Gross-Domestic-Product-by-Industry Accounts Help
Custom Data Selection
This feature will allow you to
select one or more rows (industries), columns (years), and which format you
would like to view data.
GDP by Industry data is available in three formats:
1. Displayed in an HTML-formatted table (best for viewing on the screen or for printing)
2. Downloaded
in a comma- and quote-delimited ("CSV") format (best for importing
into a spreadsheet or database application)
3. Displayed
in a Java applet with locking stubs and graphing capability.
Download Instructions
This table
has been created specifically for you. A few seconds after you click on
"Download File" your browser should ask you if you want to open the
file or save it, do not open it. Select save file and enter an appropriate file
name. Use the .CSV extension to enable automatic handling of the file in your
spreadsheet.
The whole
idea of a CSV file is to save the data in a format which can be read by an
Excel spreadsheet. If yours is not a
typical setup or if you use another spreadsheet you may have to experiment some
to find the best method. When you get it right the titles, row and column
headings and data will all be in separate cells just as you would expect.
Using the Enhanced Table Viewer (Java)
The Enhanced Table Viewer is a Java Applet which runs on your computer in your
browser. It holds the row and column headings on screen as you browser through
a table. It also allows you to display rows which you have selected and hide
the other rows from view. In addition you can select rows using a checkbox and
then graph up to 5 at a time. Or, you can graph all rows, 5 at a time.
In order to use the viewer your browser must support Java and Java must be
enabled. All recent versions of Netscape, Internet Explorer and Opera support
Java. In addition to supporting Java the security setting on your browser must
be set to enable Java.
Data Selection The check boxes on the left side of the table
enable you to select specific lines in the table. The selected lines can the be
graphed, see Graphing in the Enhanced Table Viewer below, or
they can be displayed by themselves by clicking on the View Selections
button. Note that the parents of all indented selections are shown even if they
are not selected themselves.
Graphing in the Enhanced Table Viewer - You can use one of two
methods to graph data, Graph All and Graph 5 Selections.
Graph All will graph all of the data, in groups of five time
series. Clicking on the Graph All button will cause the first five time series
to be graphed. Once the graph is displayed the Graph All button label changes
to Next 5. Clicking the Next 5 button will then graph the next five time
series. This will go on until the end of the table is reached when it will
start with the first 5 again.
Graph 5 Selections really means graph no more than the first 5
selections, but that won't fit on a button. When this button is clicked the
first 5 selected, checked, time series will be graphed.
Graph Types Some tables allow four type of graphing:
· Actual - Graph the actual
values.
· Normalized - Graph the
data normalized to 100 for the first point. Obtained by dividing each number in
the series by the first number in the series and then multiplying by 100. This
is useful for comparing the trends of different time series.
· Change - Graphs the
change from one period to the next. Obtained by subtracting value(i - 1) from
value(i) starting with i = 2.
· % Change - Graph the change from one period to the next as a percentage. Obtained by subtracting value(i - 1) from value(i) and then dividing that quantity by value(i-1) and finally multiplying by 100.