Transactions of State and Local Government Defined Benefit Pension Plans: Experimental Estimates by State.

In this article the author talks about the methods the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) used to address these issues and provide an experimental set of state-level statistics describing transactions of state and local government defined benefit pension plans. It mentions that BEA's primary interest in developing new data set is that some of series are components are used to estimate components of, state gross domestic product, state personal income, and state personal consumption expenditures.