National Economic Accounts

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

News Release: Gross Domestic Product
Current-dollar and "real" GDP (Excel • 24KB)
Percent change from preceding period (Excel • 24KB)
Interactive Tables: GDP and the National Income and Product Account (NIPA) Historical Tables

What's New:

Estimates of wage and salary accruals and related measures were corrected for the first quarter of 2008. The correction updates line 23 (wage accruals less disbursements) in table 1.7.5; line 2 (compensation of employees, paid), line 3 (wage and salary accruals), and line 7 (wage accruals less disbursements) in table 1.10; line 2 (compensation of employees), line 3 (wage and salary accruals), and line 5 (other wage and salary accruals) in table 1.12; line 4 (corporate business compensation of employees), line 5 (corporate business wage and salary accruals), line 20 (nonfinancial corporate business compensation of employees), and line 21 (nonfinancial corporate business wage and salary accruals) in table 1.14; and line 9 (wage accruals less disbursements) in table 5.1.

These corrections do not affect published estimates of gross domestic product, wage and salary disbursements, compensation of employees received, personal income, gross domestic income, or national income. (Note that estimates of gross domestic income and national income for the first quarter of 2008 are not available until the release of preliminary GDP estimates on May 29, 2008.)

Selected NIPA Tables:
- Text format (Text • 1,123KB)
- Comma-delimited format (CSV • 1,126KB)
- Portable document format (PDF • 2,894 KB)
Now Available: • NIPA annual and comprehensive revision plans (PDF • 60KB)

• Measuring the Economy: A Primer on GDP and the National Income and Product Accounts (PDF • 572KB)
• An Introduction to the National Income and Product Accounts (MP-1) (PDF • 901KB)

Personal Income and Outlays

News Release: Personal Income and Outlays
Interactive Tables: National Income and Product Accounts Tables
Charts and interactive tables:
- Comparison of Personal Saving in the NIPAs with Personal Saving in the Flow of Funds Accounts
- Comparison of the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Price Index with the Consumer Price Index (CPI)

Corporate Profits

News Release: Corporate Profits
Net Effects of the Tax Acts of 2002, 2003, and 2008 on Selected Measures of Corporate Profits (Excel • 66 KB)
Interactive Tables: National Income and Product Accounts Tables

Government Current Receipts and Expenditures

Government Current Receipts and Expenditures

Supplemental Estimates

Underlying Detail Tables
Key source data and assumptions for "advance" estimates
- XLS
- TXT
Motor vehicles (Excel • 435 KB)

Special Note: In February 2008, the Federal Reserve Board revised the seasonal factors for light vehicle unit sales (domestic and foreign autos, domestic and foreign light trucks) to account for a January 2007 selling day that was misallocated to December 2006. The revision mainly affects sales for those months (it would lower the seasonally adjusted annual rate for January 2007 and raise it for December 2006), but it also affects other months slightly. BEA is incorporating the revised seasonal factors beginning with estimates for October 2007. The revised seasonal factors for earlier periods will be incorporated in the next annual revision of the NIPAs, which is scheduled for release in July 2008.
Prices and Output for Information and Communication Technologies
Integrated Macroeconomic Accounts for the United States
Estimates prepared for international comparisons based on the System of National Accounts
Million Dollar and Three Decimal Place NIPA Tables
Additional Tables

Fixed Assets

Interactive Tables: Fixed Assets Tables

Research and Development Satellite Account

2007

News Release: Research and Development
Survey of Current Business: Research and Development Satellite Account Update. Estimates for 1959-2004: New Estimates for Industry, Regional, and International Accounts (PDF • 1,330 KB) Tables (PDF • 1,309 KB) | October 2007
Report upon release, September 28, 2007 (PDF • 698 KB)
1959-2004 research and development data (Excel • 412 KB)
Information Guide: Research and Development
Background Papers
- Methodology for R&D Capital Stocks and Net Rates of Return (PDF • 475 KB)
- Framework for an Industry-based R&D Satellite Account (PDF • 143 KB)
- 2007 R&D Satellite Account Methodologies: Current-dollar GDP Estimates (PDF • 1,082 KB)
- Methodology for the Industry Estimates in the 2007 R&D Satellite Account (PDF • 1,449 KB)
- Estimating Prices for R&D Investment in the 2007 R&D Satellite Account (PDF • 446 KB)
- R&D Depreciation Rates in the 2007 R&D Satellite Account (PDF • 81 KB)
- Treatment of International Research and Development as Investment (PDF • 986KB)
- Issues Related to Treating R&D as Investment In BEA’s Regional Accounts (PDF • 179KB)

Previously Published Estimates

Research and Development Conference, December 2006

Measurement Issues and the R&D Satellite Account Methodology

Conferences and Meetings

Previously Published Estimates

Previously published estimates contain historical data and have since been revised. Please contact the National program area with questions.
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