Provided below is a compilation of tables, papers, and articles on the products and industries within the information and communication technology sector that are utilized in the estimates of GDP and other measures within the National Income and Product Accounts.
Data Tables
- Contributions to Real GDP for Final Sales of Computers, Software, and Communications Equipment - Underlying Detail Table 9.5U
- GDP and Final Sales of Domestic Computers - Underlying Detail Table 9.2U
- GDP and Final Sales of Software - Underlying Detail Table 9.3U
- Software Investment and Prices, by Type - Underlying Detail Table 9.4U
Survey of Current Business Articles
- A Note on the Impact of Hedonics and Computers on Real GDP (PDF)
- by J. Steven Landefeld and Bruce T. Grimm - SCB, December 2000
- Price Indexes for Selected Semiconductors, 1974-96 (PDF)
- by Bruce T. Grimm - SCB, February 1998
- Measuring the New Economy (PDF)
- by J. Steven Landefeld and Barbara M. Fraumeni - SCB, March 2001
BEA Papers and Presentations
- The Role of Hedonic Methods in Measuring Real GDP in the United States (PDF)
- by Dave Wasshausen and Brent R. Moulton - October 2006
- The Expanding Role of Hedonic Methods in the Official Statistics of the U.S. (PDF)
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- by Brent R. Moulton - June 2001
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- GDP and the Digital Economy, Keeping up with the Changes - a chapter from Brynjolfsson, Erik, and Brian Kahim. Understanding the Digital Economy Data, Tools, and Research (PDF)
- by Brent R. Moulton, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The MIT Press, 2000
- Estimation of Software in the U.S. National Income and Product Accounts: New Developments (PDF)
- by Carol E. Moylan - September 2001
- Recognition of Business and Government Expenditures for Software as Investment: Methodology and Quantitative Impacts, 1959-98 (PDF)
- by Robert Parker and Bruce T. Grimm - May 2000
- Information Processing Equipment and Software in the National Accounts (PDF)
- by Bruce T. Grimm, Brent R. Moulton, and David B. Wasshausen - April 2002