Please find: total sales of publicly traded US corporations (not the
individual companies, but the total for all publicly traded companies)
in the years 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, etc., to 2000, plus 2005.

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 09 Mar 2006 15:34 PST

Peter,

Are you aware of a source of data that would allow these sorts of
figures to be calculated?

I'm pretty familiar with business data sources, but I can't think of
any that would do the trick for this particular question.

Let me know what you think.

pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by peter6639494-ga on 13 Mar 2006 22:09 PST

No, I am not aware of any source.  That is why I asked...

Peter and Pafalafa --

The fee-based service that has an authoritative database to answer
your question is the CRSP database:
University of Chicago
Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP)
http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/research/crsp/products/index.html

Most graduate business schools have access to the database.  However,
there are more than a few problems with coverage as far back as you're
seeking:
*  it covers the NYSE (only) to 1925
*  AMEX and NASDAQ coverage starts decades later

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA