Appendix E2: Economic Indicator Variables

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Appendix E2: Economic Indicator Variables

Direct comparison statements that are not statistically significant are not allowed, except for statements of changes in news releases for the economic indicator variables listed in the table below. In these news releases, the footnote below must be provided to indicate that the comparison is not statistically significant:

"The 90 percent confidence interval for the change includes zero. There is insufficient evidence to conclude that the actual change is different from zero."

Program	Frequency	Levels	Characteristics	Current Period to Prior Period	Current Period to Same Period One Year Ago	Year-to-date to prior year-to-date
Advance Monthly Retail and Food Services Survey (MARTS)	Monthly	Total retail plus food services Total retail	Sales	✓	Monthly: ✓ Quarterly: ✓	✓ (Dec. only)
Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey (MWTS)	Monthly	Total wholesale Durable goods Nondurable goods	Sales	✓	✓
Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey (MWTS)	Monthly	Total wholesale Durable goods Nondurable goods	Inventories	✓	✓
Quarterly Services Survey (QSS)	Quarterly	Total 2-digit sector totals	Receipts or revenue	✓	✓
Quarterly Services Survey (QSS)	Quarterly	Total 2-digit sector totals	Expenses	✓	✓
Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales (MTIS)	Monthly	Total manufacturing, retail and wholesale trade	Distributive trades sales plus manufacturers’ shipments and total business inventories	✓	✓
Building Permits Survey (BPS)	Monthly	U.S. Total and by size Region, Total, 1-unit	Authorizations	✓	✓	✓
Survey of Construction (SOC)	Monthly	U.S. Total and by size Region, Total, 1-unit	Starts	✓	✓	✓
		U.S. Total and by size Region, Total, 1-unit	Completions	✓	✓	✓
		U.S. and region, 1-unit	Sales	✓	✓	✓
Value Put-in-Place (VIP) Surveys	Monthly	Total residential Total nonresidential Private total Private residential Private nonresidential Public total Public residential Public highway	Construction expenditures	✓	✓	✓
Quarterly Financial Report (QFR)	Quarterly	Total manufacturing Durable goods manufacturing Nondurable goods manufacturing	Seasonally-adjusted: After-tax profits Sales After-tax profits per dollar of sales	✓
Quarterly Financial Report (QFR)	Quarterly	Total manufacturing Durable goods manufacturing Nondurable goods manufacturing Total mining Wholesale trade Retail trade	Not seasonally-adjusted: After-tax profits Sales After-tax profits per dollar of sales		✓
E-Commerce	Quarterly	Total retail	Total sales	✓	✓
E-Commerce	Quarterly	Total retail	E-commerce sales	✓	✓
Housing Vacancies and Homeownership (CPS/HVS)	Quarterly	U.S. Regions	Rental vacancy rate, Homeowner vacancy rate, Homeownership rate	✓	✓

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