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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Recently, there have been significant differences in the GDP and the gross domestic purchases price indexes; which should I use?

  • How do the effects of dollar depreciation show up in the GDP accounts?

  • How does the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 impact NIPA Corporate Profits?

  • How are the rebates for individuals in the 2008 Economic Stimulus Act recorded in the NIPAs?

  • 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?

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

  • How are bad debt expenses, asset write downs, and loan-loss provisions treated in estimating NIPA corporate profits?

  • Is offshoring causing GDP and productivity growth to be overstated?

  • What new data lead to the sometimes large revisions in wages and salaries?

  • Why did motor vehicle domestic unit production in the third quarter of 2006 decline, while the real—inflation adjusted—value of motor vehicle output in GDP increased?

  • What factors explain the difference between average compensation of federal government civilian employees and average compensation of private-sector employees?

  • Why is the estimate of NIPA dividends as a share of corporate profits much larger than the share reported in private-sector estimates?

  • How are S corporations reported in the NIPAs?

  • How is BEA using the Census Bureau's quarterly services survey in its estimates of personal consumption expenditures?

  • Where are the dividend measures shown in the national accounts?

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