China's Gross National Product and Social Accounts, 1950-1957.

Annual Revision of the National Income and Product Accounts

N this issue of the SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) presents revised estimates of the national income and product accounts (NIPA’s) for 1998–2000 and the first quarter of 2001.1 As is usual in annual NIPA accounted for about one-third of the downward revision; lower software investment and lower PCE for services each accounted for about one-fourth. ● For 2000, ...

ALTERNATIVES TO GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT A Critical Survey

National infant mortality rates in relation to gross national product and distribution of income.

We examined the relation between infant mortality rates, gross national product, and income distribution. Our findings support the hypothesis that average measures of population health are influenced by the distribution of income within societies.

National Health Expenditures , 1950 - 66

The yeur 196%’ YUW a sizable shift in outlays fo? health and medic& cwre from private sowrce.y of funds to public sowces. Th& tland & attributuble in large measure to the implementation of the program of health irwurunce fo?* the aged (Medicare) heginning July 1, 1965, to the new medbul assistance yrogtam (Medic&d), and to the eayarwion of other public progrcrma. This unnu& urtbcb presents the ...

Preview of the 2003 Comprehensive Revision of the National Income and Product Accounts Statistical Changes

N December 10, 2003, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) will release the results of the 12th comprehensive, or benchmark, revision of the national income and product accounts (NIPAs). The last such revision was released in October 1999. This article, which describes statistical changes, is the fourth in a series of SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS articles about the comprehensive revision. An arti...