FIGURES

Figure 1.1 The Trend Rate of NonFarm Productivity Growth Accelerated After 1995

Figure 1.2 Moore's Law 

Figure 1.3 Price Declines in Computers Have Accelerated Since 1995 

Figure 1.4 Output Growth in Computers, Communications Equipment and
Semiconductors Surged in the 1990s 

Figure 1.5 Real Business Investment in Software 

Figure 2.1 Internet Access Grew to 304 Million in 2000 From 171 Million In 1999

Figure 3.1 IT-Producing Industries by Sector: Gross Product Originating 

Figure 3.2 IT-Producing Industries' Share of the Economy 

Figure 3.3 Price Changes: IT-Producing Industries 

Figure 3.4 IT-Producing Industries: Effect on Price Change 

Figure 3.5 IT-Producing Industries: Contribution to Real Economic Growth 

Figure 3.6 Industry Spending on Capital Equipment Continues to Shift Towards
IT Equipment, Including Software 

Figure 3.7 Industry Spending on Capital Equipment: Inflation Adjusted Dollars 

Figure 3.8 Contribution of IT Investment to Growth in Overall Equipment
Investment 

Figure 3.9 IT Equipment Investment: Spending for Software Accelerates
after 1995 

Figure 3.10 Investment Spending for Computers in Real Dollars Outpaces Software
and Other IT Equipment After 1997 

Figure 3.11 IT Share of Total Company Funded R&D 

Figure 3.12 R&D for Computers, Electronic Components and Software, and
Communications Equipment and Services 

Figure 4.1 Growth in Nonfarm Business Sector Output per Hour
During Expansions 

Figure 4.2 Average Annual Rates of Capital Deepening by Type of Capital
in the U.S. Nonfarm Business Sector 

Figure 4.3 Average Annual Percentage-Point Contributions of IT to Rising
Labor Productivity Growth 

Figure 4.4 Shares in Income and in Labor Productivity Growth by Type
of IT Capital in the U.S. Nonfarm Business Sector, 1996-99 

Figure 4.5 Average Annual Growth Rates of Gross Product Originating
Per Worker in Selected Service Industries, 1990-97 

Figure 5.1 Employment in IT-Producing Industries 

Figure 5.2 Annual Wages per Worker in IT-Producing Industries 

Figure 5.3 Employment in IT Occupations 

Figure 5.4 Employment in IT Occupations, by Level of Education and
Training Requirements 

Figure 5.5 Median Weekly Earnings of Core IT Workers 

Figure 5.6 Employment and Median Weekly Earnings in Core IT Occupations,
Average Annual Rates of Growth 

Figure 6.1 U.S. Trade of IT Goods 

Figure 6.2 U.S. Trade in IT Services 

Figure 7.1 Actual vs. Forecast of Real GDP Growth 

Figure 7.2 Forecasts of Longer-Term Real GDP Growth 

Figure 7.3 Real GDP Growth During Expansions 

Figure 7.4 Rate of Inflation During Expansions 

Figure 7.5 Growth of Real Hourly Compensation During Expansions 

Figure 7.6 Growth of Real Profits During Expansions 

Figure 7.7 Growth of Real Private Investment During Expansions 

Figure 7.8 Growth of Real R&D Expenditures During Expansions 

Figure 7.9 Durable Goods Manufacturing Inventories, Percent of Shipments 

Figure 7.10 Durable Goods Manufacturing Inventories, Billions of Dollars 

Figure 7.11 Decline of Real GDP and Real Final Sales During Recessions 

                                     TABLES

Table 2.1 Number of People Online 

Table 3.1 Information Technology Producing Industries 

Table 3.2 Price Changes: IT-Producing and All Other Industries 

Table 3.3 IT-Producing Industries: Contribution to Real Economic Growth 

Table 3.4 Contribution of IT Equipment to Growth in Capital Equipment
And Software 

Table 3.5 Company-funded R&D Investment by Sector, 1998 

Table 4.1 Contribution of IT Capital to the Acceleration of Labor Productivity
Growth in the U.S. Private Nonfarm Business Sector 

Table 5.1 IT-Related Occupations 

Table 6.1 Intra-firm Trade: U. S. Trade Between Parent Firms and Their
Affiliates For Selected Industries 

Table 6.2 Foreign Sales by Majority-Owned Foreign Affiliates of U.S. Companies
and U.S. Sales by U.S. Affiliates of Foreign Companies for Selected IT 
Industries 

NOTE: Methodologies, data sources and appendix tables referenced in the text of
Digital Economy 2000 are available online at the Government's e-commerce
website: http://www.ecommerce.gov.