Regional Economic Accounts: Articles

Latest Survey of Current Business articles relating to regional news releases

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
- Gross Domestic Product by State: Advance Statistics for 2014 and Revised Statistics for 1997-2013 | SCB, July 2015 (PDF)
- Quarterly Gross Domestic Product by State: Statistics for 2005 Through the Second Quarter of 2015 | SCB, January 2016 (PDF)
- Annual Revision of Gross Domestic Product by Metropolitan Area: Advance Statistics for 2014 and Revised Statistics for 2001–2013 | SCB, October 2015 (PDF)
  Tables from this release (PDF)
Personal Income
- Regional Quarterly Report | SCB, January 2016 (PDF)
- Local Area Personal Income for 2014 | SCB, December 2015 (PDF)
- Real Per Capita Personal Income and Regional Price Parities for 2013 | SCB, July 2015 (PDF)
Personal Consumption Expenditures by State for 1997–2014 | SCB, December 2015 (PDF)

Comprehensive revision and analytical Survey articles

Comprehensive Revisions Survey Articles

Comprehensive Revision of Gross Domestic Product by Metropolitan Area: Advance Statistics for 2013 and Revised Statistics for 2001-2012 | SCB, October 2014 (PDF)
Tables from this release (PDF)
Comprehensive Revision of Gross Domestic Product by State: Advance Statistics for 2013 and Revised Statistics for 1997-2012 | SCB, July 2014 (PDF)
Tables from this release (PDF)
Comprehensive Revision of Local Area Personal Income: New Statistics for 2012 and Revised Statistics for 2001–2011 | SCB, December 2013 (PDF)
Includes a discussion of alternative measures of county employment and wages
Tables from this release (PDF)
Comprehensive Revision of State Personal Income | SCB, November 2013 (PDF)
Comprehensive Revision of Local Area Personal Income | SCB, May 2010 (PDF)
Revised estimates for 1969–2007 and new estimates for 2008. Includes a discussion of alternative measures of county employment and wages

Analytical and Special Survey Articles

BEA Briefing: A First Look at Experimental Quarterly Gross Domestic Product by State | SCB, September 2013 (PDF)
Real Personal Income and Regional Price Parities for State and Metropolitan Areas for 2007-2011 | SCB, August 2013 (PDF)
Tables from this article (XLSX)
BEA Briefing: A First Look at Experimental Statistics on Personal Consumption Expenditures by State | SCB, August 2013 (PDF)
Regional Price Parities for States and Metropolitan Areas, 2006–2010 | SCB, August 2012 (PDF)
An Examination of Revisions to the Quarterly Estimates of State Personal Income | SCB, August 2012 (PDF)
Research Spotlight: Regional Price Parities by Expenditure Class, 2005–2009 | SCB, May 2011 (PDF)
Research Spotlight: Regional Price Parities Comparing Price Level Differences Across Geographic Areas | SCB, November 2008 (PDF)
2004 Redefinition of the BEA Economic Areas | SCB, November 2004 (PDF)
The Reliability of the State Personal Income Estimates | SCB, December 2003 (PDF)
Convergence in State Per Capita Personal Income, 1950–99 | SCB, June 2001 (PDF)
Industrial Composition of State Earnings in 1958–98 | SCB, February 2000 (PDF)
(Includes revised tables from the March 2000 SCB)

