Director's Page

To BEA's customers:

BEA strives to provide the most timely, relevant and accurate economic data to you, our users, to help promote a better understanding of the U.S. economy. These reliable and consistent measures of economic activity are essential to the informed decisionmaking of policymakers, business leaders and every American household. The success of our statistical programs, in large part, is determined by your trust in the quality of our data. As one of the world's leading statistical agencies, we are dedicated to staying on the cutting edge of the economy.

To help keep you informed on a number of non-statistical issues, this page provides a number of useful pieces of information. The 5-year BEA Strategic Plan is available below for your review as well as a report card of our successes in meeting the over 200 annual milestones in the Plan. Information on the President's current budget request for BEA also is available. Congressional testimony related to BEA and its statistical programs will be included below to keep you current on important topics being considered by Congress. Finally, other important reports and information can be found here to keep you informed on ongoing activities and plans at BEA.

If you have any questions or issues about BEA that you would like to share, I encourage you to contact me or any member of the BEA staff. We welcome your comments and suggestions. When you talk, we listen.

J. Steven Landefeld, Director
Bureau of Economic Analysis

Strategic Plan

Final Strategic Plan for FY 2007–FY 2011 (PDF • 780KB)
Final Strategic Plan for FY 2006–FY 2010 (PDF • 995KB)
Strategic Plan for FY 2005–FY 2009 (PDF • 319KB)
Strategic Plan Report Card for FY 2006 (PDF • 800KB)

Budget

BEA FY 2009 Budget Justification (PDF)

Presentations

Before a NABE session on improving statistics at the ASSA annual meeting, January 7, 2006 (PDF • 168KB)
Before the BEA Advisory Committee on BEA Activities Update, November 4, 2005 (PDF • 174KB)
Before the National Bureau of Statistics of China on updating the national accounts, June 30, 2005 (PDF • 61KB)
Before the BEA Advisory Committee on BEA Activities Update, May 13, 2005 (PDF • 56KB)
Before the BEA Advisory Committee on BEA Activities Update, November 5, 2004 (PDF • 137KB)
Before the BEA Advisory Committee on BEA Activities Update, May 14, 2004 (PDF • 74KB)
Before COPAFS on Improving Data Releases, March 12, 2004 (PDF • 266KB)
Before the Global Interdependence Center on Measuring GDP in a Digital Age, March 11, 2004 (PDF • 72KB)

Further Information

FY 2007 Report on Customer Satisfaction, January 2008 (PDF • 710KB)
Importance of Data Sharing to BEA, October 2005 (PDF • 149KB)
Architecture for the National Accounts - NBER/CRIW conference with papers discussing BEA's accounts, April 2004
Employees Rate Bureau of Economic Analysis Among Top Federal Agencies, January 5, 2004 (PDF • 27KB)
BEA Organizational Assessment Survey, Results, 2003 (PDF • 123KB)
Information Quality Guidelines, October 1, 2002 (PDF • 281KB)
Congressional testimony
"GDP: One of the Greatest Inventions of the 20th Century," January 2000 (PDF • 147KB)
"The International Monetary Fund's New Standards for Economic Statistics," October 1996 (PDF • 488KB)