

96

EMPLOYMENT

92

92

88

88

12

12
8
UNEMPLOYMENT
Illll Illll

Illll
1976

1977

INI l l l l l l l l l l l I l l l l
1979

1978

4

mi

Illll

INI II I M I I
1983

1982

1981

1980

1984

*16 YEARS OF AGE AND OVER
COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

[Thousands of persons 16 years of age and over, except as noted; monthly data seasonally adjusted except as noted]

Period

1978
1979

1980
1981
1982
1983
1983:

Oct
Nov
Dec......
1984: Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct

Noninstitutional
population
including
resident
Armed
Forces
NSA

Resident
Armed
Forces
NSA

163,541
166,460
169,349
171,775
173,939
175,891
176,474
176,636
176,809
177,219
177,363
177,510
177,662
177,813
177,974
178,138
178,295
178,483
178,661

1,631
1,597
1^604
1,645
1368
1,676
1,695
1,685
1,688
1,686
1,684
1,686
1,693
1,690
1,690
1,698
1,712
1,720
1,705

f

including
resident
Armed
Forces

103,882
106,559
108^544
110,315
111^872
113,226
113,561
113,720
113,824
113,901
114,377
114,598
114,938
115,493
115,567
115,636
115,206
115,419
115,722

Employment
including
resident
Armed
Forces

Nonagricultural
Civilian
labor force

97,679
100,421

102,251
104,962

100^907
102,042
101494
102,510
103,665
104,291
104,629
104,876
105,576
105,826
106,095
106,978
107,438
107,093
106,681
106,959
107,291

106*940
108*670
Ho',204
111,550
111,866
112,035
112,136
112,215
112,693
112,912
113,245
113,803
113,877
113,938
113,494
113,699
114,017

1
Persons at work. Economic reasons include slack work, material shortages, inability to find fulltime work, etc.
2
Labor force as percent of noninstitutional population (both including resident Armed Forces).

40-363 O - 84 - 2




Unemployment

Civilian employment
T nH

Total

96,048
98,824
99^303
100,397
99^526
100*834
101,970
102,606
102,941
103,190
103,892
104,140
104,402
105,288
105,748
105,395
104,969
105,239
105,586

Agricultural

3,387
3,347
3364
3,368
3401
3,383
3,240
3,257
3,356
3,271
3,395
3,281
3,393
3,389
3,403
3,345
3,224
3,315
3,114

Total

92,661
95,477
95*938
97^030
96425
97,450
98,730
99,349
99,585
99,918
100,496
100,859
101,009
101,899
102,344
102,050
101,744
101,923
102,472

Part-time
for
economic
reasons l
3,298

3,373
4^064
4,499
5',852
5,997
5,724
5,848
5,712
5,943
5,808
5,463
5,593
5,353
5,491
5,300
5,324
5,496
5,479

Total

6,202
6,137
7337
8,273
10378
10,717
9,896
9,429
9,195
9,026
8,801
8,772
8,843
8,514
8,130
8,543
8,526
8,460
8,431

15
weeks
and
over

1,414
1,241

l'871
2,285
3^485
4,210
3,655
3,527
3,369
3,201
2,984
2,873
2,855
2,851
2,619
2,689
2,606
2,600
2,530

Labor force
participation
rate (percent)
Total 2

63.5
64.0
64! 1
64.2

64.3
64.4
64.3
64.4
64.4
64.3
64.5
64.6
64.7
65.0
64.9
64.9
64.6
64.7
64.8

Civilian 3

63.2
63.7
63.8
63.9
64.0
64.0
64.0
64.0
64.0
63.9
64.1
64.2
64.4
64.6
64.6
64.6
64.3
64.3
64.4

3
Civilian labor force as percent of civilian noninstitutional population.
NOTE.—NSA indicates data are not seasonally adjusted.
Source: Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

11

SELECTED UNEMPLOYMENT RATES
The seasonally adjusted overall unemployment rate, which includes resident Armed Forces in the labor force, wa|
unchanged in October at 7.3 percent. The unemployment rate for all civilian workers also was unchanged, at 7.J
percent.
PERCENT* (SEASONALLY ADJUSTED)

PERCENT* (SEASONALLY ADJUSTED)

25

BLACK

20

AND OTHER"

V
s

15

-

ALL CIVILIAN WORKERS

10

10

WHITE

5 ^

1980

1981

1984

1984

1983

1982

'UNEMPLOYMENT AS PERCENT OF CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE IN GROUP SPECIFIED.
SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

[Monthly data seasonally adjusted]

Unemployment rate (percent of civilian labor force in group)

Period

Unemployment
rate, all
workers 1

1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983

By sex and age
All
civilian
workers

By selected groups

By race
Black and other

Experienced
wage and
salary
workers

Married
men,
spouse
present

Men
20 years
and over

Women
20 years
and
over

16.4
16.1
17.8
19.6
23.2
22.4

5.2
5.1
6.3
6.7
8.6
8.4

11.9
11.3
13.1
14.2
17.3
17.8

12.8
12.3
14.3
15.6
18.9
19.5

5.6
5.5
6.9
7.3
9.3
9.2

2.8
2.8
4.2

6.0
5.8
7.0
7.5
9.5
9.5

6.1
5.8
7.1
7.6
9.7
9.6

4.3
4.2
5.9

6.3
8.8
8.9

6.0
5.7
6.4
6.8
8.3
8.1

Both
sexes
16-19
years

White
Black

Total

Women
who
maintain
families

Labor
force
time lost
(percent) 2

Fulltime
workers

Parttime
workers

4.3
6.5
6.5

8.5
8.3
9.2
10.4
11.7
12.2

5.6
5.3
6.9
7.3
9.6
9.5

9.0
8.8
8.8
9.4
10.5
10.4

6.5
6.3
7.9
8.5
11.0
10.9

1983:

Oct....
Nov...
Dec...

8.7
8.3
8.1

8.8
8.4
8.2

8.2
7.8
7.4

7.5
7.2
7.1

21.6
20.2
20.1

7.7
7.3
7.1

16.7
16.1
16.3

18.3
17.7
17.8

8.5
8.1
7.9

5.7
5.5
5.2

11.4
10.5
10.9

8.7
8.2
8.0

10.0
9.8
9.8

10.0
9.7
9.4

1984:

Jan...
Feb ...
Mar...
Apr ...
MayJune..
July ..
Aug...
Sept ..
Oct....

7.9
7.7
7.7
7.7
7.4
7.0
7.4
7.4
7.3
7.3

8.0
7.8
7.8
7.8
7.5
7.1
7.5
7.5
7.4
7.4

7.3
7.0
6.8
6.9
6.5
6.3
6.5
6.4
6.5
6.3

7.1
6.9
6.9
7.0
6.8
6.4
6.9
7.1
6.7
6.9

19.4
19.3
19.9
19.4
19.0
17.6
18.3
18.4
19.3
18.8

6.9
6.7
6.7
6.7
6.4
6.1
6.4
6.4
6.4
6.4

15.6
14.9
15.1
15.1
14.2
13.4
15.1
14.4
13.9
13.8

16.7
16.2
16.6
16.8
15.8
15.0
16.9
16.0
15.1
15.4

7.6
7.4
7.2
7.3
6.9
6.6
7.1
7.1
7.1
6.9

5.0
4.9
4.7
4.7
4.5
4.5
4.6
4.4
4.6
4.6

10.7
11.0
11.0
10.5
9.8
9.6
9.6
10.5
10.0
10.5

7.8
7.5
7.5
7.6
7.2
6.7
7.2
7.2
7.1
7.1

9.2
9.3
9.2
9.1
9.3
10.3
9.6
9.6
9.4
9.1

9.2
8.9
8.8
8.9
8.5
8.3
8.7
8.5
8.5
8.6

1

Unemployed as percent of total labor force including resident Armed Forces.
Aggregate hours lost by the unemployed and persons on part time for economic reasons as percent of potentially available labor force hours.
2

12




Source: Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

SELECTED MEASURES OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT
INSURANCE PROGRAMS
m October, the percentages of unemployed persons who had been out of work for less than 5 weeks and for 1526 weeks rose, while the percentages out of work for 5-14 weeks and for 27 weeks and over fell. Both the mean
and the median duration of unemployment fell.
PERCENT DISTRIBUTION*

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION*

70

DURATION OF UNEMPLOYMENT

REASON FOR UNEMPLOYMENT

60

JOB LOSERS

—

50

40

40

- 30

30 —

REENTRANTS
>

4

M

20

20

NEW ENTRANTS
—

10 —

1980

10

1984

1983

1980

1981

1982

1983

1984

*SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

[Monthly data seasonally adjusted, except as noted]
Reason for unemployment:
percent distribution 1

Duration of unemployment
Period

Unemployment
(thousands)

Percent distribution l
Less
than
5
weeks

5-14
weeks

15-26
weeks

State
programs

Number of
weeks
27
weeks
and
over

Average
(mean)

Median

Job
losers

Job
leavers

Reentrants

New
entrants

Insured
unemployment

Initial
claims

Insured
unemployment,
all
regular
programs
(unadjusted) 2

Special
unemployment
benefit
claims
(unadjusted) 3

Weekly average, thousands
6,137
7,637
8,273
10,678
10,717

48.1
43.1
41.7
36.4
33.3

31.7
32.3
30.7
31.0
27.4

11.5
13.8
13.6
16.0
15.4

8.7
10.7
14.0
16.6
23.9

10.8
11.9
13.7
15.6
20.0

5.4
6.5
6.9
8.7
10.1

42.9
51.7
51.6
58.7
58.4

14.3
11.7
11.2
7.9
7.7

29.4
25.2
25.4
22.3
22.5

13.3
11.4
11.9
11.1
11.3

2,434
3,350
3,047
4,061
3,396

388
488
460
583
438

2,592
3,837
3,410
4,594
3,775

1983- Oct
Nov
Dec

9,896
9,429
9,195

35.5
35.1
36.5

27.6
27.6
27.1

13.9
14.1
13.9

23.1
23.1
22.5

20.1
20.2
19.6

9.5
9.4
9.0

56.5
55.0
54.1

8.7
9.1
9.2

23.4
23.7
24.2

11.4
12.1
12.4

2,797
2,734
2,636

389
388
389

2,478
2,620
2,915

522
901
731

1984- Jan
Feb.
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct

9,026
8,801
8,772
8,843
8,514
8,130
8,543
8,526
8,460
8,431

36.0
38.1
38.5
39.1
38.0
39.2
40.1
41.9
39.0
41.0

28.4
28.1
28.9
28.4
28.6
28.4
28.8
27.5
30.1
28.7

13.0
13.3
12.7
12.6
13.9
12.5
12.7
13.1
12.9
13.2

22.6
20.5
20.0
19.8
19.5
19.9
18.4
17.6
18.0
17.1

20.5
18.8
18.8
18.5
18.4
18.6
18.1
17.3
17.1
16.5

9.2
8.3
8.3
8.1
8.7
7.2
7.6
7.5
7.6
7.2

53.6
54.1
52.5
51.3
50.9
51.9
52.7
49.8
50.1
52.0

9.0
8.8
8.6
8.8
9.5
9.8
10.1
9.9
10.1
9.7

24.4
24.6
25.1
26.1
25.6
24.2
24.4
27.4
27.3
25.4

13.1
12.5
13.8
13.8
14.0
14.0
12.8
12.9
12.5
12.8

2,615
2,528
2,498
2,449
2,369
2,335
2,361
2,326
2,370
2,612

368
349
354
361
350
354
373
365
374
434

3,374
3,174
2,958
2,613
2,290
2,166
2,327
2,184
2,083

584
489
444
401
374
352
342
322
307
309

1979
1980
1981
1982
1983

1
^

E

. .

Detail may not add to 100 percent because of rounding.
Includes State (50 States, District of Columbia, Puerto Eico, and Virgin Islands), ex-service(UCX), Federal (UCFE), and railroad (RR) programs. Also includes Federal and State exed benefit programs. Does not include Federal supplemental compensation program.




3
Federal supplemental compensation program.
Source: Department of Labor (Bureau of Labor Statistics and Employment and Training Administration).

13

NONAGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT
Total nonagricultural employment as measured by the payroll survey rose 441,000 in October.
MILLIONS OF PERSONS* (ENLARGED SCALE)

MILLIONS OF PERSONS*

22

90
ALL NONAGRICULTURAL
ESTABLISHMENTS

80

70

SERVICE-PRODUCING
INDUSTRIES

60

IllllIllllllllllllllllllllllltllll

50

40

-•GOODS-PRODUCING INDUSTRIES

30

20 Lllilhliil
1980

iiiiilmii iiiiilniii iniihini uiuliin
1981

1982

1983

1984

1980

1984

'SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

[Thousands of wage and salary workers; l seasonally adjusted]

•p

• J
.renou

1V»*ol
lotai
nonagricultural
employment

Goods-producing industries

Service-producing industries

Manufacturing
Total2

Construction

Total

TliiT-nMo
isurauie

-___j_
goods

Nondurable
goods

1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983

86,697
89,823
90,406
91,156
89,566
90,138

25,585
26,461
25,658
25,497
23,813
23,394

4,229
4^463
4^346
4488
3,905
3,940

20,505
21,040
20^285
20470
18,781
18^497

12,274
12,760
12487
12409
11,039
10J74

8,231
8,280
sio98

1983:

Oct
91,345
Nov.... 91,688
Dec
92,026

23,895
24,058
24,198

4,044
4,073
4,086

18,886
19,018
19,143

1984:

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May....
June ...
July....
Aug '..
Septpr..

24,383
24,577
24,595
24,760
24,851
24,974
25,059
25,098
25,005
25,071

4,154
4,226
4,151
4,246
4,286
4,343
4,356
4,356
4,374
4,388

19,254
19,373
19,466
19,530
19,570
19,629
19,696
19,725
19,611
19,667

92,391
92,846
93,058
93,449
93,786
94,135
94,350
94,523
94,754
Get ... 95,195




Wholesale
trade

lie tan
trade
Retail

Government

Finance,
insurance,
and real
estate

Services

Total

Federal

8,061
7,741
7,724

61,113
63,363
64^ 748
65^659
65,753
66J44

4,923
5,136
5446
5*165
5,082
4^958

4,969
5,204
5^275
5^358
5,278
5^259*

14,573
14 989
15*035
15489
15^179
15^545

4,724
4,975
5460
5^298
5,341
5*,467

16,252
17,112
17390
is',619
19,036
19^665

15,672
15,947
16,241
16f031
15^837
15351

2,753
2,773
2366
2'772
2,739
2,152

11,071
11,170
11,266

7,815
7,848
7,877

67,450
67,630
67,828

5,053
5,043
5,055

5,322
5,344
5,371

15,737
15,805
15,857

5,512
5,530
5,546

19,962
20,034
20,130

15,864
15,874
15,869

2,760
2,759
2,762

11,343
11,440
11,513
11,551
11,598
11,652
11,702
11,758
11,690
11,748

7,911
7,933
7,953
7,979
7,972
7,977
7,994
7,967
7,921
7,919

68,008
68,269
68,463
68,689
68,935
69,161
69,291
69,425
69,749
70,124

5,095
5,105
5,112
5,129
5,144
5,163
5,175
5,202
5,211
5,238

5,406
5,438
5,457
5,473
5,492
5,502
5,528
5,544
5,585
5,612

15,914
15,980
16,030
16,095
16,166
16,245
16,283
16,295
16,339
16,477

5,573
5,593
5,613
5,640
5,662
5,676
5,676
5,679
5,684
5,712

20462
20,278
20,378
20,449
20,549
20,681
20,701
20,748
20,870
20,998

15,858
15,875
15,873
15,903
15,922
15,894
15,928
15,957
16,060
16,087

2,760
2,763
2,770
2,771
2,785
2,777
2,779
2,785
2,785
2,772

1
Includes all full- and part-time wage and salary workers in nonagricultural establishments who
worked during or received pay for any part of the pay period which includes the 12th of the month.
Excludes proprietors, self-employed persons, domestic servants, and personnel of the Armed Forces.
Total derived from this table not comparable with estimates of nonagricultural employment of the
civilian labor force, shown on p. 11, which include proprietors, self-employed persons, and domestic
servants; which count persons as employed when they are not at work because of industrial dis-

