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Greenbook Data Sets

Updated Through the Greenbook Forecast of December 2002

Several data sets contain the projections from the Greenbooks of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. The Greenbook is produced before each meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee. Using an assumption about monetary policy, the Research staff at the Board of Governors prepares projections about how the economy will fare in the future. These projections are made available to the public after a lag of five years.

Philadelphia Fed's Greenbook Data Set

This data set contains Greenbook projections of real output growth and inflation from the Greenbook closest to the middle of each quarter. The data set includes the projections from November 1965 to November 2002. This data set will be updated annually, usually in January.

PDF Data Set from the Board of Governors

This data set contains Greenbook projections of all variables for all Greenbooks from July 1966 to December 2002. For some variables, the projections are for levels; for other variables, the projections are for growth rates. This data set will be updated annually, usually in January.

ASCII Data Set from the Board of Governors

The PDF files above have been converted into ASCII files from January 1978 to June 1998. Updating these files is under consideration. For more recent forecasts, please see the "PDF data set from the Board of Governors."