Bureau of Economic Analysis
	Survey of Current Business Table of Contents  July 1995

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31 Preview of the Comprehensive Revision of the National Income and Product 

Accounts: BEA’s New Featured Measures of Output and Prices (PDF)

One major improvement in the upcoming NIPA revision will be the introduction

of new featured measures of real output and prices. These measures,

which will be chain-type indexes, will provide a more accurate picture of economic

activity by allowing for changes in relative prices and in the composition

of output over time. To facilitate sectoral trend and current-period analysis,

BEA will expand the presentations of its estimates to include the contributions

of major components to the growth in real GDP and dollar-denominated series

that are calculated from the featured output indexes.

44 Regional and State Projections of Economic Activity and Population to the Year 2005 (PDF)

BEA’s projections to 2005 show a slowdown in employment growth for all regions

except New England. Employment growth is projected to exceed the U.S.

average in the Rocky Mountain, Far West, Southwest, and Southeast regions

and to fall short of it in the New England, Plains, Great Lakes, and Mideast

regions. Regional differences in per capita personal income are projected to

change little. A new element in the projections methodology is the linking of

mid-term and long-term projections through the use of full-employment unemployment

rates for the year 2000.

Regular features

1 Business Situation (PDF)

Economic growth stalled in the second quarter of 1995. According to BEA’s featured

measure of real GDP, growth slowed to 0.5 percent from 2.7 percent in the

first quarter. BEA’s chain-weighted measure of real GDP also slowed

sharply—from 1.7 percent to -0.2 percent. Inflation remained at about 3 percent.

39 Personal Income by State and Region, First Quarter 1995 (PDF)

Personal income in the Nation rose 1.8 percent in the first quarter of 1995,

slightly less than in the preceding quarter. In all but five States, income increased

more than the 0.7-percent increase in U.S. prices.

Reports and statistical presentations

8 National Income and Product Accounts (PDF)

29 Selected Monthly Estimates (PDF)

C-1 Business Cycle Indicators (PDF)

C-1 Data tables 

C-6 Footnotes for pages C-1 through C-5

C-7 Charts 

C-28 Index to historical data for selected series

			LOOKING AHEAD

National Income and Product Accounts Revision. The upcoming comprehensive, or

benchmark, revision of the national income and product accounts (NIPA’s) is scheduled

for release at the end of this year; see “Preview of the Comprehensive Revision of

the National Income and Product Accounts: BEA’s New Featured Measures of Output

and Prices” in this issue. The annual NIPA revision covering 1992–94, which would

usually have been published in this issue, will be combined with the comprehensive

revision; twenty-three of the detailed “annual only” tables that usually appear as part

of the annual revision were published in the April SURVEY.

Annual Revision of State Personal Income. An article presenting revised annual estimates

of State personal income for 1992–94 and describing major sources of the revisions

will appear in the August SURVEY. The revised estimates of State personal income

will be available August 23.