14

Total

Transportation
and
public
utilities

putes, bad weather, etc., even if they are not paid for the time off; and which are based on a sample
of the working-age population, whereas the estimates in this table are based on reports from employing establishments.
* Includes mining, not shown separately.
Source: Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS AND HOURLY EARNINGS
PRIVATE NONAGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES
[For production or nonsupervisory workers; monthly data seasonally adjusted, except as noted]
Average gross hourly
earnings

Average weekly
hours
Period

1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1983: Oct
Nov
Dec
1984: Jan
Feb....
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Augr.
Sept r
Oct11

Manufacturing

Total
private
nonagrieultural 1

Total

36.1
36.1
36.0
35.8
35.7
35.3
35.2
34.8
35.0
35.2
35.2
35.2
35.4
35.3
35.3
35.4
35.3
35.3
35.2
35.2
35.3
35.1

Total
private
nonagricultural l

Overtime

2.6
3.1
3.5
3.6
3.3
2.8
2.8
2.3
3.0
3.3
3.3
3.4

39.5
40.1
40.3
40.4
40.2
39.7
39.8
38.9
40.1
40.6
40.6
40.6
40.9
40.9
40.7
41.1
40.6
40.6
40.5
40.5
40.6
40.5

3.5
3.5
3.5
3.7
3.3
3.3
3.3
3.3
3.3
3.3

Manufacturing

$4.53
4.86
5.25
5.69
6.16
6.66
7.25
7.68
8.02

$4.83
5.22
5.68
6.17
6.70
7.27
7.99
8.49
8.83

8.13
8.14
8.17
8.21
8.23
8.25
8.31
8.29
8.33
8.35
8.34
8.41
8.40

8.93
8.97
8.99
9.03
9.06
9.09
9.11
9.12
9.15
9.17
9.20
9.21
9.26

Adjusted hourly earnings index — total private
nonagricultural 2
Percent change 4from
a year
earlier 5

Index,
1977 = 100
Current
dollars

Current
dollars

1977
dollars 3

86.7
92.9
100.0
108.2
116.8
127.3
138.9
148.5
155.3
157.1
157.2
157.8
158.4
158.5
159.1
159.9
159.6
160.3
160.8
160.6
161.7
161.6

97.6
99.0
100.0
100.5
97.4
93.5
92.6
93.4
94.8
94.7
94.6
94.9
94.8
94.8
95.1
95.4
94.9
95.2
95.2
94.1
94.3
94.1

8.4
7.2
7.6
8.2
7.9
9.0
9.1
6.9
4.6
4.1
3.9
3.7
3.6
3.2
3.5
3.7
3.2
3.3
3.3
3.3
3.5
2.9

1977 dollars

-0.7
1.4
1.0
.5
-3.1
40

-1.0
.9
1.5
1.4
1.0
.4
-.0
-.6
.0
.6
.1
.3
.2
-.3
-.3
-.7

AVERAGE WEEKLY EARNINGS
PRIVATE NONAGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES
[For production or nonsupervisory workers; monthly data seasonally adjusted, except as noted]
Percent change from
a year earlier,
total private nonagricultural s

Average gross weekly earnings
Period

Current dollars
1975

1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1983: Oct
Nov ... .
Dec
1984: Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May .
June
July
Aug r .
Sept r
Octp
1

Manufacturing

Total private
nonagricultural 1

3




Retail trade
Current dollars

1977 dollars 3

1977 dollars

Current dollars

$163.53
175.45
189.00
203.70
219.91
235.10
255.20
267.26
280.70

$184.16
186.85
189.00
189.31
183.41
172.74
170.13
168.09
171.37

$190.79
209.32
228.90
249.27
269.34
288.62
318.00
330.26
354.08

$266.08
283.73
295.65
318.69
342.99
367.78
399.26
426.82
443.42

$108.86
114.60
121.66
130.20
138.62
147.38
158.03
163.85
171.05

286.18
286.53
287.58

172.61
172.40
172.93

362.56
364.18
364.99

440.59
441.41
441.32

174.00
174.60
176.65

7.7
7.8
8.0
6.9
8.5
4.7
5.0
6.4
5.6
5.7

290.63
290.52
291.23
294.17
292.64
294.05
293.92
293.57
296.87
294.84

173.93
173.65
174.08
175.52
173.98
174.61
173.92
171.98
173.10
171.62

369.33
370.55
369.96
374.42
370.27
371.49
371.39
372.60
373.93
375.03

451.27
456.49
442.89
453.53
455.04
457.45
451.50
454.29
458.28
451.13

175.78
175.20
176.69
176.70
176.69
177.88
176.11
175.81
176.71
176.12

5.5
6.3
5.4
6.2
4.7
4.8
4.8
5.0
4.4
2.6

Also includes other private industry groups shown on p. 14.
Adjusted for interindustry employment shifts and for overtime in manufacturing.
Current dollar index (or earnings) divided by the consumer price index on a 1977 = 100 base.
Revised index for urban wage earners and clerical workers used beginning 1978.
2

Construction

5.7
7.3

-3.1
1.5
1.2
.2
-3.1
58

-1.5
12
2.0
3.7
2.6
2.4
1.8
2.5
1.8
3.0
1.5
1.7
1.6
1.3
.6
-1.0

4

Monthly changes based on indexes to two decimal places.
5
Based on seasonally unadjusted data.
Source: Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

15

PRODUCTIVITY AND RELATED DATA, BUSINESS SECTOR
Output per hour of
all persons

Period

Output

Hours of 2all
persons

1

Compensation per
hour 3

Implicit price
deflator 5

Unit labor
cost

Real compensation
per hour 4

Business
sector

Nonfarm
business
sector

Business
sector

Nonfarm
business
sector

91.5
93.6
96.6
97.9
96.5

67.5
69.5
71.5
75.3
84.4

67.6
69.7
71.7
75.3
84.5

66.0
69.0
71.3
75.3
82.4

66.3
69.3
71.3
74.0
81.6

96.4
98.9
100.0
100.8
99.1

96.9
99.0
100.0
100.8
98.8

90.5
95.1
100.0
108.0
119.5

90.8
95.1
100.0
108.0
119.5

90.4
94.7
100.0
107.5
117.2

90.0
94.6
100.0
107.1
116.5

130.6
143.1
154.5
162.0

96.4
95.5
97.3
98.4

96.0
95.3
97.0
98.6

132.6
142.4
153.6
156.0

132.8
143.5
154.5
156.6

128.1
140.4
147.9
152.4

128.1
140.6
148.6
153.4

156.7
158.4

156.0
157.9

97.3
98.0

96.9
97.7

155.3
155.9

155.6
157.1

148.7
149.3

149.3
150.2

105.1
106.5
108.2
110.3

160.2
161.0
161.8
164.2

160.1
161.5
162.4
164.0

99.0
98.5
98.0
98.4

99.0
98.8
98.3
98.2

156.8
155.4
155.1
156.8

157.6
155.9
155.9
157.1

151.0
151.7
152.7
154.2

151.9
152.7
153.8
155.2

112.3
113.6
114.1

166.7
167.5
169.4

166.5
168.0
169.5

98.6
98.2
98.4

98.5
98.5
98.5

157.7
156.5
157.9

158.3
157.6
159.4

155.6
156.7
158.0

156.3
157.3
158.8

Nonfarm
business
sector

Business
sector

Nonfarm
business
sector

Business
sector

Nonfarm
business
sector

Business
sector

86.2
89.3
92.4
94.8
92.5

86.8
89.7
93.0
95.3
92.9

78.4
80.7
86.1
91.7
89.9

78.0
80.3
85.8
91.7
89.8

90.9
90.4
93.2
96.8
97.2

89.8
89.4
92.2
96.2
96.6

58.2
62.0
66.1
71.4
78.1

58.7
62.5
66.7
71.8
78.5

90.8
92.8
95.7
97.3
95.9

1975
1976
1977
1978
1979

94.6
97.6
100.0
100.5
99.3

94.8
97.8
100.0
100.6
99.0

88.2
93.8
100.0
105.5
107.8

87.8
93.7
100.0
105.7
108.0

93.2
96.0
100.0
104.9
108.6

92.6
95.8
100.0
105.1
109.0

85.6
92.9
100.0
108.5
118.7

86.1
93.0
100.0
108.6
118.4

1980
1981
1982
1983 ..

98.8
100.7
100.9
103.7

98.3
99.8
100.0
103.4

106.5
109.2
106.3
111.0

106.5
108.7
105.9
111.2

107.8
108.4
105.4
107.1

108.3
109.0
106.0
107.5

131.1
143.4
155.0
161.7

1982: HI
IV

100.9
101.6

100.3
100.5

106.1
105.8

106.0
105.2

105.1
104.1

105.-7
104.7

1983: I
II

in

102.2
103.6
104.3
104.7

101.6
103.6
104.1
104.4

106.9
110.1
112.5
114.7

106.7
110.4
112.7
115.2

104.7
106.2
107.9
109.5

1984: I
II r

105.7
107.0
107.3

105.2
106.6
106.4

117.8
121.0
121.6

118.0
121.0
121.3

111.4
113.0
113.3

Business
sector

Nonfarm
business
sector

Business
sector

Nonfarm
business
sector

1977 = 100; quarterly data seasonally adjusted

1970
1971
1972 ..
1973
1974 ..

IV

m ....

Percent change; quarterly data at seasonally adjusted annual rates

1970
1971
1972
1973
1974

0.8
3.6
3.5
2.6
-2.4

0.3
3.3
3.7
2.4
-2.5

-0.8
3.0
6.6
6.6
-2.0

-1.0
2.9
6.9
6.8
20

16
-.5
3.0
3.9
.4

13
— .4
3.1
4.3
.5

7.3
6.6
6.5
8.0
9.4

7.0
6.6
6.7
7.6
9.4

1.3
2.2
3.1
1.6
-1.4

1.0
2.2
3.3
1.3
14

6.4
2.9
2.9
5.3
12.1

6.6
3.1
2.8
5.0
12.2

4.5
4.4
3.4
5.5
9.5

4.8
4.5
3.0
3.8
10.2

1975
1976
1977
1978
1979

2.2
3.3
2.4
.5
-1.2

2.0
3.2
2.2
.6
-1.5

-2.0
6.4
6.6
5.5
2.3

22
6.7
6.7
5.7
2.2

41
3.0
4.1
4.9
3.5

-4.1
3.4
4.4
5.1
3.7

9.6
8.5
7.7
8.5
9.4

9.6
8.1
7.5
8.6
9.0

.5
2.6
1.2
.8
-1.7

.4
2.2
1.0
.8
-2.0

7.3
5.1
5.1
8.0
10.7

7.5
4.7
5.2
8.0
10.7

9.8
4.7
5.6
7.5
9.0

10.3
5.1
5.7
7.1
8.8

1980 .
1981
1982
1983

-.5
1.9
.2
2.7

-.7
1.5
.2
3.5

-1.2
2.5
-2.6
4.4

14
2.1
26
5.0

-.7
.6
-2.8
1.7

-.6
.6
-2.8
1.5

10.4
9.4
8.1
4.3

10.3
9.6
8.0
4.9

-2.7
-.9
1.9
1.1

28
-.7
1.7
1.6

11.0
7.3
7.9
1.6

11.1
8.0
7.7
1.4

9.3
9.6
5.3
3.0

10.0
9.8
5.7
3.2

1982: III
IV

2.4
2.7

3.6
1.1

-1.3
-1.2

-3.6
-3.8

-3.6
-4.0

7.5
4.5

7.5
5.1

.3
2.9

.3
3.5

5.0
1.7

3.7
4.0

2.3
1.8

2.0
2.4

1983- I
II
.., III
IV

2.1
5.9
2.8
1.4

4.4
8.1
2.1
1.0

4.4
12.4
9.3
7.8

6.0
14.3
8.7
9.1

2.2
6.1
6.4
6.2

1.5
5.7
6.5
8.0

4.4
2.2
2.0
6.1

5.7
3.5
2.2
4.1

4.1
-2.1
-2.1
1.6

5.4
-.8
-1.9
-.3

2.2
-3.5
-.8
4.6

1.3
-4.2
.1
3.0

4.6
1.9
2.5
4.1

4.6
2.2
2.7
3.7

1984: I
II
Ill r....

4.0
4.9
.9

2.9
5.5
-.7

11.4
11.2
2.0

10.3
10.6
1.0

7.2
6.0
1.1

7.2
4.8
1.7

6.2
1.9
4.5

6.1
3.7
3.8

1.2
-1.8
.9

1.0
0
.2

2.1
-2.9
3.6

3.1
-1.7
4.5

3.7
2.9
3.3

2.8
2.8
3.8

1

— .1
-3.0

Output refers to gross domestic product originating in the sector in 1972 dollars,
Hours of all persons engaged in the sector, including hours of proprietors and unpaid family
workers. Estimates based primarily on establishment data.
3
Wages and salaries of employees plus employers' contributions for social insurance and private
benefit plans. Also includes an estimate of wages, salaries, and supplemental payments for the selfemployed.
4
Hourly compensation divided by the consumer price index for all urban consumers.
2

16



5

Current dollar gross domestic product divided by constant dollar gross domestic product.

NOTE.—Data relate to all persons engaged in the sector.
Percent changes are from preceding period and are based on original data; they therefore may
differ slightly from percent changes based on indexes shown here.
Source: Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

PRODUCTION AND BUSINESS ACTIVITY
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION AND CAPACITY UTILIZATION
Industrial production was unchanged in October following a decline of 0.5 percent in September. The index for
October was 6.6 percent above its year earlier level.

_^__^_

INDEX, 1967 = 100* (RATIO SCALE)

INDEX, 1967 = 100* (RATIO SCALE)

180 —TOTAL INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION

180 -UTILITIES AND MINING PRODUCT1O

160

160
UTILITIES

140

140

MINING

120

120

1980

1981

1982

1984

1983

100
180

160

140

MANUF ACTURING PRODUCT!QN

"N

\s

*.'lr

-\

^*^-N
\

_— *.•

+*

NONDURA BLE ,''
s
/
'^^J~*~ *

^—x

\y

A

DURABLE

120

^-\./

lllllhlill Illllllllll Illllllllll

1980

1981

1982

1980
PERCENT*

1981

1982

1983

1984

90 .MANUFACTURING CAPACITY UTILIZATION RATE

^~^
-

80

\S
70

n ml .111 ii Illllllllll
1983

60

1984

\r-_

Illllllllll

Illllllllll

1980

1981

/

Illllllllll Illllllllll Illllllllll

1982

*SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
SOURCE: BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

1983

1984

COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

[Monthly data seasonally adjusted]

Period
Index,
1967 = 100

1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1983- Oct
Nov
Dec
1984- Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May

...
...
..

June
July r
Auff r
Sept r
Oet p
1

Manufacturing

Percent
change
from year
earlier

Output as percent of capacity.




... .

129.3
117.8
130.5
138.2
146.1
152.5
147.0
151.0
138.6
147.6
155.0
155.3
156.2
158.5
160.0
160.8
162.1
162.8
164.4
165.9
166.1
165.2
165.2

Mining
Total

87.95

100.00

1967 pTOpOTtion

Capacity utilization
rate, percent (Federal
Reserve series) *

Industry production indexes, 1967 = 100

Total
industrial
production

-0.4
-8.9
10.8
5.9
5.7
4.4
-3.6
2.7
-8.2
6.5
14.2
15.1
15.5
15.4
15.9
14.9
13.7
12.7
12.3
10.8
9.4
7.4
6.6

129.4
116.3
130.3
138.4
146.8
153.6
146.7
150.4
137.6
148.2
156.2
156.4
156.8
159.5
161.4
162.1
163.4
164.2
165.7
167.3
167.8
166.9
167.2

Durable

51.98
125.7
109.3
122.3
130.0
139.7
146.4
136.7
140.5
124.7
134.5
142.8
143.6
145.0
148.6
150.5
151.4
152.6
153.3
154.9
157.2
158.1
157.2
157.3

Utilities

Nondurable

35.97

134.6
126.4
141.8
150.5
156.9
164.0
161.2
164.8
156.2
168.1
175.6
174.8
173.9
175.2
177.2
177.6
179.1
179.9
181.3
181.8
181.7
180.8
181.4

6.36
115.3
112.8
114.2
118.2
124.0
125.5
132.7
142.2
126.1
116.6
118.3
121.1
123.7
124.8
124.1
123.8
123.3
125.0
127.0
129.9
128.5
128.4
123.7

5.69
143.7
146.0
151.7
156.5
161.4
166.0
168.3
169.1
168.7
172.4
176.5
176.3
182.5
181.0
176.5
180.0
182.7
182.3
184.3
181.8
180.6
180.2
180.3

Manufacturing

Industrial
materials

83.7
72.9
79.6

87.0
73.3
81.1
82.6
85.6
87.6
80.4
80.7
70.1
75.2
79.5
79.6
79.6
80.6
81.9
82.2
82.5
82.7
82.9
83.1
83.3
82.4
81.9

82.2
84.7
86.0
79.6
79.4
71.1
75.2
78.9
78.8
78.9
80.1
80.9
81.0
81.5
81.7
82.2
82.8
82.8
82.2
82.1

Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

17

INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION—MAJOR MARKET GROUPS AND
SELECTED MANUFACTURES
[1967 = 100; monthly data seasonally adjusted]
Products
Final products
Consumer goods

Period
Total

Durable
goods

Total

1967 proportion
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978 .
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1983- Oct
Nov
Dec
1984- Jan
Peb
Mar
Apr
May
June r
Julv .
Aur rr
Sept
Oct p.

