Compare current president and past presidents using federal government economic data.

Federal government agencies ^ | Marrch 8, 2015 | WilliamofCarmichael

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Update of 2015 data using quarter two 2015 (second update for year using Q2). See original posting for prior years and additional information. However some recent years changed and were displayed in the first Q2 2015 update immediately above.

Click to jump to the table here. The numbered column headings are for:

• 2. Civilian noninstitutional population [thousands]
• 3. Civilian labor force [thousands]. Hover column 4. to access if not present
• 4. Civilian labor force participation rate
• 5. Employed [thousands]
• 6. Employment-population ratio
• 7. Employed full time (persons who usually work 35 hours or more) [thousands]
• 8. Employed part time (persons who usually work less than 35 hours. Hover Col 7. to access if not present
• 9. Unemployed [thousands]
• 10. Unemployed looking for full-time work [thousands]
• 11. Unemployment rate
• 12. Unemployment rate of the full-time labor force
• 13. Not in labor force [thousands]

Click to jump to the table. The rest of the columns are:

• pop. Population;
• labor. (Unadj) Employment Level - Native born;
• (Unadj) Employment Level - Foreign born (hover labor (Unadj) Employment Level - Native born if column is missing);
• PR (Unadj) Labor Force Participation Rate - Foreign born;
• UR (Unadj) Unemployment Rate - Foreign born;
• income. Median income;
• Recession. Recessions;
• GDP-$ (billions), GDP in 2009 dollars;
• DEBT (federal in billions), the current fiscal year Oct.-Sept. was adopted in 1977;
• %GDP percent DEBT of nominal GDP hover GDP-$ to see nominal values that are used to compute DEBT percent of nominal GDP;
• GDP. Percent Change From Preceding Period in Real Gross Domestic Product (annual rates) 2009 dollars, see GDP-$;
• PCE. Personal consumption expenditures portion of the Real Gross Domestic Product (annual rates) 2009 dollars percentage change;
• Def% National Defense portion of the Real Gross Domestic Product (annual rates) 2009 dollars percentage change;
• Def$ National Defense portion of the Real Gross Domestic Product (annual rates) 2009 dollars;
• NDef% NonNational Defense portion of the Real Gross Domestic Product (annual rates) 2009 dollars percentage change;
• NDef$ NonNational Defense portion of the Real Gross Domestic Product (annual rates) 2009 dollars;
• U-6. U-6 unemployment rate (hover U-6. for U-2 rate);
• SSDI Selected Data from Social Security's Disability Program, hover for number applying for SSDI;
• Series and

  Permits New Privately Owned Housing Units Authorized by Building Permits (thousands) in Permit-Issuing Places (Series)

  ;
• Recpts SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS,
• Out OUTLAYS, and
• +/- SURPLUSES OR DEFICITS (–) AS PERCENTAGES OF GDP;

Year	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.	7.	8.	9.	10.	11.	12.	13.	pop.	labor	labor	PR	UR	income	Recessions
2015	250461	157193	62.8	148686	59.4	121076	27637	8507	7018	5.4	5.5	93269	321363	124830	24816	64.7	4.9	N	-
Year	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.	7.	8.	9.	10.	11.	12.	13.	pop.	labor	labor	PR	UR	income	Recessions

Cont'd

Year	GDP-$	DEBT	%GDP	GDP	PCE	Def%	Def$	NDef%	NDef$	U-6	SSDI	Series	Permits	Rcpts	Out	+/-
2015	16,324.30	18,151.99	101.40%	3.7	2.11	0.01	680.8	-0.01	430.3	10.5	394,313		N	N	N	N
Year	GDP-$	DEBT	%GDP	GDP	PCE	Def%	Def$	NDef%	NDef$	U-6	SSDI	Series	Permits	Rcpts	Out	+/-

Hover column headers for descriptions. Hover columns for additional data. Not all columns have additional data however.

See original table above for links to federal government sources. This is the second qtr-2 2015 update.

For 2015 I used the annualized data from the second quarter of 2015. SSDI data are sums of Q1 and Q2.

Series, Permits, Rcpts, Out, +/-, and income columns have not been updated.

With the original table (above) you can clearly see how the economy behaved during the time Obama and the Democrats were totally occupied with Obamacare.

With the original table (above) you can see how the economy behaved when Reagan was president.

The annualized quarterly statistics (some GDP percentages for example) are larger than the final percentage for the whole year.

But a quarterly data table of course would be four times larger than the yearly table.

I think the yearly table gets the information across.

Each column in the original "table" is a single-column table aligned left (side-by-side). In a couple of cases a table contains more than one column.

So it's fairly easy to add or rearrange columns if anyone has suggestions.

Year 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. pop. labor labor PR UR income Recessions

these columns are meant to be the first part and

Year GDP-$ DEBT %GDP GDP PCE Def% Def$ NDef% NDef$ U-6 SSDI Series Permits Rcpts Out +/-

are meant to be the second part.