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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Have revisions to GDP over time (from new source data and improved methods) raised GDP growth?

  • Why does GDP include imputations?

  • Recession: How is that defined?

  • Why do gross domestic product (GDP) and gross domestic income (GDI) differ, and what does that imply?

  • Can BEA use data on withheld taxes to improve its early estimates of wages and salaries?

  • What is BEA planning to do to improve the accuracy of early estimates of wages and salaries?

  • What are remittances, how big are they, and why might BEA's estimate differ from estimates released by other organizations?

  • How does BEA treat Federal payments to the Military and Civil Service Retirement Funds?

  • Do you have plans to produce GDP estimates for the non-metropolitan portion of the United States?

  • What are location quotients (LQs)?

  • Do you have plans to produce GDP estimates for metropolitan divisions?

  • How can I use the GDP-by-metropolitan-area estimates?

  • Why does the impact of treating research and development (R&D) expenditures as capital in GDP by state differ from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) data on R&D performance by state?

  • How can the GDP-by-metropolitan-area chained-weighted quantity indexes be re-based?

  • How are GDP by state and GDP by metropolitan area affected by natural or man-made disasters?

  • How do I compute industry contributions to growth in real GDP by metropolitan area?

  • When analyzing regional performance, should I use current or real (chained-dollar) GDP by metropolitan area?

  • Which metropolitan area (MSA) contains my county?

  • What data are available for GDP by metropolitan area?

  • What does a (D) mean in place of an estimate for GDP by metropolitan area?

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