Observations

1912: 90,000

Updated: Aug 16, 2012 2:02 PM CDT

Units:

Thousands of Messages,

Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:

Annual

Notes

Title	Release Dates

Number of Messages Sent, Western Union Telegraph Company 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

Thousands of Messages	2005-08-01	2005-08-01

Frequency

Annual	2005-08-01	2005-08-01

Seasonal Adjustment

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

Notes

Annual Totals Are Based On A Fiscal Year Ending June 30. Data Beginning 1903 Do Not Include Messages Sent Over Leased Wires Or Under Railroad Contracts. Data Are Originally From Annual Western Union Reports And Were Checked With Statistical Abstracts Of 1915, P. 267; 1920, P. 369. Source: Statistical Abstract Of The United States, 1910, P. 257. Data For 1911 And 1912 Were Estimated. This NBER data series a03019a appears on the NBER website in Chapter 3 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter03.html. NBER Indicator: a03019a	2005-08-01	2005-08-01

Number of Messages Sent, Western Union Telegraph Company for United States (A0319AUSA579NNBR)