One may access the data via the Index. Revisions The BEA revisions are extensive and affect most variables. We will highlight key changes here. More extensive and complete descriptions of the revisions are available on the BEA and STAT-USA websites. The changes encompass definitional and classification changes to ensure measurements are reflective of the evolving economy, updates to reflect the introduction of new and improved methodologies and data sources, and changes in NIPA tables to reflect the revisions.
Investment now includes business and government expenditures for software.
Government employee retirement plans receive similar treatment to that for private pension plans. A reclassification of estate and gift taxes raises personal saving and reduces government saving. This change affects GDP and GDI, but not national saving, or its components. For 1959-98, the revisions cause average real GDP annual growth to rise 0.2 percentage points to 3.4 percent. Growth in most categories of GDP rises, although that of exports and imports of goods declines slightly and PCE for durable goods and residential fixed investment remain basically unrevised.