Selected FRED Data

US ONLY unless noted. 

Hourly Compensation: NonAg 1947-1970 M, NonFarm 1947-Current Q ($ est FRED) ($ est XLS), NonFarm 1947-Current Q (index), Real Nonfarm 1947-Current Q (index),

Hours Worked:

AWHAETP: Average Weekly Hours of All Employees, Total Private. Monthly since 2006.

Employment

• 1c9UF: Government, Federal, State, Local; monthly; start 1939, 1939, 1955, 1955.
• 1c9Xk: Business, Nonfarm Business; INDEX DATA, Quarterly, start 1947.
• 1ca0y: All Employees, Total Nonfarm; Total Private; Financial Activities; Monthly; start 1939.
• CE16OV: Employment Level; Monthly; start 1948.

Unemployment

• https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1ca54

Employee Compensation

• Corporate Business: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1hQCg
  
• NCB: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1hQCK

 

Income

• Gross Domestic Income by Type of Income (Tables): Annual, Quarterly.
•  Personal Income and its Disposition (Table): Annual.
  

Real National Income: Milton Friedman used it for his MRTO graphs in Money Mischief. This data is hard to find at FRED, for some reason. The FRED Search, filtered, turns up quarterly and annual datasets for the US (plus one dataset for the UK). ALFRED provides little history. BEA turns up this, which doesn't look useful, and otherwise says only that it includes "both factor incomes and nonfactor charges," and that it "formerly excluded nonfactor charges." It's almost like Friedman doesn't matter at all! The US datasets are titled "Real gross national income":

• Real gross national income, quarterly
• Real gross national income, annual

Domestic Nonfinancial Debt

Seasonally Adjusted: TODNS; see also Table D.3 Debt Outstanding by Sector

• Household: CMDEBT
  
• Business: TBSDODNS
  
• Federal: FGSDODNS
  
• State and Local: SLGSDODNS
• All four, as Percent of GDP: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1ktCD
  

Not Seasonally Adjusted: TCMDODNS

Household Debt (see FRED Blog)

• 1ca8X: CMDEBT; Consumer Credit; 1-to-4-fam Mortgages; TDSP.
  

Repayment:

• Consumer Installment Credit Repayment
• Automobile Installment Credit Repayment

Monetary Interest Paid

• Households  
  

GVA Finance

• 1iyTN: Corporate, Domestic
• search
  

 

Number of U.S. Businesses: 1866-1938, 1945-1962

Number of Business Failures: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1ualM (4 datasets)

Business Failures as Percent of US Businesses: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1uaqp (sounds interesting but needs more and better data)

Corporate Profit, by category:

• FRED Search: Corporate Profits before tax, without (7 series)
• FRED Graph: (6 of the 7 series; discontinued series omitted)
• Corporate: NI-C-PBTW-Q;
  
• Corporate Business: NI-CB-PBTW-A, CB-PBTW-A, CB-PBTW-Q
  
• Nonfinancial Corporate Business: NCB-PBTW-Q, NCB-PBTW-A
  

Table: Price, Costs, and Profit Per Unit of Real Gross Value Added of Nonfinancial Domestic Corporate Business: Annual