Announcements

These 3,143 county-level series come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. These data represent single-parent households with their own children who are younger than 18 years of age as a percentage of total households with children younger than 18 years of age.

The FRED monthly database for macroeconomic research (FRED-MD) now includes the February 2017 vintage. This database, designed for the empirical analysis of “big data,” is described in detail in a St. Louis Fed working paper by Michael W. McCracken and Serena Ng.

The FBI collects these 2,902 county-level series through their Uniform Crime Reporting Program. The data are presented as the combined violent and property crime offenses as reported by county law enforcement agencies.

These 3,141 series on credit quality come from Equifax. The data are calculated as the percentage of a population sample with a credit score below 660. Counties with fewer than 20 people in the sample are not reported (for privacy reasons).

These 3,142 county-level series come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. The disconnected youth rate represents the percentage of youth between the ages of 16 and 19 who are not enrolled in school and who are unemployed or not in the labor force.

These 3,143 county-level series come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. The data represent the level of county residents over the age of 25 who have completed an associate’s degree or higher.

These 3,066 county-level series represent the total amount of private housing structures that have been authorized by building permits annually.

FRED has added 14 quarterly national accounts series published by the Cabinet Office of Japan. These series consist of estimates of real GDP and its main components.