Since I like to play with numbers for fun (why else would I do this?) I put together a chart showing some interesting statistics on the Disney Points over the years.
First, however a few very important items:
1. Look at the numbers as ballpark only. They are only accurate to the point that the base data is accurate.
2. I used BillPA's base numbers. If there are any inaccuracies there they would affect the chart.
3. I used 2.5% as an inflation factor. I do not readily have the actual inflation numbers from 1991 to 2001. Any differences of course between the real numbers and 2.5% would affect the chart.
4. A word about inflation. As prices go up every year, so generally do salaries. However, your salary can also go up due to promotions. This would be above inflation and would tend to increase your standard of living. In comparing to inflation adjusted dollars think of it this way. Let's assume 10 years ago, a high school student working in a fast food restaurant would work 1.85 hours to have enough money, after taxes, to go to the local movie theater. Now in 2001 another high school student, doing the same job, has to work 1.95 hours to go to the same movie theater. Then adjusted for inflation that student is earning less than his 10 year counterpart. However if it only took him 1.75 hours, then he would be earning more than his 10 year counterpart. These differences can be converted backwards into dollars to give us a 'feel' for the work required to purchase certain commodities, such as Disney
DVC points.
Now the chart.
Dates and Prices/Point come from BillPA's post.
Dollar Increase is just that.
The Absolute Increase is the percentage increase from the previous price. Example when it went from $51 to $54.50 that was a 6.9% increase.
The Actual Increase is the total increase from the original price. Example, the $54.50 price is an increase of 13.5% above the original $48 price.
The Real Increase, is the same as the absolute increase adjusted for inflation. If Disney had raised prices exactly with inflation, the Real Increase would be 0% in every row. For example, at $54.50/point, our 'student' example would have to work 2.7% more hours to have the same purchasing power our 10-year ago student had to work. Thus if our 10-year student worked 100 hours to buy 1-point, the July'92 student would have to work 102.7 hours to buy 1-point, and today's student (Apr 2001) would have to work 122.5 hours to buy 1-point.
A real increase is equivalent to a state raising a sales tax. It's a bigger piece of the pie.
The Apr 2001 equivalent shows what someone would have had to pay when they bought to be paying the same equivalent amount as someone paying today.
The Equiv June 1991 dollars shows what the price would be at the time you purchased had the Disney increases equaled inflation and not exceeded it.
This is information only. If anyone has any questions on what the forumlas used were, or any other questions, please post back.
Caskbill
<Table border><TR ALIGN="center" VALIGN="middle"><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99><FONT FACE="Arial">
Date</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99><FONT FACE="Arial">
Price / Point</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99><FONT FACE="Arial">
Dollar increase</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99><FONT FACE="Arial">
Absolute Increase</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99><FONT FACE="Arial">
Actual Increase</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99><FONT FACE="Arial">
REAL increase</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99><FONT FACE="Arial">
Equiv. Apr 2001 dollars</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99><FONT FACE="Arial">
Equiv. Jun 1991 dollars</FONT></TD></TR><TR VALIGN="bottom"><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:mmm-yy"><FONT FACE="Arial">Jun-91</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.00"><FONT FACE="Arial">48.00</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.00"><FONT FACE="Arial">0.00</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.0%"><FONT FACE="Arial">0.0%</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.0%"><FONT FACE="Arial">0.0%</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.0%"><FONT FACE="Arial">0.0%</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.00"><FONT FACE="Arial">58.82</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.00"><FONT FACE="Arial">48.00</FONT></TD></TR><TR VALIGN="bottom"><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:mmm-yy"><FONT FACE="Arial">Jan-92</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.00"><FONT FACE="Arial">50.00</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.00"><FONT FACE="Arial">2.00</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.0%"><FONT FACE="Arial">4.2%</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.0%"><FONT FACE="Arial">4.2%</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.0%"><FONT FACE="Arial">2.7%</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.00"><FONT FACE="Arial">59.68</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.00"><FONT FACE="Arial">48.70</FONT></TD></TR><TR VALIGN="bottom"><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:mmm-yy"><FONT FACE="Arial">Feb-92</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.00"><FONT FACE="Arial">51.00</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.00"><FONT FACE="Arial">1.00</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.0%"><FONT FACE="Arial">2.0%</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.0%"><FONT FACE="Arial">6.3%</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.0%"><FONT FACE="Arial">4.5%</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.00"><FONT FACE="Arial">59.80</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.00"><FONT FACE="Arial">48.80</FONT></TD></TR><TR VALIGN="bottom"><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:mmm-yy"><FONT FACE="Arial">Jul-92</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.00"><FONT FACE="Arial">54.50</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.00"><FONT FACE="Arial">3.50</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.0%"><FONT FACE="Arial">6.9%</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.0%"><FONT FACE="Arial">13.5%</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.0%"><FONT FACE="Arial">10.5%</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.00"><FONT FACE="Arial">60.42</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.00"><FONT FACE="Arial">49.30</FONT></TD></TR><TR VALIGN="bottom"><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:mmm-yy"><FONT FACE="Arial">May-93</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.00"><FONT FACE="Arial">56.00</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.00"><FONT 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BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.0%"><FONT FACE="Arial">17.7%</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.00"><FONT FACE="Arial">65.34</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.00"><FONT FACE="Arial">53.32</FONT></TD></TR><TR VALIGN="bottom"><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:mmm-yy"><FONT FACE="Arial">Jan-99</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.00"><FONT FACE="Arial">65.00</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.00"><FONT FACE="Arial">2.25</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.0%"><FONT FACE="Arial">3.6%</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.0%"><FONT FACE="Arial">35.4%</FONT></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#FFFF99 ALIGN="right" STYLE="vnd.ms-excel.numberformat:0.0%"><FONT 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[This message was edited by Caskbill on 03-29-01 at 02:43 AM.]