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Economic Measurement Seminar - Content Outline
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U.S. Financial Accounts
Flow matrix
Sources
Uses
interpretation of data
Sectors
Households and nonprofit organizations
Nonfinancial business
Governments
Instrument categories
Instrument tables
Discrepancies in the financial accounts
Integrated macroeconomic accounts
Agencies involved in production and publication
Conceptional basis and structure of the accounts
SNA methodology
Sectors
Uses of the financial account
As economic indicators of the economy
Ratio of household net worth to disposable personal income
Ratio of corporate and home equity to disposable personal income
International Statistics and the Balance of Payments
BEA International Accounts
International Transactions Accounts (ITAs)
Recognizing BPM5 and BPM6
Balance of payments accounts
Conceptual data reported
Relationship to economic conditions
Current account
Goods and services
Income
Financial account
What it measures
Classifications of data
Importance to understanding the economy
International Investment Position (IIP)
Conceptual data reported
What data tells us
Measuring Employment
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Employment Statistics
Employment Situation
Current Population Survey(CPS), Household Survey
Current Employment Statistics (CES),Payroll Survey
Differences in definitions/coverage
Household survey
Survey design and methodology
Data collection
Unemployment Rate, Demographic detail
Seasonal adjustment
Sample size, Confidence intervals
Data revisions and benchmarking, pop controls
Civilian Noninstitutional Population, participation rate
Definition (16yrs and greater etc)
Labor force, including not in the labor force
Concepts (labor force, not in the labor force, discouraged workers)
Characteristics
Recent trends
Employment in household survey
Concepts
Employed persons (not jobs), Employment-population ratio
Characteristics of the employed
Demographic Characteristics
Involuntary part-time for economic reasons
Unemployment
Concepts (unemployment, unemployment rate)
Characteristics of the unemployed
Alternative measures of labor underutilization (U1-U6)
Duration of unemployment
Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS)
Measuring Employment
Payroll survey (Current Employment Statistics)
Survey design and methodology
Data collection
Estimation methodology
Birth/death estimates
Seasonal adjustment
X12 ARIMA Concurrent seasonal adjustment
Impact of Financial Crisis, intervention
Data revisions and benchmarking
Major uses of CES data
Household and payroll survey comparison
Measuring Inflation
Agency collecting and reporting
Building blocks of the BLS CPI
Weighting: sources and updates
Data collection
Outlet visits
Disaggregation process
Sample period
Definition of price
Housing
Rental Equivalence
Estimating CPI
Stages of estimation
Stage 1: Laspeyres/Geometric mean
Stage 2: Laspeyres
Quality adjustment
Seasonal adjustment
Comparison of CPI Measures: CPI-U, CPI-W, CPI-E
Chained CPI-U
Substitution and weighting
Chained CPI-U as a cost of living measure
GDP and the National Income and Product Accounts
What questions do the NIPAs address?
How are the data used?
Domestic income and product account (Account 1)
Gross domestic income and components
Gross domestic product
Expenditure categories
Shares
Relationship between GDP and GDI
Income and outlay accounts (Accounts 2-4)
Personal income and components
Corporate profits and components
Foreign transactions account (Account 5)
Capital account (Accounts 6 and 7)
Domestic saving and investment
International financial transactions
Current account
Capital account
Price measures and inflation adjustments (chaining)
Productivity
Importance to the economy
Measures of productivity
Labor productivity
Multi-factor productivity
Productivity concepts of output
Productivity concepts of inputs
Changes in productivity
Productivity and costs news release
Measures reported
Output per hour
Compensation per hour
Unit labor costs
Headline measures
Calculating labor productivity and unit labor costs
Industry labor productivity
Importance
Multifactor productivity
Measuring inputs
Finding the data
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