Word: indexing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...committee now issues three publications. A Monthly Review appears with an index of business conditions in the United States and Europe, supplemented by occasional studies on economic problems of current interest. Advance Letters, coming out at the beginning and middle of each month, give the earliest possible notice of the movements of the forecaster. Every effort is made to bring these letters up to date, a novel form being employed by which it is possible to prepare the chart for printing within a few hours. The third publication is a Supplement, issued several times a year, which presents reports...
...methods used in the construction of the Index of Business Conditions are new. The Index has as an object to set forth, first, the conditions in individual industries; second, the general business situation; and third, the probable business developments in the immediate future. Before definite conclusions are drawn from statistical date, underlying economic conditions are investigated by analyzing the conditions surrounding the industries or institutions used as sources of data, by studying the functions of such industries in our business organization, and by determining the reliability of the data. Variations due to gradual growth or "secular trend" and to seasonal...
...first Index, constructed for the period of 1903-1914, predicted all the major movements of industry from eight to twelve months in advance of their occurrence. The current Index began in November, 1918, and appears to be running true to pre-war form. Since the Armistice it has correctly forstold wholesale commodity price fluctuations and general business activity, in spite of the unsettled conditions which have prevailed
...result of all investigations undertaken by the committee for private individuals are always published in the Monthly Review. The Review of Economic Statistics constitutes the chief part of the statistical service. In it an index of speculative, general business and banking activity is given and a careful interpretive analysis made from this index, together with a forecast of general business conditions for the coming month. Finally there is an appendix of current statistics covering domestic and international trade...
...Hughes was Mr. Wilson's opponent in 1916, and it would be equally difficult to detect any important differences between Mr. Hughes and Mr. Wilson. They might disagree about this policy or that policy; but in so far as their public utterances of the last three years are an index to their political principles, these differences would be personal rather than partisan in any true sense...