Dataset

The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the US Census Department as Microsoft Excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and, worst of all, the table headers are not easily matched to their rows and columns.

A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no data were changed.

The tables that were changed (this is table 1319):

0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467
0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629
1144 1227 1231

This dataset consists of a table of 41 rows and 44 columns.

Annual averages of monthly data. Industrial production index measures output in the manufacturing, mining, electric, gas, and water utilities industries. Minus sign (-) indicates decrease

Footnotes

1. Not adjusted for unequal number of working days in the month.
2. Gross domestic product in industry at factor cost and 1986 prices.
3. Data prior to 1991 are for former West Germany.
4. Including construction.
5. Mining and manufacturing.
6. Annual figures correspond to official annual figures and differ from the average of the monthly figures.
7. Weights for calculating aggregate indices are derived from gross domestic product
   originating in industry and the GDP purchasing power parity for 1995.
   OECD Europe: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
   Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway,
   Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom.
   European Union: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland,
   Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and United Kingdom.
   Major seven (G-7): United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, United
   Kingdom, and Japan.