BEA Issues Benchmark Revisions to Local Personal Income Data

IN THE DETAILSBEA Issues Benchmark Revisions to Local Personal Income Datan June 15, 2000, the U.S. changed little. Las Vegas, at 10.6%, because county data for these itemsBureau of Economic Analysis still has the fastest growth rate, and were not available. The improved stateOreleased the results of a Binghamton, N.Y., at 2.2%, still has estimates of employer contributions forcomprehensive, or benchmark, revision the slowest growth rate. workers’ compensation insurance wereof personal income for local areas. In San Francisco, at $45,199, had the allocated to counties on the basis ofgeneral, the estimates for local areas highest per capita personal income in private wages and salaries, the statefor 1969–97 were revised up. 1998, 166% of the per capita personal estimates of dividends for S-A comprehensive revision of income for the nation. McAllen- corporations are allocated to countiesestimates of personal income for local Edinburg-Mission, Texas, at $12,759, on the basis of tabulations of dividendsareas is made every four or five years. had the lowest per capita personal received by individuals from the IRS,It incorporates newly available income, at 47% of the national and the state estimates of the paymentsbenchmark source data; improved average. Indianapolis ranked 55th in for foster care are distributed tomethods for preparing the estimates; the nation, the highest ranking of any counties on the basis of civilianand newly available local area data ...