Intermediate products

47.82
125J.
118.2
127,6
135.9
142.2
147.2
145.3
149.5
141.5
147.1
152.7
153.2
155.2
157.5
158.0
158.6
160.2
161.1
163.1
165.2
165.2
164.9
165.3

27.68
128.9
124.0
137.1
145.3
149,1
150.8
145.4
147.9
142.6
151.7
156.9
156.1
157.1
159.5
159.4
160.2
161.4
161.7
163.0
163.8
162,5
161.6
161.9

7.89
135.3
121.4
141.9
154.0
159.2
155.8
136.7
140.5
129.2
147.5
156.7
155.9
158.6
163.4
162.5
163.1
162.2
161.4
163.6
163.7
162.8
160.2
160.1

Nondurable
goods

19.79
126.3
125.1
135.2
141.9
145.1
148.8
148.9
150.9
148.0
153.4
157.1
156.1
157.3
157.9
158.2
159.1
161.1
161.8
162.7
163.9
162.4
162.2
162.7

Total

20.14
120.0
110.2
114.6
123.0
132.8
142.2
145.2
151.8
139.8
140.8
147.0
149.1
151.8
154.9
156.1
156.4
158.5
160.3
163.3
167.0
168.8.
169;3
170.0

Business

12.63
142.4
128.2
135.4
147.8
160.3
171.3
173.2
181.1
157.9
153.3
161.3
164.1
167.3
170.7
171.9
172.1
173.5
176.5
181.1
185.5
187.8

i8mo

188.5

Defense
and space
equipment

7.51
82.4
80.0
79.8
81.3
86.5
93.4
98.2
102.7
109.4
119.9
122.9
124.0
125.7
128.3
129.5
130.1
133.2
133.1
133.5
135.9
136.8
138.0
139.0

Total

12.89
135.3
123.1
137.2
145.1
154.1
160.5
151.9
154.4
143.3
156.6
166.5
165.5
165.4
167.8
169.0
170.2
171.0
171.6
173.5
175.8
175.2
174.3
173.8

SupplCe

Materials

Equipment
Construction
supplies

Business
supplies

6.42
134.5
116.3
132.6
140.6
151.7
158:0
140*9
141.9
124.3
142.5
152.3
151.6
151.5
155.5
156.6
159.1
159.6
159.5
160.9
16k9
161.2
15917
158.3

6.47
136.0
129.7
141.7
149.5
156;5
163.1
162.8
166.7
162.1
170.7
180,6
179.4
179.3
180.1
181.3
181.3
182.3
183.5
186.1
189.5
189.0
188,8

39.29
132%
115.5
131.7
138.6
14S.3
156.4
147.6
151.6
133.7
145.2
154;0
154.5
154.5
156.6
159.4
160.4
161.5
162.0
162.9,
163.5
164.3
162.8
162.1

mentary

12.23
125.5
125.5
129.1
132.9
135.4
137.9
137.7
137.4
135.7
135.9
137.7
138.5
141.1
141.6
141.4
141.9
142.8
143.3
144,5
144.0
143.0
142.5
140.4

[1967=100; monthly data seasonally adjusted]
Durable manufactures

Period
Total

1967 proportion
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1983- Oct
Nov
Dec
1984- Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
T *
June r
July
Aug rr
Septp .
Oct

6.57
123.1
96.4
109.7
111.1
119.9
121.3
102.3
107.9
75.3
85.4
95.3
92.2
90.4
93.2
98.4
97.5
99.3
98.2
97.9
94.5
95.3
93.3
94.0

Iron and
steel

Fabricated metal
products

4.21
119.8
95.8
104.8
103.8
113.2
113.2
92.4
99.8
61.7
71.5
84.3
79.2
74.1
80.7
86.0
84.4
84.0
83.5
83.5
76.5
77.5
75.5

Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

18




5.93
124.2
109.9
123.9
131.0
141.6
148.5
134.1
136.4
114.8
120.2
126.9
128.5
129.2
131.7
132.8
134.9
135.5
136.5
138.7
140.6
140.2
139.6
139.9

Nonelectrical
machinery

9.15
140.1
125.1
134.5
143.6
153.6
163.7
162.8
171.2
149.0
150.6
159.2
161.8
164.3
169.5
170.9
171.9
174.9
178.8
182.0
186.9
189.6
189.7
190.9

Nondurable manufactures
Transportation
equipment

Primary metals
Electrical
machinery

Total

8.05
143.8
116,5
134.8
145.4
159.4
175.0
172.8
178.4
169.3
185.5
198.4
200.1
201.5
206.2
209.9
212.0
214.6
214.5
216.0
221.5
221.4
222.3
221.5

9.27
108.7
97.4
111.1
122.2
132.5
135.4
116.9
116.1
104.9
117.8
125.5
127.3
130.8
134.9
135.2
135.8
134.5
135.0
137.2
140.6
141.2
137.0
136.6

Motor
vehicles
and parts
4.50
128.2
111.1
142.0
161.1
169.9
159.9
119.0
122.3
109.8
137.1
150.9
152.9
158.9
166.3
164.4
165.8
161.9
163.0
165.3
169.0
169.9
160.6
159.0

Lumber
and
products

1.64
116.2
107.6
123.2
131.2
136.3
136.9
119.3
119.1
112.6
137.2
14L7
141.0
143.8
146.0
145.6
149.3
151.2
146.3
148.5
146.0
148.8
150.4

Apparel
products

3.31
114.3
107.6
125.7
134.2
134.2
134.4
127.0
120.4

Printing
and
publishing

Chemicals and
products

4.72
118.2

7.74
159:4
147.2
170.9
185.7
197.4
211.8
207.1
215.6
196.1
215.0
228.4
225.6
221.1

m.3

122.5
127.6
131.5
136.9
139.6
144.2
144.1
152L5
162:7
162:0
161.7
163.4
164.8
165.2
166.3
167.5
169.0
172.6
174.1
173.8
174.0

221.5
224.8
225.0
228.3
227.9
231.0
232.0
231.5
230.0

Foods

8.75
124.0
123.4
133.0
138.8
142.7
147.5
149.6
152.1
151.1
156,4
157.6
157.1
157.7
159.4
160.0
161.2
163.1
164.2
165.1
164.9
164.6

NEW CONSTRUCTION
[Monthly data seasonally adjusted]

Construction contracts 2

Private
Total new
construction
expenditures

Period

Residential
Total

Commercial
and industrial

New housing
units

Total »

Other

Federal,
State, and
local

Total value
index
(1977 = 100)

Commercial
and industrial
floor space
(millions of
square feet)

Billions of dollars

1976 .
1977.
1978
1979
1980
1981 .
1982
1983..

151.1
173.8
205.6
230.4
230.7
239.1
230.1
262.2

112.0
135.7
159.7
181.6
175.7
185.8
179.1
211.4

1983: Sept
Oct.
Nov
Dec.
1984: Jan
Feb
Mar..... .
Apr
y
May
June
July
Aug "
Sept".
Oct p
.

281.7
267.9
267.0
263.9
280.9.
300.4
309.7
308.6
316.4
315.3
311.0
311.9
315.3

229.6
219.2
217.4
213.3
230.0
248.1
255.0
254.1
261.2
257.8
254.8
255.3
257.8

60.5
81.0
93.4
99.0
87.3
86.6
74.8
111.7

128.6
118.6
113.5
109.7
121.9?'
137.4
141.1
136.6
138.4
136.4
135.3
134.0
132.8

47.3
65.7
75.8
78.6
63.1
62.7
51.9
86.1

19.9
22.5
29.6
39J
43.8
51.3
54.6
48.7

31,5
32.2
36.7
42.7
44.7
47.9
49.7
51.0

39.1
38.2
45.9
48.8
55.0
53.3
51.0
50.8

79.0
100.0
114.0
122.0
107.0
110.0
112.0
138.0

49.8
47.8
49.8
49.6
53.9
56.0
59.6
61.0
64.9
63.0
61.8
64.6
68.2

51.3
52.8
54.2
54.0
54.1
54.7
54.2
56.5
57.9
58.4
57.6
56.7
56.8

52.1
48.8
49.6
50.6
50.9
52.3
54.8
54.5
55.2
57.5
56.2
56.6
57.5

143
r
!37
145
134
150
150
144
145
165
148
152
151
144
146

Annual rates

Annual rates

,

93.8
94.2
94.9
95.0
96.9
102.3
102.4
102.7
106.4
105.0
105.0
105.2
104,7

1
Includes nonhousekeeping residential construction and additions and alteration 5, not shown separately,
2
F. W. Dodge series. Relates to 50 States beginning 1969 for value index and beginning 1971

592
739
977
1,059
904
919
690
750

830
856
884
803
931
751
884
960
1,013
888
957
1,011
901
937

for floor space.
Sources: Department of Commerce (Bureau of the Census) and McGraw-Hill Informatiore*Systems
Company, P. W. Dodge Division.

NEW PRIVATE HOUSING AND VACANCY RATES
[Thousands of units or homes, except as noted]

New private homes

New private housing units
Period

Units started, by typ»of structure
Total

1976
1977

1978
1979
1980 ..
1981
1982
1983

~..

1,537.5
1,987.1
2,020.3
1,745.1
1,292.2
1,084.2
1,062.2
1,703.0

1 unit

1,162.4
1,450.9
1,433.3
1,194.1
852.2
705.4
662.6
1,067.6

2-4 units

85.9
121.7
125.0
122.0
109.5
91.1
80.0
113.5

5 or more units

Units
authorized

289.2
414.4
462.0
429.0
330.5
287.7
319.6
522.0

Units
completed

Homes sold

Homes for
sale at end1 of
period

,296.2
,690.ft
,800.5
,551.8
,190.6
985.5
,000.5
,605.2

,377.2
,657.1
,867.5
,870.8
,501.6
,265.7
1,005.5
1,390.3

646
819
817
709
545
436
412
623

353
402
414
3
398
336
272
251
300

,650
,649
,602
,799
,902
1,727
1,758
1,745
1,768
1,565
1,506
1,440
1,418

1,567
1,445
1,489
1,606
1,565
1,590
1,654
1,756
1,739
r
l,718
1,684
1,642

624
636
755
681
712
682
649
616
635
611
557
679

301
304
300
302
303
320
328
333
339
342
346
345

Vacancy rate
for rental
housing units
(percent) *5.6
5.2
5.0
5.4
5.4
5.0
5.3
5.7

Seasonally adjusted annual rates

1983: Oct
Nov. .
Dec
1984- Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug r
Sept r
Oct"
1

..

1,672
1,730
1,694
1,980
2,262
1,662
2,015
1,794
1,877
1,754
1,554
1,679
1,515

1,017
1,074
1,021
1,301
1,463
1,071
1,196
1,131
1,084
990
932
1,020
925

96
130
133
114
148
137
169
116
107
118
113
103
116

559
526
540
565
651
454
650
547
686
646
509
556
474

Seasonally adjusted.
Quarterly data entered in last month of quarter. Series beginning 1979 not strictly comparable
with earlier data.
3
New series beginning March 1979.
2




5.5
5.6
5.5
6.0

NOTE.—Units authorized beginning 1978 relate to 16,000 permit-issuing places; data for
1913-77 are for 14,000 places.
Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.

19

BUSINESS SALES AND INVENTORIES—Manufacturing and Trade
Manufacturing and trade sales fell 0.4 percent in September and inventories rose $3.5 billion. According to
advance data, retail sales fell 0.1 percent in October following a rise of 1.2 percent in September.
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS* (RATIO SCALE)
600
550" —

sS^~"~

500
450

1
1
/
MAN! JFACTUR1NCJAND
TRA DE INVENTO RIES

S~^

-

400
350

BILLIONS OF DOLLARS* (RATIO SCALE)
I6U
150
140
L INVENTOR ES
130
^^^" """"
120
^**
*110 ^

^^

s
—

^/"^-"~

100
x"*

~"

-

j~*

—

-T"

80

MA NUFACTURI NG
AN D TRADE SA LES

300

**

90 —

DETAIL SALE*

_

70 —

250 ~~

—

60
50

_

200

lllllllllll lllllllllll lllllllllll lllllllllll lllllllllll
1980

1981

1982

1983

1984

RATIO*
150

MANUFACTURING
AND TRADE
1.40

100 l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l
1980

1981

lllllllllll

1982

1983

1.20
1980

1984

1984

'SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE"

Manufacturing and
trade 1

COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

Sales

Inventories 3

Inventories 3

Sales 2

Period
2

Inventory-sales ratio 4

Retail

Wholesale

Sales

2

Invento-3
ries

Total

Durable
goods
stores

Nondurable goods
stores

Total

Durable
goods
stores

Nondurable goods
stores

Manufacturing
and
trade 1

Retail

Millions of dollars, seasonally adjusted

1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983

204,277
229,624
260,263
297,565
327,113
355,762
343,504
367,096

318,544
351,055
398,457
449,542
491,431
523,623
505,546
514,336

50,694
55,987
66,117
78,680
92,658
100,673
94,765
98,649

64,078
72,311
85,568
98,008
111,792
115,854
115,563
118,067

54,781
60,435
67,242
74,948
80,064
86,960
89,547
97,831

18,150
20,724
23,211
25,179
24,365
26,306
27,041
32,095

36,631
39,711
44,031
49,770
55,699
60,654
62,506
65,735

79,273
89,530
102,504
110,592
115,550
125,710
125,384
135,843

37,841
43,135
49,858
53,413
53,952
58,559
56,748
63,447

41,432
46,395
52,646
57,179
61,598
67,151
68,636
72,396

1.48
1.46
1.44
1.43
1.45
1.43
1.50
1.37

1.38
1.40
1.43
1.44
1.41
1.39
1.39
1.33

1983: Sept.. .
Oct
Nov
Dec

379,229
382,457
386,564
395,682

506,984
509,171
511,453
514,336

102,171
104,210
103,793
106,892

115,674
116,825
116,958
118,067

99,537
100,923
101,896
102,438

32,905
33,882
34,641
35,532

66,632
67,041
67,255
66,906

132,142
132,777
134,622
135,843

60,627
61,048
62,441
63,447

71,515
71,729
72,181
72,396

1.34
1.33
1.32
1.30

1.33
1.32
1.32
1.33

1984: Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug r
Sept*
Get"

401,133
398,815
401,905
405,880
412,725
414,124
411,410
411,176
409,476

518,062
527,216
532,766
541,060
545,912
546,834
551,366
556,519
559,981

110,125
108,328
109,553
111,043
115,112
114,401
113,310
112,564
111,454

119,201
120,411
121,477
123,785
124,368
123,994
126,227
126,676
127,568

106,602
105,482
103,873
107,505
108,237
109,322
107,442
106,606
r
107,871
107,717

37,127
36,909
35,306
37,436
37,912
38,687
37,452
36,781
r
36,666
37,630

69,475
68,573
68,567
70,069
70,325
70,635
69,990
69,825
r
7 1,205
70,087

137,977
142,731
143,910
146,883
146,951
145,359
145,120
146,318
147,041

63,749
66,513
66,946
69,010
68,277
66,896
66,141
66,602
67,445

74,228
76,218
76,964
77,873
78,674
78,463
78,979
79,716
79,596

1.29
1.32
1.33
1.33
1.32
1.32
1.34
1.35
1.37

1.29
1.35
1.39
1.37
1.36
1.33
1.35
1.37
1.36

1976
1977

1
2
3

See page 21 for manufacturing.
Monthly average for year and total for month.
Book value, end of period, seasonally adjusted.

