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Integrated Macroeconomic Accounts for the United States
These tables present a sequence of accounts that relate production, income and spending, capital formation, financial transactions,
and asset revaluations to changes in net worth between balance sheets for the major sectors of the U.S. economy. They are part of
an interagency effort to further harmonize the BEA National Income and Product Accounts (NIPAs) and the Federal Reserve Board Flow
of Funds Accounts (FFAs).
The structure of these tables is based on the internationally accepted set of guidelines for the compilation of national accounts
that are offered in the System of National Accounts 1993 (SNA). The estimates that are currently displayed are based on the data
that were available in the NIPAs and FFAs on March 18, 2009. The current plan is to revise these estimates on a
quarterly basis. Since many of the estimates are based on data that only become available during an annual revision to the NIPAs
in the following year, estimates for 2008 will not become available until the fall of 2009.
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Cautionary note on the use of the integrated macroeconomic accounts - The tables and estimates that are provided on this page
are based on a unique set of accounting standards that are founded on the SNA. Accordingly, some of the estimates in these
tables will differ from the official estimates that are published in the NIPAs and FFAs due to conceptual differences. There
will also be some statistical differences between the estimates in these tables and those in the related accounts. For further
information on the conceptual differences, see the paper referenced below.
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