Macro Description

This file contains macroeconomic data for the United States from the first quarter of 1958 through the second quarter of 1992. Each line in the data is one quarter’s worth of data. The columns in the dataset are (in order left to right) year, quarter, GDP in billions of $, consumption expenditures in billions of $, investment expenditure in billions of $, net exports (exports - imports) in billions of $, government spending in billions of $, and the GNP deflator (a price index) equal to 100 in 1987.