Almost always (in my experience) when they offer a ratio series, they also offer the components of the ratio separately. So this would be the exception that proves the rule wrong.
I can make an assumption. I can assume that they used the DPI series when they figured the ratio. I'm pretty confident in that. And I can use DPI along with the Household DSP as a Percent of DPI series to get DSP in billions. It works for me.
It's early in the morning, though, and I have to be careful with the calculation or I'll screw it up. To get the FRED series DSP as a percent of DPI, they take the DSP/DPI ratio and multiply it by 100. Working backwards, I can take the data they give me, multiply it by DPI, and divide it by 100. It's not complicated: It's just backwards from figuring a percent. But that's what screws me up -- it's backwards.
Anyway, unless I had a massive brain fart, it looks like this:
Graph #1: Screen Capture of FRED Graph |
Here's my thought. FRED could give users the option to revise the title of a graph they create, like this:
Graph #2: Edited Title |
Sometimes, at least, revised titles would be appropriate.
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More boldly, FRED could include the user-defined graph name on the graph source page.
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