Domestic port value

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The Customs value of imports as appraised by U.S. Customs and Border Protection when entering the United States. It is the price actually paid or payable for merchandise when it is sold for exportation to the United States (that is, the foreign port value) plus insurance costs, freight costs of transporting the commodity to the United States, and any applicable duties. The domestic port value is roughly equivalent to the basic value that is used to value domestic production. (BEA)
 
 

Distributive transactions

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Distributive transactions consist of transactions by which the value added generated by production is distributed to labour, capital and government and of transactions involving the redistribution of income and wealth (taxes on income and wealth and other transfers). (SNA)
 
 

Distribution and use of income accounts

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The distribution and use of income accounts consist of a set of articulated accounts showing how incomes are: (a) generated by production; (b) along with property income, distributed to institutional units with claims on the value added created by production; (c) redistributed among institutional units, mainly by government units through social security contributions and benefits and taxes; and (d) eventually used by households, government units or non-profit institutions serving households (NPISHs) for purposes of final consumption or saving. (SNA)

Disclosure symbol (D)

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The disclosure symbol (D) is used by the Census Bureau, BEA, and other organizations in their tables to denote that data have been suppressed to avoid disclosure of proprietary data for a company. The suppressed data are included in the totals that are shown for higher level aggregates. (BEA)
 
 

Direct requirements table

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The commodity-by-industry direct requirements table is derived from the use table by relating commodity inputs used by an industry to the industry\’s output. The values in this table, referred to as \”direct requirements coefficients,\” are in ratio format and show the dollar amount of a commodity required directly by an industry to produce a dollar of the industry’s output. (BEA)
 
 

Direct Effects

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The set of expenditures applied to the predictive model (i.e. I-O multipliers) for impact analysis. It is a series (or single) of production changes or expenditures made by producers/consumers as a result of an activity or policy. These initial changes are determined by an analyst to be a result of this activity or policy. Applying these initial changes to the multipliers in an IMPLAN model will then display how the region will respond, economically to these initial changes.

 
 

Depreciation

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Depreciation as usually calculated in business accounts is a method of allocating the costs of past expenditures on fixed assets over subsequent accounting periods; note that the depreciation methods favoured in business accounting and those prescribed by tax authorities almost invariably deviate from the concept of consumption of fixed capital employed in the SNA and so the term “consumption of fixed capital” is used in the SNA to distinguish it from “depreciation” as typically measured in business accounts. (SNA)
 
 

Consumption good or service

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A consumption good or service is one that is used (without further transformation in production) by households, NPISHs or government units for the direct satisfaction of individual needs or wants or the collective needs of members of the community. (SNA)

Deflator

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Deflators are used by the software whenever the Event Year is set to a year that differs from the model data year. The Output Deflator converts the Industry Sales value to the year of the dataset, while the GDP Deflator converts the Value-Added values to the year of the dataset. Output Deflators are specific to each industry, while the GDP Deflators are the same across industries. You can see the deflator values in the Setup Activities screen when the Event Year field is displayed (Event Options Show Event Year). The BEA has historical GDP and Output deflators which we use for our historical and current Output Deflators. For projections into the future, we use the annual rate of change in output from the BLS’ employment growth model.

More information on Deflators and Margins

Consumption

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Consumption is an activity in which institutional units use up goods or services; consumption can be either intermediate or final. (SNA)