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Frequently Asked Questions

  • How are tariffs reflected in BEA’s National Economic Accounts?

  • What is gross output by industry and how does it differ from gross domestic product (or value added) by industry?

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  • Where can I find more information about imports in the I-O accounts?

  • What are full-time equivalent employees?

  • How do the aggregate measures of value added by private goods-producing and private services-producing industries from BEA's Annual Industry Accounts (AIAs) relate to the aggregate measures of final goods GDP and final services GDP?

  • What is the principal source of revision to the estimates of value added by industry in the Annual Industry Accounts (AIAs)?

  • What are direct and indirect requirement coefficients?

  • What is double deflation?

  • How are the annual levels of current-dollar industry gross output derived?

  • What is KLEMS?

  • What are the Annual I-O Accounts and what do they include?

  • How are the annual input-output (I-O) accounts related to the GDP by industry accounts?

  • How do the GDP-by-industry estimates relate to the National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA)?

  • How can I evaluate the performance of particular industries?

  • What are intermediate inputs?

  • What is industry value added?

  • What is industry gross output?

  • Which industries are included among the goods-producing industries and the services-producing industries?

  • Are there concordances between the 1987 SIC system and the 1997 and 2002 NAICS, and between various vintages of NAICS?

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