Ever seen those endless dessert buffets in Las Vegas? In his latest blog, Director Vipin Arora says the variety of his favorite buffet reminds him of the comprehensiveness of BEA’s economic statistics – something for every data user. www.bea.gov/news/blo…

That’s a wrap on today’s #AdvisoryCommitteeBEA! Thanks for following along and remember you can revisit the presentations at www.bea.gov/beaacm.

Now, BEA’s Marina Gindelsky discusses constructing a household-level joint distribution of income and consumption. She asks #AdvisoryCommitteeBEA: Can we relate income and consumption of households to aggregate economic growth?

Next up, BEA’s Mahsa Gholizadeh presents to #AdvisoryCommitteeBEA recent research on consumption zones. These are geographic regions suitable for studying spending and consumption, such as flows of retail spending across counties as measured by card transaction data.

BEA’s José Bayoán Santiago Calderón discusses measuring and defining data an as asset. He notes understanding the economic benefit of data is of interest among users of national economic accounts statistics. #AdvisoryCommitteeBEA