Does anyone know where I can find out the price of a gallon of milk, loaf of bread, new car, gallon of gas, new house, the average income, and dow jones in 1983? Doing my birthyear timeline for my Economics class. Serious answerers only please.
2006-10-23 23:51:59 · 3 answers · asked by Honey Bizzle 3 in Social Science ➔ Economics
Go to www.dmarie.com/timecap. Type your date into the Quick Page.
2006-10-24 00:05:15 · answer #1 · answered by flowergirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't honestly say how easy this is, but have you tried looking for old almanacs in the second-hand bookstores? It seems almanacs, like many other things, get put away by pack-rats like myself and turn up years later in second-hand books. That would be the easiest way if it works at all, since it is always easiest to just reach for a book.
If not, then I would try the Bureau of Statistics or The Commerce Department or something in the federal government which is responsible for statistics. They probably do have historical data back that far, because it's at least within the time that computers were sufficiently in use. And there are newspaper or news service archives you might check.
You know, we all need to educate ourselves in how to research. Wikipedia is usually my first choice, but I'm not sure how I would even word a question to them on this subject. Do we need a good web site tutorial in how to research?
2006-10-24 00:04:15 · answer #2 · answered by auntb93again 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I lived in USSR,best years in my life
2006-10-23 23:59:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