20



4
For annual periods, ratio of weighted average inventories to average monthly sales; for monthly
data, ratio of inventories at end of month to sales for month.

Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.

MANUFACTURERS' SHIPMENTS, INVENTORIES, AND ORDERS
In September, manufacturers' shipments and orders fell while inventories rose. In October, according to advance
data, durable goods shipments rose and new orders fell.
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS* (RATIO SCALE)
240

BILLIONS OF DOLLARS* (RATIO SCALE)
320 - INVENTC>RIES
280
240
200
160

r*-—1^———
^..—-'
-

7

^^

"""!r

1OTAL

'-'— —

/
DU ?ABLE

GOOt

)S

120
100

pjpnc
200 - NEW OR

40

.
,^-n
^y^

r
1
r~ r-^1

TOTAL

120
100

80

Kir^Kj )URABLE GC

60

BILLIONS OF DOLLARS* (RATIO SCALE)

160

^ — --•

80

40

DURABLE GOODS

Jl_
^%

_

«—.«*

-\/*~

"~^

S

HZ:
/-]
tr^t
NONDURAI JLE GOODS

iiiiiiiini

Illllllllll Illllllllll

iniiiinii iniiiiiiii

RATIO*
2.2
INVENTORY-SHIPMENTS RATIO
2.0.
1.8
1.6

60
1.4

40 liiiiliiin Illllllllll I l l l l l l l l l l I N l l i l M I I I l l l l l l l l l l
1980
1983
1982
1984
1981

1.2

1980

1981

1982

*SEASONALtY ADJUSTED
SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

1983

Manufacturers' shipments l

Manufacturers' new orders l

Manufacturers' inventories 2

Durable goods
Period
Total

Durable
goods

1984

COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

Nondurable goods

Durable
goods

Total

Nondurable goods

Total

Total

Capital
goods
industries,
nondefense

Nondurable goods

Manufacturers'
unfilled3
orders

Manufacturers'
inventory
shipments
ratio 4

Millions of dollars, seasonally adjusted
1976

1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1983: Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
1984- Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Ausr
Sept T
Oct p
1
2
3

98,802
113,202
126,905
143,936
154,391
168,129
159,193
170,617

50,689
59,267
67,848
76,060
77,550
83,872
76,859
85,126

48,113
53,935
59,057
67,876
76,841
84,257
82,334
85,491

175,193
189,214
210,385
240,942
264,089
282,059
264,599
260,426

112,581
121,601
137,825
160,451
174,552
186,053
175,009
171,571

62,612
67,613
72,560
80,491
89,537
96,006
89,590
88,855

99,543
115,032
131,546
147,403
156,161
167,761
157,389
173,433

51,398
61,082
72,339
79,451
79,360
83,562
75,129
87,806

12,799
15,291
19,458
23,231
23,259
24,050
20,681
22,764

48,145
53,950
59,207
67,953
76,801
84,199
82,260
85,627

182,499
203,475
259,755
301,982
323,312
318,794
296,147
330,122

177,521
177,324
180,875
186,352

88,963
89,181
92,311
96,351

88,558
88,143
88,564
90,001

259,168
259,569
259,873
260,426

170,084
170,219
170,656
171,571

89,084
89,350
89,217
88,855

180,336
182,911
186,606
188,374

91,509
94,776
97,991
98,444

25,295
25,499
24,680
24,893

88,827
88,135
88,615
89,930

316,782
322,369
328,099
330,122

1.69
1.61
1.57
1.57
1.66
1.64
1.73
1.52
1.46
1.46
1.44
1.40

184,406
185,005
.. . 188,479
187,332
189,376
190,401
190,658
192,006
190,151

95,283
96,297
96,990
95,697
97,944
99,042
98,390
101,035
98,943
99,324

89,123
88,708
91,489
91,635
91,432
91,359
92,268
90,971
91,208

260,884
264,074
267,379
270,392
274,593
277,481
280,019
283,525
285,372

171,549
173,203
175,751
177,993
180,578
182,452
184,559
187,142
188,915

89,335
90,871
91,628
92,399
94,015
95,029
95,460
96,383
96,457

188,671
191,336
196,477
189,715
193,680
190,620
194,037
192,578
189,817

99,439
102,345
105,183
98,317
102,256
99,171
101,704
102,015
98,676
94,647

25,093
27,018
26,860
25,885
28,958
28,029
27,648
26,499
27,835
24,777

89,232
88,991
91,294
91,398
91,424
91,449
92,333
90,563
91,141

334,385
340,725
348,717
351,099
355,398
355,625
358,990
359,564
359,232

1.41
1.43
1.42
1.44
1.45
1.46
1.47
1.48
1.50

Monthly average for year and total for month.
Book value, end of period.
End of period.




mts are the same as sales.

4
For annual periods, ratio of weighted average inventories to average monthly shipments; for
monthly data, ratio of inventories at end of month to shipments for month.

Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.

21

PRICES
PRODUCER PRICES
In October, the producer price index for oH finished goods fell 0.2 percent, seasonally adjusted. Prices of finished
consumer foods rose 0.1 percent and prices of other finished consumer goods fell 0.1 percent. Prices of capital
equipment fell 0.6 percent.
INDEX, 1967= 100 (RATIO SCALE)
320
FINISHED GOODS

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

^5UMER GOOD?
FYfl UDING FOODS

300

INDEX, 1967= 100 (RATIO SCALE)
320
300

^-?i»_ ^~m* "*
280

—
260

280

*••*

TOTAL FINISHED
ttOODS

>

*\

*%^
CAPITAL E 3UIPMENT

,*"X.'-— _
'260

'
\
CONSUMER F OODS

"""

240

240

—

.& +*

„

—

220

220
^^^/

—

f^Sy

200

200

s'^2

—
180

S^

,'~'

—
180

*>*"**

—

*&£^160

140

160

Illllllilll

Illllllilll

1976

1977

Illllllilll Illllllilll
1978

1979

Illllllilll
1980

1 1 1 l l l l l I I Illllllilll Illllllilll
1982

1981

1983

SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

140

1984

COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

[1967 = 100; monthly data seasonally adjusted]
Intermediate materials

Finished goods
Total
finished
consumer
goods

Total

Foods
and
feeds l

Other

Total

Foodstuffs
and
feedstuffs

Other

Nondurable

Capital
equipment

Finished goods excluding consumer foods
Period

Total
finished
goods

Consumer
foods

Consumer goods
Total
Total

1976
1977
1978

1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1983- Oct
Nov
Dec
1984: Jan
Feb
Mar
Anr
May
June
July
Auer
Sept

T

Oct
1

170.6
181.7
195.9
217.7
247.0
269.8
280.7
285.2

180.4
189.9
207.2
226.2
239.5
253.6
259.3
261.8

166.1
177.7
190.7
213.3
247.8
273.3
285.8
290.8

162.6
174.3
186.7
211.5
250.8
276.5
287.8
291.4

144.5
152.8
166.9
183.2
206.2
218.6
226.7
233.1

174.8
189.3
200.0
231.3
283.9
319.6
333.6
335.3

173.4
184.6
199.2
216.5
239.8
264.3
279.4
287.2

169.7
180.7
194.9
217.9
248.9
271.3
281.0
284.6

189.1
201.5
215.6
242.2
280.3
306.0
310.4
312.3

185.3
190.5
203.1
226.1
252.6
250.3
239.4
247.9

189.4
202.3
216.5
244.4
282.3
310.1
315.7
317.1

202.7
209.2
234.4
274.3
304.6
329.0
319.5
323.6

190.2
192.1
216.2
247.9
259.2
257.4
247.8
252.2

228.5
245.0
272.3
330.0
401.0
482.3
473.9
477.4

287.1
286.9
287.4

264.8
263.9
265.8

292.3
292.5
292.4

292.8
292.9
292.4

233.0
233.8
234.0

338.1
337.5
336.5

288.6
289.0
289.8

286.6
286.3
286.7

258.4
258.9
257.8

320.6
321.0
321.5

329.2
330.4
333.6

258.2
259.6
263.6

482.3
483.1
484.4

289.1
290.2
291.4
291.4
291.1
291.1
292.2
291.9
291.4
290.9

272.8
274.5
276.4
274.4
271.4
270.3
274.1
273.7
272.5
272.7

292.3
293.1
294.0
294.8
295.4
295.8
295.9
295.7
295.4
294.8

292.0
292.7
293.6
294.0
295.0
295.5
295.2
294.5
294.0
293.8

234.0
235.2
237.3
237.2
236.8
237.1
237.3
238.1
237,7
235.5

335.7
336.1
336.0
336.7
338.9
339.5
338.8
336.9
336.2
337.7

290.5
291.7
292.5
294.3
293.9
294.2
295.2
296.2
296.3
294.6

288.7
289.8
291.0
290.6
290.3
290.2
291.3
290.7
290.0
289.9

316.2
316.6
317.1
317.0
317.6
319.3
319.5

261.1
256.5
259.8
260.3
259.8
257.7
253.0
250.1
246.2
243.8

321.2
322.2
323.8
323.9
324.9
326.4
326.1
325.7
325.6
326.2

336.0
330.9
337.1
336.9
333.8
330.9
331.3
327.2
327.0
324.0

269.4
261.1
271.5
268.3
260.9
255.4
256.8
252.3
252.2
249.4

479.9
481.4
479.0
485.0
490.8
493.5
491.8
488.6
488.0
484.3

Intermediate materials for food manufacturing and feeds.

22




Durable

Crude materials

320.3

321.6
321.0
320.5

320.1
320.5

Source: Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

CONSUMER PRICES
In October, the consumer price index for all urban consumers rose 0.4 percent seasonally adjusted (0.3 percent not
seasonally adjusted). The index was 4.2 percent above its level in October 1983.
INDEX, 1967= 100 (RATIO S<:ALE)

INDE,K, 1967= 100 (RATIO SCALE)

320

"320

UNADJUSTED

r-

300

—*

300

P/--1

280

280

/

260

260

S

240

220

f

200

/I

240

ALL ITEMS

220

200

,,
180

180

_^-

^

^

160

140

Illllllllll M nil in ii
1976

Illllllllll Illllllllll Illllllllll

1977

SEE NOTE ON TABLE EiELOW
SOURCE: DEPARTMENr OF LABOR

160

1978

Illllllllll

1980

1979

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11

1981

Illllllllll

1983

1982

.

140

1984

COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

[1967 = 100, except as noted; monthly data seasonally adjusted, except as noted]
Transportation

Housing
Shelter
Period

All
items 1

Food*

Total*
Total

Renters'
costs2

NSA-

ReL imp.5
1976
1977 V . . ..
1978
1979
. .
1980......
1981
1982
1983
1983: Oct
Nov
Dec
1984: Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct

100.0
18.7
170.5 180.8
181 5 192 2
195.4 211.4
2174 234.5
246.8 254.6
2724 274.6
289.1 ; 285.7
298.4 291.7
302.6 293.5
303.1 294.1
303.5 295.4
305.2 300.2
306.6 302.2
307.3 301.8
308.8 301.7
309.7 300.9
310.7 301.3
311.7 302.2
313.0 304.1
314.5 303.8
315.3 304.9

1
Includes items not shown separately.
2
December 1982=100.
3
Includes direct pricing of diesel and gasohol
4

37.6
174.6
186.5
202.8
227.6
263.3
293.5
314.7
323.1
326.0
327.4
328.1
329.6
331.1
331.2
333.3
334.1
334.9
336.7
338.7
340.2
340.5

21.5

179.0
191 1
210.4
239.7
281.7
314.7
337.0
344.8
349.3
350.7
351.8
353.0
353.8
355.3
357.6
358.7
360.0
362.5
364.3
366.1
367.4

7.0

103.0
104.6
105.0
105.3
105.7
106.0
106.5
107.4
107.8
108.2
108.9
109.5
110.0
110.5

Homeowners'
costs 2

Maintenance
and
repairs

NSA

NSA

14.0

102.5
103.9
104.3
104.5
104.9
105.1
105.6
106.2
106.5
106.8
107.6
108.1
108.7
109.1

0.5
199.6
214.7
233.0
2564
285.7
314.4
334.1
346.3
351.1
353.4
354.7
356,7
353.5
355.3
356.3
357.3
358.9
360.3
360.1
362.7
361.6

beginning September 1981.
Fuel oil, coal, and bottled gas; gas (piped) and electricity; and motor fuel. Motor oil, coolant,
etc.5 also included through 1982.
Relative importance, December 1983.




Fuel

and another
utilities

Apparel and
upkeep

Total1

New
cars

Motor8
fuel

Medical
care

Ener-

gy 4

All
items
less
food,
energy,
and
shelter

8.2

5.2

21.8

3.5

5.9

6.1

11.9

47.9

182.7
202.2
216.0
239.3
278.6
319.2
350.8
370.3
372.2
374.4
373.8
378.2
384.8
380.9
383.9
384.6
385.4
388.6
391.7
392.9
389.9

147.6
154.2
159.6
166.6
178.4
186.9
191.8
196.5
198.2
198.5
198.5
199.0
198.5
198.6
198.5
198.6
198.1
199.0
200.8
202.1
203.2

165.5
177.2
185.5
212.0
249:7
280.0
291.5
298.4
304.4
305.5
306.1
306.7
306.6
309.4
311.2
312.7
312.1
311.1
311.2
312.7
314.9

135.7
142.9
153.8
166.0
179.3
190.2
197.6
202.6
205.5
205.3
205.7
205.6
206.4
207.4
207.6
207.2
207.3
208.3
209.4
210,5
210.9

177.9
188.2
196.3
265.6
369.1
410.9
389.4
376.4
383.2
381.6
379.8
375.9
370.5
374.0
375.4
376.1
370.4
364.0
361.2
365.2
371.6

184.7
202.4
219.4
239.7
265.9
294.5
328.7
357.3
362.9
364.7
366.0
368.6
371.5
373.5
375.3
377.3
379.0
381.1
382.2
383.4
385.4

189.3
207.3
220.4
275.9
361.1
410.0
416.1
419.3
424.2
424.5
423.3

159.9
169.5
179.1
191.5
208.3
228.1
245.6
258.4
262.2
263.5
264.2
265.8
266.7
267.8
269.1
270.0
270.7
271.6
272.7
273.9
274.8

421.7
422.7
421.8
424.7
425.4
422.6
421.2
421.8
424.4
425.6

NOTE.—NSA indicates data are not seasonally adjusted.
Data beginning 1978 are for all urban consumers; earlier data are for urban wage earners and
clerical workers.
Data beginning 1983 incorporate a rental equivalence measure for homeownership costs and
therefore are not strictly comparable with figures for earlier periods.
Source: Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

23

CHANGES IN PRODUCER PRICES FOR FINISHED GOODS
[Percent change from preceding period; monthly data seasonally adjusted, except as noted]

Period

Change from preceding period

Change from 3 months earlier, annual rate

Change from 6 months earlier, annual rate

Consumer goods

Consumer goods

Consumer goods

Total
finished

goods

Capital
equipment

Excluding foods

Poods

Total
finished
goods

Excluding
foods

Foods

Capital
equipment

Total
finished
goods

Capital
equipment

Excluding
foods

Foods

Change
from
year
earlier,
total
finished
goods
NSA

Change, Dec. to Dec., NSA

1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983

5.5
25
6.9
11.7
7.4
7.5
1.4
2.1
2.3

6.6
3.7
6.9
9.2
12.8
11.8
7.1
3.7
.6

6.7
6.0
6.7
8.5
17.5
14.2
8.5
4.2
-.8

10.8
4.4
6.5
7.8
11.1
13.5
9.2
4.0
1.6

8.2
6.4
7.3
7.9
8.8
11.4
9.2
3.9
1.9

Change, month to month

1983:

Oct

Nov
Dec

1984- Jan

Feb
Mar
Apr

May
J
T

r

June
r
July
. "v
Aug
Sept r
Oct

„

0.2
— .1
.2

1.0
3
.7

.6
.4
.4
0
— .1
0
.4
-.1
2

2.6
.6
.7
-.7
11
-.4
1.4
-.1
4
.1

-.2

-0.2
.0
-.2

0.0
.1
.3

2.7
.8
1.1

8.8
5.8
5.8

-.1
.2
.3
.1
.3
.2
I
-.2
2
j

.2
.4
.3
.6
i
.1
.3
.3
.0
-.6

2.8
4.7
5.7
3.2
1.2
-.4
1.1
1.1
.4
-1.8

12.6
17.1
16.9
2.4
-4.4
-8.5
-.4
3.4
3.3
-2.0

NOTE.—NSA indicates data are not seasonally adjusted.

