Table 6.—Dispersion and Relative Dispersion in Gross Domestic Income and in National Income and Its Components: Current Quarterly Estimates Compared with Latest Estimates, 1983-97

Dispersion
(percentage points)
Relative dispersion (percent)
Advance Preliminary/1/ Final Advance Preliminary/1/ Final
Gross domestic income1.281.262020
Gross domestic income less national income/2/4.555.416173
Of which: Private consumption of fixed capital4.754.914.91505252
National income1.921.962829
Compensation of employees1.101.101.09171717
Proprietors' income with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments11.4211.8311.059910396
Nonfarm6.186.186.22646465
Farm/3/
Rental income of persons with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments/3/
Corporate profits with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments13.0412.615856
Net interest6.186.307779

1. No preliminary estimates for 1994:IV, 1995:IV, 1996:IV, and 1997:IV.

2. Equals the consumption of fixed capital, plus indirect business tax and nontax liability, plus business transfer payments, less subsidies less current surplus of government enterprises, and less net recepits of factor income from the rest of the world.

3. Negative values in some quarters make the calculation of percent changes impossible.