| Industry/1/
| Current dollars
| Quantity index |
| Extrapolator or interpolator of benchmark values/2/
| Detailed price indexes used to calculate quantity index |
| Electric, gas, and sanitary services: |
 Electric utilities | For private utilities, revenues from DOE/EIA. For rural cooperatives, revenues from USDA | PPI for electricity, starting in 1991. For prior years, IPD for kilowatt hours from trade source. |
| Gas utilities | Quantity delivered times average price by class of service from DOE/EIA starting in 1987. For prior years, revenues of gas pipeline and utilities from trade source | Composite price index for gas utilities by class of service from DOE/EIA, starting in 1987. For prior years, IPD for BTU's from trade source. |
| Sanitary services | Receipts from IRS tabulations of business tax returns | CPI for water and sewerage maintenance. |
| Wholesale trade: |
| Merchant wholesalers | Ratio of gross margin to sales (margin rate) times sales: For 1977–82, margin rate from quinquennial census and sales from Census Bureau annual survey; for 1983 forward, both from annual survey | Sales price index by kind of business computed from PPI's. |
| Manufacturers' sales branches and sales offices | For equipment rental, interpolation of quinquennial census receipts; for 1993 forward, judgmental trend. For other receipts, manufacturing shipments from Census Bureau annual survey | For equipment rental, BEA capital stock price index. For other receipts, shipments deflated by PPI's. |
| Agents and brokers | Merchant wholesalers margin rate times sales: For 1977–82, margin rate from quinquennial census and sales from Census Bureau annual survey; for 1983 forward, both from annual survey | Merchant wholesalers' price index. |
| Retail trade: |
| Eating and drinking places | Sales from quinquennial census and Census Bureau annual survey | CPI's. |
| Other | Ratio of gross margin to sales (margin rate) times sales: For 1977–82, margin rate from quinquennial census and sales from Census Bureau annual survey; for 1983 forward, both from annual survey | Sales price index by kind-of-business computed from CPI's. |
| Finance, insurance, and real estate: |
| Depository institutions | NIPA imputed service charges for depository institutions, and noninterest income of commercial banks and savings institutions | NIPA price index for imputed interest paid by depository institutions and PCE price index for bank service charges. |
| Nondepository institutions | Fees and other income without interest and trading gains of federally sponsored credit institutions, owned and managed receivables of domestic finance companies, and PCE for motor vehicle leasing | Wages and salaries per employee from BLS and PCE price index for motor vehicle leasing. |
| Security and commodity brokers | Securities commissions, revenue from sale of investment company securities, profits on underwriting/selling/gains on trading accounts and other revenues excluding interest, and revenues earned by exchanges; receipt items from SEC and interest from SEC and BEA | For securities commissions, IPD from number of public securities orders from SEC and trade sources; for mutual funds, IPD for securities commissions; for underwriting, IPD from new securities registrations from SEC and trade sources; for other revenue, composite of PCE price indexes for other brokerage services starting in 1987. For prior years, IPD for GDP. |
| Insurance carriers | Net premiums for health, auto, accident, property, and workers' compensation insurance from trade sources; PCE for expense of handling life insurance | CPI for auto and property insurance and PCE price indexes for all other types of insurance. |
| Insurance agents, brokers, and service | Receipts from IRS tabulations of business tax returns | Insurance carrier deflators weighted by commissions from trade source. |
| Real estate: |
| Nonfarm housing services | PCE for owner- and tenant-occupied nonfarm dwellings | PCE price index. |
| Other real estate | NIPA farm rental, NIPA rental value of buildings owned by nonprofits, NIPA royalties received, IRS corporate business receipts, and Census annual survey data | NIPA rental IPD's, rental rate index from trade source, CPI for household maintenance and repair, and PPI for property management starting in 1996. |
| Holding and other investment offices | Proxy gross output series computed as sum of GPO and intermediate inputs. Intermediate inputs extrapolated from I-O accounts by BEA wages and salaries | Composite cost-based price index. |
| Services: |
| Hotels and other lodging places | For tenant group room and board, PCE. For all other, receipts from Census Bureau quinquennial census and annual survey | For hotels and motels starting in 1993, PPI. For prior years, room-rate index from trade source. For sporting and recreational camps, PCE price index; for rooming and boarding houses, composite of PCE price indexes. |
| Personal services | For shoe repair, PCE. For all other, receipts from Census Bureau quinquennial census and annual survey | PCE price index based on CPI's. |
| Business services | Receipts from Census Bureau quinquennial census and annual survey | For advertising, PPI's starting in 1995. For prior years, cost indexes from trade sources. For miscellaneous equipment rental and leasing, PPI's and BEA net capital stock price index for other equipment. For prepackaged software, BEA price index; for computer equipment rental, BEA capital stock price index; for custom programming, BEA custom software price index; for other computing services, wages and salaries per employee from BLS; for all other business services, PPI's, PCE price indexes, and wages and salaries per employee from BLS. |
| Automotive repair, services, and parking | Receipts from Census Bureau quinquennial census and annual survey | For automotive rental and leasing without drivers, composite index of PCE price index and PPI's starting in 1992. For prior years, PCE price index for rental, leasing, and other services. For all other automotive repair and services, PCE price index based on CPI's. |
| Miscellaneous repair services | Receipts from Census Bureau quinquennial census and annual survey | PCE price index based on CPI's. |
| Motion pictures | Receipts from Census Bureau quinquennial census and annual survey | PCE price index based on CPI's. |
| Amusement and recreation services | Receipts from Census Bureau quinquennial census and annual survey | PCE price index based on CPI's. |
| Health services: |
| Hospitals | Receipts from trade sources | PPI starting in 1993. For prior years, HCFA index of input prices and CPI for hospital room. |
| Other health services | Receipts from Census Bureau quinquennial census and annual survey | CPI's and HCFA index of input prices. PPI for physicians services beginning in 1994. |
| Legal services | Receipts from Census Bureau quinquennial census and annual survey | PPI for legal services, starting in 1997. For prior years, CPI for legal services. |
| Educational services | PCE for private education | PCE price index. |
