Extrapolator or interpolator of benchmark values/2/
Price index for deflation or quantity extrapolator of base-year value
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing:
Farms
Cash receipts from marketings, inventory change, and other receipts from USDA
Prices received by farmers from USDA.
Agricultural services
Receipts for agricultural services, forestry, and fishing from IRS tabulations of business tax returns less gross output of forestry and fishing
Index of selected prices paid by farmers from USDA.
Forestry
Shipments of logging camps and contractors from Census Bureau quinquennial census and annual survey
PPI's.
Fishing
Value of fish landed from NOAA
Fish landed from NOAA.
Mining:
Metal mining
Physical quantity produced times average price: For uranium, physical quantity and average price from DOE; for all others, quantities and prices from USGS
Quantity produced from USGS.
Coal mining
Physical quantity produced times average price, both from DOE
Quantity produced from DOE.
Oil and gas extraction
Physical quantity produced times average price, both from DOE, except natural gas liquids (PPI)
Quantity produced from DOE.
Oil and gas field services
Petroleum and natural gas well drilling and exploration: Footage drilled and cost per foot from trade source
Footage drilled from trade source.
Nonmetallic minerals, except fuels
Physical quantity produced times average price, both from USGS
Quantity produced from USGS.
Construction:
For the Department of Defense
Expenditures from DOD
For most military construction, BEA indexes based on DOD prices; for other construction, cost indexes from trade sources and government agencies.
For State and local highways
Expenditures from Census Bureau annual survey of government spending
For new construction, cost indexes from government agencies; for maintenance and repair, CPI for home maintenance and repair services.
For private electric and gas utilities
Expenditures from Federal regulatory agencies and trade sources
Cost indexes from trade sources and government agencies.
For farms, excluding residential
Expenditures from USDA
Cost index from trade source and price deflator for new single-family houses under construction from Census Bureau.
For other nonresidential:
New construction
Value put in place from Census Bureau construction survey
Cost indexes from trade sources and government agencies and price deflator for new single-family houses under construction from Census Bureau.
Maintenance and repair
Value put in place from Census Bureau construction survey
CPI for home maintenance and repair services.
For other residential:
New construction
Value put in place from Census Bureau construction survey
Price deflator for new single-family houses under construction from Census Bureau.
Maintenance and repair
Expenditures by owner-occupants from BLS survey and by landlords from Census Bureau survey
CPI for home maintenance and repair services.
Manufacturing
Shipments and inventory change from Census Bureau annual survey
PPI's, BEA computer price index, BEA semiconductor price index, and BEA price indexes based on DOD prices paid for military equipment.
Transportation:
Railroad transportation
Total operating revenue for Class I railroads and AMTRAK
Composite index of IPD for Class I freight, from revenue ton-miles from trade source, and of IPD for AMTRAK passenger, from passenger miles from NRPC.
Local and interurban passenger transit:
Taxicabs
PCE
CPI for taxi fares.
Intercity buses
Operating revenues from trade source
Passenger miles from ICC and trade source.
School buses
Wages and salaries from BLS
Employment from BLS.
Other local transit
Operating revenues of private local transit systems from trade source
Passenger trips from trade source.
Trucking and warehousing
For 1977-83, operating revenues for Class I motor carriers of property from ICC; for 1984 forward, Census Bureau annual survey
Ton-miles from trade source.
Transportation by air
Operating revenues of air carriers and of Federal Express from DOT and public sources
For passenger, revenue passenger miles for domestic and for international travel from DOT. For freight and mail, ton-miles for domestic and international freight and for domestic and international mail from DOT. For all other, composite index of IPD for passenger, freight, and mail.
Pipelines, except natural gas
Operating revenues from trade source
Ton-miles from trade source.
Communications:
Radio and television broadcasting
Advertising expenditures from trade source; PCE for cable television
For advertising, cost indexes from trade source. For cable television, CPI for cable television.
Telephone and telegraph
For 1977-92, revenues from FCC. For 1992 forward, Census Bureau annual survey
PPI's.
Electric, gas, and sanitary services:
Electric utilities
For private utilities, revenues from DOE. For rural cooperatives, revenues from USDA
Kilowatt hours from trade source.
Gas utilities
Revenues of gas pipeline and utilities from trade source.
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 deflated by 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, IPD from BEA capital stock statistics. 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 sales deflated by PPI's.
Retail trade:
Eating and drinking places
Sales from quinquennial census and from 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 deflated by CPI's.
Finance, insurance, and real estate:
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, number of public securities orders from SEC and trade sources; for mutual funds, IPD for securities commissions; for underwriting, new securities registrations from SEC and trade sources; for other revenue for 1977-87, BEA price from trade source data on merger and acquisition fees; for all others, 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
For health and life insurance, IPD's for PCE. For all others, composite index of BEA IPD for workers' compensation and CPI for auto and property 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
IPD for PCE.
Services:
Hotels and other lodging places
Receipts from Census Bureau quinquennial census and annual survey
Room-rate index from trade source.
Personal services
Receipts from Census Bureau quinquennial census and annual survey
CPI's.
Automotive repair, services, and parking
Receipts from Census Bureau quinquennial census and annual survey
CPI's.
Miscellaneous repair services
Receipts from Census Bureau quinquennial census and annual survey
CPI's and average annual earnings from BLS.
Motion pictures
Receipts from Census Bureau quinquennial census and annual survey
CPI for admissions.
Amusement and recreation services
Receipts from Census Bureau quinquennial census and annual survey
CPI's.
Health services:
Hospitals
Receipts from trade sources
HCFA index of input prices and CPI for hospital room. PPI beginning in 1993.
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
CPI for legal services.
Educational services
PCE for private education
IPD for PCE.
1. Source data and estimating methods apply to both the 1972 SIC and 1987 SIC definition of the industries shown in this table. Industry titles are 1987 SIC titles.
2. Benchmark values are derived from the 1977, 1982, and 1987 input-output (I-O) tables. Preliminary I-O data are used as benchmarks for 1992. 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
FCC Federal Communications Commission
HFCA Health Care Financing Administration
ICC Interstate Commerce Commission
IPD Implicit price deflator (BEA)
IRS Internal Revenue Service
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NRPC National Railroad Passenger Corporation
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 (Office of Minerals, formerly Bureau
of the Mines)
Farms