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Colonial New England Probates, 1631-1776 (ICPSR 34940)
Released/updated on: 2014-02-11
Geographic coverage: United States, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New England, New Hampshire
Time period: 1631-01-01--1776-12-31
The Colonial New England Probates collection features data drawn from administrative records of 18,509 estates probated between the years of 1631 and 1776 in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. The data focus on measures of economic wealth, such as gross personal wealth, debts receivable, debts payable, and estate inventory values for consumer goods and real estate. Historical currency deflators and price indices are also incorporated. Geographic variables include sub-region, county, colony, and town. Demographic information for deceased estate owners includes age, sex, occupation, marital status, and parental status.
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Hedonic Quality-Adjusted Price Indices for the American Automobile Industry, 1906-1941 [United States] (ICPSR 31762)
Released/updated on: 2011-10-28
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1906-01-01--1941-12-31
This data collection consists of prices and detailed attribute information for automobile models published in the contemporary trade press -- specifically the periodicals "Automotive Industries" and "Motor" -- at the time of the annual New York Auto Show from 1906 to 1941. It is important to note that the data represent only firms operating above a certain minimal economic threshold, namely they were large enough to make advertising at the major annual trade show attractive.
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Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) Consensus Forecasts (ICPSR 22683)
Released/updated on: 2008-06-10
Geographic coverage: United States
In November 2007, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced a change in the way it communicates its view of the economic outlook: It increased the frequency of its forecasts from two to four times per year, and it increased the length of the forecasting horizon from two to three years. The FOMC does not release the individual members' forecasts or standard measures of consensus such as the mean or median. Rather, it continues to release the forecast information as a range of forecasts, both the full range between the high and the low and a central tendency that omits the extreme values. This paper uses individual forecaster data from the Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF) to mimic the FOMC's method for creating their central tendency. The authors show that the midpoint of the central tendency of the SPF is a reliable measure of the consensus, suggesting that the FOMC reporting method is also a reliable measure of consensus. For the dates when both are available, the authors also compare the relative forecast accuracy of the FOMC and SPF consensus forecasts for output growth and inflation. Overall, the differences in forecast accuracy are too small to be statistically significant.
External data
Energy Information Administration Home Page (ICPSR 137)
Released/updated on: 2006-03-15
Geographic coverage: United States
The home page for the Energy Information Administration (EIA) provides policy-independent data, forecasts, and analyses regarding energy and its interaction with the economy (e.g., prices) and the environment. Users can acccess energy information by geographic location, by fuel type, by sector, and by price, as well as search by subject areas.
Curated
Price Quotations in Early United States Securities Markets, 1790-1860 (ICPSR 4053)
Released/updated on: 2005-08-24
Geographic coverage: United States, England, United Kingdom, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, New York City, Charleston (South Carolina), Baltimore, Massachusetts, Louisiana, London, New Orleans, Alexandria, Virginia, Maryland, Philadelphia, Boston, Norfolk, Richmond
Time period: 1790-01-01--1860-12-31
The dataset is a compilation of prices of public securities (equities and bonds) traded in nine United States securities markets and in London during the period between the United States Revolutionary and Civil Wars. The data were gathered by scanning early United States periodicals chronicling the period from 1786-1862. The data were concentrated on what were termed "runs" of securities quotations broken down by days, weeks, or months for each of the ten cities in the data set. Runs are series of bids and offer quotes for different securities and maturities. Within each part (market), the data were divided by issuer sectors or types. There may be some redundancy in the data, because when there was doubt about categorizing similar issues under a key code they were categorized under separate codes.
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Darryl Francis and the Making of Monetary Policy, 1966-1975 (ICPSR 1283)
Released/updated on: 2003-06-25
Geographic coverage: United States
Darryl Francis was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis from 1966 to 1975. Throughout those years he was a leading critic of United States monetary policy. Francis argued in policy meetings and public venues that monetary policy should focus on maintaining a stable price level. In contrast, most policymakers at the time believed it possible to exploit a trade-off between unemployment and inflation. Francis attributed inflation directly to excessive growth of the money stock while other policymakers blamed labor and product market failures, fiscal policy, and commodity price shocks. Francis argued that inflation could not be controlled except by limiting the growth of monetary aggregates whereas other policymakers promoted price controls or other schemes. Francis favored maintaining a stable money stock growth rate at a time when monetary policy was widely interpreted as involving the manipulation of interest rates. Reviewing the debates between Francis and his Federal Reserve colleagues improves our understanding of the reasons behind the Fed's monetary policy actions at the time and illuminates how policy views evolved toward accepting price level stability as the paramount, long-term objective for monetary policy.
