United States yearbook - 1940 (1)

328 p r i c e s
N o . 3 6 6 . — P r ic e s , W h o l e s a l e — I n d e x e s , A l l C o m m o d it ie s a n d b y E c o n o m ic
C l a s s e s : 1916 t o 1940
N ote.—Figures in boxes indicate number of quotations. As orginally published, Bradstrcct’s “Index”
Is the dum of the prices per pound of 96 commodities; Dun’s represents the aggregate cost per capita of a
ycaT’s supply of the approximately 300 commodities included. In the following table, both series have
been expressed as a percentage of 1926 by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Oommerce. Indexes
of the National Bureau of Economic Research for 1916 to 1028 are unwoighted geometric moans for
approximately 490 commodities (converted from a 1913 base to a 1920 base by the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce); for subsequent years they are weighted arithmetic means for 680 price sories,
the weights being based upon tbe average value of production in 1927 and 1931. For method of computing
the Department of Labor indox, see general note, p. 322
YEAR
Bradstreet's
index
(1026**
100)
96
Dun’s
index
(1926=
100)
300
All
commodifies
863 *
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
(1926=1001
1113
Raw
materials
Semimanufactures
983
Manufactured
products
i
6633
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RE­
SEARCH (1929=100)
All
commodities
680 *
Producers’
goods
4184
Consumers’
goods
2924
Durable
goods
2224
Nondurable
goods3
469 *
1916-1920......... 129.7 113.0 125.5 127.7 155.7 119.3 125.1 134.2 112.6
1921-1925......... 98.8 07.6 99.3 97.4 105.5 99.2 103.7 105.9 100.4
1926.................. 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 103.4 103.8 102.7
1927.................. 99.4 99.4 05 4 96.5 94.3 95.0 100.1 100.4 99.5
1928.............— 102.4 103.1 96. 7 99.1 94.5 95.9 101.3 101.6 100.8
1929.................. 97.3 101.0 96.3 97.5 93.9 94.5 100.0 100.0 100. Q loo.o 100.0
1930................ 81.8 91.3 80.4 84.3 81.8 88.0 90.5 88.5 93.2 93.1 89.1
1931.................. 66.6 77.3 73.0 65.6 69.0 77.0 76.5 73.2 80.7 84.8 72.7
1932.................. 54.3 70.7 64.8 55.1 69.3 70.3 67.4 64.0 70.6 78.5 61.5
1933.................. 62.1 78.1 66.9 66.5 65.4 70.6 69.4 68.3 70.9 80.4 64.1
1934.................. 71.8 88.6 74.9 68.6 72.8 78.2 78.8 78.6 79.2 87.0 74.4
1935.................. 77.4 92.0 80.0 77.1 73.6 82.2 83.4 82.9 83.9 86.0 81.2
1936.................. 78.7 96.7 80.8 79.8 75.9 82.0 84.2 84.9 83.5 87.7 81.7
1937.................. m (») 86.3 84.8 85.3 87.2 90.7 92.9 88.0 98.2 87.2
1938.................. h h 78.6 72.0 75.4 82.2 81.9 82.7 80.7 90.2 76.2
1939.................. « h 77.1 70.2 77.0 8 0.4 80.5 8 1.0 7 8.6 9 4.9 74.0
Jan.-June:
1939______ ffl (•) 7 6.4 6 9.5 7 4.5 8 0.0 79.4 80.0 77.5 94.1 72.7
1940............. m (*) 7 8.6 7 2.4 7 9.3 8 1 .2 82.7 84.3 8 0.6 96.9 70.6
i Formerly “Finished products.”
3 Perishable and semidurable.
3 Effective March 1940. In earlier years a smaller number of commodities was included.