Focus on Statistics

BEA’s Regional Economic Accounts Program: Recent and Planned Improvements

By Robert P. Parker

Robert P. Parker, Chief Statistician of the U.S. Government Accountability Office, prepared this article with information provided by Kathy Albetski, Chief of the Regional Economic Information System Branch of the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

This article highlights recent improvements and plans for further improvements to each of BEA’s major regional economic accounts programs. The improvements focus on the acceleration of release of the estimates and on the preparation of new and extended estimates. There also is a brief discussion on BEA’s research effort to improve the regional accounts.

Read the article: HTML | PDF