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Are Federal Funds Rate Changes Consistent with Price Stability? Results From an Indicator Model (ICPSR 1153)
Released/updated on: 1998-08-27
Geographic coverage: United States
The purpose of the article is to explain changes in the federal funds rate and the outcome of an implicit policy of inflation targeting.
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Are Prices Countercyclical? Evidence From East Asian Countries (ICPSR 1168)
Released/updated on: 1998-08-27
Geographic coverage: South Korea, Asia, Taiwan, Global
The data document the empirical evidence regarding the cyclical behavior of prices and inflation in two rapidly growing developing countries, Korea and Taiwan.
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Can the Central Bank Achieve Price Stability? (ICPSR 1085)
Released/updated on: 1996-01-03
Geographic coverage: United States
These data and/or computer programs are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the INVESTIGATOR(S) if further information is desired.
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Middle East Time Series Data, 1948-1969 (ICPSR 5014)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Lebanon, Egypt, Israel, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Jordan, Global, Syria
Time period: 1948-01-01--1969-12-31
This study contains mainly economic data and some select sociopolitical data for Middle East nations, Israel, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and United Arab Emirates, in the period 1948-1969. Data are provided on economic aid, energy consumption for public use, oil production, national income, total exports and imports, development budget, defense spending, cost of arms race, cost of living index, consumer price index, and monetary exchange ratio. Additional variables provide sociopolitical information on population, the strength of democratic institutions in the nations, the number of illegitimate changes of government, the ruling party, the strength of traditional elites, military and bureaucracy elites, and religious and landed elites, political centralization, encounters between government forces and guerilla forces, attacks on civilians, attacks on bases and strategic installations, and political mobilizations.
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Black Africa Handbook (ICPSR 5019)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Guinea, Sudan, Chad, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Global, Gabon, Malawi, Mali, Gambia, Nigeria, Lesotho, Togo, Niger, Africa, Tanzania, Rwanda, Zambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Senegal, Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, Uganda, Central African Republic, Ethiopia
This study contains data on the political, social, economic, religious, ecological, and demographic characteristics of 32 Black African nations in the late 1950s and 1960s. Data are provided on political regime characteristics, such as the existence and nature of political parties, elections, the nature of the judicial system, the extent of government influence, and the occurrence of riots, civil violence, terrorist activities, civil wars, irredentist movements, and coup d'etats. Economic variables provide information on government revenues, government expenditures, gross domestic capital formation, public investment as a percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP), gross national product (GNP), defense budgets, energy, investment, labor, number of wage earners as a percentage of active population, industrial production, electricity production, per capita energy consumption, educational expenditures, economic welfare, consumer price index, international economic aid, total international trade, imports and exports, agriculture, and membership in major African multilateral economic organizations. Also included is information on the military and security systems, Africanization of the army officer corps, international relations, membership in nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), communication and transportation, and social welfare. Other variables provide information on population estimates and characteristics, population density, settlement patterns, cultural pluralism, language, religion, primary and secondary school enrollment, family organization, patrilineal kin groups, class stratification, and the number of physicians per population.
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Economic and Social Indicators for Eighteen Latin American Nations, 1960-1971 (ICPSR 5030)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Global, Costa Rica, Latin America, Venezuela, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, Chile, Peru
Time period: 1960-01-01--1971-12-31
This data collection contains economic, social, and demographic information for 18 Latin American nations in the period 1960-1971. Data are provided for gross national product (GNP), gross investment, domestic revenues, tax revenues, expenditures, price index, electric power production, agricultural production, and membership in consumer, credit, and agricultural cooperatives. Data are also provided for population characteristics, such as total population, school enrollment, student-teacher ratio, persons-physician ratio, persons-nurse ratio, and persons-hospital bed ratio.