Papers, working papers, and presentations from the regional programs

State and Local Government Defined Benefit Pension Plans: Estimates of Liabilities and Employer Normal Costs by State, 2000-2011 (WP2013-16)
Full Paper (PDF) | Results (Excel) | Updated Results, September 2015 (Excel)
by David Lenze | December 2013
Expenditure Weights in the Regional Price Parities (WP2014-8) (PDF)
by Eric B. Figueroa, Bettina H. Aten, and Troy Martin | August 2014
Supplemental Poverty Measure: A Comparison of Geographic Adjustments with Regional Price Parities vs. Median Rents from the American Community Survey (WP2014-7) (PDF)
by Bettina Aten, Eric Figueroa, Troy Martin, and Trudi Renwick (Census) | March 2014
Experimental PCE-by-State Statistics (WP2013-6) (PDF)
by Christian Awuku-Budu, Ledia Guci, Christopher Lucas, and Carol Robbins | June 2013
Standard Errors in the U.S. Regional Price Parities (RPPs) (WP2013-5) (PDF)
by Bettina H. Aten, Eric Figueroa and Troy Martin | May 2013
Partnership and Sole Proprietorship Data, by Region and State for Tax Years 2007–2009 (PDF)
by Suet Boudhraa, Statistics of Income Bulletin | Summer 2012
How can the American Community Survey (ACS) be used to improve the imputation of Owner-Occupied Rent Expenditures? (WP2012-2) (PDF)
by Bettina Aten, Eric Figueroa and Troy Martin | February 2012
Estimating the Price of Rents in Regional Price Parities (WP2011-09) (PDF)
by Troy Martin, Bettina Aten and Eric Figueroa | October 2011
Notes on Estimating the Multi-Year Regional Price Parities by 16 Expenditure Categories: 2005-2009 (WP2011-03)
Full Paper (PDF) | Tables (Excel)
by Bettina Aten, Eric Figueroa and Troy Martin | April 2011
Comparing the Consistency of Price Parities of Regions of the U.S. in an Economic Framework Approach (PDF)
by Bettina Aten and Marshall Reinsdorf | August 2010
Partnerships and Sole Proprietorships, by State, for Tax Year 2007 (PDF)
by Linda Morey, Statistics of Income Bulletin | Fall 2009
Accrual Measures of Pension-Related Compensation and Wealth of State and Local Government Workers (WP2009-03) (PDF)
by David G. Lenze | August 2009
Metropolitan Area Disposable Personal Income: Methodology and Results for 2001-2007 (WP2009-05)
Full Paper (PDF) | Results (Excel)
by Ann E. Dunbar | July 2009
Estimates of State and Metropolitan Price Levels for Consumption Goods and Services in the United States, 2005 (PDF)
by Bettina H. Aten, October 2008
Partnership and Sole Proprietorship Data, by Region and State, for Tax Years 2002-2005 (PDF)
by Brian J. Maisano, Statistics of Income Bulletin, Summer 2008
State-Level Wage AGI Gap for Tax Years 2000-2002 (WP2008-03)
Abstract (PDF) | Full Paper (PDF) | Results (Excel)
by Robert L. Brown and Ann E. Dunbar | July 2008
Metropolitan Area Disposable Personal Income: Methodology and Results for 2001-2004 (WP2008-02)
Abstract (PDF) | Full Paper (PDF) | Results (Excel)
by Ann E. Dunbar | June 2008
State Retirement Income Estimates and an Alternative Measure of State Personal Income (WP2008-01)
Abstract (PDF) | Full Paper (PDF)
by David G. Lenze | April 2008
Estimates of State Price Levels for Consumption Goods and Services: a first brush (WP2007-06) (PDF)
by Bettina H. Aten | October 2007
Interarea price levels: an experimental methodology
by Bettina Aten, Monthly Labor Review, September 2006
The Feasibility of Producing Personal Income to Adjusted Gross Income (PI-AGI) Reconciliations by State | (WP2006-05) (PDF)
Tables in this paper (Excel)
by Robert L. Brown, Ann E. Dunbar, and Adrienne T. Pilot
Metropolitan Area Disposable Personal Income - Methodology and Results for 2001-2002 | (WP2006-04) (PDF)
Tables in this paper (Excel)
by Ann E. Dunbar
Report on Interarea Price Levels, full paper | (WP2005-11) (PDF)
Interarea Price Levels, presentation (PDF)
by Bettina H. Aten, presented at the BEA Advisory Committee Meeting May 13, 2005
Further Integrating BEA's Economic Accounts: Introducing Annual Input-Output Estimates into the Gross State Product by Industry Accounts | (WP2005-04) (PDF)
by John Sporing, Jr., George K. Downey, and John R. Kort
Alternative Measures of Household Income: BEA Personal Income, CPS Money Income and Beyond | December 2004 (PDF)
by John W. Ruser (BEA), Adrienne T. Pilot (BEA), and Charles Nelson (Census Bureau), presented at the FESAC meeting Dec 14, 2004
Using Efficiency Tests to Reduce Revisions in Panel Data: The Case of Wage and Salary Estimates for U.S. States | (WP2004-09) (PDF)
by Jeremy J. Nalewaik
Reliability of the State Personal Income Estimates | (WP2004-01) (PDF)
by Robert L. Brown, Bruce T. Grimm, and Marian B. Sacks
Investigating Convergence of the U.S. Regions: A Time-Series Analysis | (WP2001-02) (PDF)
by Richard E. Kane, presented at the Annual Conference of the Mid-Continent Regional Science Association, June 31-June 2, 2001, Duluth, MN