Source: National Bureau of Economic Research  

Release: NBER Macrohistory Database  

Units:  Index 1935-1939=100, Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:  Monthly, Middle of Month

Notes:

Series Is Presented Here As Three Variables--(1)--Original Data, 1919-1962 (2)--Seasonally Adjusted, 1919-1946 (3)--Seasonally Adjusted, 1919-1946. Data Were Originally Collected From The Frb Division Of Research And Statistics And Twelve Federal Reserve Banks. Source: Federal Reserve Board, Data For 1919-April 1945: Richard Youngdale And John Bergelin, "Revised Index Of Department Store Stocks, " Federal Reserve Bulletin, June 1946; Data For May 1945-1946: Monthly Federal Reserve Bulletins

This NBER data series m05031c appears on the NBER website in Chapter 5 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter05.html.

NBER Indicator: m05031c