TABLE D-8: Indexes of wholesale prices, by group and subgroup of commodities Continued 1 The revised wholesale price index (1947-49-100) is the official index for January 1952 and subsequent months. The official index for December 1951 and previous dates is the former index (1926-100). The revised index has been computed back to January 1947 for purposes of comparison and analysis. Prices are collected from manufacturers and other producers. In some cases they are secured from trade publications or from other Government agencies which collect price quotations in the course of their regular work. For a more detailed description of the index, see A Description of the Revised Wholesale Price Index, Monthly Labor Review, February 1952 (p. 180), or reprint Serial No. R. 2067. ? Preliminary. Not available. 4 Figures shown in this series are the official indexes. Beginning with January 1953 the method of calculating excise taxes and discounts was changed and official indexes for earlier dates are not strictly comparable with these. For analytical purposes indexes prior to 1953 have been recalculated for comparability and are available on request. Index discontinued. • Revised. Total new construction 4. Private construction. Residential building (nonfarm). Additions and alterations.. Nonhousekeeping Nonresidential building (nonfarm) • Industrial $2, 317 $2. 428 $2,661 $2,988 $3, 211 $3,295 $3,317 $3, 282 $3, 209 $2,947 $2,758 $2, 527 $2, 287 $34, 843 $32, 638 25 192 179 79 75 113 104 154 155 46 46 41 41 17 16 26 26 2,177 2,202 1.088 1.113 980 2. 194 1.126 990 110 23 493 174 169 66 103 150 43 38 15 27 44 54 329 44 371 152 23 184 152 141 34 14 26 29 148 399 41 52 306 74 64 1.108 1.045 20 427 352 Includes Federal contributions toward construction of private nonprofit hospital facilities under the National Hospital Program. Covers privately owned sewer and water facilities, roads and bridges, and miscellaneous non building items such as parks and playgrounds. Includes non housekeeping public residential construction as well as housekeeping units. Je Covers all construction, building as well as nonbuilding (except for production facilities, which are included in public industrial building). 11 Covers primarily publicly owned airports, electric light and power systems, and local transit facilities. 12 Covers public construction not elsewhere classified such as parks, playgrounds, and memoriais. TABLE F-2: Value of contracts awarded and force-account work started on federally financed new construction, by type of construction' 3, 309 634 Building... 46,693 168, 223 Residential. 8, 554 48, 337 11,305 65, 399 Nonresidential. 30 Educational & 5, 651 10, 130 Hospital and insti Total new construction". $157, 112 $151, 912 $318, 397 $166, 946 $212, 413 $176, 726 $352, 393 $261, 092 $355, 132 $235, 796 $198, 606 $237, 344 $645, 851 $2,823, 869 $4, 730, 311 Airfields 2,670 29, 001 28,922 106,331 140, 991 1,225, 226, 2, 596, 961 15, 239 23, 296 2,573, 665 4, 401 129, 168 580 4,807 1, 209, 987 172, 243 130, 949 tutional. Administrative and Excludes classified military projects, but includes projects for the Atomic Energy Commission. Data for Federal-aid programs cover amounts contributed by both owner and the Federal Government. Force-account work is done not through a contractor, but directly by a Government agency, using a separate work force to perform nonmaintenance construction on the agency's own properties. Beginning with data for January 1953, awards of less than $25,000 in value are excluded; over the past 2 years the total value of such awards has represented less than 1 percent of the total. Includes projects under the Federal School Construction Program, which provides aid for areas affected by Federal Government activities. Includes armories, offices, and customhouses. 10 Includes all buildings on civilian airports and military airfields and air bases with the exception of barracks and other troop housing, which are included under "Troop housing." 11 Covers all industrial plants under Federal Government ownership, including those which are privately operated. 13 Includes types of buildings not elsewhere classified. 13 Includes sewer and water projects, railroad construction, and other type of projects not elsewhere classified. December 1952 volume is high principally because of contracts let for expansion of TVA facilities to provide power for the Atomic Energy Commission and the Tennessee Valley Authority. TABLE F-3: Urban building authorized, by principal class of construction and by type of building' 1 Building for which building permits were issued and Federal contracts awarded in all urban places, including an estimate of building undertaken in some smaller urban places that do not issue permits. The data cover federally and nonfederally financed building construction combined. Estimates of non-Federal (private and State and local government) urban building construction are based primarily on building-permit reports received from places containing about 85 percent of the urban popula. tion of the country; estimates of federally financed projects are compiled from notifications of construction contracts awarded, which are obtained from other Federal agencies. Data from building permits are not adjusted to allow for lapsed permits or for lag between permit issuance and the start of construction. Thus, the estimates do not represent construction actually started during the month. Urban is defined according to the 1940 Census, and includes all incorporated places of 2,500 inhabitants or more in 1940 and a small number of places, usually minor civil divisions, classified as urban under special rule. Sums of components do not always equal totals exactly because of rounding. Covers additions, alterations, and repairs, as well as new residential and nonresidential building. Includes units in 1-family and 2-family structures with stores. Covers hotels, dormitories, tourist cabins, and other nonhousekeeping residential buildings. • Revised. ' Preliminary. |