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To BEA's customers:
BEA strives to provide the most timely, relevant and accurate economic data to you, our users, to help promote a better understanding of the U.S. economy. These reliable and consistent measures of economic activity are essential to the informed decisionmaking of policymakers, business leaders and every American household. The success of our statistical programs, in large part, is determined by your trust in the quality of our data. As one of the world's leading statistical agencies, we are dedicated to staying on the cutting edge of the economy.
To help keep you informed on a number of non-statistical issues, this page provides a number of useful pieces of information. The 5-year BEA Strategic Plan is available below for your review as well as a report card of our successes in meeting the over 200 annual milestones in the Plan. Information on the President's current budget request for BEA also is available. Congressional testimony related to BEA and its statistical programs will be included below to keep you current on important topics being considered by Congress. Finally, other important reports and information can be found here to keep you informed on ongoing activities and plans at BEA.
If you have any questions or issues about BEA that you would like to share, I encourage you to contact me or any member of the BEA staff. We welcome your comments and suggestions. When you talk, we listen.
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Strategic Plan
- Strategic Plan for FY2008-FY2012 (PDF • 693KB)
- Strategic Plan Report Card FY2007 (PDF • 342KB)
- Strategic Plan for FY2007–FY2011 (PDF • 780KB)
Budget
Further Information
- Materials presented at the 2009 AEA/ASSA Conference Session: Implementation of a New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts:
- "Implementation of a New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts” by Dale Jorgenson and J. Steven Landefeld (PDF •
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- Discussant’s remarks by Bart Van Ark(PDF • 20 KB)
- "Perspectives on the New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts” by Michael J. Boskin (PDF • 35KB)
- Discussant’s remarks by David J. Stockton (PDF • 20 KB)
- “Integrated GDP-Productivity Accounts” by Michael Harper, Brent R. Moulton, Steven Rosenthal, David B. Wasshausen (PDF •
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- Discussant’s remarks by Ernst R. Berndt (PDF • 24 KB)
- "The Integrated Financial and Real System of National Accounts for the United States: Does It Presage the Financial Crisis?” by Michael G. Palumbo and Jonathan A. Parker (PDF •91KB)
- Discussant’s remarks by Robert J. Gordon(PowerPoint • 1,238 KB)
- Other materials from the AEA/ASSA “DATA WATCH” sessions related to economic statistics and sessions featuring BEA research
- "Implementation of a New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts” by Dale Jorgenson and J. Steven Landefeld (PDF •
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- FY 2008 Report on Customer Satisfaction, January 2009 (PDF •520KB)
- "Taking the Pulse of the Economy: Measuring GDP," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2008 (PDF • 124KB)
- Importance of Data Sharing to BEA, October 2005 (PDF • 149KB)
- Architecture for the National Accounts - NBER/CRIW conference with papers discussing BEA's accounts, April 2004
- Information Quality Guidelines, October 1, 2002 (PDF • 281KB)
- "GDP: One of the Greatest Inventions of the 20th Century," January 2000 (PDF • 147KB)
- Congressional testimony
Last updated: Friday, February 20, 2009