Source: National Bureau of Economic Research  

Release: NBER Macrohistory Database  

Units:  Billions of Current Dollars, Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:  Quarterly

Series Has Been Decomposed Into 3 Variables, As Follows: (1) Original Data, Old Series, 1939-60; (2) Original Data, Revised Series, 1946-67; (3) Annual Data, Revised Series, 1929-63. This Series Represents Part Of The Investment-In-Structures Component Of Gross Private Domestic Investment Included In The National Income And Products Accounts, Prepared By National Income Division, Office Of Business Economics, U.S. Department Of Commerce. Major Revisions Of These Accounts In 1965 ("Revised Series") Provided Estimates Of Fixed Investment In Nonresidential, Nonfarm Residential, And Farm Residential Structures, Annually From 1929 And Quarterly From 1946. Series 02171 Is The Sum Of Nonresidential And Farm Residential. For Further Details, See Lipsey & Preston, Pp. 272-73, And The Sources Cited Above. Source: Office Of Business Economics 1939-45, "National Income, " 1954 Ed., Supplement To "Survey Of Current Business, " Dept. Of Comm.; 1946 F.F., "U.S. Income & Output, " Supplement To "Survey Of Current Business" (Nov. 1958), And "Survey Of Current Business"

This NBER data series q02171a appears on the NBER website in Chapter 2 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter02.html.

NBER Indicator: q02171a