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Title:               Gross Total Construction, Including Oil and Gas Well Drilling for United States
Series ID:           A02147USA398NNBR
Source:              National Bureau of Economic Research
Release:             NBER Macrohistory Database (Not a Press Release)
Seasonal Adjustment: Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency:           Annual
Units:               Millions of Current Dollars
Date Range:          1889-01-01 to 1955-01-01
Last Updated:        2012-08-16 11:33 AM CDT
Notes:               For Years Since 1915, These Data Are Mainly Bls-Commerce Estimates;
                     Hence For Later Years This Series Is Superseded---Except For
                     Comparison With Earlier Years---By NBER Series 02260. For Years Before
                     1952, Kuznets Calculated Total Gross Construction As The Sum Of (1)
                     Cost Of Oil And Gas Wells Drilled, And (2) All Other Construction. The
                     Estimation Procedure Followed Was Complex, And Is Described In The
                     Source Work Cited Above, Q.V.; See Also Lipsey And Preston, Pp. 251,
                     252. Data For 1952-55 Are Based On Commerce Department Figures
                     Published In The"Survey Of Current Business" For July, 1956. Source:
                     Annia; Estimates Underlying Five-Year Moving Averages From: Kuznets,
                     Simon, "Capital In The American Economy: Its Formation And Financing,
                     " (Princeton University Press For NBER, 1961).
                     
                     This NBER data series a02147 appears on the NBER website in Chapter 2
                     at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter02.html.
                     
                     NBER Indicator: a02147

DATE        VALUE
1889-01-01   1645
1890-01-01   2393
1891-01-01   2141
1892-01-01   2718
1893-01-01   2190
1894-01-01   2093
1895-01-01   2192
1896-01-01   1875
1897-01-01   2088
1898-01-01   1982
1899-01-01   2069
1900-01-01   2471
1901-01-01   2705
1902-01-01   3107
1903-01-01   3063
1904-01-01   3023
1905-01-01   3327
1906-01-01   3951
1907-01-01   4342
1908-01-01   3891
1909-01-01   4467
1910-01-01   4425
1911-01-01   4144
1912-01-01   4546
1913-01-01   4988
1914-01-01   3659
1915-01-01   3509
1916-01-01   4162
1917-01-01   4641
1918-01-01   5126
1919-01-01   6396
1920-01-01   6727
1921-01-01   6359
1922-01-01   8016
1923-01-01   9732
1924-01-01  10792
1925-01-01  11891
1926-01-01  12584
1927-01-01  12439
1928-01-01  11988
1929-01-01  11193
1930-01-01   9041
1931-01-01   6627
1932-01-01   3738
1933-01-01   3079
1934-01-01   3920
1935-01-01   4532
1936-01-01   6797
1937-01-01   7499
1938-01-01   7380
1939-01-01   8566
1940-01-01   9080
1941-01-01  12380
1942-01-01  14381
1943-01-01   8648
1944-01-01   5785
1945-01-01   6231
1946-01-01  12653
1947-01-01  17462
1948-01-01  22729
1949-01-01  23858
1950-01-01  29733
1951-01-01  32750
1952-01-01  34624
1953-01-01  37172
1954-01-01  39792
1955-01-01  45153