Cautionary note on the use of underlying detail -- The tables provided include detailed
estimates of underlying NIPA series that appear regularly in the national income and product
account (NIPA) tables published elsewhere on this Web site www.bea.gov and in the Survey of
Current Business. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) does not include these detailed
estimates in the published tables because their quality is significantly less than that of the
higher level aggregates in which they are included. Compared to these aggregates, the more detailed
estimates are more likely to be either based on judgmental trends, on trends in the higher
level aggregate, or on less reliable source data.
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