The Producer Price Index (PPI) program measures the average change over time in the selling prices received by domestic producers for their output. The prices included in the PPI are from the first commercial transaction for many products and some services.
From the BLS Handbook of Methods, chapter 14:
Known until 1978 as the Wholesale Price Index, or WPI, the PPI is one of the oldest continuous systems of statistical data published by the BLS, as well as one of the oldest economic time series compiled by the Federal Government. When it was first published in 1902, the index covered the years from 1890 through 1901. The origins of the index can be found in an 1891 U.S. Senate resolution authorizing the Senate Committee on Finance to investigate the effects of the tariff laws “upon the imports and exports, the growth, development, production, and prices of agricultural and manufactured articles at home and abroad.”
Title: ISM Manufacturing: PMI Composite Index
Series ID: NAPM
Source: Institute for Supply Management
Release: Manufacturing ISM Report on Business
Seasonal Adjustment: Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency: Monthly
Units: Index
Date Range: 1948-01-01 to 2008-02-01
Last Updated: 2008-03-03 11:01 AM CST
Notes: A PMI reading above 50 percent indicates that the manufacturing
economy is generally expanding; below 50 percent that it is generally
declining. Reprinted with permission from the Institute for Supply
Management. Copyright.
Title: Manufacturers' New Orders: Durable Goods Series ID: DGORDER Source: U.S. Department of Commerce: Census Bureau Release: Manufacturer's Shipments, Inventories, and Orders (M3) Survey Seasonal Adjustment: Seasonally Adjusted Frequency: Monthly Units: Millions of Dollars Date Range: 1992-02-01 to 2007-11-01 Last Updated: 2008-01-03 2:05 PM CT Notes:
Two programs develop Productivity and Costs data for elements of the U.S. economy. The Major Sector Productivity and Costs program produces quarterly and annual output per hour and unit labor costs for the U.S. business, nonfarm business, and manufacturing sectors. These are the productivity statistics most often cited by the national media.
The Industry Productivity and Costs program produces annual measures of output per hour and unit labor costs for U.S. industries at the 2-, 3-, 4-, 5- and 6-digit level as defined in the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
The County and City Data Book is the most comprehensive source of information about the individual counties and cities in the United States. It includes data for all U.S. states, counties, and cities with a population of 25,000 or more. It contains additional data for places with a population of 100,000 or more. Also included is a complete set of state maps showing all counties, places of 25,000 or more population, and metropolitan areas.
Information in the County and City Data Book covers the following topical areas: age, agriculture, births, business establishments, climate, construction, crime, deaths, earnings, education, elections, employment, finance, government, health, households, housing, income, labor force, manufactures, population, poverty, race and Hispanic origin, social services, and water use.
Files contain a collection of data from the U.S. Census Bureau and other federal statistical bureaus, governmental administrative and regulatory agencies, and private research bodies.
Title: Manufacturers' New Orders: Nondefense Capital Goods Excluding Aircraft
Series ID: NEWORDER
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce: Census Bureau
Release: Manufacturer's Shipments, Inventories, and Orders (M3) Survey
Seasonal Adjustment: Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency: Monthly
Units: Millions of Dollars
Date Range: 1992-02-01 to 2007-11-01
Last Updated: 2008-01-03 2:05 PM CT
Notes: Effective May 21, 2001, data were reconstructed to reflect the switch
from the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system to the North
American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
The information in Nutrition Data’s database comes from the USDA’s National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference and is supplemented by listings provided by restaurants and food manufacturers. The source for each individual food item is listed in the footnotes of that food’s analysis page. In addition to food composition data, Nutrition Data also provides a variety of proprietary tools to analyze and interpret that data. These interpretations represent Nutrition Data’s opinion and are based on calculations derived from Daily Reference Values (DRVs), Reference Daily Intakes (RDIs), published research, and recommendations of the FDA.
The estimates in this report are based on data from three surveys: the Monthly Retail Trade Survey, the Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey, and the Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, and Orders Survey.
Monthly Retail Trade: Companies with one or more establishments that sell merchandise and related services to final consumers.
Monthly Wholesale Trade: Companies with employment that are primarily engaged in merchant wholesale trade in the U.S. These include merchant wholesalers that take title to the goods they sell, and jobbers, industrial distributors, exporters, and importers. Excluded are non-merchant wholesalers such as manufacturers sales branches and offices; agents, merchandise or commodity brokers, and commission merchants; and other businesses whose primary activity is other than wholesale trade.
Manufacturers: Companies that have employees and are classified in Manufacturing. Participating companies include most with 1,000 or more employees and a sample of smaller companies; changes in their performance are assumed to represent all employers.
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Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the Current Employment Statistics survey (National) Series Id: CES3000000001 Seasonally Adjusted Super Sector: Manufacturing Industry: Manufacturing NAICS Code: N/A Data Type: ALL EMPLOYEES, THOUSANDS p : preliminary
The International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers was founded in Paris in 1919. It is known as the “Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d’Automobiles” (OICA).
The organization’s membership comprises 43 national trade associations around the world, including all major automobile manufacturing countries, thereby covering virtually the entire motor vehicle industry all over the world.
The organization maintains permanent committees which conduct activities in the fields of technical affairs, industrial and economic policy, and industry statistics. In addition, the Organization’s Exhibition Committee coordinates international motor shows.
The general purposes of the organization are to defend the interests of the vehicle manufacturers, assemblers and importers grouped within their national federation.