Regional Economic Accounts: Articles

Recent SCB articles relating to data releases

Personal Income for Metropolitan Areas for 2007 | SCB, September 2008 (PDF • 530 KB)
Gross Domestic Product by State: Advance Estimates for 2007 and Revised Estimates for 2004–2006 | SCB, July 2008 (PDF • 409 KB)
Local Area Personal Income for 2006 | SCB, May 2008 (PDF • 2,454 KB)
Includes a discussion of Alternative Measures of County Employment and Wages (PDF • 2,454 KB)

Tables from this release (PDF • 2,454 KB)
State Personal Income: Fourth Quarter of 2007 and Annual Estimates for 2007 | SCB, April 2008 (PDF • 1,128 KB)
State Personal Income: Third Quarter of 2007 | SCB, January 2008 (PDF • 237 KB)
Introducing New Measures of the Metropolitan Economy: Prototype GDP-by-Metropolitan-Area Estimates for 2001–2005 | SCB, November 2007 (PDF • 4,517 KB)
Supplemental Table 7 (Excel • 1,534 KB) which provides growth rates and industry contributions to growth by industry sector and metropolitan area
State Personal Income: Second Quarter of 2007 and Revised Estimates for 2004–2006 | SCB, October 2007 (PDF • 477 KB)
Gross Domestic Product by State: Advance Estimates for 2006 and Revised Estimates for 2003–2005 | SCB, July 2007 (PDF • 2,790 KB)
State Personal Income: Fourth Quarter of 2006 and Annual Estimates for 2006 | SCB, April 2007 (PDF • 1,018 KB)
Tables from this release (PDF • 4,104 KB)
State Personal Income: Third Quarter of 2006 | SCB, January 2007 (PDF • 1,667 KB)
Gross State Product: Advance Estimates for 2005 and Revised Estimates for 1998-2004 | SCB, July 2006 (PDF • 1,111 KB)
State Personal Income: Fourth Quarter of 2005 and Per Capita Personal Income for 2005 | SCB, April 2006 (PDF • 4,504 KB)
Additional data underlying Table D “Special Adjustments to State Personal Income for 2005”, on page 76, is provided in millions of dollars in Excel (Excel • 29 KB) and PDF (PDF • 34 KB) formats; detailed adjustments to personal current transfer receipts for all states are also provided.

An additional table (Excel • 20 KB) incorporating revisions to 2005 from the September 26, 2006, release of state personal income is available in Excel format.
Discussion of new treatment of state estimates of military compensation | SCB, October 2005 (PDF • 994 KB)
Gross State Product: Accelerated Estimates for 2004 and Revised Estimates for 1997-2003 | SCB, July 2005 (PDF • 372 KB)

Comprehensive revision and analytical Survey articles

Comprehensive Revisions Survey Articles

Comprehensive Revision of Gross State Product, Accelerated Estimates for 2003, Revised Estimates for 1977–2002 | SCB, January 2005 (PDF • 451 KB)
Comprehensive Revision to State Personal Income Estimates 1969–2002 with preliminary estimates for 2003 | SCB, May 2004 (PDF • 1,141 KB)
Includes a section concerning alternative measures of household income.
Comprehensive Revision of Local Area Personal Income | SCB, June 2004 (PDF • 526 KB)
Revised estimates for 1969–2001 and new estimates for 2002. Includes a section concerning alternative measures of county employment and wages.
Gross State Product | SCB, October 2000 (PDF • 458 KB)
Revised estimates for 1977–97 and new estimates for 1998
Comprehensive Revision of Gross State Product by Industry, 1977–94 | SCB, June 1997 (PDF • 672 KB)

Analytical and Special Survey Articles

2004 Redefinition of the BEA Economic Areas | SCB, November 2004 (PDF • 1,279 KB)
The Reliability of the State Personal Income Estimates | SCB, December 2003 (PDF • 578 KB)
Convergence in State Per Capita Personal Income, 1950–99 | SCB, June 2001 (PDF • 1,416 KB)
Industrial Composition of State Earnings in 1958–98 | SCB, February 2000 (PDF • 727 KB)
(Includes revised tables from the March 2000 SCB)
Regional Patterns in the Location of Foreign-Owned U.S. Manufacturing Establishments | SCB, May 1999 (PDF • 5,001 KB)
Manufacturing Earnings in BEA Component Economic Areas, 1996 | SCB, November 1998 (PDF • 431 KB)

