Regional Price Parities, Real Personal Consumption Expenditures, and Real Personal Income

This guide presents the conceptual framework, data sources, and statistical methods used by the Regional Expenditures and Prices Division of the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis to estimate regional price parities, real personal consumption expenditures, real personal income, and implicit regional price deflators.
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Summary of Methodologies: Puerto Rico Gross Domestic Product — Resumen de metodologías: Producto interior bruto de Puerto Rico

This guide summarizes the methods and data sources used by the Regional Product Division of the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) to estimate annual measures of gross domestic product for Puerto Rico. Esta guía resume los métodos y las fuentes de datos utilizados por la División de Producto Regional del Negociado de Análisis Económico (BEA por sus siglas en inglés) para estimar las medidas anuales del producto interior bruto de Puerto Rico
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Summary of Methodologies: Gross Domestic Product for American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands

This guide summarizes the methods and data sources used by the Regional Product Division of the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) to estimate annual measures of gross domestic product for four U.S. territories: American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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A Primer on Local Area Gross Domestic Product Methodology

On December 12, 2019, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released the first official gross domestic product (GDP) by county statistics. This article provides readers with a description of the GDP framework, source data, and methodology used to prepare BEA's official GDP by county estimates. The article is divided into three main sections. The first section explains GDP concepts, definitions, and source data. The next two sections describe the estimation methods used to measure GDP by county, by breaking down the methodology into key components.
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Gross Domestic Product by State: Concepts and Methods

This volume presents the conceptual framework, the data sources, and the statistical methodologies used by the Regional Income and Value Added Division of the Bureau of Economic Analysis to estimate gross domestic product (GDP) by industry for all U.S. states and the District of Columbia for 1997–2023. GDP by state is the state equivalent of GDP for the nation.
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