Table B.—Principal Data Sources and Methods for Estimating Intermediate Inputs and Value-Added Inputs

Component Source or method
Intermediate inputs For most census-covered industries, selected purchased services (legal; communications; electricity; repair of buildings; repair of equipment; rental of buildings; rental of equipment; accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping; advertising; and data processing and computer services) and purchased fuels; in addition, for manufacturing and mining, materials consumed and contract work, from 1992 economic censuses.
For agriculture industries, inputs from U.S. Department of Agriculture.
For most remaining industries, a combination of selected inputs from trade sources and 1987 estimates extrapolated by change in industry output.
All inputs adjusted to balance to commodity outputs.
Value-added inputs:
Compensation of employees For census-covered industries, payroll and benefits from Census Bureau 1992 economic censuses, adjusted for misreporting and I-O industry definitions.
For noncensus-covered industries, tabulations of wages and salaries covered by State unemployment insurance, BEA estimates of benefits, adjusted for misreporting and I-O industry definition.
All estimates adjusted to balance to total compensation, estimated as part of the national income and product accounts.
Indirect business tax and nontax liability For excise taxes and commodity taxes, estimates are from output controls.
For other tax and nontax liability, distributed to industries using indirect techniques.
All estimates adjusted to balance to total indirect business tax and nontax liability, estimated as part of the national income and product accounts.
Other value added For most industries, residual method: Total industry output less total intermediate inputs, compensation of employees, and indirect business tax and nontax liability.
For government enterprises, other value added is the current surplus.

I-O Input-output