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Footnotes for
Table 5.8.5A. Gross Government Fixed Investment by Type

These footnotes correspond to those used for the published tables, which show data in billions of dollars and 2-decimal places, and may not completely apply to the tables in millions of dollars and 3-decimal places. The published tables may be found using the link: http://www.bea.gov/bea/dn/nipaweb/index.asp

1. Consists of general government and government enterprise expenditures for fixed assets.
2. Structures and software include compensation of government employees engaged in new own-account investment and related expenditures for goods and services.
3. Consists of Department of Defense new structures, except family housing.
4. Excludes educational structures associated with hospitals, nondefense industrial, other buildings, conservation and development, and other nondefense structures, which are included in those categories.
5. Consists primarily of general office buildings, police and fire stations, courthouses, auditoriums, garages, and passenger terminals.
6. Excludes highways and streets associated with hospitals, other buildings, and other nondefense structures, which are included in those categories.
7. Consists primarily of electric and gas facilities, transit systems, and airfields.
8. Excludes the value of construction for educational facilities built at hospital sites.
9. Excludes highways and streets associated with other nonbuilding structures, which are included in that category.

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