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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Which Census Bureau population estimates does BEA use in the calculation of state and county per capita personal income statistics?

  • What is the impact of COVID-19 on the State Personal Income statistics for 2020 Q1?

  • What causes the difference in measured financial sector activity reported in the advance statistics of GDP by state and the NIPA corporate profit statistics?

  • 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 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?

  • How do you compute GDP per worker by metropolitan area?

  • Why are statistics suppressed for my metropolitan area?

  • When will the GDP-by-metropolitan-area estimates be updated?

  • How is average annual growth calculated?

  • Is the same GDP to earnings ratio used for all industries and all states?

  • Why does the GDP produced in small metropolitan areas tend to grow faster than GDP produced in large metropolitan areas?

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