0.4
-.8
-1.4

-1.1
3
1.7
2.8
3.2
2.6
1.6
— .7
20
-1.9

1.5
.3
1.8

2.7
2.0
1.5

1.3
1.5
4.1

3.6
2.4
.2

1.9
1.8
2.0

1.2
.7
.6

2.7
3.8
3.8
5.3
3.1
2.3
1.2
3.2
2.9
-.8

2.8
2.7
3.4
3.0
2.9
2.6
2.2
1.2
0
-.3

10.7
11.3
11.2
7.4
5.8
3.4
1.0
-.6
-2.8
-1.2

-.3
-.5

2.1
2.0
2.8
4.0
3.4
3.1
3.3
3.1
2.6
.2

2.0
2.3
2.8
2.9
2.4
2.1
2.4
2.0
1.6
1.4

.8
1.4
2.1
2.2
1.2
.3
— .1

Source: Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

CHANGES IN CONSUMER PRICES
[Percent change from preceding period; monthly data seasonally adjusted, except as noted]
Transportation

Housing
Shelter
Period

All
items *

Food

Total 1
Total i

Homeowners'
costs

Renters'
costs

Fuel
and
other
utilities

Appare!
and
upkeep

Total

x

New
cars

Motor
fuel 2

Medical
care

Ener-

gy 3

All
items
less
food,
energy,
and
shelter

Addendum: All items, percent change
(annual rate)
From
previous
quarter 4

From
3
months
earlier

From
6
months
earlier

From
year
earlier
NSA

NSA

Change, December to December, NSA

1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983

7.0
4.8
6.8
9.0
13.3
12.4
8.9
3.9
3.8

6.5
.6
8.0
11.8
10.2
10.2
4.3
3.1
2.6

7.5
5.4
7.6
9.9
15.2
13.7
10.2
3.6
3.5

7.3
4.2
8.7
11.5
17.4
15.1
9.9
2.4
4.7

5.T

4.5"

11.2
9.0
8.1
5.9
16.0
13.6
14.5
9.7
1.8

2.3
4.5
4.2
3.2
5.5
6.8
3.6
1.6
2.9

9.8
8.8
4.3
7.7
18.2
14.7
11.0
1.7
3.9

7.3
4.8
7.2
6.2
7.4
7.5
6.8
1.6
3.4

11.0
2.6
4.9
8.5
52.2
18.9
9.4
-6.5
-1.7

9.9
10.1
8.8
8.8
10.1
10.0
12.5
11.0
6.4

0.3
j
.2

01
— .4
5

0.3
.5
.4

-1.0
14
.9
.4
.2
-1.5
— 1.7
8
1.1
1.8

.7
.8
.5
.5
.5
.5
.6
.3
.3
.5

11.6
6.9
7.2
8.0
37.4
18.1
11.9
1.3
.5

9.1
5.8
6.5
7.7
11.3
13.5
10.4
6.1
3.2

6.4
7.0
5.2
6.5
7.2
9.9
9.4
6.1
5.0

Change, month to month

1983:

1984:

Oct
Nov
Dec

0.4
.4
.2

0.4
.2
.4

0.2
.4
.2

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct

.6
.4
.2
.5
.2
.2
.3
.5
.4
.4

1.6
.7
-.1
-.0
-.3
.1
.3
.6
— .1
.4

.5
.5
.0
.6
.2
.2
.5
.6
.4
.1

0.4
.4
.3

0.4
.4
.3

0.4
.4
.2

.3
.2
.4
.6
.3
.4
.7
.5
.5
.4

.4
.3
.5
.8
.4
.4
.6
.6
.5
.5

.4
.2
.5
.6
.3
.3
.7
.5
.6
.4

1
2
3

02
.6
2
1.2
1.7
-1.0
.8
.2
.2
.8
.8
.3
-.8

0
.2
0

0.5
.4
.2

.3
-.3
.1
— .1
.1
-.3
.5
.9
.6
.5

.2
-.0
.9
.6
.5
-.2
-.3
.0
.5
.7

Includes items not shown separately.
Includes direct pricing of diesel and gasohol beginning September 1981.
Fuel oil, coal, and bottled gas; gas (piped) and electricity; and motor fuel. Motor oil, coolant,
etc., also included through 1982.
4
Quarterly changes are shown in the last month of the quarter.
NOTE.—NSA indicates data are not seasonally adjusted.

24




-.0
.4
.5
.1
-.2
.0
.5
.5
.5
.2

-0.2
.1
-.3

0.5
.5
.3

__.4
.2
-.2
.7
.2
-.7
-.3
.1
.6
.3

.6
.3
.4
.5
.3
.3
.3
.4
.4
.3

4.5

5.0

3.7

3.5

4.6
4.6
4.0

4.4
4.2
4.3

2.9
3.2
3.8

5.0
5.0
5.0
4.3
3.6
3.3
2.6
3.7
4.5
4.7

4.8
4.8
4.5
4.6
4.3
4.1
3.4
3.6
3.9
3.7

4.1
4.6
4.7
4.5
4.2
4.2
4.1
4.2
4.2
4.2

Data beginning January 1978 are for all urban consumers; earlier data are for urban wage earners and clerical workers.
Data beginning January 1983 incorporate a rental equivalence measure for homeownership costs
and therefore are not strictly comparable with data for earlier periods.
Source: Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

PRICES RECEIVED AND PAID BY FARMERS
Prices received by farmers fell 0.7 percent in November and prices paid by farmers were unchanged.
INDEX, 1977= 100 (RATIO SCALE)

INDEX, 1977= 100 (RATIO SCALE)

180

180

160

160
PRICES PAID

140

140

120

120
PRICES RECEIVED

100

100

80

80

60
RATIO^
140

mill

III

1 1 1 1 1 I I I I I 60
RATIO^
140

120

120

- RATIO •

100

100

80

80

60
1976

1977

1978

1979

1981

1980

1982

60

JHD

illl
1983

1984

V RATIO OF INDEX OF PRICES RECEIVED TO INDEX OF PRICES PAID.
SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

[1977 = 100]
Prices paid by farmers

Prices received by farmers
Period

All farm
products

Livestock and
products

Crops

All commodities,
services,
interest, taxes,
and wage rates 1

Production
items, interest,
taxes, and wage
rates

Production
items

Ratio 2

102
100
115
132
134
139
133
134

102
100
105
116
125
134
121
127

101
100
124
147
144
143
145
141

95
100
108
123
138
150
157
161

95
100
109
125
139
151
155
159

97
100
108
125
138
148
150
153

107
100
106
107
97
93
85
84

Nov
Dec

135
140

134
136

136
143

162
163

160
161

154
155

83
86

1984- Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May

144
144
145
146
144
144
144
143
139
138
137

138
137
139
140
144
145
142
144
136
138
131

150
151
151
151
145
143
145
143
141
r
!39
142

164
165
165
166
166
166
165
165
165
164
164

162
163
164
164
164
163
162
162
161
160
160

156
156
157
158
157
157
156
155
154
153
153

88
87
88
88
87
87
87
87
84
84
84

1976
1977

1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1983:

June
July

Aug
Sept

Oct
Nov

1
Includes items not shown separately.
2
Percentage ratio of index of prices received by farmers to index of prices paid, interest, taxes,
and wage rates.




NOTE.—The official indexes are published on a 1910-14 base as required by
have been converted to a 1977 = 100 base to facilitate comparison with other index
Source: Department of Agriculture.

25

MONEY, CREDIT, AND SECURITY MARKETS
MONEY STOCK, LIQUID ASSETS, AND DEBT MEASURES
Ml declined in October while growth in the broader monetary aggregates was little changed.
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS*(RATIO SCALE)

BILLIONS OF DOLLARS*(RATIO SCALE)
3,200

3,200

2,800

[2,800

2,400
2,000

|2,000

1,600

1,600

M2

*•

1,200

1,200

1,000

1,000

600^

600
500

500
Ml

400

400

300

linn- 300
1976

1977

1978

1979

1984

1983

1982

1981

1980

* AVERAGES OF DAILY FIGURES; SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
SOURCE: BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

[Averages of daily figures, except as noted; billions of dollars, seasonally adjusted]

Period

1976:
1977:
1978:
1979:
1980:
1981:
1982:
1983:
1983-

Dec
Dec.
Dec
Dec.
Dec r
Dec r
Decr
Decr
Oct r
Nov r
Dec r
1984: Jan r
Feb r
Mar r .
Apr r
May 7 "
June r
July r
Aug r
Septp r
Oct

Ml

M2

M3

Sum of currency,
demand deposits,
travelers' checks,
and other
checkable
deposits (OCDs)

Ml plus overnight
RPs and
Eurodollars,
MMMF balances
(general purpose
and broker /dealer),
MMDAs, and
savings and small
time deposits

M2 plus large
time deposits,
term RPs, term
Eurodollars, and
institution-only
MMMF balances

310.4
335.4
363.]
389.1
414.9
441.9
480.5
525.4
521.7
523.1
525.4
530.1
533.0
535.3
535.5
541.2
546.3
545.8
546.7
548.9
545.5

1,163.6
1,286.7
1,389.1
1,498.5
1,632.6
1,796.6
1,965.4
2,196.3
2,167.3
2,182.2
2,196.3
2,206.8
2,222.6
2,230.0
2,242.9
2,258.6
2,272.1
2,281.9
2,291.1
2,305.8
2,317.2

1,311.9
1,472.9
1,647.1
1,804.8
1,990.0
2,238.2
2,462.5
2,710.4
2,658.9
2,689.3
2,710.4
2,723.8
2,747.0
2,767.8
2,792.4
2,818.3
2,839.5
2,860.5
2,872.2
2,890.6
2,917.3

1
Consists of outstanding credit market debt of the U.S. Government, State and local governments, and private nonfinancial sectors; data from flow of funds accounts.
2
Annual changes are from December to December and monthly changes are from 6 months earlier at a seasonally adjusted annual rate.
NOTE.—The nontransactions portion of M2 is now being seasonally adjusted as a whole to reduce
distortions caused by substantial portfolio shifts arising from regulatory and financial changes in

26




L

M3 plus
other liquid
assets

1,516.6
1,704.7
1,910.6
2,117.1
2,326.2
2,599.8
2,870.8
3,178.7
3,116.4
3,147.2
3,178.7
3,201.4
3,231.6
3,273.6
3,299.3
3,330.3
3,371.3
3,407.0

Debt

Debt of
domestic
nonfinancial
sectors
(monthly
average) l

2,513.4
2,829.1
3,200.0
3,583.6
3,926.2
4,311.9
4,710.0
5,224.6
5,124.7
5,170.5
5,224.6
5,282.8
5,341.7
5,396.7
5,455.9
5,517.6
5,571.7
5,632.2
5,694.0
5,742.8

Percent change from year or 6
months earlier 2

Ml

6.6
8.1
8.3
7.2
6.6
6.5
8.7
9.3
9.8
6.6
5.7
6.0
6.1
6.4
5.4
7.0
8.1
6.0
5.2
5.1
3.8

M2

13.7
10.6
8.0
7.9
8.9
10.0
9.4
11.7
8.4
7.7
7.6
7.7
8.3
7.8
7.1
7.1
7.0
6.9
6.3
6.9
6.7

M3

11.9
12.3
11.8
9.6
10.3
12.5
10.0
10.1
8.5
9.2
9.1
9.2
10.0
10.0
10.3
9.8
9.8
10.3
9.3
9.1
9.1

recent years, especially shifts to MMDAs in 1983. A similar procedure is being used to
adjust the remaining nontransactions balances in M3.
See p. 27 for components.
Money stock series revised beginning 1980.
Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Debt

10.7
12.6
13.1
12.0
9.6
9.8
9.2
10.9
11.5
11.7
11.7
11.9
12.5
12.9
13.3
13.9
13.7
13.7
13.6
13.2

COMPONENTS OF MONEY STOCK AND LIQUID ASSETS
[Averages of daily figures; billions of dollars, seasonally adjusted, except as noted]

Period

Demand
deposits

Currency

Other
checkable
deposits
(OCDs)

Overnight
repurchase
agreements
(RPs),
net, plus
overnight
Eurodollars

NSA

1976:
1977:
1978:
1979:
1980:
1981:
1982:
1983:

Dec....
Dec ....
Dec ....
Dec ....
Dec ....
Dec....
Dec ....
Dec ....

1983:
Oct
Nov
Dec ...
1984:
Jan
Feb ..
Mar
Anr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept r
Oct r

80.5
88.5
97.4
106.3
116.7
124.0
134.1
148.0

224.4
239.6
253.8
261.9
266.5
236.2
239.7
243.7

2.7
4.2

8.5
17.1
27.6
77.4
102.4
r
128.9

146.0 243.6
147.2 242.8
148.0 243.7

r

149.9
150.2
150.9
151.8
152.9
154.2
155.0
156.0
156.7
157.2

r

244.5
243.8
244.0
245.3
245.2
248.2
247.1
245.5
246.4
243.8

127.3
128.3
r
128.9
r

130.8
134.0
r
135.4
r
133.3
r
138.0
r
138.8
r
138.5
r
139.9
140.8
139.6
r

Money market
mutual fund
balances
General
purpose
and
broker/
dealer

Institution
only

NSA

NSA

10.6
14.7
20.3
21,2
28.3
35.9
44.1
56.2

2.4
2.4
6.4
33.4
61.6
150.6
185.2
138.2

0.6
.9
3.1
9.5
r
!5.2

57.0
55.2
56.2

137.5
138.8
138.2

r

58.6
59.5
58.3
57.5
59.1
56.5
r
56.9
r
58.8
56.8
56.8

137.8
142.1
144.8
145.9
146.5
148.9
150.5
150.5
151.9
155.5

r

Money
market
deposit
accounts
(MMDAs)

51.1
43.2

42.8
43.5
r
43.2
r

43.5
44.6
r
45.0
r
45.0
r
45.3
r
45.7
r

r

46.1

r

46.2

46.9
52.2

Large
denomination
time
deposits l

Term
repurchase
agreements
(EPs)

Term
Eurodollars
(net)

NSA

NSA

Savings
bonds

43.0
376.0

452.8
491.3
480.8
423.1
401.4
345.7
362.1
312.9

391.0
446.0
521.9
635.8
731.4
827.3
856.9
793.1

118.1
145.1
195.2
222.1
r
258.4
r
301.3
r
327.4
r
325.4

14.1
19.4
27.0
30.1
34.7
37.0
40.2
56.0

14.8
20.2
31.8
44.7
50.3
67.5
81.7
93.4

71.8
76.4
80.3
79.5
72.3
67.7
67.9
71.0

370.5
372.9
376.0

317.1
315.4
312.9

773.0 r315.1
785.5 r 320.3
793.1 r 325.4

47.3
53.4
56.0

86.8
91.7
93.4

70.7
70.8
71.0

380.3
386.0
392.5
396.4
394.6
392.9
r
389.2
r
383.8
383.4
386.8

309.9
306.6
305.5
305.5
305.5
r
305.1
r
303.3
r
299.8
298.9
297.4

53.3
54.5
55.9
59.8
61.6
59.6
59.6
63.4
64.7
67.3

90.6
90.7
93.9
93.3
93.3
r
88.2
r
86.7
r
84.6
83.3
79.6

71.2
71.7
72.2
72.5
72.8
73.0
73.2

38.0

r

Small
denomination
time
deposits l

NSA

r
r

Savings
deposits

1
Small denomination and large denomination deposits are those issued in amounts of less than
$100,000 and more than $100,000, respectively.

NOTE.—See note p. 26.
Travelers checks are a component of money stock but are not shown here.

