How BEA Aligns and Augments Source Data From the U.S. Treasury Department for Inclusion in the International Transactions Accounts

摘要

Like most of the U.S. economic accounts produced by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the estimates of financial-account transactions in the international transactions accounts (ITAs) are based largely on source data collected by other federal government agencies - in this case, by the Treasury International Capital (TIC) reporting system of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The presentation of the adjustments undertaken by BEA to align and to augment these data for inclusion in the financial account can help data users reconcile BEA's financial-account estimates with the TIC data that are available to the public on the Treasury Department's Web site at www.treasury.gov and in the Treasury Bulletin.