Table 6. Revisions to nominal GDP for 1998 (dollars)

Component

Total

Definitional

Statistical

GDP

248.9*

169.0

80.0

  Consumption

40.7

29.1

11.6

  Investment

164.1

123.4

40.7

    Nonresidential equipment and software 

127.2

123.4

3.8

  Government

42.6

16.7

25.9

    Investment:
   software

28.5

28.5

0.0

  Net exports

1.6

0.0

1.6

*Total does not equal sum of components due to independent rounding.
Source: E.P. Seskin, “Improved Estimates of the National Income and Product Accounts for 1959-98: Results of the Comprehensive Revision,” Survey of Current Business (December 1999), pp. 15-43, web site www.bea.doc.gov/bea/an1.htm.

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