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December 2011 VoLuME 91 JANUARY—DECEMBER 2011 This guide lists the major items that were published in the Survey or Current Business in the January—December 2011 issues. It gives the month of the issue and the beginning page number, and it includes selected boxes that are cited by title and page number. Inventories, sales, and inventory-sales ratios for Schedule of BEA news releases in 2012 manufacturing and trade {N ovember, 56 and December, 41} Third Quarter 2010 {January, 6} Taking Account Fourth Quarter 2010 {April, 9} BEA customers can use Twitter to stay informed First Quarter 2011 {July, 6} {September, iv} Fourth Quarter 2007 to Second Quarter 2011 {Octo- BEA economist looks at airline price strategies |March, ber, 9} iv} National income and product accounts (NIPAs) BEA gets high marks in 2010 OAS survey {August, iv} Annual Revision Paper measures constant-quality drug prices {January, Annual Estimates for 2003-2010 and Quarterly iv} Estimates for First Quarter 2003 to First Quarter Web site upgrade: new look and data tools {July, iv} 2011 {August, 6} GDP and Other Major NIPA Series For 1929 to the Second Quarter 2011 {August, 181} Analyzing Federal Programs Using BEA Statistics: A NIPA Tables {August, 32} Look at Unemployment Insurance Benefits Pay- Newly Available NIPA Tables ments {September, 14} NIPA tables 3.15.1—3.15.6, 3.16, 3.17, and 7.15 {Sep- Comparing NIPA Profits With S&P 500 Profits tember, 19} {March, 22} NIPA tables 3.18B and 3.20—3.23 {October, 6} GDP for American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the NIPA tables 2.9, 3.19, and 7.20 {November, 6} Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Vir- GDP and the Economy gin Islands for 2002—2009 {September, 41} Advance Estimates Modernizing and Enhancing BEA’s International Eco- Fourth Quarter 2010 {February, 1} nomic Accounts: A Progress Report {M ay, 26} First Quarter 2011 {May, 1} Feedback on Proposed Changes [box, 31] Preview of the Upcoming Annual NIPA Revision Prototype Quarterly Statistics on U.S. Gross Domestic {May, 6} Product by Industry {July, 32} Second Quarter 2011 {August, 1} Third Quarter 2011 {November, 1} Second Estimates Artistic Originals as Capital Assets {June, 43} Fourth Quarter 2010 {March, 1} Offshoring and Import Price Measurement: Selected First Quarter 2011 {June, 1} Research From the Conference on “Measurement Second Quarter 2011 {September, 1} Issues Arising From the Growth of Globalization” Third Quarter 2011 {December, 1} {February, 7} Third Estimates Regional Price Parities by Expenditure Class Third Quarter 2010 {January, 1} for 2005-2009 {M ay, 73} Fourth Quarter 2010 {April, 1} Technological Progress in the Microprocessor Industry First Quarter 2011 {July, 1} {February, 13} Second Quarter {October, 1} Government Receipts and Expenditures Fourth Quarter 2010 {April, 6} Fixed assets and consumer durable goods First Quarter 2011 {June, 11} For 1997-2010 {September, 27} Second Quarter 2011 {September, 11} Third Quarter 2011 {December, 11} December 2011 SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS Returns for Domestic Nonfinancial Business |J une, 24} U.S. international services Revisions to GDP, GDI, and Their Major Components Cross-Border Trade in 2010 and Services Supplied (July, 9} Through Affiliates in 2009 {October, 13} Trends in Consumer Spending and Personal Saving, U.S. international transactions 1959-2009 {June, 14} An Ownership-Based Framework of the U.S. Current Updated Summary of NIPA Methodologies {Novem- Account for 1999-2009 {January, 64} ber, 9} Annual Estimates, 2010 {April, 20} NIPA translation of the federal budget Quarterly Estimates For Fiscal Year 2012 {March, 12} Third Quarter 2010 {January, 30} NIPA Estimates of the Federal Sector and the Federal Fourth Quarter 2010 {April, 12} Budget Estimates |b ox, 14] First Quarter 2011 {July, 62} Taking Account Second Quarter 2011 {October, 58} Info about upcoming NIPA annual revision {June, iv} How BEA Aligns and Augments Source Data From the A look at cyclical economic indicators for the United U.S. Treasury Department for Inclusion in the Inter- States {February, iv} national Transactions Accounts {July, 44} Updated government statistical tables available {Octo- Taking Account ber, iv} BEA publishes 2009 direct investment data {D ecember, iv} BEA releases summary estimates of MNC activity Industry accounts {May, iv} Annual Industry Accounts Results of BEA-BLS collaboration published {Novem- Advance Statistics on GDP by Industry for 2010 ber, iv} |M ay, 8} Revised Statistics for 2007-2009 {January, 9} Revised Statistics for 2003—2010 {December, 15} Travel and tourism satellite accounts Gross domestic product by state For 2007-2010 {June, 29} Advance Statistics for 2010 and Revised Statistics for Taking Account 2007-2009 {July, 142} ‘Travel spending increases in the fourth quarter {April, Gross domestic product by metropolitan area iv} Advance Statistics for 2009 and Revised Statistics for 2001-2008 {March, 29} Advance Statistics for 2010 and Revised Statistics for Direct investment positions 2007-2009 {October, 93} Country and Industry Detail for 2010 {July, 125} Local area personal income Detailed Historical-Cost Positions and Related Finan- For 2009 {May, 40} cial and Income Flows for 2007-2009 {September, Personal income for metropolitan areas 50} For 2010 {September, 139} Foreign direct investment in the United States Regional quarterly reports Operations of U.S. Affiliates of Foreign Companies in County Compensation by Industry for 2009 2009 {August, 211} (January, 70} ‘Tables {September, 92} State Personal Income U.S. direct investment abroad Annual Estimates Operations of U.S. Multinational Companies In 2009 For 2010 {April, 53} {N ovember, 29} Quarterly Estimates Tables {September, 57} Third Quarter 2010 {January, 67} U.S. international investment position Fourth Quarter 2010 {April, 49} Yearend 2010 {July, 113} First Quarter 2011 {July, 171} U.S. international accounts Second Quarter 2011 {October, 129} Annual Revision {July, 47} International Transactions and Positions in Financial Derivatives {July, 110}