BEA Data Files

The DATASOURCE Procedure

BEA Data Files

The Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce, supplies national income, product accounting, and various other macro economic data at the regional, national, and international levels in the form of data files with various formats and on various media.

The following BEA data file types are supported:

FILETYPE=BEANIPA--National Income and Product Accounts Tape Format


Data Files	Database is stored in a single file.
INTERVAL=	YEAR (default), QUARTER, MONTH
BY variables	PARTNO	Part Number of Publication,
		Integer Portion of the Table Number, 1-9 (character)
	TABNUM	Table Number Within Part,
		Decimal Portion of the Table Number, 1-24 (character)
Series Variables	Series variable names are constructed by concatenating table number suffix, line and column numbers within each table. An underscore (_) prefix is also added for readability.

FILETYPE=BEANIPAD--National Income and Product Accounts Diskette Format

The diskette format National Income and Product Accounts files contain the same information as the tape format files described previously.

Data Files Database is stored in a single diskette file.

INTERVAL= YEAR (default), QUARTER, MONTH

BY variables PARTNO Part Number of Publication,

Integer Portion of the Table Number, 1-9 (character)

TABNUM Table Number Within Part,

Decimal Portion of the Table Number, 1-24 (character)

Series Variables Series variable names are constructed by concatenating table number suffix, line and column numbers within each table. An underscore (_) prefix is also added for readability.

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Data Files	Database is stored in a single diskette file.
INTERVAL=	YEAR (default), QUARTER, MONTH
BY variables	PARTNO	Part Number of Publication,
		Integer Portion of the Table Number, 1-9 (character)
	TABNUM	Table Number Within Part,
		Decimal Portion of the Table Number, 1-24 (character)
Series Variables	Series variable names are constructed by concatenating table number suffix, line and column numbers within each table. An underscore (_) prefix is also added for readability.