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The distress index is an indicator created by the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and it is derived from a handful of statistics. Based on statistics such as unemployment, Customer Price Index (CPI), Gross Domestic Products (GDP), Total Capacity Utilization (TCU) and Household Financial Obligations as a percent of Disposable Personal Income (FODSP), the indicator measures the frustrating conditions the taxpayer is enduring. According to the FEE, the statistics were chosen because they are generally considered significant and uncontroversial.
The Unemployment data is collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Consumer Price Index data is collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) data is collected by the St. Louis Federal Reserve
The Total Capacity Utilization (TCU) data is collected by the St. Louis Federal Reserve
The Household Financial Obligations data is collected by the St. Louis Federal Reserve
I have made a download item that gets the distress index monthly historical data for the United States from January 1967 up to present. Note that, there is a lag between the CSV file data and the HTML data. At the time of writing this article, the HTML data ends on November 2009, while the CSV data ends on October 2009.
The distress level index is downloaded from the following website: http://fee.org/distress-index
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