797.0
800.9
803.4
808.3
816.7
829.0
r
845.2
r
862.0
874.5
885.0

r

333.0
339.9
r
347.9
r
355.5
r
367.3
r
378.8
r
389.0
r
391.9
392.9
401.1
r

Shortterm
Treasury
securities

Bankers'
acceptances

Commercial
paper

70.4
78.4
82.0
108.6
133.8
149.9
187.8
223.3

10.8
14.1
22.0
27.1
32.0
39.8
r
43.8
r
43.3

51.7
62.9
79.2
97.0
98.1
104.2
108.8
130.8

42.8
42.9
43.3

125.7
126.9
130.8

r

218.4
217.2
223.3

226.6
231.7
245.8
241.8
240.0
r
252.0
262.8

r

r
r

r

42.7
41.6
42.4
r
43.1
r
45.3
r
46.9
r
47.3
r

r

137.1
139.6
145.4
149.5
154.0
159.9
163.2

NSA indicates data are not seasonally adjusted.
Series revised beginning 1980.
Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

CONSUMER INSTALLMENT CREDIT
[Millions of dollars; seasonally adjusted]
Net change in installment credit outstanding *

Installment credit outstanding (end of period)
Period

Dec
Dec
Dec
Dec
Dec
Dec
Dec
Dec

1983- Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec

1984: Jan
Feb
Mar
Anr
May
June . .
July
Ausr
Sept

,

„

Revolving

Mobile
home

Other

Revolving

190,725
226,646
269,392
307,115
309,694
330,218
348,944
388,718

67,798
82,890
101,863
116,523
116,808
125,323
129,799
141,876

16,505
36,427
45,004
53,174
54,900
60,309
65,453
75,564

14,530
14,897
15,199
16,843
17,302
17,879
22,119
23,460

91,892
92,432
107,326
120^575
120,684
126,707
131,573
147,818

21,338
35,921
42,746
37,723
2,579
20,524
18,726
39,774

10,519
15,092
18,973
14,660
285
8,515
4,476
12,077

2,038
19,922
8,577
8,170
1,726
5,409
5,144
10,111

148
367
302
1,644
459
577
4,240
1,341

8,633
540
14,894
13,249
109
6,023
4,866
16,245

373,024
378,117
382,936
388,718

137,431
139,140
140,408
141,876

71,209
72,447
73,874
75,564

23,553
23,523
23,459
23,460

140,831
143,007
145,195
147,818

2,553
5,093
4,819
5,782

295
1,709
1,268
1,468

579
1,238
1,427
1,690

255
-30
64
1

1,424
2,176
2,188
2,623

393,187
399,795
405,665
412,073
422,306
430,131
437,237
443,235
447,518

143,982
146,781
147,107
149,265
152,954
155,851
159,273
161,050
162,367

76,069
77,342
80,304
82,172
84,989
86,558
87,198
88,512
89,836

23,368
23,241
23,526
23,811
24,113
24,567
25,029
25,602
25,920

149,768
152,430
154,728
156,825
160,250
163,155
165,737
168,071
169,395

4,469
6,608
5,870
6,408
10,233
7,825
7,106
5,998
4,283

2,106
2,799
326
2,158
3,689
2,897
3,422
1,777
1,317

505
1,273
2,962
1,868
2,817
1,569
640
1,314
1,324

-92
-127
285
285
302
454
462
573
318

1,950
2,662
2,298
2,097
3,425
2,905
2,582
2,334
1,324

1
For year-end data, change from preceding year-end; for monthly data, change from preceding
month.




Automobile

Automobile

Total

1976:
1977:
1978:
19791980:
19811982:
1983-

Mobile
home

Other

Total

Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

27

BANK LOANS AND INVESTMENTS, AND RESERVES
Commercial and industrial loans rose again in October.
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS* (RATIO SCALE)
1,800
1,600
1,400
1,200

BILLIONS OF DOLLARS* (RATIO SCALE)
1,800
1,600 — ALL COMMERCIAL BANKS
1/400
1,200

1,000

1,000
800

800

LOANS AND LEASES
600

600

400

400

INVESTMENT IN OTHER SECURITIES
200

200

160

160

JS

120

INVESTMENT IN
U.S. TREASURY SECURITIES

80

40

120

mi

11111111

Mill
1977

1976

1979

1978

80

III

1980

III
1982

1981

I III ill I

40

1984

1983

* SEASONALLY ADJUSTED, AVERAGES OF WEDNESDAY FIGURES
COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

SOURCE: BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

[Billions of dollars, seasonally adjusted, except as noted]
Depository institutions 3

All commercial banks l
Loans and leases
Period

Total loans
and
investments

19761977:
19781979:
19801981:
19821983:
1983:

Dec
Dec
Dec
Dec
Dec
Dec
Dec
Dec
Oct
Nov ..
Dec
1984- Jan
Feb..._
Mar
Apr
May
" y ""June
July
Am?
Sept r
Octp

Total 2

804. G
891.5
1,013.5
1,135.9
1,239.6
1,316.3
1,412.0
1,568.1
.

1

1,532.9
1,548.9
1,568.1
1,585.3
1,604.6
1,621.2
1,630.0
1,649.5
1,652.6
1,664.7
1,675.5
4
1,685.6
1,694.2

4

555.0
632.5
747.0
849.9
915.1
973.9
1,042.0
1,132.6
1,104.1
1,115.7
1,132.6
1,144.7
1,164.1
1,181.0
1,193.5
1,213.4
1,222.7
1,234.2
1,241.1
1,251.0
1,260.5

Commercial
and industrial
loans

U.S. Treasury
securities

190.9
210.9
245.9
291.2
326.8
358.0
392.3
413.7
404.7
407.8
413.7
418.4
423.9
434.1
437,2
447.6
453.2
456.6
459.7
4
46L2
465.0

100.8
99.8
93.8
94.5
110.0
111.0
130.9
188.0
182.3
186.2
188.0
188.7
188.2
186.9
185.6
186.1
181.7
182.8
184.8
183.7
182.8

Data are averages of Wednesday figures.
Excludes loans to commercial banks in the United States.
Data are averages of daily figures.
4
Beginning September 26, 1984 a transfer of loans from Continental Illinois National Bank to
the FDIC reduced total loans and investments and total loans by $1.9 billion, commercial and industrial loans by $1.4 billion, and real estate loans (not shown here) by $0.4 billion.
2

3

28



Borrowings
(millions of dollars,
unadjusted)

Reserves adjusted
for changes in
reserve requirements

Investments

Other
securities

148.8
159.3
172.8
191.5
214.4
231.4
239.2
247.5
246.5
247.1
247.5
252.0
252.2
253.2
250.8
250.0
248.2
247.7
249.6
250.9
250.8

Total

25.62
26.65
27.93
29.12
31.07
32.14
34.34
r
36.14
r
36.16
r
36.10
r
36.14
r
36.36
r
37.03
r
r37.10

si.n

r
37.45
r
38.28
r

38.23
38.38
38.14
37.75

r
r

Nonborrowed

25.57
26.08
27.07
27.64
29.38
31.51
33.70
r
35.36
r
35.31
r
35.20
r
35.36
r
35.64
r
36.46
r
36.15
r
35.88
r
34.46
r
34.98
r
32Jl
r
30.36
r
30.89
31.73

Eequired

25.35
26.46
27.70
28.79
30.55
31.82
33.84
r
35.58
r
35.65
r
35.57
r
35.58
r
35.74
r
36.08
r
36.39
r
36.62
r
36.87
r
S?.52
r
37,63
r
37.70
r
37J2
37.14

Total

Seasonal

53
569
868
1,473
1,690
636
634
774
844
906
'774

13
55
135
81
116
54
33
96
142
121
96

715
567
952
1,234
2,988
3,300
5,924
8,017
7,242
6,017

86
103
133
139
196
264
308
346
319
299

NOTE.—Beginning Dec. 1981, bank loans and investments and reserves aggregates have beer
reduced because of shifts from U.S. banking offices to International Banking Facilities (IBFs).
Reserves data revised beginning October 1983; revised data for earlier periods are not yet avail
able.
"
I
Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

SOURCES AND USES OF FUNDS, NONFARM NONFINANCIAL
CORPORATE BUSINESS
[Billions of dollars; quarterly data at seasonally adjusted annual rates]
Uses

Sources
External
Period
Total

Internal

Credit market funds

l

Total
Total

190.3
157.0
211.0
254.1
317.5
345.2
335.2
364.2
309.3
436.4
333.9
449.2
443.2
519.1
516.2
500.6
448.8

1974

1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983 .
1983: I

n
m

IV
1984- I r r

np
m

85.6
119.7
134.2
157.4
175.7
188.8
189.5
230.4
234.3
280.5
250.4
269.7
292.5
309.3
319.6
331.7
337.5

104.7
37.3
76.8
96.7
141.8
156.4
145.7
133.8
75.0
155.9
83.5
179.5
150.7
209.8
196.6
168.9
111.3

70.2
30.8
54.7
72.4
80.5
88.2
90.9
91.5
81.4
87.8
68.7
86.5
66.6
129.4
112.6
81.3
65.0

Securities
and
mortgages

Loans and
short-term
paper

26.3
38.7
38.2
35.8
32.8
20.9
52.4
21.8
43.9
56.4
67.0
85.9
37.0
35.8
23 7
-76.9
-7.4

43.9
-7.9
16.5
36.6
47.7
67.3
38.5
69.7
37.5
31.4
1.7
.6
29.6
93.6
136.3
158.2
72.4

1
Undistributed profits (after inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments), capital
consumption allowances, and foreign branch profits, dividends, and subsidiaries' earnings retained
abroad.
2
Consists of tax liabilities, trade debt, and direct foreign investment in the U.S.

Total

Other 2

34.6
6.5
22.1
24.3
61.3
68.2
54.8
42.3
64
68.1
14.8
93.1
84.1
80.5
84.0
87.6
46.3

190.1
150.9
201.8
237.6
293.6
343.7
317.7
334.2
258.0
384.3
282.3
390.4
395.4
468.9
483.5
458.3
443.0

Capital
expenditures 3

137.9
109.7
148.3
175.1
201.6
219.4
221.2
271.3
229.6
256.2
206.9
255.3
270.6
291.9
354.5
364.3
386.8

Increase in
financial
assets

52.2
41.2
53.5
62.5
92.0
124.3
96.5
62.9
28.4
128.1
75.4
135.1
124.8
177.0
129.0
94.0
56.2

Discrepancy
(sources less
uses)

0.2
6.0
9.2
16.5
23.8
1.5
17.6
30.0
51.3
52.1
51.5
58.7
47.8
50.3
32.7
42.2
5.8

3
Plant and equipment, residential structures, inventory investment, and mineral rights from U.S.
Government.
Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

CURRENT ASSETS AND LIABILITIES OF NONFINANCIAL
CORPORATIONS
[Billions of dollars, except as noted]
Current liabilities

Current assets
End of period
Total

SEC series: 2
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
QFR-FRB series: 3
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982 ....
1983
1983- I

n

HI
IV
1984- F
HP

Cash

U.S.
Government
securities

492.3
529.6
599.3
697.8
790.7

50.2
53.3
59.0
66.3
71.1

7.7
11.0
10.6
12.8
12.3

735.4
759.0
827.4
912.7
1,043.7
1,214.8
1,327.0
1,418.4
1,432.7
1,557.3
1,444.2
1,468.0
1,522.8
1,557.3
1,600.6
1,630.8

73.2
82.1
88.2
97.2
105.5
118.0
126.9
135.5
147.0
165.8
143.1
147.9
150.5
165.8
159.3
155.5

11.1
19.0
23.5
18.2
17.2
16.7
18.7
17.6
22.8
30.6
26.0
28.2
27.0
30.6
35.1
36.8

Notes and
accounts
receivable

Inventories

Other
current
assets

Total

Notes and
accounts
payable

Other
current
liabilities

Net
working
capital

Current
ratio 1

248.2
288.5
322.1

193.3
200.4
225.7
263.9
313.6

35.0
43.8
55.8
66.4
71.7

304.9
326.0
375.6
450.9
530.4

211.3
220.5
282.9
340.3
402.3

93.6
105.5
92.7
110.7
128.1

187.4
203.6
223.7
246.9
260.3

1.615
1.625
1.595
1.548
1.491

265.8
272.1
292.9
330.3
388.0
459.0
506.8
532.0
519.2
577.8
525.3
r
539.3
565.0
577.8
596.9
612.6

319.5
315.9
342.5
376.9
431.8
505.1
542.8
583.7
578.6
599.3
577.6
576.2
597.3
599.3
623.1
633.3

65.9
69.9
80.3
90.1
101.1
116.0
131.8
149.5
165.2
183.7
172.1
176.4
183.0
183.7
186.3
192.5

453.4
451.6
495.1
557.1
669.5
807.3
889.3
970.0
976.8
1,043.0
983.4
990.2
1,026.6
1,043.0
1,079.0
1,111.5

269.8
264.2
282.1
317.6
383.0
460.8
513.6
546.3
543.0
577.9
530.9
536.6
559.4
577.9
584.1
606.0

183.6
187.4
213.0
239.6
286.5
346.5
375.7
423.7
433.8
465.2
452.6
453.6
467.2
465.2
495.0
505.5

282.0
307.4
332.4
355.5
374.3
407.5
437.8
448.4
455.9
514.3
460.8
477.8
496.3
514.3
521.6
519.3

1.622
1.681
1.671
1.638
1.559
1.505
1.492
1.462
1.467
1.493
1.469
1.483
1.483
1.493
1.483
1.467

206.1
221.1

1

Total current assets divided by total current liabilities.
Based on data from Statistics of Income, Department of the Treasury.
Based on data from Quarterly Financial Report for Manufacturing, Mining, and Trade Corporations, Effective mid-1982, responsibility for the Quarterly Financial Report was transferred to
the Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census from the Federal Trade Commission.
2

3




NOTE.—SEC series not available after 1974. See Federal Reserve Bulletin, July 1978, for details regarding the series.
Sources: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Department of Commerce (Bureau
of the Census), Federal Trade Commission, and Securities and Exchange Commission.

29

INTEREST RATES AND BOND YIELDS
Interest rates fell in November.
PERCENT PER ANNUM

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1977

1976

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1982

1981

1984

1983

COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

SOURCE: SEE TABLE BELOW

[Percent per annum]
U.S. Treasury security yields
Period
3-month bills 1

Constant maturities
3-year

1978

7.221

1979
1980
1981
1982
1983

10.041
11.506
14.029
10.686

1983:

2

10-year

High-grade
municipal
bonds
(Standard &
Poor's) 3

Corporate
Aaa bonds
(Moody's) 4

Prime
commercial
paper,
6 months 5
5

Discount rate

(N.Y. F.R.
Bank) 6

May... .
June
July...

Aug
Sent

Oct
Nov P

9.06
12.67
15.27
18.87
14.86
10.79

8.63

8.29
9.72
11.55
14.44
12.92
10.45

8.41
9.44
11.46
13.91
13.00
11.10

5.90
6.39
8.51
11.23
11.57
9.47

8.73
9.63
11.94
14.17
13.79
12.04

8.71
8.96
8.93
9.03
9.44
9.69
9.90
9.94
10.13
10.49
10.41
9.97
8.79

10.96
11.13
10.93
11.05
11.59
11.98
12.75
13.18
13.08
12.50
12.34
11.85
10.90

11.69
11.83
11.67
11.84
12.32
12.63
13.41
13.56
13.36
12.72
12.52
12.16
11.57

9.79
9.90
9.61
9.63
9.92
9.98
10.55
10.71
10.50
10.03
10.17
10.34
10.27

12.41
12.57
12.20
12.08
12.57
12.81
13.28
13.55
13.44
12.87
12.66
12.63
12.30

9.09
9.50
9.18
9.31
9.86
10.22
10.87
11.23
11.34
11.16
10.94
10.16
9.06

8.50-8.50
8.50-8.50

11.00-11.00
11.00-11.00

8.50-8.50
8.50-8.50
8.50-8.50
8.50-9.00
9.00-9.00
9.00-9.00
9.00-9.00
9.00-9.00
9.00-9.00
9.00-9.00
9.00-8.50

11.00-11.00
11.00-11.00
11.00-11.50
11.50-12.00
12.00-12.50
12.50-13.00
13.00-13.00
13.00-13.00
13.00-12.75
12.75-12.00
12.00-11.25

9.98
9.54
9.38
8.82
8.73
8.59
8.43

11.88
11.48
11.33
11.06
11.05
10.75
10.67

12.19
11.85
11.76
11.71
11.75
11.44
11.39

10.35
10.13
10.22
10.23
10.37
10.35
10.11

12.82
12.54
12.50
12.43
12.42
12.20
12.02

10.18
9.63
9.61
9.20
9.19
9.04
8.69

9.00-9.00
9.00-9.00
9.00-9.00
9.00-9.00
9.00-9.00
9.00-8.50
8.50-8.50

12.75-12.50
12.50-12.50
12.50-12.00
12.00-11.75
11.75-11.75
11.75-11.75
11.75-11.25

7.99
10.91
12.29
14.76
11.89
8.89

7.46
10.28
11.77
13.41
11.02
8.50
Open-close

Nov
Dec
1984- Jan.
Feb
Mar
Apr

Prime rate
charged by
banks 6

New-home
mortgage
yields
(FHLBB) 7

9.56
10.78
12.66
14.70
15.14
12.57

Open-close

12.34
12.42
12.29
12.23
12.02
12.04
12.18
12.10
12.50
12.43
12.53
12.77

Week ended:

1984:

Get 20
27
Nov 3
10
17
24
Dec 1 p

1

Rate on new issues within period; bank-discount basis.
Yields on the more actively traded issues adjusted to constant maturities by the Treasury Department.
3
Weekly data are Wednesday figures.
4
Series excludes public utility issues for January 17, 1984 through October 11, 1984 due to lack
of appropriate issues.
8
Bank-discount basis. Prior to November 1, 1979, data are for 4-6 months paper.
2

30




6

Average effective rate for year; opening and closing rate for month and week.
7
Effective rate (in the primary market) on conventional mortgages, reflecting fees and charges as
well as contract rate and assumed, on the average, repayment at end of 10 years. Rates beginning
January 1973 not strictly comparable with prior rates.
Sources: Department of the Treasury, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Moody's Investors Service, and Standard & Poor's Corporation.

