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Digest of Education Statistics: 2004
Digest of Education Statistics: 2004

NCES 2006-005
October 2005


Table 35. Gross domestic product price index, Consumer Price Index, education price indexes, and federal budget composite deflator: Selected years, 1919 to 2004

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      Calendar year     ||                   School year                 || Federal fiscal
________________________||_______________________________________________||      year
      |  Gross |Consumer||          |Consumer|  Higher |Research|Academic||_______________
Year  |domestic|  Price ||Year      |  Price |Education|    and |Library ||      |Federal
      |product |Index\1\||          |Index\2\|   Price |Develop-| Opera- ||Year  | budget
      |  price |        ||          |        |   Index |   ment |  tions ||      | compo-
      |  index |        ||          |        |         |  Index |  Index ||      |   site
      |        |        ||          |        |         |        |        ||      |deflator
______|________|________||__________|________|_________|________|________||______|________
1     |      2 |      3 ||4         |      5 |       6 |      7 |      8 ||9     |     10
______|________|________||__________|________|_________|________|________||______|________
1919 .|    --- |    17.3||1919-20 ..|    19.1|     --- |    --- |    --- ||1919 .|     ---
1929 .|    11.9|    17.1||1929-30 ..|    17.1|     --- |    --- |    --- ||1929 .|     ---
1934 .|     9.4|    13.4||1934-35 ..|    13.6|     --- |    --- |    --- ||1934 .|     ---
1939 .|     9.7|    13.9||1939-40 ..|    14.0|     --- |    --- |    --- ||1939 .|     ---
1940 .|     9.8|    14.0||1940-41 ..|    14.2|     --- |    --- |    --- ||1940 .|  0.0870
      |        |        ||          |        |         |        |        ||      |
1941 .|    10.4|    14.7||1941-42 ..|    15.6|     --- |    --- |    --- ||1941 .|  0.0928
1942 .|    11.3|    16.3||1942-43 ..|    16.9|     --- |    --- |    --- ||1942 .|  0.1028
1943 .|    11.9|    17.3||1943-44 ..|    17.4|     --- |    --- |    --- ||1943 .|  0.1122
1944 .|    12.2|    17.6||1944-45 ..|    17.8|     --- |    --- |    --- ||1944 .|  0.1061
1945 .|    12.5|    18.0||1945-46 ..|    18.2|     --- |    --- |    --- ||1945 .|  0.1041
      |        |        ||          |        |         |        |        ||      |
1946 .|    13.9|    19.5||1946-47 ..|    21.2|     --- |    --- |    --- ||1946 .|  0.1071
1947 .|    15.5|    22.3||1947-48 ..|    23.3|     --- |    --- |    --- ||1947 .|  0.1162
1948 .|    16.4|    24.1||1948-49 ..|    24.1|     --- |    --- |    --- ||1948 .|  0.1273
1949 .|    16.4|    23.8||1949-50 ..|    23.7|     --- |    --- |    --- ||1949 .|  0.1246
1950 .|    16.5|    24.1||1950-51 ..|    25.1|     --- |    --- |    --- ||1950 .|  0.1287
      |        |        ||          |        |         |        |        ||      |
1951 .|    17.6|    26.0||1951-52 ..|    26.3|     --- |    --- |    --- ||1951 .|  0.1279
1952 .|    18.0|    26.5||1952-53 ..|    26.7|     --- |    --- |    --- ||1952 .|  0.1280
1953 .|    18.2|    26.7||1953-54 ..|    26.9|     --- |    --- |    --- ||1953 .|  0.1368
1954 .|    18.4|    26.9||1954-55 ..|    26.8|     --- |    --- |    --- ||1954 .|  0.1409
1955 .|    18.7|    26.8||1955-56 ..|    26.9|     --- |    --- |    --- ||1955 .|  0.1455
      |        |        ||          |        |         |        |        ||      |
1956 .|    19.4|    27.2||1956-57 ..|    27.7|     --- |    --- |    --- ||1956 .|  0.1526
1957 .|    20.0|    28.1||1957-58 ..|    28.6|     --- |    --- |    --- ||1957 .|  0.1601
1958 .|    20.5|    28.9||1958-59 ..|    29.0|     --- |    --- |    --- ||1958 .|  0.1687
1959 .|    20.8|    29.1||1959-60 ..|    29.4|     --- |    --- |    --- ||1959 .|  0.1746
1960 .|    21.0|    29.6||1960-61 ..|    29.8|     25.6|    26.7|    --- ||1960 .|  0.1750
      |        |        ||          |        |         |        |        ||      |
1961 .|    21.3|    29.9||1961-62 ..|    30.1|     26.5|    27.5|    --- ||1961 .|  0.1795
1962 .|    21.6|    30.2||1962-63 ..|    30.4|     27.6|    28.5|    --- ||1962 .|  0.1803
1963 .|    21.8|    30.6||1963-64 ..|    30.8|     28.6|    29.5|    --- ||1963 .|  0.1873
1964 .|    22.1|    31.0||1964-65 ..|    31.2|     29.8|    30.7|    --- ||1964 .|  0.1900
1965 .|    22.5|    31.5||1965-66 ..|    31.9|     31.3|    32.0|    --- ||1965 .|  0.1928
      |        |        ||          |        |         |        |        ||      |
1966 .|    23.2|    32.4||1966-67 ..|    32.9|     32.9|    33.8|    --- ||1966 .|  0.1974
