Price Indexes for Selected Semiconductors, 197496

By Grimm, Bruce T.

Book Id: WPLBN0000712276
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 389.25 KB.
Reproduction Date: 2004

Title:	Price Indexes for Selected Semiconductors, 197496
Author:	Grimm, Bruce T.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Department of Commerce and Labor Document, Commerce.
Collections:	Department of Commerce Collection
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Publisher:	Government Printing Office


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Excerpt: In the comprehensive revision of the national income and product accounts (NIPA?s) that was released in January 1996, BEA introduced the use of quality adjusted price indexes for the calculation of real exports and imports of semiconductors. The improved measurement of real output and prices of hightech goods through expanded use of quality adjusted price indexes is part of BEA?s strategic plan to improve the quality of its economic accounts (see the box ?Measurement of Real Output and Prices for HighTech Goods?). The quality adjusted price indexes for semiconductors, which are based on indexes for several types of memory chips and of microprocessors, were incorporated into the estimates of exports and imports beginning with 1981.1...