National Economic Accounts Data Users' Conference - April 13, 2007

Agenda

9:00 a.m.	Welcome and Opening Remarks	Cynthia A. Glassman, Under Secretary for Economic Affairs
		Steve Landefeld, Director, BEA
9:30 a.m.	National Economic Accounts
	What's New and What's Coming (PowerPoint • 1,699KB)	Brent Moulton, Associate Director for National Economic Accounts
	Sessions	Speakers
10:00 a.m.	Session 1: Health Accounts
	Toward a Satellite Account for Health (PowerPoint • 1,883KB)	Ana Aizcorbe, BEA
	National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA) (PowerPoint • 368KB)	Stephen Heffler, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
10:45 a.m.	Break
11:00 a.m.	Session 2: Issues in Compensation and Profits
	New Monthly Wages (PowerPoint • 208KB)	Pat Getz, Bureau of Labor Statistics
	Compensation and Profits (PowerPoint • 3,318KB)	Kurt Kunze, BEA
11:45 a.m.	Lunch
1:00 p.m.	Session 3: Data User Panel	Rosemary Marcuss, Deputy Director, BEA
	Use of the National Accounts	John Peterson, Congressional Budget Office
	Data Delivery Through the Web Site	Patrick Newport, Global Insight
	Documentation and Frequently Asked Questions	Mark Vitner, Wachovia Corporation
	Data Coverage and Quality	Ralph Monaco, Treasury Department
2:15 p.m.	Break
2:30 p.m.	Session 4: 2008 and Beyond (PowerPoint • 1,781KB)	Carol Moylan, BEA
	2008 Comprehensive Revision
	Misreporting of Income (PowerPoint • 1,759KB)	Howard Krakower, BEA
	Treatment of Disasters (PowerPoint • 1,945KB)	Nicole Mayerhauser, BEA
	PCE Classification (PowerPoint • 1,766KB)	Clinton McCully, BEA
	Flexible Annual Revisions (PowerPoint • 1,706KB)	Robert Yuskavage, BEA
3:30 p.m.	Session 5: Government Accounts
	Facing New Challenges (PowerPoint • 7,271KB)	Brian Moyer, BEA
4:00 p.m.	Wrap-Up

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