Business Statistics

1939 and monthly Alaska Alaska and Hawaii annual rate)-bil annual totals appear in earlier April August available upon request banks basis beginning January blue section BUSINESS STATISTICS Census cluded commodities compiled Consumer Consumer Price Index consumption data and description Data beginning Data represent December Department of Commerce description of series domestic durable earlier data earlier editions editions of BUSINESS employment end of period equipment estimates exclude exports February footnotes giving source foreign Hawaii Includes data inventories issues July June loans long tons manufacturing March ment mills month Monthly averages prior Monthly data prior monthly figures Nondurable November October paragraph of note percent pounds price index production quarterly data rates reference note reported retail revised sample seasonally adjusted September shipments short tons shown separately source of data STATISTICS see reference stocks tion trade U.S. Department U.S. Treasury Department United volume weight wholesale