Box: Availability of Revised Estimates and Related Information

The estimates shown in the NIPA tables beginning on page 44, along with estimates for earlier periods (for most tables, back to 1959), are available on the BEA Web site at <www.bea.doc.gov> and on the STAT-USA Web site at <www.stat-usa.gov>.

The following issues of the SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS contain information about the comprehensive revision:

• August 1999: Definitional and classificational changes
• September 1999: New and redesigned tables
• October 1999: Statistical changes
• November 1999: Reprint of the October 28, 1999, GDP news release

Other information related to the NIPA estimates will be released as work is completed. The listing below provides approximate schedules for the release of most of the remaining estimates.

• January 2000: Real inventories, sales, and inventory-sales ratios for manufacturing and trade, 1977–98
• March 2000: Fixed assets and consumer durable goods (fixed reproducible tangible wealth), 1925–98
• March 2000: Revised NIPA estimates, 1929–58
• May 2000: Gross product by industry, 1947–98