2020 Subject Guide
This guide lists Survey of Current Business articles published from January through December 2020.
National Income and Product Accounts (NIPAs)
GDP and the Economy
Third Quarter 2019
Fourth Quarter 2019
First Quarter 2020
Second Quarter 2020
Third Quarter 2020
Government Receipts and Expenditures
- Fourth Quarter 2019 (April)
- First Quarter 2020 (June)
- Second Quarter 2020 (September)
- Third Quarter 2020 (December)
Other NIPA Articles
- Returns for Domestic Nonfinancial Business (February)
- NIPA Translation of the Fiscal Year 2021 Federal Budget (March)
- GDP and Beyond (June)
- 2020 Annual Update of the National Income and Product Accounts (August)
- Updated Summary of NIPA Methodologies (November)
Territorial Economic Accounts
- Integrated Industry-Level Production Account for the United States and the Sources of U.S. Economic Growth Between 1987 and 2018 (April)
- Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account: New Statistics for 2017 and Updated Statistics from 1998 to 2016 (September)
- 2020 Annual Update of the Industry Economic Accounts: Revised Statistics for 2015–2019 and the First Quarter of 2020 (October)
- U.S. Travel and Tourism Satellite Account for 2015–2019 (December)
- Preliminary Estimates of the U.S. Space Economy, 2012–2018 (December)
Direct Investment Positions
Foreign Direct Investment in the United States
- Visual Essay: New Foreign Direct Investment in the United States in 2019 (August)
- Visual Essay: Activities of U.S. Affiliates of Foreign Multinational Enterprises in 2018 (December)
U.S. Direct Investment Abroad
U.S. International Economic Accounts
U.S. International Investment Position
- Third Quarter 2019 (January)
- Fourth Quarter and Year 2019 (April)
- First Quarter 2020, Year 2019, and Annual Update (July)
- Second Quarter 2020 (October)
U.S. International Services
U.S. International Transactions
- Third Quarter 2019 (January)
- Fourth Quarter and Year 2019 (April)
- First Quarter 2020 (July)
- Second Quarter 2020 (October)
- An Ownership-Based Framework of the U.S. Current Account, 2018 (January)
- Annual Update of the U.S. International Transactions Accounts (July)
- How BEA Aligns and Augments Source Data from the U.S. Treasury Department for Inclusion in the International Transactions Accounts (July)
Regional Quarterly Reports
- Local Area GDP for 2018, Local Area Personal Income for 2018 and Updates 1998–2017, and Personal Consumption Expenditures by State for 2018 (January)
- GDP by State for 2019, State Personal Income for 2019, and Personal Consumption Expenditures by State for 2019 (November)
Other Regional Articles
- A Primer on Local Area Gross Domestic Product Methodology: First Official Release of Gross Domestic Product by County, 2001–2018 (March)
- Research Spotlight: Transactions of State and Local Government Defined Benefit Pension Plans: Experimental Estimates by State (July)
- Experimental Estimates of PCE-Weighted Regional Price Parities and Real PCE by State (September)
Original Articles
- Some Inflection Points in BEA's Pursuit of Its Mission (July)
- The Origins of the Survey of Current Business: A Window on the Evolution of Economic Policy, Research, and Statistics (October)
- BEA's Regional Program: Challenges and Milestones (December)
Reprints
- Looking Back at the First Issue of the Survey of Current Business (July)
- An Emerging Source of Growth in Business Statistics: A Look Back at the 100th Issue of the Survey of Current Business (August)
- The Evolution of U.S. National Income Accounting (September)
- The Development of Gross National Product (October)
- Major Improvements to Gross National Product (November)
- The Development of BEA's Input-Output Framework (December)
- The Evolution of BEA's Regional Statistics: Expanding State Personal Income Measurements (December)
Top Influencers
- Simon Kuznets: The Founder of National Income Measurement (August)
- Robert Nathan: A Pioneer in National Income Accounting (September)
- Edward Fulton Denison: Renowned Scholar of Economic Growth Theory and National Income and Product Accounting (October)
- George Jaszi: An Architect of the National Economic Accounts and BEA (November)
- Wassily Leontief: Nobel Award-Winning Input-Output Economist (December)
