Metadata for Replication Data for: DOC - BEA Data by Place: County, Metro and other Local Areas (11/24/2025) Field Name Field Entry 1. Dataset Title BEA Data By Place: County, Metro, and Other Local Areas 2. Subtitle 3. Archived Title Replication Data for: DOC - BEA Data by Place: County, Metro and other Local Areas 4. Keywords Demographics, Economy 5. CCH Terms 6. Subject 7. Original URL https://www.bea.gov/data/by-place-county-metro-local 8. Capture / Download Date 2025-09-26 9. Alternate (Source) Identifier 10. Description Data are from the Department of Commerce - Bureau of Economic Analysis (DOC - BEA). The BEA website lists the following items available (quoted from the landing page (https://www.bea.gov/data/by-place-county-metro-local; accessed 11/24/2025): ● GDP by County, Metro, and Other Areas (with Industry Detail) GDP for local areas, with industries’ contributions to each economy ● GDP by Metro Area with Industry Detail Note: GDP by Metro Area is now part of GDP by County, Metro, and Other Areas ● GDP by County Note: GDP by County is now part of GDP by County, Metro, and Other Areas
Field Name Field Entry ● Personal Income by County, Metro, and Other Areas Wages, proprietors' income, dividends, interest, rents, and other income received by local residents ● Real Personal Income by Metro Area Personal income adjusted for state and metro area price level differences and national inflation ● Regional Price Parities by State and Metro Area Measure price levels that can be compared across states or metro areas ● Employment by County, Metro, and Other Areas Measures the number of jobs in U.S. counties and metro and nonmetro areas, with industry detail ● Economic Information for Coastal Areas Highlights coastal states and counties' personal incomes and earnings, and state GDP There are multiple geographic levels available, plus multiple metrics for each category as well. These data are for the Local listings (i.e., Counties, Metro Areas and other regional groupings). BEA publishes data at a State and National scale as well. For all three geographic levels (Local, State, National), there are 519 table types available, listed in the file BEA_All_Tables_Comprehensive.csv. However, for each table, there are often multiple time periods (Annual, Quarterly) as well. The full listing of all tables contained in the entire 3 datasets is in BEA_Inventory_Report.xslx. The latter can also be examined for files only occurring in County, Metro and other Local Areas where the “Directory” column is “BEA_CountyMetroLocal”. Most of the data for this Localized geography are in the zip files. Each of the categories of download have been zipped together, as well as the Python code for downloading. Code for downloads and indexing and cataloging is available in both the BEA_Python_Scripts.zip and the GitHub repository at https://github.com/Public-Environmental-Data-Partners/scripts/tre e/main/oneTimeHacks/BEA 11. README file? No
Field Name Field Entry 12. Separate data dictionary? No 13. Notes Data were downloaded over a period of time 9/26/2025 - 10/1/2025. Inventory of files and zip files for organizing were created on 11/21/2025. Temporal resolution of the datasets varies widely; the time period listed in row 18 is for the largest bounds across all datasets, not for every dataset inclusive. 14. Original Author / Agency Department of Commerce - Bureau of Economic Analysis (DOC - BEA) 15. Deposit Digital Identifier https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17705178 16. Depositor naomi yoder, Environmental Data and Governance Initiative / Public Environmental Data Partners,
[email protected] (RocketChat handle @naomi, GitHub username @naomi-yoder) 17. Deposit Date 2025-11-24 18. Time Period / Temporal Resolution 1901 - 2025 19. Is Your Data Geospatial? No a. Spatial Reference System b. Spatial File Format(s) c. Spatial File Features 20. Documentation and Access to Sources “The BEA Web site (www.bea.gov) is maintained under the direction of the U.S. Department of Commerce, an agency of the U.S. Government. The site contains official U.S. economic analysis data developed by BEA subject specialists and made accessible to the public through the BEA Web site and via BEA print publications. BEA seeks to strengthen the understanding of the
Field Name Field Entry U.S. economy and its competitive position by providing the most accurate and relevant Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and economic accounts data in a timely and cost-effective manner. Organizations are free to link to the BEA Web site (www.bea.gov), and unless stated otherwise, the information posted on the BEA Web site is in the public domain and may be used or reproduced without specific permission. A citation such as "Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis" would be appreciated. Organizations may use the BEA logo on a Web page as an aid to establishing link identity, but use of the logo for any other purpose is prohibited. As a U.S. Government agency, BEA is not permitted to endorse or recommend any commercial products or services that your organization may offer. Any reference or link that you establish to the BEA Web site must not contain information that suggests such an endorsement or recommendation by BEA. Similarly, any link that BEA determines should be placed on its official Web site will not contain information that endorses or recommends a referenced organization. Further, the BEA site does not accept advertising or provide promotional materials or services of any kind.” https://www.bea.gov/about/policies-and-information/linking - accessed 11/24/2025 21. Source Dataset Disclaimer “BEA and the Department of Commerce have long-standing procedures that are designed to ensure that data dissemination to all interested members of the public occurs simultaneously. Furthermore, these procedures preserve the distinction between the policy-neutral release of data by statistical agencies and their interpretation by policy officials. The objectivity of BEA estimates is also fostered by the publication of methodologies and assumptions that allow a large number of economists and policy officials to replicate the estimates and thereby provide an independent check on the credibility and objectivity of the estimates. The BEA procedures adhere to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) standards for data dissemination as described in "Statistical Policy Directive on the Compilation, Release and Evaluation of Principal Federal Economic Indicators", commonly known as Statistical Policy Directive No. 3. Although the Directive is aimed at principal economic indicators, a subset of economic indicators, the BEA procedures apply to all of the
Field Name Field Entry statistics it produces. At BEA, strict procedures are followed to ensure that data are not disseminated before the official release time, except as authorized under Statistical Policy Directive No. 3. In order to protect its data from early release BEA: ● Releases the data according to an announced schedule that minimizes the risk of pre-release access and instills confidence in the integrity of the data. The schedule is promulgated at least one year in advance and is immutable. ● Limits access to data prior to release only to those with a clear need to know. There is no pre-release access or review outside of BEA by policy officials (all BEA staff are career employees) of the estimates, press release, or other materials related to the estimates. ● Provides physical and computer security necessary to limit access to those with a need to know. (See the "Integrity" section of the Information Quality Guidelines.) ● Ensures that no BEA employee inadvertently provides pre-release data to the media. As provided for in Statistical Policy Directive No. 3, pre-release of principal economic indicators, GDP, Personal Income and Corporate Profits, is provided to the President through the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors. This release occurs only after the data have been approved and finalized within BEA and copies of materials for public release have been prepared. Within one hour before the scheduled time of a news/public release of any data, the information to be released may be provided to the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs and other Commerce Department policy officials in a lock-up environment. There is no external communication of information from the lock-up until the time of public release.” https://www.bea.gov/about/policies-and-information/data-dissemi nation - accessed 11/24/2025 22. Change Log V2 - added title, changed DOI to permanent v1
