| Subcomponent (billions of dollars) of PCE, which was $4,378.2 billion | Annual estimates: Source data and methods used to determine level for benchmark and other final years or, for other years, used to prepare an extrapolator or interpolator | Advance quarterly estimates: Source data and methods used to prepare an extrapolator |
| Durable and nondurable goods: ($1,877.2)/1/ | ||
| Most goods (goods except subcomponents listed separately) ($1,562.0) | Benchmark years--Commodity-flow method,
starting with manufacturers' shipments from Census Bureau quinquennial census
and including an adjustment for exports and imports from Census Bureau
merchandise trade
Other years--Retail-control method, using retail trade sales from Census Bureau annual survey or, for most recent year, monthly survey of retail trade | Same as annual for most recent year. |
| New autos ($93.4) | Physical quantity purchased times average retail price: Unit sales, information with which to allocate sales among consumers and other purchasers, and average list prices, all from trade sources | Same as annual. |
| Net purchases of used autos ($45.9) | Benchmark years--For net transactions,
change in the consumer stock of autos from trade sources. For dealers' margin,
retail sales from Census Bureau quinquennial census and margin rate from Census
Bureau annual survey of retail trade
Other years except most recent--For net transactions, same as benchmark. For dealers' margin, franchised dealers' unit sales times sales price, both from trade sources, times margin rate for independent dealers from Census Bureau annual survey; independent dealers' margin from Census Bureau annual survey Most recent year--For net transactions, same as benchmark. For dealers' margin, for franchised dealers, unit sales and sales price from trade sources; for independent dealers, sales from Census Bureau monthly survey of retail trade | For net transactions, residual based on net sales by other sectors. For dealers' margin, unit sales of franchised dealers from trade source and sales price from Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index for used cars. |
| New trucks ($52.3) | Benchmark years--Commodity-flow method, starting with
manufacturers' shipments from Census Bureau quinquennial census and including
an adjustment for exports and imports from Census Bureau merchandise trade
Other years except most recent--Abbreviated commodity-flow method, starting with manufacturers' shipments from Census Bureau annual survey and including an adjustment for exports and imports from Census Bureau merchandise trade Most recent year--Physical quantity purchased times average retail price: Unit sales and information with which to allocate sales among consumers and other purchasers from trade sources and average price based on Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index for new trucks | Same as annual for most recent year. |
| Gasoline and oil/2/ ($105.6) | Benchmark years--Physical quantity purchased
times average retail price: Gallons consumed from the Department of
Transportation, information with which to allocate that total among consumers
and other purchasers from Federal agencies and trade sources, and average
retail price from Census Bureau quinquennial census
Years except most recent--Same as benchmark years, except average retail price from the Energy Information Administration Most recent year--Physical quantity purchased times average retail price: Gallons consumed and average price both from the Energy Information Administration | Same as annual for most recent year. |
| Food furnished to employees (including military) ($12.0) | Benchmark years--For commercial employees,
number of employees of appropriate industries from Bureau of Labor Statistics
tabulations times BEA estimate of per capita expenditures for food; for
military personnel, outlays from the Budget of the United States prepared by
the Office of Management and Budget
Years other than benchmark years--Same as benchmark years, except per capita expenditures for food based on Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index for food | For commercial employees, same as annual for years other than benchmark years; for military personnel, judgmental trend. |
| Expenditures abroad by U.S. residents ($3.2) less personal remittances in kind to nonresidents ($0.8) | Estimated as part of the balance of payments; see the entry for service exports and imports, net, under net exports of goods and services | Judgmental trend. |
1. Includes $3.6 billion for food produced and consumed on farms, standard clothing issued to military personnel, and used trucks.
2. The retail-control method cited under PCE for most goods is based on retail trade sales data that include sales of gasoline service stations. Estimates of PCE for gasoline and oil are derived separately and are deducted from the retail-control totals (that include goods sold by gasoline service stations) to derive the estimates for PCE for most goods.
