Bureau of Economic Analysis

Name: Bureau of Economic Analysis
Creator: Bureau of Economic Analysis
License: https://www.usa.gov/government-works

Open · redistributedU.S. Government Work (public domain)International TradeMacroeconomicsNational Accounts

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Important notes

NIPA aggregates are revised; the library stores the published value without a vintage axis (latest-known).

Coverage

Series catalogued

240

Temporal coverage

1929-12-31 – 2026-01-01

Frequencies

Annual, Quarterly

Distinct geographies

Licensing & provenance

License: U.S. Government Work (public domain)
License URL: https://www.usa.gov/government-works
Required attribution: Source: U.S. BEA (public domain)
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted

How to cite

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, National Income and Product Accounts. Retrieved from https://www.bea.gov. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download bea series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/bea
Update cadence: monthly
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: extend by date
Storage layout: overwrite-multi-file (grouped): one zstd parquet per table/cube under data/clean_full/bea/<dataset>/<group>.parquet (~600 files across 12 dataset dirs: NIPA 252, Regional 105, etc.). Columns series_key, obs_date, value (+ time_series_id / year extra cols for ITA/IIP/IntlServ*/MNE). State in data/raw/bea/_done_groups.json (atomic temp+replace); manifest at data/raw/bea/catalog_manifest.json.

Full description

FULL-COVERAGE ingest of the ENTIRE U.S. BEA API catalog. Crawls all 12 BEA data datasets (NIPA, NIUnderlyingDetail, FixedAssets, GDPbyIndustry, UnderlyingGDPbyIndustry, InputOutput, ITA, IIP, IntlServTrade, IntlServSTA, Regional, MNE) via GetData and writes GROUPED Parquet -- ONE file per table/cube, with a series-key column inside -- to data/clean_full/bea/<dataset>/. License: us-public-domain (public domain). Anti-bloat: ~600 files total for the whole source, each holding many series. Resume: a done-set JSON lets re-runs skip already-written groups. Usage: python jobs/ingest_bea_full.py --datasets NIPA # one dataset python jobs/ingest_bea_full.py # everything python jobs/ingest_bea_full.py --resume # skip done groups

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-08-02 from the central registry · browse all datasets