PROC DATASOURCE: BEA Data Files :: SAS/ETS(R) 9.2 User's Guide

The DATASOURCE Procedure

The Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce, supplies national income, product accounting, and various other macroeconomic data at the regional, national, and international levels in the form of data files with various formats and on various media.

The following BEA data file types are supported.

FILETYPE=BEANIPA–National Income and Product Accounts Format

Table 11.7 FILETYPE=BEANIPA–National Income and Product Accounts Format
Metadata Field Types	Metadata Fields	Metadata Labels
Data Files	Database is stored in a single file.
INTERVAL=	YEAR (default), QUARTER, MONTH
BY Variables	PARTNO	Part Number of Publication,
		Integer Portion of the Table Number, 1–9 (character)
	TABNUM	Table Number Within Part,
		Decimal Portion of the Table Number, 1–24 (character)
Series Variables	Series variable names are constructed by concatenating table number suffix, line and column numbers within each table. An underscore (_) prefix is also added for readability.

FILETYPE=BEANIPAD–National Income and Product Accounts PC Format

The PC format National Income and Product Accounts files contain the same information as the BEANIPA files described previously.

Table 11.8 FILETYPE=BEANIPAD–National Income and Product Accounts PC Format
Metadata Field Types	Metadata Fields	Metadata Labels
Data Files	Database is stored in a single file.
INTERVAL=	YEAR (default), QUARTER, MONTH
BY Variables	PARTNO	Part Number of Publication,
		Integer Portion of the Table Number, 1–9 (character)
	TABNUM	Table Number Within Part,
		Decimal Portion of the Table Number, 1–24 (character)
Series Variables	Series variable names are constructed by concatenating table number suffix, line and column numbers within each table. An underscore (_) prefix is also added for readability.

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