Table K.—Principal Source Data for Estimating Gross Output

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Industry/1/ Current dollars Quantity index
Extrapolator or interpolator of benchmark values/2/ Detailed price indexes used to calculate quantity index
Social servicesReceipts and expenses from Census Bureau quinquennial census and annual surveyWages and salaries per employee from BLS and PCE price indexes.
Membership organizationsExpenses from Census Bureau quinquennial census and annual survey; PCE; and wage and salary data from BLSWages and salaries per employee from BLS and PCE price indexes.
Other servicesPCE for museums and libraries and other services; for all others, receipts from Census Bureau quinquennial census and annual surveyPPI's for engineering, architectural, and surveying services, and for accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping services starting in 1997. PPI for advertising agencies used for management and public relations services starting in 1995. For prior years, wages and salaries per employee from BLS for each component. PCE price indexes for museums, art galleries, zoological gardens, research organizations (commercial and non-commercial), and services not elsewhere classified.
Government enterprises:
Federal government enterprisesFor the U.S. Postal Service, receipts; for electric utilities, DOE; for other enterprises, wages and salaries from BEAFor U.S. Postal Service and for Federal electric utilities, PPI; for other enterprises, BEA composite price index.
State and local government enterprisesFor electric utilities, DOE; for other enterprises, revenue by type from BEAFor electric utilities, PPI; for transit, composite price index based on PCE price indexes for private transit; for other enterprises, BEA composite price index.

1. Source data and estimating methods apply to both the 1972 SIC and 1987 SIC definition of the industries shown in the table. Industry titles are 1987 SIC titles.

2. Benchmark values are derived from the 1977, 1982, 1987, and 1992 input-output (I-O) accounts. Gross output estimates are prepared only for industries for which the double-deflation method is used for estimating real GPO.

BEA Bureau of Economic Analysis

BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics

CPI Consumer Price Index (BLS)

DOC U.S. Department of Commerce

DOD U.S. Department of Defense

DOE U.S. Department of Energy

DOT U.S. Department of Transportation

EIA Energy Information Administration

FCC Federal Communications Commission

HCFA Health Care Financing Administration

ICC Interstate Commerce Commission

IPD Implicit price deflator

IRS Internal Revenue Service

NIPA National Income and Product Accounts

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

PCE Personal consumption expenditures (BEA)

PPI Producer Price Index (BLS)

SEC Securities and Exchange Commission

USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture

USGS U.S. Geological Survey (formerly Bureau of Mines)