No. 766. GROSS PRIVATE DOMESTIC INVESTMENT AND ITS COMPONENTS: 1950 TO 1972

[In billions of dollars. Prior to 1960, excludes Alaska and Hawaii. Consists of net acquisitions of fixed capital goods by private business and nonprofit institutions including commissions arising in sale and purchase of new and existing fixed assets, principally real estate, and value of change in volume of inventories held by business. Covers all private dwellings, including those acquired by persons for their own occupancy]

Items for nonfarm producers' structures and equipment are not comparable with those shown in table 745 principally because the latter exclude investment by real estate industry, nonprofit organizations, and professional

persons.

2 Total producers' durable equipment less farmers' purchases of equipment, including business motor vehicles. 3 Farm nonresidential structures plus farmers' purchases of equipment, including business motor vehicles. See footnote 2.

After inventory valuation adjustment.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Survey of Current Business, monthly, and unpublished data.

No. 767. BUSINESS EXPENDitures for NEW PLANT AND EQUIPMENT: 1950 to 1973 [In billions of dollars. Excludes expenditures of agricultural business, professions, institutions, and real estate firms, and outlays charged to current account]

Estimates based on expected capital expenditures as reported by business in late Jan. and Feb. 1973. 2 Comprises trade, service, construction, finance, and insurance.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Survey of Current Business, monthly.

Sales and Business Inventories

477

No. 768. MANUFACTURING and Trade-SALES AND INVENTORIES: 1950 TO 1972 [Money figures in billions of dollars. Prior to 1960, excludes Alaska and Hawaii]

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Business Statistics, 1971, and Survey of Current Business, monthly

1.13

1.22

1.14

1. 19

1.23

1.23

1.21

1.36

1.69

1.49

1.53

1.61

1.60

1.55

0.95

0.89

0.87

0.89

0.92

0.92

0.91

No. 769. BUSINESS INVENTORIES IN CURRENT AND CONSTANT DOLLARS: 1950 TO 1971 [In billions of dollars. As of end of year]

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Survey of Current Business, December 1972.

494-660 O 73 - 32

No. 772. ACTIVE CORPORATIONS-ASSETS AND LIABILITIES: 1940 TO 1970 [In billions of dollars. See headnote, table 640. For number of returns, see table 775. See also Historical Statistics, Colonial Times to 1957, series V 33 and V 65-85]

1 Less allowance for bad debts. Includes loans and discounts of banks, except mortgage and real estate loans. 2 Included partly in "Other investments" and partly in "Other assets."

For 1940-1955, included partly in "Notes and accounts receivable" and partly in "Other investments"; for 1965, included in "Other investments."

4Less depreciation, amortization, and depletion reserves. Includes land and intangible assets.

Includes bonds, notes, and mortgages payable with maturity of less than 1 year.

Included in "Other liabilities." 7 With maturity of 1 year or more.

• Beginning 1968, reduced by cost of treasury stock.

Source: U.S. Internal Revenue Service; Statistics of Income, Corporation Income Tax Returns.

No. 773. ACTIVE CORPORATIONS, BY ASSET SIZE: 1950 TO 1970

[Number in thousands, assets in billions of dollars, except percent. Active corporations filing income tax returns]

Z Less than 0.05 percent.

1 Includes returns of corporations not reporting balance sheet information.

Source: U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income, Corporation Income Tax Returns, annual.