Subject(s): Social sciences in Statistics in Methodology. . -- Economic indicators in Methodology. -- Economics in Methodology. -- Interpreting economic indicators -- Essential mechanics -- Measuring economic activity -- Output, expenditure and income -- Prices, Reliability -- Growth: trends and cycle -- Nominal GDP, GDP per head, Real GDP, Productivity, cyclical or leading indicators -- Population, employment and unemployment -- Labour or workforce -- Employment -- Unemployment and vacancies -- Fiscal indicators -- Public expenditures, Government revenues, Budget balance, deficit , surplus, National debt, government or public debt -- Consumers -- Personal income, Disposable income, Consumer and personal expenditure, private consumption, Personal and household savings, Savings ratio , Consumer confidence -- Investment and savings : Fixed investment and GDFCF, Investment intentions, stocks, national savings -- Industry and commerce: business conditions indices and surveys, Industrial and manufacturing production, Capacity use and utilisation, manufacturing orders, Motor vehicles, construction orders and output, housing starts, completions and sales, wholesale sales or turnover, orders and stocks, Retail sales -- Balance of payment -- Accounting conventions -- Imports and export of goods and services -- Trade balance, merchandise trade balance -- Current account balance -- capital and financial account flows -- International investment position (IIP) -- Official reserves , External debt, net foreign assets -- Exchange rates -- Nominal exchange rates -- Special drawing rights (SDR) -- EMU.ecu, ERM and euro -- Effective exchange rates -- Real exchange rates, competitiveness, Terms and trade -- Money and financial markets -- Money supply, money stock, Mo...M5, Liquidity -- Bank lending, advances, credit, consumer credit, central bank policy rates -- Interest rates, short term and money market rates, Bond yields -- Yield curves, gaps and ratios -- Real interest rates and yields -- Share prices and yields -- Price and wages -- Price indicators, Gold price, Oil price, Commodity price indices,Export and import price; Unit value -- Producer and wholesale prices, surveys of price expectations -- Wages, earnings and labour cost -- Unit labour cost -- Consumer or retail prices -- Consumer or private expenditure deflators , GDP deflators