COMMON STOCK PRICES AND YIELDS
Stock price indexes rose in November.
INDEX, DEC 31, 1965=50

INDEX, DEC. 31,1965=50

__

1001

—1100

90

90
COMPOSITE STOCK PRICE INDEX
(NYSE)

EARNINGS-PRiCE RATIO ON COMMON STOCKS

(S&P)

SOURCES: NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE AND STANDARD & POOR'S CORPORATION

COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

Common stock prices 1
New York Stock Exchange indexes (I)ec. 31, 1965 — 5 O)

Common stock yields
(percent) 5

2

Period
Composite

1978
1979
1980
1981
1982

1983
1983: Nov
Dec
1984- Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Au.fr

Sept
Oct
Nov p
Week ended:
1984: Nov 3
10
17
24
Dec 1 P
1

Industrial

Transportation

Utility

Dividendprice ratio

53.70
58.32
68.10
74.02
68.93
92.63
95.36
94.92
96.16
90.60
90.66
90.67
90.07
88.28
87.08
94.49
95.68
95.09
95.85

58.23
64.76
78.70
85.44
78.18
107.45
110.77
110.65
112.16
105.44
105.92
106.56
105.94
104.04
102.29
111.20
112.18
110.44
110.91

43.50
47.34
60.61
72.61
60.41
89.36
97.68
98.79
97.98
86.33
86.10
83.61
81.62
79.29
76.72
86.86
86.88
86.82
87.37

39.22
38.20
37.35
38.91
39.75
47.00
48.50
47.00
47.43
45.67
44.83
43.86
44.22
43.65
44.17
46.49
47.47
49.02
49.93

56.65
61.42
64.25
73.52
71.99
95.34
94.48
94.25
95.79
89.95
89.50
88.22
85.06
80.75
79.03
87.92
91.59
92.94
95.28

820.23
844.40
891.41
932.92
884.36
1,190.34
1,250.01
1,257.64
1,258.89
1,164.46
1,161.97
1,152.71
1,143.42
1,121.14
1,113.27
1,212.82
1,213.51
1,199.30
1,211.30

96.02
103.01
118.78
128.05
119.71
160.41
165.23
164.36
166.39
157.25
157.44
157.60
156.55
153.12
151.08
164.42
166.11
164.82
166.27

5.28
5.47
5.26
5.20
5.81
4.40
4.31
4.32
4.27
4.59
4.63
4.64
4.72
4.86
4.93
4.62
4.54
4.62
4.61

95.98
97.33
95.68
94.90
95.04

111.38
112.80
110.80
109.76
109.64

87.62
88.94
87.04
86.04
86.84

49.44
50.21
49.68
49.67
50.19

94.78
96.99
95.11
93.99
94.67

1,211.97
1,230.85
1,205.36
1,200.56
1,204.07

166.52
168.89
165.86
164.68
164.87

4.58
4.49
4.61
4.67
4.66

Average of daily closing prices.

* Includes 30 Socks"** ^^ **""* ^^ ^^ °" ^ ^^
4
lncludes 500 stocks
8
Standard & Poor's series. Dividend-price ratios based on Wednesday closing prices. Earnings-




Finance

Dow-Jones
industrial
average 3

Standard &
Poor's
composite
index (194143 = 10)4

Earnings price ratio

12.03
13.46
12.66
11.96
11.60
8.03
8.51
r

9.58

10.58

price ratios based on prices at end of quarter.
NOTE.— All data relate to stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
Sources: New York Stock Exchange, Bow-Jones & Company, Inc., and Standard & Poor's Corporation.

31

FEDERAL FINANCE
FEDERAL RECEIPTS, OUTLAYS, AND DEBT
In the first month of fiscal year 1985 there was a budget deficit of $28.8 billion, compared to a budget deficit of
$25.1 billion a year earlier.
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS

BILLIONS OF DOLLARS
900

\- BUDGET RECEIPTS AND OUTLAYS

900
800

800

700

700

- BUDGET OUTLAYS

V-

600

600

500

500

400

400

BUDGET SURPLUS OR DEFICIT (-)

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1976

1
1977

i
1978

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1979

1
1980

1
1981

1
1982

1
1983

- -200

!
1984

1985

FISCAL YEARS
COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

SOURCES: DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY AND OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET

[Billions of dollars]

Budget
receipts

Period

Fiscal year or period:
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
Transition quarter
1977
1978
1979 .
1980
1981
1982
1983 .
. . . .
1984"
1985 (estimates):
Mid-Session Review *
First Concurrent Resolution
First month:
Fiscal year 1984
Fiscal year 1985

....

.

230.7
245.6
267.9
324.2
364.5
94.2
400.5
448.4
491.0
576.7
657.2
728.4
796.0
841.8

23.4
-14.8
4.7
-45.2
66.4
-13.0
-44.9
-48.8
-27.7
-59.6
-57.9
110.6
- 195.4
175.3

763.8
750.9

930.6
932.1

166.9
-181.2

45.2
52.3

70.2
81.0

-25.1
-28.8

1

Mid-Session Review of the 1985 Budget, Office of Management and Budget, August 15, 1984.
First Concurrent Resolution on the 1985 budget, October 1, 1984.




Budget
surplus or
deficit (— )

207.3
230.8
263.2
279.1
298.1
81.2
355.6
399.6
463.3
517.1
599.3
617.8
600.6
666.5

2

32

Budget
outlays

Off-budget
surplus or
deficit (— )

0.1
-1.4
8.1

-7.3
-1.8
-8.7
— 10.4
-12.5
14.2
-21.0
-17.3
-12 A
-10.0

Total
surplus or
deficit (-)

23.4
-14.9
6.1
-53.2
73.7
-14.7
-53.6
-59.2
-40.2
-73.8
-78.9
127.9
-207.8
185.3

Federal debt (end of period)
Gross

Held by the
public

437.3
468.4
486.2
544.1
631.9
646.4
709.1
780.4
833.8
914.3
1,003.9
1,147.0
1,381.9
1,576.7

323.8
343.0
346.1
396.9
480.3
498.3
551.8
610.9
644.6
715.1
794.4
929.4
1,141.8
1,312.6

-13.3

180.2

1,806.9
1,823.8

1,480.8

1.4
.8

-23.6
-28.0

1,389.2
1,616.0

1,153.5
1,333.3

Sources: Department of the Treasury and Office of Management and Budget, except as noted.

FEDERAL BUDGET RECEIPTS BY SOURCE AND
OUTLAYS BY FUNCTION
In the first month of fiscal year 1985 budget receipts were $7.1 billion higher than a year earlier and budget
outlays were $10.8 billion higher.
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS

BILLIONS OF DOLLARS

BUDGET RECEIPTS

300

INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAXES,

rt—

^-—^^^

200
s&

""

«**ss^

l

f

" ^---—" ""

\
~"

I

1

1

1

200
~~"

_

100

T " i

I

300

OTHER RECEIPTS

CORPORATION l» MCOME TAXES

100

0

•ssss*5*88**" "

r

i

0

700

700

BUDGET OUTLAYS

600

600
NONDEFENSE

500

500

400

400

300

300

200

200

100

100
1976

1977

1978

1979

1982

1980 1981

1984

1983

1985

FISCAL YEARS
SOURCES: DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY AND OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET

COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

[Billions of dollars]
Budget outlays

Budget receipts
National defense
Period
Total

Individual
income
taxes

Corporation
income
taxes

Other

Total
Total

Department of
Defense,
military

International
affairs

Social
securi-

ty and
medicare

Health

and
income
security

Net
inter-

Other

est

Fiscal year or period:

1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984 p
1985 (estimates) l
First month:
Fiscal year 1984
Fiscal year 1985

279.1
298.1
355.6
399.6
463.3

517.1
599.3

617.8
„

600.6
666.5
763.8

45.2
52.3

341.8

40.6
41.4
54.9
60.0
65.7
64.6
61.1
49.2
37.0
56.9
74.3

23.2
25.6

.5
.9

122.4
131.6
157.6
181.0
217.8
244.1
285.9
297.7
288.9
296.0

85.9
88.1
95.3
102.3
113.7
131.0
153.8
180.7

930.6

209.9
227.4
266.2

204.4
220.8
258.6

7.1
5.7
5.0
6.1
6.3
10.9
11.3
10.1
9.0
13.3
17.2

70.2
81.0

18.7
20.6

15.6
18.7

1.1
2.0

324.2
364.5
400.5
448.4

208.4
252.2
270.8
274.6

576.7
657.2
728.4
796.0

313.6

841.8

347.7

21.5
25.7

1
Estimates from Mid-Session Review of the 1985 Budget, Office of Management and Budget,
August 15, 1984.

Note.—Starting in 1985 military retired pay will be financed from a trust fund in the income
security function. The national defense function will include accrual charges to pay for retirement
benefits earned by currently active duty personnel, and these will be offset in the undistributed offsetting receipts (employer share, employee retirement).




86.5
89.6
97.2
104.5
116.3
134.0
157.5
185.3

116.1
125.0
143.0
158.6
179.8

491.0

258.1

63.0
76.5
78.3
80.0
86.8
109.6
126.1
134.5
150.8
142.8
144.1

23.2
26.7
29.9
35.4
42.6
52.5
68.7
85.0
89.8
111.0
130.2

66.9
76.2
85.7
105.7
108.4
119.1
114.9
111.0
113.2
111.5
114.8

19.5
21.5

9.2
13.4

7.7
9.5

14.0
14.1

77.5
89.7
104.4
116.6
130.6
150.6
178.7
202.5
223.3
235.8

The Social Security Amendments of 1983 require that social security and medicare be shown in
the budget as a separate function. In previous budgets social security was in the income security
function and medicare was in the health function.
Data for all periods in this table are shown on as comparabk a basis as is feasible.
Data shown here exclude the transition quarter.
Sources: Department of the Treasury and Office of Management and Budget.

33

FEDERAL SECTOR, NATIONAL INCOME ACCOUNTS BASIS
In the third quarter, according to preliminary estimates, Federal receipts rose $3.1 billion (annual rate) and
expenditures rose $16.3 billion, yielding a deficit of $176.9 billion.
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS

BILLIONS OF DOLLARS

900

900

800

800

700

700

600

600

500

500

400

400

-100

-100

-200

-200
1976

1980

1984

CALENDAR YEARS
COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

[Billions of dollars; quarterly data at seasonally adjusted annual rates]
Federal Government expenditures

Federal Government receipts

Period
Total

Fiscal year:
1979
1980 .
1981
1982
1983
Calendar year:
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1982: I
II
III
IV
1983: I
II
Ill
IV
1984- I
...
II r

m

Personal
tax and
nontax
receipts

Corporate
profits
tax
accruals

Indirect
biiiiness
tax and
nontax
accruals

Contributions for
social
insurance

Total

Purchases
of goods
and
services

Transfer
payments

Grantsin-aid to
State
and
local
governments

Net
interest
paid

Subsidies
less
current
surplus of
Government
enterprises

Surplus
or deficit
Less:
Wage
accruals
less
disbursements

480.8
525.9
609.2
626.4
627.1

222.6
250.4
289.4
311.4
294.1

76.1
69.9
69.3
50.9
53.8

29.1
35.5
53.5
50.3
51.0

153.1
170.0
197.0
213.9
228.3

495.6
576.5
668.2
740.0
816.4

f64.1
189.3
218.4
250.6
273.2

201.8
239.4
279.5
310.6
344.6

79.1
86.7
90.1
83.4
85.7

40.6
50.7
67.7
82.3
90.3

9.9
10.4
12.5
13.0
22.2

-0.0
.0
.1

493.6
540.9
624.8
616.7
641.1
622.9
625.9
609.9
608.3
619.8
649.3
640.2
655.0
686.4
704.3
707.4

230:6
257.7
298.7
306.2
295.2
310.1
315.2
298.8
300.9
298.2
304.7
284.6
293.3
301.6
310.7
319,7

74.2
70.3
65.7
46.6
59.8
48.6
48.4
47.5
42.0
46.9
59.2
66.7
66.5
13.Q
75.6
66.4

29.4
39.0
56.4
48.4
52.4
50.6
47.3
47.5
48.2
47.1
53.8
54.0
54.5
54.1
55.9
56.2

159.5
173.9
204.1
215.5
233.7
213.7
214.9
216.1
217.1
227.6
231.7
234.9
240.7
257.6
262.0
265.2

509.7
602.1
689.1
764.9
819.7
729.3
737.9
773.6
818.9
805.6
816.7
821.1
835.5
847.6
868.0
884.3

£168.3
197.0
228.9
258.9
269.7
249.8
245.0
261.6
279.4
273.0
270.5
269.2
266.3
267.6
296.4
302.8

209.2
251.5
286.8
321.6
345.6
303.0
311.8
327.0
344.4
340.9
348.1
343.4
350.1
347.7
350.1
351.8

80.5
88.7
87.9
83.9
86.3
82.7
85.1
83.0
84.6
85.5
86.3
86.7
86.5
90.6
93.2
92.1

42.4
53.4
73.3
84.4
94.2
80.1
83.0
87.5
87.0
87.7
90.0
97.3
102.0
107,6
110.9
121.9

9.2
11.5
12.3
16.1
23.4
13.5
12.9
14.5
23.5
18.5
20.5
24.1
30.6
34.4
17.7
15.3

-.0
.0

Sources: Department of Commerce (Bureau of Economic Analysis), Department of the Treasury,
and Office of Management and Budget.

