Title: Data, Data, Data: Progress and a Wish List
1Data, Data, DataProgress and a Wish List
- Jim Peach
- Department of Economics and International
Business - and
- Office of Policy Analysis, Arrowhead Center
- New Mexico State University
- email jpeach_at_nmsu.edu
2BEA Data Delivery System 1930s -
3Real GDP Per Capita 1929-2005Chained 2000
Dollars
37241
CAGR2.24
7099
4NIPA 1947
5BEA Advanced Data Delivery System 1970s and
1980s
6Big Iron 2,000 per CPU Hour
7BEA DataRunning at 4 mhz with 128 KB Ram
(5.25 Floppies)
8BEANice Improvement
9Free at Last, Free at LastNo more tapes! No
more JCL!!!
10But it still takes me 37 seconds!
11Can I download data to my IPOD?
12How good is BEA?
13A Wish List
- Restart the OBERS/BEA Regional Projections
14Regional Input-Output Models
15RIMS III
- Downloadable for any region
- Free (Greedy arent I?)
- Improved software
16Gross State Product
- Quarterly
- Gross Regional Product
- MSAs
17PCI Highest and Lowest MSAs
18Per Capita Income as Percent of US Yuma, AZ
NAFTA IMPLEMENTATION
191993
202003
21Regional Price Indices
- The ACCRA indices are useful, but
- Enough said
- Not BEAs problem alone
22NADB
- No, not the North American Development Bank
- We need a
- NORTH AMERICAN DATA BANK
- NOT JUST NAICS
- MISSED OPPORTUNITY IN NAFTA NEGOTIATIONS
23One Stop Shop (on-line)
- BEA, CENSUS, BLS, USITC, .
- I know, we have FedStats, but
24And,