Data to Fuel Your Weekend BBQ Conversations
The housing engine that drove the pre-recession economy has been trying to sputter back to life. For those who make their living serving those who build homes, it's frustrating to continue hearing 'slow-but-steady.' While the Bureau of Labor Statistics "Housing: Before, During, And After The Great Recession" report can't tell you when the housing market will rocket upward again, it does provides some very interesting stats, painting a picture that's sure to spark conversations about our post-recession world.
You can download the report here. Or you can page through it on the BLS website by clicking here. This method gives you interactive graphs, providing more numbers.
You'll find it's light on text and big on charts and graphs, easy to page through, and covers these areas:
- Expenditures on housing by expense type
- Housing expenditures from 2006 to 2012
- Expenditures on housing by area
- Rent vs. own cost comparisons
- The jobs impact of the recession
- Residential construction employment by state
- Residential contractors by state
- Employment and wages in housing-related industries
- Quits, layoffs and discharges in construction industries
- Employment projections in housing-related industries
- Average weekly time spent on housekeeping and maintenance
- Consumer Price Indexes for housing
- Producer Price Index for residential construction
- Construction industry safety and fatalities
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