34



-.0
— .4

.1

-.0
— .4
— .1
.0
.0
.0
.0
-1.3
— .4
.0
.2
.2

national
income
and
product
accounts

-14.8
-50.7
-58.9
-113.6
-189.3
-16.1
-61.2
-64.3
- 148.2
-178.6
- 106.3
— 112.0
-163.7
-210.6
-185.7
-167.3
- 180.9
-180.5
-161.3
-163.7
-176.9

INTERNATIONAL STATISTICS
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION AND CONSUMER PRICES—MAJOR
INDUSTRIAL COUNTRIES
[1967 = 100]
Consumer prices (unadjusted)

Industrial production (seasonally adjusted)
Period

United
States

Canada

Japan

France

Germany

United
Kingdom

Italy

United
States l

Canada

Japan

France

Germany

Italy

United
Kingdom

1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983 p

138.2
146.1
152.5
147.0
151.0
138.6
147.6

152.7
157.8
167.6
165.1
165.9
149.5
157.6

189.7
201.1
215.3
225.2
227.5
228.4
236.5

152
155
163
161
160
158
159

152.0
154.1
161.5
162.0
159.1
154.5
155.7

145.1
147.9
157.6
166.5
162.7
159.1
150.7

124.2
127.8
132.9
124.1
119.6
121.7
125.7

181.5
195.4
217.4
246.8
272.4
289.1
298.4

185.9
202.5
221.0
243.5
273.9
303.5
321.0

243.0
252.3
261.3
282.3
296.2
304.1
309.7

214.5
233.9
259.1
294.2
332.7
373.1
407.9

156.0
160.2
166.9
175.8
186.9
196.8
203.3

255.2
286.2
328.5
398.0
472.4
549.4
631.8

292.4
316.6
359.0
423.6
473.9
514.7
538.3

1983: Oct
Nov
Dec

155.0
155.3
156.2

164.5
165.9
169.0

241.4
246.4
248.2

155
161
160

158.0
160.1
161.2

148.6
152.8
146.0

127.7
128.2
129.3

302.6
303.1
303.5

326.5
326.5
327.5

314.2
312.2
311.4

419.2
420.9
422.4

204.9
205.2
205.7

660.4
667.0
670.3

547.3
549.2
550.7

158.5
160.0
160.8
162.1
162.8
164.3
165.9
166.1
r
165.2
1652

170.2
165.0
167.1
167.4
r
168.9
r
170.1
r
!76.1
175.2

250.2
257.0
254.1
255.4
261.5
262.8
264.0
266.0
263.5

161
160
162
157
162
159
166
166
160

161.2
163.8
159.4
158.0
160.0
143.9
164.6
r
162.3
162.5

128.2
127.7
126.6
r
125.6
r
124.2
r
124.9
r
123.3
r
123.4
125.1

305.2
306.6
307.3
308.8
309.7
310.7
311.7
313.0
314.5
315.3

329.2
331.1
331.9
332.7
333.3
334.7
336.6
336.6
336.9
337.5

312.3
314.2
315.1
315.9
318.2
315.6
316.2
313.4
318.5

425.4
428.0
431.0
433.6
436.2
438.4
441.5
443.7
445.9

206.6
207.1
207.3
207.7
207.8
208.6
208.2
207.8
208.0

678.3
685.8
690.6
695.4
699.6
703.8
705.9
708.0
713.0
720 1

550.4
552.6
554.4
561.8
563.9
565.3
564.7
570.0
571.1

1984- Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug .
Sept p
Oct p
1

Beginning January 1978 data relate to all urban consumers.

r

Source: National sources as reported by Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, Office of Trade and Industry Information, Trade Statistics Division, in International Economic Indicators.

U.S. MERCHANDISE EXPORTS AND IMPORTS
[Millions of dollars; monthly data seasonally adjusted]
Merchandise exports 1

Period

Total
domestic
and
foreign
exports

Total

2

Food,
beverages, and
tobacco

Crude
materials and
fuels

Merchandise trade balance

Merchandise imports
General imports 3

Domestic exports
Manufactured
goods

Food,
beverages, and
tobacco

Total 2

Crude
materials and
fuels

Exports
(f.a.s.)
less
imports
(customs
value)

Manufactured
goods

Total
(c.i.f.
value)

4,257
5,398
6,379
8,360
9,352
10,427

8,823
11,042
13,368
15,504
18,519
21,415

11,873
12,002
13,621
13,754
15,107
15,124
15,478
17,948
17,652
17,827
18,766
17,402
16,889
22,376
18,326
20,994

22,779 -2,275
21,240 -2,647
22,490 -4,797
23,477 -5,195
25,465 -7,300
24,185 -6,052
24,033 -5,678
27,794 -8,260
27,305 -8,935
27,992 -9,044
29,711 -10,847
26,789 -7,619
26,543 -7,723
33,503 -12,440
27,895 -8,531
30,824 -11,253
27,567

Exports
(f.a.s.)
less
imports
(f.a.s.)

Exports
(f.a.s.)
less
imports
(c.i.f.)

762
-688
-2,430
-2,590
-2,300
-2,020

148
— 1,440
-3,265
-3,530
-3,364
-3,030

F.a.s. value
Monthly average:
1975*
1976*
1977*
1978*
1979*
1980

8,971
9,602
10,103
11,973
15,155
18,386

8,847
9,462
9,919
11,762
14,886
18,043

1,399
1,436
1,330
1,717
2,049
2,534

1,266
1,341
1,548
1,746
2,352
2,810

1981
1982
1983
1983- Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
1984- Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
Julv
Augr
Sept
Oct

19,473
17,683
16,707
17,257
17,033
17,063
17,298
18,327
17,212
17,727
17,522
17,950
17,633
19,442
18,036
18,177
18,387

19,075
17,256
16,326
16,892
16,580
16,664
16,895
17,848
16,786
17,212
17,072
17,464
17,178
18,963
17,578
17,676
17,862

2,767
2,248
2,248
2,314
2,452
2,605
2,449
2,402
2,103
2,457
2,184
2,162
1,847
2,195
2,100
2,637
2,315

2,752
2,793
2,463
2,691
2,345
2,270
2,532
2,664
2,532
2,791
2,523
2,833
2,603
2,740
2,642
2,378
2,243

5,913
6,437
6,679
7,873
9,716
11,991

8,209
10,290
12,533
14,563
17,455
20,406

827
991
1,186
1,312
1,478
1,546

2,716
3,457
4,463
4,325
5,949
7,831

Customs value
12,857
11,643
11,034
11,147
11,241
11,277
11,407
12,097
11,372
11,147
11,560
11,628
11,837
12,988
11,766
11,924
12,436

21,748
20,329
21,504
22,451
24,333
23,115
22,976
26,586
26,147
26,771
28,368
25,569
25,356
31,883
26,567
29,430

1
Department of Defense shipments of grant-aid military supplies and equipment under the Military Assistance Program are excluded from totals for all periods and from monthly detail beginning
January 1978.
2
Total includes commodities and transactions not classified according to kind.
3
Total arrivals of imported goods other than intransit shipments.
NOTE. — Imports on c.i.f. basis beginning 1982 not strictly comparable with ear ier periods.




1,529
1,485
1,568
1,466
1,747
1,565
1,591
1,759
1,773
1,865
2,028
1,761
1,576
2,002
1,711
1,803

7,739
6,200
5,670
6,465
6,855
5,891
5,360
6,063
6,039
6,308
6,636
5,618
6,071
6,494
5,788
5,809

-3,306
-3,558
-5,783
-6,221
-8,432
-7,122
-6,735
-9,468
- 10,093
- 10,264
-12,190
-8,839
-8,910
-14,061
-9,859
-12,647
-9,180

Data beginning 1980 include trade of the U.S. Virgin Islands, except that for 1980 Virgin Islands exports are reflected in the figures for domestic and foreign exports combined and trade balance.
*Data for 1975-79 for domestic and foreign exports combined, total general imports, and trade
ba ance include trade of the Virgin Islands.
Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.

35

U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS
In the third quarter the merchandise trade deficit rose to $33.3 billion, from $25.7 btHion in the second quarter.
BILLIONS OF DOHA^RS*
10

BILLI ONS OF DOLLARS*

10

BALANCE ON GOODS
5

5

0

/^ /^^"^
J BALANCE ON
CURREIW ACCOUNT

\S ^

*=\ ^ f \\

\^

\

in

Pt

\

Vi'A

+'\ ^*

\
/'

~~~"'

%

s,/

N

0

nn ^V
MER CHANDISE TRA DE

-15

BALANCE

\

-10

1e

\\ \\

\

N ^

\

-20

A

\
OK

«.^^

OK

%

^i

on

-30

-35

-35

1

40

1

1

1

1

1

1977

1976

i l l

1 1 1

1 1 I

l l l

1978

1979

1980

1981

1

1

1

1982

1

1

i 1 1

i

-40

1984

1983

* SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

[Millions of dollars; quarterly data seasonally adjusted. Credits (+), debits (—)]
Merchandise

l 2

Period
Exports

1975
1976

1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1982:

I

n

ffl
TV

1983- I

n

TTT

IV

1984: I

HP

m '.

Imports

Investment income3

Net
balance

Net

Net
military
transactions

Receipts

Payments

-12,564
13 311
-14,217
21 680
-32,914
42063
-52,359
56059
-53,495

12,787
15,975
17,962
20,565
31,218
30,443
34,052
27,803
23,508

-746
559
1,528
621
-I,ll8
-2,237
-1,115
195
515

Net
travel and
transportation
receipts
c

-2,812
-2,558
-3,565
-3,573
-2,935
-997
144
-1,008
-4,584

Other
services,
net 3

Balance
on goods
and
services *

4,598 c- 22,729
4,711
9,205
5,272 -9,894
6,013 - 10,340
5,735
4,686
7,277
8,975
8,048
13,128
8,339 -1,141
8,704 -32,912

Remittances,
pensions,
and other
unilateral
transfers l

Balance
on
current
account

-4,613 c 18,116
4,207
-4,998
-4,617 -14,511
-5,106 -15,446
-964
-5,649
1,898
-7,077
6,294
-6,833
-8,058 -9,199
-8,651 -41,563

107,088
114,745
120,816
142,054
184,473
224,269
237,085
211,198
200,257

-98,185
-124,228
-151,907
-176,020
-212,028
-249,781
-265,086
247 667
-261,312

8,903
9483
-31,091
-27,555
-25,512
-28,001
-36,469
-61,055

25,351
29,286
32,179
42,245
64,132
72,506
86,411
83,862
77,003

55,482
55,118
52,079
48,519

-62,546
-60,921
-64,442
-59,758

-7,064
-5,803
-12,363
-11,239

20,889
22,307
21,505
19,162

-13,653
-14,772
-14,390
-13,243

7,236
7,535
7,115
5,919

52
239
-2
94

-114
-247
-99
-548

49,246
48,745
50,437
51,829

-58,523
-63,615
-67,938
-71,236

-9,277
14 870
-17,501
-19,407

17,618
18,973
20,802
19,609

-12,380
-12,995
-13,630
- 14,490

5,238
5,978
7,172
5,119

790
53
-55
-273

-263
-1,131
-1,426
-1,764

2,142
-1,370
2,258 -7,712
2,107
-9,703
2,198 -14,127

-1,573 -2,943
-1,848 -9,560
-2,143 -11,846
-3,086 -17,213

53,935
54,597
54,990

79790
-80,333
-88,268

-25,855
-25,736
33 278

23,300
20,618

-15,552
-16,956

7,748
3,662

-370
-282

-1,400
-2,238

2,351 -17,526
2,293 -22,301

-2,147 -19,673
-2,101 -24,402

1
Excludes military grants.
2
Adjusted from Census data
3

OQ QOf*
— OO,l/OO

c

for differences in timing and coverage.
Fees and royalties from U.S. direct investments abroad or from foreign direct investments in the
United States are excluded from investment income and included in other services, net.

36



2,160
2,005
2,118
2,054

2,270
3,729
-3,231
-3,908

Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis.

-2,105
-1,802
-1,745
-2,406

~~1651,927
-4,976
-6,314

U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS—Continued
In the capital accounts, U.S. claims on foreigners reported by U.S. banks increased $24.2 billion in the second
quarter compared with a $2.0 billion decrease in the first quarter. Liabilities to foreigners and international
financial institutions reported by U.S. banks (including U.S. Treasury securities) increased $28.2 billion in the
second quarter compared with a $10.1 billion increase in the first quarter.
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS
60

BILLIONS OF DOLLARS*
60
CHANGE IN
FOREIGN ASSETS
IN THE U.S.,NET

-20

CHANGE IN
U.S. ASSETS
A BROAD, NET

-40

-60

-60

1984
*SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS

[Millions of dollars; quarterly data seasonally adjusted, except as noted]
U.S. assets abroad, net
[increase /eapit
Period
Total

1975.
1976

1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1982:

I

n
m
IV

1983: I

n
in
IV

1984:

I

n*....

U.S.
official
reserve
assets 1 2

Other U.S.
Government
assets

Foreign assets in the U.S., net
[increase /capital inflow (+)] 2

1

U.S.
private
assets

Total

Foreign
official
assets

Other
foreign
assets

Allocations
of special
drawing
rights
(SDRs)

Statistical discrepancy
Total (sum
of the items
with sign
reversed)

Of which:
Seasonal
adjustment
discrepancy

C

U.S. official
reserve
assets, net 1
(unadjusted,
end of
period)

-39,703
-51,269
-34,785
-61,130
-64,331
-86,118
-110,976
-118,898
-49,490

-849
-2,558
-375
732
-1,133
-8,155
-5,175
-4,965
-1,196

-3,474 -35,380
-4,214
44498
-3,693 -30,717
-4,660
57 202
3 746 -59,453
-5,162
72 802
-5,107 - 100,694
-6,143
107 790
5013 -43,281

15,670
36,518
51,319
64,036
38,752
58,086
81,313
95,181
81,722

7,027
17,693
36,816
33,678
- 13,665
15,497
5,003
3,318
5,339

8,643
18,826
14,503
30,358
52,416
42,589
76,310
91,863
76,383

-31,960
-41,409
-26,216
19 314

1 089
-1,132
-794
-1,950

803
-1,700
2 555
-1,086

-30,068
-38,577
-22,867
-16,279

28,344
33,772
18,384
14,680

-3,221
1,399
2,477
2,664

31,565
32,373
15,907
12,017

3,450
5,710
12,808
10,947

964
487
2 276
2,752

29,944
30,671
30,993
33,958

-24,364
-1,060
-9,223
- 14,843

-787
16
529
-953

-1,130
1 251
-1,204
1 429

-22,447
175
-8,548
12 461

15,888
12,452
19,578
33,804

-252
1,739
-.2,703
6,555

16,139
10,714
22,281
27,249

11,420
-1,833
1,491
-1,748

-579
439
-2,518
2,657

34,261
33,876
33,066
33,747

1 989
-24,860

657
-566

2 037
-1,222

705
-23,073

15,660
35,934

-2,784
-571

18,444
36,505

6,002
13,328

154
-91

34,975
34,547

1
Consists of gold, special drawing rights (SDRs), convertible currencies, and the U.S. reserve
position-in the IMF.
2
Quarterly data are not seasonally adjusted.




1,139
1,152
1,093

5,917
10,544
-2,023
12,540
25,404
24,982
22,275
32,916
9,331

16,226
18,747
19,312
18,650
18,956
26,756
30,074
33,958
33,747

Sources: Department of Commerce (Bureau of Economic Analysis) and Department of the
Treasury.

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Contents
TOTAL OUTPUT, INCOME, AND SPENDING

Page

Gross National Product
Gross National Product in 1972 Dollars
Implicit Price Deflators for Gross National Product
Changes in GNP, Personal Consumption Expenditures, and Related Price Measures
Nonfinancial Corporate Business—Output, Costs, and Profits
National Income
Personal Consumption Expenditures
Sources of Personal Income
Disposition of Personal Income
Farm Income
Corporate Profits
Gross Private Domestic Investment
Expenditures for New Plant and Equipment

1
2
2
3
3
4
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

EMPLOYMENT, UNEMPLOYMENT, AND WAGES
Status of the Labor Force
Selected Unemployment Rates...
Selected Measures of Unemployment and Unemployment Insurance Programs
Nonagricultural Employment
Average Weekly Hours and Hourly Earnings—Private Nonagricultural Industries
Average Weekly Earnings—Private Nonagricultural Industries
Productivity and Related Data, Business Sector

11
12
13
14
15
15
16

PRODUCTION AND BUSINESS ACTIVITY
Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization
Industrial Production—Major Market Groups and Selected Manufactures
New Construction
New Private Housing and Vacancy Rates
Business Sales and Inventories—Manufacturing and Trade
Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders

17
18
19
19
20
21

PRICES
Producer Prices
Consumer Prices
Changes in Producer Prices for Finished Goods
Changes in Consumer Prices
Prices Received and Paid by Farmers

22
23
24
24
25

,

MONEY, CREDIT, AND SECURITY MARKETS
Money Stock, Liquid Assets, and Debt Measures
Components of Money Stock and Liquid Assets
Consumer Installment Credit
Bank Loans and Investments, and Reserves
Sources and Uses of Funds, Nonfarm Nonfinancial Corporate Business
Current Assets and Liabilities of Nonfinancial Corporations
Interest Rates and Bond Yields
Common Stock Prices and Yields

26
27
27
28
29
29
30
31

FEDERAL FINANCE
Federal Receipts, Outlays, and Debt
Federal Budget Receipts by Source and Outlays by Function,
Federal Sector, National Income Accounts Basis..

32
33
34

T

,

INTERNATIONAL STATISTICS
Industrial Production and Consumer Prices—Major Industrial Countries
U.S. Merchandise Exports and Imports
U.S. International Transactions

35
35
36

General Notes
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Revised.
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