Database Name:DRI Cost Information Service History
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Producer:IHS Global Insight
Type of Information:Numeric; Time-series
Group(s):BUSINESS & ECONOMY, METALS/ALLOYS/COMPOUNDS
Database Description:Contains: producer price indexes for various products (chemicals and allied products, constuction materials, electrical and non electrical machinery and equipment, electronic components and accessories, energy products, iron and steel products) ; average hourly wages (for aircraft, communication equipment, construction, mining, trucking,and retail trade) ; consumer price indexes (for medical care, food away from home, residential rent, housekeeping and home maintenance services, fuel oil, hotel room rates) ; employment cost indexes (for professional and technical workers, clerical workers, and managers /administrators) ; construction and facility cost indexes (for highway construction, single family dwellings, warehouse construction, office complex construction, and airfield paving and lighting).
The company Global Insight, which produces this database, also commercializes an Excel-based software called Cost Analyzer that comes with ten years of history and ten-year projections of over 700 commodity prices and wages. This tool helps analysing a single buy or evaluating an entire supply chain performance.
Information Sources:Time-series of price and trading data (exclusively for USA).
Time Span:Since 1958
Numer of Records:Not specified
Language:English
Updating Frequency:Semiannually
Distributors:Commodity Research Bureau (online)
FactSet (online, through the databank "FactSet Economics")
IHS Global Insight (online, as part of the databank "World Industry Service")
Standard & Poor's (see all available reports for "Commodities")
Sungard (online, through the databank FAME)