Regional Economic Accounts: Articles

Recent SCB articles relating to data releases

Regional Quarterly Report | SCB, November 2009 (PDF • 563 KB)
Includes information about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) (PDF • 563 KB) and the Comprehensive Revision of State Personal Income (PDF • 563 KB)

Tables from this release (PDF • 2,508 KB)
Gross Domestic Product by Metropolitan Area: Accelerated Statistics for 2008, New Statistics for 2007, and Revised Statistics for 2005–2007 | SCB, October 2009 (PDF • 4,459 KB)
Personal Income for Metropolitan Areas for 2008 | SCB, September 2009 (PDF • 1,015 KB)
Regional Quarterly Report | SCB, July 2009 (PDF • 185 KB)
Tables from this release (PDF • 180 KB)
Gross Domestic Product by State: Advance Statistics for 2008 and Revised Statistics for 2005–2007 | SCB, June 2009 (PDF • 2,561 KB)
Local Area Personal Income for 2007 | SCB, May 2009 (PDF • 473 KB)
Includes a discussion of Alternative Measures of County Employment and Wages (PDF • 473 KB)

Tables from this release (PDF • 2,214 KB)
Regional Quarterly Report | SCB, April 2009 (PDF • 200 KB)
State personal income statistics for the fourth quarter of 2008 and annual statistics for the year 2008, a look at RIMS II multipliers, and a summary of three widely used measures of personal income.

Tables from this release (PDF • 3,299 KB)
Regional Quarterly Report | SCB, January 2009 (PDF • 891 KB)
Tables from this release (PDF • 1,794 KB)
Research Spotlight: Regional Price Parities Comparing Price Level Differences Across Geographic Areas | SCB, November 2008 (PDF • 1,505 KB)
State Personal Income for the Second Quarter of 2008 and Revised Statistics for 2005–2007 | SCB, October 2008 (PDF • 426 KB)
Tables from this release (PDF • 1,475 KB)
Introducing New Measures of the Metropolitan Economy: Prototype GDP-by-Metropolitan-Area Estimates for 2001–2005 | SCB, November 2007 (PDF • 4,517 KB)
Supplemental Table 7 (Excel • 1,534 KB) which provides growth rates and industry contributions to growth by industry sector and metropolitan area
State Personal Income: Fourth Quarter of 2005 and Per Capita Personal Income for 2005 | SCB, April 2006 (PDF • 4,504 KB)
Additional data underlying Table D “Special Adjustments to State Personal Income for 2005”, on page 76, is provided in millions of dollars in Excel (Excel • 29 KB) and PDF (PDF • 34 KB) formats; detailed adjustments to personal current transfer receipts for all states are also provided.

An additional table (Excel • 20 KB) incorporating revisions to 2005 from the September 26, 2006, release of state personal income is available in Excel format.

Comprehensive revision and analytical Survey articles

Comprehensive Revisions Survey Articles

Comprehensive Revision of State Personal Income | SCB, November 2009 (PDF • 563 KB)
Comprehensive Revision of Gross State Product, Accelerated Estimates for 2003, Revised Estimates for 1977–2002 | SCB, January 2005 (PDF • 451 KB)
Comprehensive Revision of Local Area Personal Income | SCB, June 2004 (PDF • 526 KB)
Revised estimates for 1969–2001 and new estimates for 2002. Includes a section concerning alternative measures of county employment and wages.

Analytical and Special Survey Articles

2004 Redefinition of the BEA Economic Areas | SCB, November 2004 (PDF • 1,279 KB)
The Reliability of the State Personal Income Estimates | SCB, December 2003 (PDF • 578 KB)
Convergence in State Per Capita Personal Income, 1950–99 | SCB, June 2001 (PDF • 1,416 KB)
Industrial Composition of State Earnings in 1958–98 | SCB, February 2000 (PDF • 727 KB)
(Includes revised tables from the March 2000 SCB)

Papers, working papers, and presentations from the regional programs

Accrual Measures of Pension-Related Compensation and Wealth of State and Local Government Workers (WP2009-03) (PDF • 154 KB)
by David G. Lenze | April 2009
Partnership and Sole Proprietorship Data, by Region and State, for Tax Years 2002-2005
by Brian J. Maisano, Statistics of Income Bulletin, Summer 2008
State-Level Wage AGI Gap for Tax Years 2000-2002 (WP2008-03)
Abstract (PDF • 11 KB) | Full Paper (PDF • 111 KB) | Results (Excel • 57 KB) by Robert L. Brown and Ann E. Dunbar | July 2008
Metropolitan Area Disposable Personal Income: Methodology and Results for 2001-2004 (WP2008-02)
Abstract (PDF • 78 KB) | Full Paper (PDF • 1,254 KB) | Results (Excel • 424 KB) by Ann E. Dunbar | June 2008
State Retirement Income Estimates and an Alternative Measure of State Personal Income (WP2008-01)
Abstract (PDF • 7 KB) | Full Paper (PDF • 137 KB) by David G. Lenze | April 2008
Estimates of State and Metropolitan Price Levels for Consumption Goods and Services in the United States, 2005 (PDF • 492 KB)
by Bettina H. Aten, April 2008
Interarea price levels: an experimental methodology
by Bettina Aten, Monthly Labor Review, September 2006
The Feasibility of Producing Personal Income to Adjusted Gross Income (PI-AGI) Reconciliations by State | (WP2006-05) (PDF • 157 KB)
Tables in this paper (Excel • 30 KB)
by Robert L. Brown, Ann E. Dunbar, and Adrienne T. Pilot
Metropolitan Area Disposable Personal Income - Methodology and Results for 2001-2002 | (WP2006-04) (PDF • 174 KB)
Tables in this paper (Excel • 645 KB)
by Ann E. Dunbar
Report on Interarea Price Levels, full paper | (WP2005-11) (PDF • 479 KB)
Interarea Price Levels, presentation (PDF • 109 KB)
by Bettina H. Aten, presented at the BEA Advisory Committee Meeting May 13, 2005
Further Integrating BEA's Economic Accounts: Introducing Annual Input-Output Estimates into the Gross State Product by Industry Accounts | (WP2005-04) (PDF • 861 KB)
by John Sporing, Jr., George K. Downey, and John R. Kort
Alternative Measures of Household Income: BEA Personal Income, CPS Money Income and Beyond | December 2004 (PDF • 100 KB)
by John W. Ruser (BEA), Adrienne T. Pilot (BEA), and Charles Nelson (Census Bureau), presented at the FESAC meeting Dec 14, 2004
Using Efficiency Tests to Reduce Revisions in Panel Data: The Case of Wage and Salary Estimates for U.S. States | (WP2004-09) (PDF • 271 KB)
by Jeremy J. Nalewaik
Reliability of the State Personal Income Estimates | (WP2004-01) (PDF • 459 KB)
by Robert L. Brown, Bruce T. Grimm, and Marian B. Sacks
Investigating Convergence of the U.S. Regions: A Time-Series Analysis | (WP2001-02) (PDF • 323 KB)
by Richard E. Kane, presented at the Annual Conference of the Mid-Continent Regional Science Association, June 31-June 2, 2001, Duluth, MN