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Frequently Asked Questions

  • What changes in definitions and presentations will be introduced in the 2013 NIPA comprehensive revision?

  • How will the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 impact personal current taxes?

  • How did the expiration of the payroll tax holiday affect personal income for January 2013?

  • How does BEA use the Monthly Treasury Statement (MTS) to produce estimates of defense spending?

  • How did special and accelerated dividends affect the national income and product accounts in the fourth quarter 2012?

  • How are the effects of the 2012 Midwest drought reflected in GDP?

  • What is final consumption expenditures of nonprofit institutions serving households (NPISHs) and how do revisions to this category affect total personal consumption expenditures (PCE)?

  • Does offshoring lead to overstated measures of output and productivity growth for the U.S. manufacturing sector?

  • Does the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) publish relative-importance weights used in the derivation of chain-type quantity and price indexes for personal consumption expenditures (PCE)?

  • How will the discontinuation of the Census Bureau's Current Industrial Reports affect BEA's quarterly estimates of private fixed investment in aircraft?

  • How did the recent GDP revisions change the picture of the 2007–2009 recession and the recovery?

  • Why has the initial estimate of real GDP for the fourth quarter of 2008 been revised down so much?

  • How do changes in the tax treatment of depreciation impact NIPA Corporate Profits?

  • How accurate and reliable are BEA's early GDP estimates and revisions, and how have the revisions to GDP over time affected the picture of GDP growth?

  • Why does the capital consumption adjustment for domestic business decline so much in the first quarter of 2012? /1/

  • Do differences between the United States and Europe in measuring and reporting GDP tend to favor the U.S.?

  • How did the payroll tax holiday and the expiration of the Making Work Pay Credit affect disposable personal income for January 2011?

  • What accounts for the differences in the PCE price index and the Consumer Price Index?

  • What are the effects of the BP oil spill on GDP and the national accounts?

  • What is included in federal government employee compensation?

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