Box: Data Availability

The estimates from the national income and product accounts (NIPA's) that are prepared by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) are available on three World Wide Web sites and in a variety of other media.

Web sites

• The BEA Web site at "http://www.doc.bea.gov" presents summary NIPA estimates, selected articles from the SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS, and the monthly news releases for gross domestic product (GDP) and for personal income and outlays.
• The Web site of the Department of Commerce's STAT-USA provides the monthly news releases on GDP and on personal income at the time of release, the underlying-detail NIPA tables, and the complete issues of the SURVEY; to subscribe, go to the Web site at "http://www.stat-usa.gov". This information is also available on STAT-USA's Economic Bulletin Board; to subscribe, call 202–482–1986.
• The Federal Statistical Briefing Room at the White House Web site at "http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr" provides summary estimates of GDP and of a few other major NIPA aggregates.

Other media

The NIPA estimates are published monthly in the SURVEY; to subscribe, call the Superintendent of Documents of the U.S. Government Printing Office at 202–512–1800.

Summary information on the estimates of GDP and of personal income is available in a recorded telephone message at the time of release. For the GDP estimates, call 202–606–5306; for the estimates of personal income and outlays, call 202–606–5303.

The NIPA estimates are also available on diskettes or printouts from BEA. For a description of these products and for other information about BEA's programs and products, see the "User's Guide to BEA Information" on the BEA Web site. To order products from BEA using Visa or MasterCard, call the Order Desk at 1–800–704–0415 (outside the United States, 202–606–9666).