Papers, working papers, and presentations from the regional programs

Accrual Measures of Pension-Related Compensation and Wealth of U.S. Households (PDF • 133 KB)
by David G. Lenze, Paper Prepared for the 30th General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, August 25, 2008, Portoroz, Slovenia
Partnership and Sole Proprietorship Data, by Region and State, for Tax Years 2002-2005
by Brian J. Maisano, Statistics of Income Bulletin, Summer 2008
State-Level Wage AGI Gap for Tax Years 2000-2002 (WP2008-03)
Abstract (PDF • 11 KB) | Full Paper (PDF • 111 KB) | Results (Excel • 57 KB) by Robert L. Brown and Ann E. Dunbar | July 2008
Metropolitan Area Disposable Personal Income: Methodology and Results for 2001-2004 (WP2008-02)
Abstract (PDF • 78 KB) | Full Paper (PDF • 1,254 KB) | Results (Excel • 424 KB) by Ann E. Dunbar | June 2008
State Retirement Income Estimates and an Alternative Measure of State Personal Income (WP2008-01)
Abstract (PDF • 7 KB) | Full Paper (PDF • 137 KB) by David G. Lenze | April 2008
Estimates of State and Metropolitan Price Levels for Consumption Goods and Services in the United States, 2005 (PDF • 2,428 KB)
by Bettina H. Aten, April 2008
Understanding Regional Economic Data for Policy and Planning, ACCRA and BEA, in partnership with the State of Texas Office of the Governor, Economic Development and Tourism and the Greater Dallas Chamber | September 2006
Interarea price levels: an experimental methodology
by Bettina Aten, Monthly Labor Review, September 2006
The Feasibility of Producing Personal Income to Adjusted Gross Income (PI-AGI) Reconciliations by State | (WP2006-05) (PDF • 157 KB)
Tables in this paper (Excel • 30 KB)
by Robert L. Brown, Ann E. Dunbar, and Adrienne T. Pilot
State Pension Benefit Estimates | April 2006 (PowerPoint • 1,699 KB)
Table in this paper (PDF • 8 KB)
presented at the Southern Regional Science Association Conference April 1, 2006
Metropolitan Area Disposable Personal Income - Methodology and Results for 2001-2002 | (WP2006-04) (PDF • 174 KB)
Tables in this paper (Excel • 645 KB)
by Ann E. Dunbar
Report on Interarea Price Levels, full paper | (WP2005-11) (PDF • 479 KB)
Interarea Price Levels, presentation (PDF • 109 KB)
by Bettina H. Aten, presented at the BEA Advisory Committee Meeting May 13, 2005
Further Integrating BEA's Economic Accounts: Introducing Annual Input-Output Estimates into the Gross State Product by Industry Accounts | (WP2005-04) (PDF • 861 KB)
by John Sporing, Jr., George K. Downey, and John R. Kort
Alternative Measures of Household Income: BEA Personal Income, CPS Money Income and Beyond | December 2004 (PDF • 100 KB)
by John W. Ruser (BEA), Adrienne T. Pilot (BEA), and Charles Nelson (Census Bureau), presented at the FESAC meeting Dec 14, 2004
BEA Regional Accounts: Research Underway | May 2004 (PDF • 45 KB)
John W. Ruser, presented at the BEA Advisory Committee Meeting May 14, 2004
Comparing Alternative Measures of Income | May 2004 (PDF • 115 KB)
Robert L. Brown, presented at the BEA Advisory Committee Meeting May 14, 2004
Pensions and health insurance: Variation across regions | May 2004 (PDF • 239 KB)
John Ruser (BEA), Keenan Dworak-Fisher (BLS), presented at the BEA Advisory Committee Meeting May 14, 2004
Using Efficiency Tests to Reduce Revisions in Panel Data: The Case of Wage and Salary Estimates for U.S. States | (WP2004-09) (PDF • 271 KB)
by Jeremy J. Nalewaik
Reliability of the State Personal Income Estimates | (WP2004-01) (PDF • 459 KB)
by Robert L. Brown, Bruce T. Grimm, and Marian B. Sacks
Investigating Convergence of the U.S. Regions: A Time-Series Analysis | (WP2001-02) (PDF • 323 KB)
by Richard E. Kane, presented at the Annual Conference of the Mid-Continent Regional Science Association, June 31-June 2, 2001, Duluth, MN