NATIONAL INCOME ACCOUNTING

 

Use the data provided below by the Survey of Current Business, U.S. Department of Commerce, February 1992, to determine the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the U.S. in 1991.

Use the Expenditure Approach and the Income Approach to compute the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the Disposable Personal Income (DPI) in the U.S. in 1991?

You MUST show your work; in your answers provide a list of the items that you used in computing the GDP and the DPI.

Description
$ Billion
 

Social Insurance: employers' contribution - Supplements

$644.2
Government transfer payments
653.0

Consumption expenditures on nondurable goods

1,252.0
Expenditures on residential constructions
195.0

Corporate taxes

80.8

Investments in plants and equipment

551.0

Government purchases of goods and services

1,088.0
Net interest
480.0
Consumption expenditures on services
2,192.0
Indirect business taxes
492.2

Statistical discrepancies

3.3
Exports
591.0
Consumption expenditures on durable goods
445.0
Corporate retained earnings
110.4
Wages and salaries
2,743.8
Rental income
42.0

Unincorporated income

380.00

Personal taxes

616.0
Corporate dividends
60.8
Business transfer payments
12.5
Capital consumption allowances - Capital Depreciation
623.0

Imports

622.0
Changes in business inventories
-19.0