Amazon.com description: Product Description: Business Statistics of the United States: Patterns of Economic Change is a comprehensive and practical collection of data that reflects the nation's economic performance since 1929. It provides 80 years of annual data in regional, demographic, and industrial detail for key indicators such as: gross domestic product, personal income, spending, saving, employment,
unemployment, the capital stock, and more.

Compiled in the midst of a dramatic downturn in the United States economy, the 14th Edition provides an abundance of data enabling the user to understand the background of recent developments and compare today's economy with past history. Of equal importance to the data are the introductory highlights and extensive notes for each chapter that help users to understand the data, use them appropriately, and, if desired, seek additional information from the sources agencies.

Business Statistics of the United States provides a rich and deep picture of the American economy and contains approximately 3,500 time series in all. The data are predominately from federal government sources including:

Board of Governors of The Federal Reserve System
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Census Bureau
Employment and Training Administration
Energy Information Administration
Federal Housing Finance Agency
U.S. Department of the Treasury

New to the 14th Edition
In addition to updated data this edition includes:

Expanded data covering the Great Depression and World War II.

A new series showing total Federal Reserve asset holdings (the "Fed's balance sheet,"), which expanded to a startling degree in 2008 as the monetary authority used new tools to maintain and expand the flow of credit.

New tables on shares of aggregate supply and final demand.

Data on unemployment rates have been expanded to include three broader measures of labor underutilization calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.