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PCE Statistics for Food and Energy
Clint McCullyChief, Research Group
National Income and Wealth Division
APDU Annual ConferenceSeptember 25, 2008
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PCE Estimates
Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) includes purchases of goods and services for personal use
Business and government purchases not included Purchases by self-employed included
in business purchases Purchases financed through
government social benefits included in PCE (e.g. food stamps)
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PCE Food and Energy
Food Food and alcoholic beverages purchased for off-premise
consumption Purchased meals and beverages Food furnished to employees and food produced and
consumed on farms
Energy Gasoline and oil Fuel oil and coal Gas Electricity
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Food & Energy Sources and Methods
Food Benchmark: Commodity flow (off-premise)
Food services sales (purchased meals)
Other periods: Retail control method Energy
Gasoline & Oil: Q x P Quantities: FHWA & EIA for total
VIUS, NAFA, BEA stocks data for allocation
Price: ∑ (Q by grade * P by grade)/ ∑ Q from EIA Fuel Oil & Coal: Commodity flow & retail control Electricity & gas: Residential revenue from EIA
Deflation: CPI component indexes
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Food and Energy Shares of PCE
1981 highest share = 9.2 %
2008 (7 mths) = 6.8 %
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PCE Price Indexes
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Food Price Changes
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Food Prices and Consumption
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PCE Energy Price Indexes
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Gasoline Price & Quanity
Arab oil embargo
2nd oil crisis
July ’08 = highest relative price
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Trucks and Gasoline Prices
Quantity index of new truck sales
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Airline Prices and Consumption
9/11 & aftermath