| 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. |