Inter-industry relationships (Input/Output matrix)

This page contains links to files of input-output data for the U.S. economy for the historical years 1998-2006, and for the projected year 2016. Input-output data show the flow of commodities from production through intermediate use by industries and purchases by final users. This data are developed as a set of matrices or tables for each year. The input-output tables produced by BLS are derived from input-output data initially developed by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

These files are available at our ftp site.

Contact: Carl Chentrens (202) 691-5697

Input-output data

The files for the projections, the nominal dollar historical, and the chain-weighted historical input-output tables are contained in separate ZIP files. A ZIP file utility is necessary to extract the files.

• Projected 2016 chain-weighted (2000 dollar based) input-output data with documentation
• Nominal dollar input-output data for 1998-2006 with documentation
• Chain-weighted (2000 dollar based) input-output data for 1998-2006 with documentation

Notes on the files

All data files are ASCII text. Documentation files are available as both PDF and text files. The data files are tab-delimited and contain no row or column labels. Each row of a data file is complete and contains all the columns for that row. An ASCII carriage-return character denotes the end of a given row of data. Historical tables are provided in both nominal (current) dollars and chain-weighted (2000 based) dollars. The projected tables are provided in chain-weighted dollars only. Each file contains appropriate documentation which should be consulted for specifics regarding file formats, sectoring plans, and development sources.

Last Modified Date: April 15, 2008