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BEA in general and Industry Accounts in particular, receive much of their data from the Census Bureau, and those data are often aggregated for publication purposes. If you need more detail, the economic census is a good place to start.
The National Income and Product Accounts (Table 6.2D) show employee compensation for about 65 private industries, and for the major categories of federal and state and local government. This table is available as part of the annual revision (for example, August 2011). BEA’s regional economic accounts show employee compensation in the table CA05N: “Personal income by major source and earnings by industry” for the same NIPA industries by state and metropolitan area. More detailed employee compensation data is available from the Benchmark Input-Output table for years ending i
The Census Bureau collects the value of shipments or receipts for industries. Refer to their economic web page at http://www.census.gov/econ/www/index.html for more information.
The Benchmark Input-Output table shows all transactions in millions of dollars. Quantity data is available on products and materials consumed for most manufacturing and mining industries in the Economic Census. Table 3 (“Detailed Statistics”) includes data on electricity consumed by Kwh. Table 6a (“Product Statistics”) shows quantity of shipments by product for selected products, in appropriate units. For example, for NAICS 311211 (Flour milling), the various units displayed are 1000s of sacks (cwt), 1000s of tons, and millions of pounds. Table 7 (“
The estimates presented in the NIPA Table 5.5.5U are the most detailed time-series estimates available for investment in private equipment (PEQ). For benchmark years (years ending in 2 and 7), however, more detailed estimates are available from BEA's Input-Output (I-O) accounts. The I-O accounts are used to "benchmark" the time-series estimates of PEQ and present more detailed estimates of the products that make up each PEQ category.
Please refer to FAQ 84 to access the latest I-O commodity composition of PCE.
Redefinitions refer to the process in which products are reassigned from producing industries in which they are secondary, to the industries where those products are primary. Redefinition is part of the “two-step” process to reassign secondary products from the industry in which they were produced to the industries these products are primary products.
I-O tables are developed on an establishment basis, which means that each part of a multi-establishment firm is treated as separate and independent in the tables. An establishment is a distinct geographical location engaged in economic activity.
For the 1997 Benchmark, the easiest method is to click on the purchasers’ prices button in the interactive I-O table menu found after selecting the desired table at http://www.bea.gov/industry/iotables/. Conversion from a downloaded benchmark data is more complicated. To get from producers' prices to purchasers' prices, you have to add transportation costs and wholesale and retail margins to each cell in the matrix. Then you have to remove the same amount from the transportation and wholesale and retail rows in the matrix.
For the 2002 Benchmark tables, Appendix C in the October 2007 Survey of Current Business (SCB) article “U.S. Benchmark Input-Output Accounts, 2002” includes these data. The information can be found on page 40 at http://www.bea.gov/scb/pdf/2007/10%20October/1007_benchmark_io.pdf