Note: The quarter-on-quarter growth rate refers to the seasonally adjusted growth rate over the previous quarter. Refer to NBS database (http://data.stats.gov.cn) for ...

I sometimes read assertions that the statistical methods used by the Commerce Department to calculate GDP no longer properly capture economic output because they don’t, for example, properly account ...

As part of the ongoing exercise to update the GDP base year, the government will use several more datasets on the expenditure side to improve the sources of data and enable more accurate estimation of ...

The expenditure-based method is a method of calculating GDP from the perspective of the end use of the results of productive activities. The end use consists of final consumption expenditure, gross ...