Observations

Dec 1938: 3.98

Updated: Aug 20, 2012 8:17 AM CDT

Units:

Percent,

Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:

Monthly

Notes

Title	Release Dates

Dividend Yield of Common Stocks on the New York Stock Exchange for United States	2005-08-01	2005-08-01

Source

National Bureau of Economic Research	2005-08-01	2005-08-01

Release

NBER Macrohistory Database	2005-08-01	2005-08-01

Units

Percent	2005-08-01	2005-08-01

Frequency

Monthly	2005-08-01	2005-08-01

Seasonal Adjustment

Not Seasonally Adjusted	2005-08-01	2005-08-01

Notes

Series 13046 Is Presented Here As Two Variables--(1)--Original Data, 1871-1938 (2)--Original Data, 1926-1969. The Rates Represent Expected Annual Dividend Payments Divided By Total Stock Vallues For Each Month. The Stock Exchange Was Closed August-November Of 1914, Therefore Data Was Interpolated. Source: Alfred Cowles Iii And Associates, Commonstock Indexes, Second Edition, 1939. This NBER data series m13046a appears on the NBER website in Chapter 13 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter13.html. NBER Indicator: m13046a	2005-08-01	2005-08-01

Dividend Yield of Common Stocks on the New York Stock Exchange for United States (M1346AUSM156NNBR)