Visualizing consumer price inflation This essay describes how to customize the data units in a FRED graph to show the year-over-year growth rate in the consumer price index. From the FRED Blog The post "Egg price deflation and fresh chicken price disinflation" uses data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to describe the difference| St. Louis Fed Economic Research
FRED has added 20 data series about work-from-home practices in the United States reported by Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis. Information is collected through the U.S. Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes (SWAA). This survey gathers monthly data from 2,500 to 10,000 U.S. residents aged between 20 and 64 years of| St. Louis Fed Economic Research
Visualizing GDP’s growth rate This essay describes how to customize the data units in a FRED graph to show the compounded annual rate of change in gross domestic product. From the FRED Blog The post “Real GDP growth by state: … Continue reading → The post Teaching gross domestic product growth | Bring FRED into the Classroom | August 2025 first appeared on St. Louis Fed Economic Research.| St. Louis Fed Economic Research
FRED has added 67 new series to its Large Bank Credit Card and Mortgage Data release. The data are reported by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Fed uses information collected by the Federal Reserve through a mandatory monthly report known as FR Y-14M. The respondent panel is made up of three types| St. Louis Fed Economic Research
FRED has added 1502 series of Producer Price Index (PPI) data by commodity and industry. PPIs are reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. They measure the average change over time in selling prices received by domestic producers of goods and services. For more information about the PPI, see the BLS’s Handbook of Methods,| St. Louis Fed Economic Research
FRED has added 1 data series, reported by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas, measuring policy rate uncertainty. The Kansas City Fed's Measure of Policy Rate Uncertainty (KC PRU) is a daily measure of market-based uncertainty regarding where short-term U.S. interest rates will be one year in the future. The KC PRU is calculated using| St. Louis Fed Economic Research
FRED has added 8 data series from the Ellieroth and Michaud (EM) dataset of monthly quit and layoff rates: (1) how frequently U.S. workers who leave employment have either quit or have been laid off and (2) how frequently those workers leave the labor force. Ellieroth and Michaud analyze household data from the US Bureau| St. Louis Fed Economic Research
FRED has added 1 data series reported by Fannie Mae for the Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI). The HPSI is a composite index designed to track consumers’ housing-related attitudes, intentions, and perceptions, using six questions from the National Housing Survey … Continue reading → The post FRED Adds New Home Purchase Sentiment Index Data first appeared on St. Louis Fed Economic Research.| St. Louis Fed Economic Research
Visualizing home prices This handout provides instructions on building the graph below and includes writing prompts for out-of-class assignments. From the FRED Blog The post “Home prices in the United States” discusses how affordable homes have been for the typical earner since 2001. Quiz yourself on the housing market Interpret graphs to answer questions about| St. Louis Fed Economic Research
Visualizing labor market tightness This handout provides instructions on building the graph below and includes writing prompts for out-of-class assignments. From the FRED Blog The post “Measuring labor market tightness with FRED” discusses how to combine two data series from … Continue reading → The post Teaching Labor | Bring FRED into the Classroom | March 2025 first appeared on St. Louis Fed Economic Research.| St. Louis Fed Economic Research