Datafile Name: Agricultural Economics Studies
Datafile Subjects:
Agriculture
,
Economics
,
Consumer
Story Names:
Agricultural Economics Studies
Reference: F.B. Waugh, Graphic Analysis in Agricultural Economics, Agricultural
Handbook No. 128, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1957.
Authorization: free use
Description: Price and consumption per capita of beef and pork annually from 1925 to
1941 together with other variables relevant to an economic analysis of price
and/or consumption of beef and pork over the period.
Number of cases: 17
Variable Names:
- PBE = Price of beef (cents/lb)
- CBE = Consumption of beef per capita (lbs)
- PPO = Price of pork (cents/lb)
- CPO = Consumption of pork per capita (lbs)
- PFO = Retail food price index (1947-1949 = 100)
- DINC = Disposable income per capita index (1947-1949 = 100)
- CFO = Food consumption per capita index (1947-1949 = 100)
- RDINC = Index of real disposable income per capita (1947-1949 = 100)
- RFP = Retail food price index adjusted by the CPI (1947-1949 = 100)
The Data:
YEAR PBE CBE PPO CPO PFO DINC CFO RDINC RFP
1925 59.7 58.6 60.5 65.8 65.8 51.4 90.9 68.5 877
1926 59.7 59.4 63.3 63.3 68.0 52.6 92.1 69.6 899
1927 63.0 53.7 59.9 66.8 65.5 52.1 90.9 70.2 883
1928 71.0 48.1 56.3 69.9 64.8 52.7 90.9 71.9 884
1929 71.0 49.0 55.0 68.7 65.6 55.1 91.1 75.2 895
1930 74.2 48.2 59.6 66.1 62.4 48.8 90.7 68.3 874
1931 72.1 47.9 57.0 67.4 51.4 41.5 90.0 64.0 791
1932 79.0 46.0 49.5 69.7 42.8 31.4 87.8 53.9 733
1933 73.1 50.8 47.3 68.7 41.6 29.4 88.0 53.2 752
1934 70.2 55.2 56.6 62.2 46.4 33.2 89.1 58.0 811
1935 82.2 52.2 73.9 47.7 49.7 37.0 87.3 63.2 847
1936 68.4 57.3 64.4 54.4 50.1 41.8 90.5 70.5 845
1937 73.0 54.4 62.2 55.0 52.1 44.5 90.4 72.5 849
1938 70.2 53.6 59.9 57.4 48.4 40.8 90.6 67.8 803
1939 67.8 53.9 51.0 63.9 47.1 43.5 93.8 73.2 793
1940 63.4 54.2 41.5 72.4 47.8 46.5 95.5 77.6 798
1941 56.0 60.0 43.9 67.4 52.2 56.3 97.5 89.5 830