1967 .|    23.9|    33.4||1967-68 ..|    34.0|     34.9|    35.7|    --- ||1967 .|  0.2026
1968 .|    24.9|    34.8||1968-69 ..|    35.7|     37.1|    38.0|    --- ||1968 .|  0.2103
1969 .|    26.2|    36.7||1969-70 ..|    37.8|     39.5|    40.3|    --- ||1969 .|  0.2230
1970 .|    27.5|    38.8||1970-71 ..|    39.7|     42.1|    42.7|    --- ||1970 .|  0.2363
      |        |        ||          |        |         |        |        ||      |
1971 .|    28.9|    40.5||1971-72 ..|    41.2|     44.3|    45.0|    --- ||1971 .|  0.2519
1972 .|    30.2|    41.8||1972-73 ..|    42.8|     46.7|    47.1|    --- ||1972 .|  0.2690
1973 .|    31.9|    44.4||1973-74 ..|    46.6|     49.9|    50.1|    --- ||1973 .|  0.2833
1974 .|    34.7|    49.3||1974-75 ..|    51.8|     54.3|    54.8|    --- ||1974 .|  0.3070
1975 .|    38.0|    53.8||1975-76 ..|    55.5|     57.8|    59.0|    57.3||1975 .|  0.3384
      |        |        ||          |        |         |        |        ||      |
1976 .|    40.2|    56.9||1976-77 ..|    58.7|     61.5|    62.7|    61.6||1976 .|  0.3640
1977 .|    42.8|    60.6||1977-78 ..|    62.6|     65.7|    66.8|    65.8||1977 .|  0.3934
1978 .|    45.8|    65.2||1978-79 ..|    68.5|     70.5|    71.7|    71.4||1978 .|  0.4195
1979 .|    49.6|    72.6||1979-80 ..|    77.6|     77.5|    78.3|    78.5||1979 .|  0.4552
1980 .|    54.1|    82.4||1980-81 ..|    86.6|     85.8|    86.6|    86.1||1980 .|  0.5029
      |        |        ||          |        |         |        |        ||      |
1981 .|    59.1|    90.9||1981-82 ..|    94.1|     93.9|    94.0|    94.0||1981 .|  0.5562
1982 .|    62.7|    96.5||1982-83 ..|    98.2|    100.0|   100.0|   100.0||1982 .|  0.5958
1983 .|    65.2|    99.6||1983-84 ..|   101.8|    104.8|   104.3|   105.1||1983 .|  0.6245
1984 .|    67.7|   103.9||1984-85 ..|   105.8|    110.8|   109.8|   111.2||1984 .|  0.6555
1985 .|    69.7|   107.6||1985-86 ..|   108.8|    116.3|   115.2|   117.6||1985 .|  0.6781
      |        |        ||          |        |         |        |        ||      |
1986 .|    71.3|   109.6||1986-87 ..|   111.2|    120.9|   120.0|   124.2||1986 .|  0.6947
1987 .|    73.2|   113.6||1987-88 ..|   115.8|    126.2|   126.8|   130.0||1987 .|  0.7143
1988 .|    75.7|   118.3||1988-89 ..|   121.2|    132.8|   132.1|   138.6||1988 .|  0.7359
1989 .|    78.6|   124.0||1989-90 ..|   127.0|    140.8|   139.0|   147.4||1989 .|  0.7631
1990 .|    81.6|   130.7||1990-91 ..|   133.9|    148.2|   145.8|   155.7||1990 .|  0.7882
      |        |        ||          |        |         |        |        ||      |
1991 .|    84.5|   136.2||1991-92 ..|   138.2|    153.5|   150.6|   163.3||1991 .|  0.8226
1992 .|    86.4|   140.3||1992-93 ..|   142.5|    157.9|   155.2|   169.8||1992 .|  0.8508
1993 .|    88.4|   144.5||1993-94 ..|   146.2|    163.3|   160.1|   176.7||1993 .|  0.8725
1994 .|    90.3|   148.2||1994-95 ..|   150.4|    168.1|   165.4|   183.9||1994 .|  0.8902
1995 .|    92.1|   152.4||1995-96 ..|   154.5|    173.0|   170.8|   192.6||1995 .|  0.9120
      |        |        ||          |        |         |        |        ||      |
1996 .|    93.9|   156.9||1996-97 ..|   158.9|    178.4|    --- |    --- ||1996 .|  0.9328
1997 .|    95.4|   160.5||1997-98 ..|   161.7|    184.7|    --- |    --- ||1997 .|  0.9508
1998 .|    96.5|   163.0||1998-99 ..|   164.5|    189.1|    --- |    --- ||1998 .|  0.9603
1999 .|    97.9|   166.6||1999-2000 |   169.3|    196.9|    --- |    --- ||1999 .|  0.9748
2000 .|   100.0|   172.2||2000-01 ..|   175.1|     --- |    --- |    --- ||2000 .|  1.0000
      |        |        ||          |        |         |        |        ||      |
2001 .|   102.4|   177.1||2001-02 ..|   178.2|     --- |    --- |    --- ||2001 .|  1.0233
2002 .|   104.1|   179.9||2002-03 ..|   182.1|     --- |    --- |    --- ||2002 .|  1.0419
2003 .|   106.0|   184.0||2003-04 ..|   186.1|     --- |    --- |    --- ||2003 .|  1.0680
2004 .|   108.3|   188.9||2004-05 ..|    --- |     --- |    --- |    --- ||2004 .|  1.0917
______|________|________||__________|________|_________|________|________||______|________

---Not available.
\1\Index for urban wage earners and clerical workers through 1977. 1978 and later figures are for all urban consumers.
\2\Consumer Price Index adjusted to a school-year basis (July through June).

NOTE: Some data have been revised from previously published figures.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, unpublished data; U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index; Research Associates of Washington, "Inflation Measures for Schools and Colleges, 1990 Update," and unpublished data; and U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2006. (This table was prepared April 2005.)