| Component (billions of dollars) | Subcomponent (billions of dollars) | Annual estimates: Source data and methods used to determine level for benchmark and other years or used to prepare an extrapolator or interpolator | Advance quarterly estimates: Source data and methods used to prepare an extrapolator |
| Product side (GDP of $8,110.9 billion for 1997)—Continued | |||
| Personal consumption expenditures—Continued | Durable and nondurable goods—Continued: | ||
| Food furnished to employees (including military) ($9.1) |
Benchmark years—For commercial employees, number of
employees of relevant 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.
Other 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 other years; for military personnel, judgmental trend. | |
| Expenditures abroad by U.S. residents ($3.0) less personal remittances in kind to nonresidents ($1.3) | Estimated as part of the balance of payments accounts; see entry for "exports and imports of services, net," under net exports of goods and services. | Judgmental trend. | |
| Services: ($3,220.1) |
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| Nonfarm dwellings—space rent for owner-occupied and rent
for tenant-occupied ($793.5) |
Benchmark years—Based on data on housing stock and
average annual rent from Census Bureau decennial census of housing and
survey of residential finance, adjusted for utilities included in rent.
Other years—Based on data on housing stock and average annual rent from Census Bureau biennial housing survey or on the number of households from Census Bureau monthly current population survey and Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index for rent. |
Same as annual: For housing stock, judgmental trend; for average rent, Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index for rent. | |
| Rental value of farm dwellings ($6.3) |
Benchmark years—Based on data on housing stock and
average annual rent from Census Bureau decennial census of housing and
survey of residential finance.
Other years—Based on data on net value of real farm housing stock from BEA capital stock series. |
Judgmental trend. | |
| Motor vehicle repair, rental and other services; other repair
services; other purchased intercity transportation; legal and funeral services;
barbershops and beauty parlors; nursing homes; laundries; employment agency
fees; accounting and tax return preparation services; recreation (except cable
TV, casino gambling, parimutuel net receipts, lotteries, and computer
online services); hotels and motels; commercial business, trade, and
correspondence schools; educational services not elsewhere classified; research
organizations and foundations. ($500.5) |
Benchmark years—Receipts and expenses from Census Bureau
quinquennial census adjusted for receipts from business and
governments.
Other years—Receipts for spectator sports from trade sources; for educational services not elsewhere classified and foundations, from Bureau of Labor Statistics annual tabulations of wages and salaries of employees covered by State unemployment insurance; for others in this group, receipts and expenses from Census Bureau service annual survey. |
For nursing homes, research organizations and foundations, employment agency fees, and clubs and fraternal organizations, wages and salaries derived from Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly employment times earnings times hours; for commercial business, trade, and correspondence schools, and educational services not elsewhere classified, employment times Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index for technical and business school tuition and fees; for legitimate theaters and motion pictures, receipts from trade sources; for radio and TV repair, number of TV's based on stock and sales from trade source times Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index for video and audio; for hotels and motels, rooms rented times average price per room from trade source; for others in this group, judgmental trend. | |
