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Table 5.3.3. Real Private Fixed Investment by Type, Quantity Indexes


1. Consists primarily of religious, educational, vocational, lodging, railroads, farm, and amusement and recreational structures, net purchases of used structures, and brokers' commissions on the sale of structures.
2. Annual chain-type quantity indexes for computers and peripheral equipment: 1959, .00001; 1960, .00009; 1961, .00017; 1962, .00031. Quarterly chain-type quantity indexes for computers and peripheral equipment: 1959:1, .00000; 1959:2, .00000; 1959:3, .00000, 1959:4, .00003; 1960:1, .00006; 1960:2, .00007; 1960:3, .00010, 1960:4, .00013; 1961:1, .00013; 1961:2, .00014; 1961:3, .00020, 1961:4, .00020; 1962:1, .00023; 1962:2, .00023; 1962:3, .00032, 1962:4, .00048.
3. Excludes software "embedded,'' or bundled, in computers and other equipment.
4. Includes communication equipment, nonmedical instruments, medical equipment and instruments, photocopy and related equipment, and office and accounting equipment.
5. Consists primarily of furniture and fixtures, agricultural machinery, construction machinery, mining and oilfield machinery, service industry machinery, and electrical equipment not elsewhere classified.
6. Consists primarily of manufactured homes, improvements, dormitories, net purchases of used structures, and brokers' commissions on the sale of residential structures.
7. Excludes net purchases of used structures and brokers' commissions on the sale of structures.

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