Entries by Joe Demski

Distribution and use of income accounts

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 […]

Disclosure symbol (D)

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

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 […]

Direct Effects

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 […]

Depreciation

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 […]

Deflator

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 […]

Free on board (f.o.b.)

The market value at the customs frontier of a country’s exports of merchandise, including all costs of transporting the goods to the customs frontier, export duties, and the cost of loading the goods onto the carrier unless the latter cost is borne by the carrier. (BEA)    

Free alongside ship (f.a.s.)

The market value of merchandise at the U.S. port of export, based on transaction price including inland freight, insurance, and other charges incurred in placing the merchandise alongside the carrier at the U.S. port of exportation. The costs of loading the merchandise aboard the exporting carrier and of freight, insurance, and any charges or transportation […]

Forward linkage

The interconnection of an industry to other industries to which it sells its outputs. It is measured as the row sum of the direct requirements table (direct forward linkage) or as the row sum of the total requirements table (total forward linkage). An industry has significant forward linkages when a substantial amount of its output […]