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Quarterly disposable income and personal consumption expenditures in the United States

USDICE.Rd

A data frame on personal consumption expenditures and disposable personal income in the United States.

Usage

USDICE

Format

A data frame with 299 observations on the following 4 variables.

date

a date

pce

personal consumption expenditures, seasonally adjusted, in billions

dpi

disposable personal income, seasonally adjusted, in billions

pira

personal income receipts on assets (personal dividend income), in billions

cpiu

consumer price index for all urban consumers (all items in U.S. city average)

Details

Data come by way of fredr call. Data are quarterly. Personal consumption expenditure. disposable personal income, and personal dividend income are not inflation-adjusted. The data on the consumer price index allow for such inflation adjustment to "real" dollars based on researcher discretion.