WhatTheyThink Economics & Research Center Releases New Analysis of Historical U.S. Commercial Printing Shipments

May 15, 2008 -- Lexington, KY -- WhatTheyThink is making an extensive and updated data series of U.S. Commercial printing shipments, ranging from 1993 to 2007, available in a Microsoft Excel workbook supplemented with audio commentary.

The data are presented in original format as published by the Commerce Department, but the Economics & Research Center has extended the data to inflation-adjusted formats, charts, and other analyses. Executives, researchers, and analysts who need to create trend reports, historical comparisons with company data, forecasts, charts and presentations, will find the data to be invaluable in their work.

The package is available for $295 at:
http://wttstore.com/anofhiucoprs.html

The current-dollar shipments data supplied by the Commerce Department has been enhanced to include adjustment using the Consumer Price Index (CPI), Producer Price Index (PPI), the PPI for printing services, and the PCE inflation-adjustment used in the calculation of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The PCE adjustment is often used by the Federal Reserve as their preferred measure of inflation.

The data have also been calculated and adjusted in monthly, quarterly, and annual formats; the data set also includes 12-month and 4-quarter moving totals that allow easy comparisons with macroeconomic data such as Gross Domestic Product which are always presented in annualized form. The complete data set is available from the WhatTheyThink e-store for $295.

As a bonus, an audio podcast file is included with the workbook. Dr. Joe Webb walks the user through the data, describes the inflation adjustments, and category definitions, and then discusses what the revised data mean and their effects on the overall industry outlook.

http://wttstore.com/anofhiucoprs.html

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