Readme for I/O directory
Brendan Price
July 29, 2014

This folder contains files derived from the Bureau of Economic Advisers' 1992 benchmark input-output tables. The source files ("IOMAKE.TXT" and "IOUSE.TXT") were downloaded on June 3, 2014 from http://www.bea.gov/industry/io_benchmark.htm (by clicking the ZIP link under "1992 Benchmark I-O Table Six-Digit Transactions", i.e. http://www.bea.gov/industry/zip/ndn0178.zip). To conserve space, we provide our derived/cleaned files but not the underlying source files.

A helpful overview of the input-output accounts may be found at http://www.bea.gov/scb/pdf/national/inputout/1997/1197io.pdf.

We provide these files solely for the purpose of facilitating replication of the present paper. If you wish to use these data in your own research, please download fresh extracts from the BEA website to ensure that you have the latest version of the data.