Motivation: In the 2018 comprehensive update to NIPA, the currency reference year for chained-dollar figures was advanced by the BEA from 2009 to 2012.

Response: For analytical consistency, we have updated the currency reference year of our estimates of personal income to match.

What you will see: All real series for all areas revised from 1969 to 2017. Nominal series are unchanged.

Properties

• Measurements: Nominal U.S. dollars (USD), millions thereof (Mil. USD), chained year-2012 U.S. dollars (Ch. 2012 USD), millions thereof (Mil. Ch. 2012 USD)
• Adjustment: Seasonally adjusted annualized rates (SAAR)
• Native frequency: Quarterly
• Start date: 1969Q1
• Geo coverage: Census regions and divisions, states, MSAs and metro divisions, counties
• Additivity: Across geographies

The estimates reside in the historical catalog (United States » Income » Disposable Income » Moody's Analytics Estimates) and include, for example:

• RYPDPIQ.GA         = Disposable personal income, (Mil. USD, SAAR) - for Georgia
• RYPDPI$Q.GA        = Disposable personal income, (Mil. Ch. 2012 USD, SAAR) - for Georgia
• RYPCDPIQ.IUSA_MATL = Per Capita Disposable Personal Income, (USD, SAAR) - for Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metropolitan area
• RYPCDPI$Q.GA015    = Per Capita Disposable Personal Income, (Ch. 2012 USD, SAAR) - for Barlow county, GA

Because catalog locations are subject to change, the upper-right search box on DataBuffet.com provides a "find in catalog" mode that accepts a mnemonic.

Method: Please see the background documentation in Mnemonic 411.

See also

• Estimates Revision: U.S. subnational - Disposable personal income - Comprehensive update [2018]
• Estimates Revision: U.S. subnational - Personal income - Comprehensive update (Jan 2019)
• Data Revision: U.S. subnational - BEA State Personal Income (Sep 2018)
• Data Change: U.S. subnational - BEA LAPI - Overhaul (Dec 2018)