The BEA released county level GDP estimates this morning. This is literally a quick dive for three ND counties right after release.
Quick take on BEA County release for ND
Comparing ND and the US
With all the concern about US policy and local impacts I took a look at some simple trends in GDP for both to see what we can see.
State of the economy, North Dakota edition
The recent GDP data release for states gives us something to discuss and this is the opening entry in what is likely several posts.
North Dakota Metro Area Growth
It is a fun time to be an economist with an interest in data, and it has nothing to do with election policies because, as we all know, those have nothing to do with data anyway (zing!). The Bureau of Economic Analysis released its GDP by Metro Area report this week (available here). The first question many would have is: why do we care about a report that covers 2015, that is in the past?
Thinking about ND GDP
So the BEA release (follow this link to the data) this week revealed a large decline in North Dakota GDP from 2014 to 2015. Not a real surprise. As a minor note, I prefer to use the quarterly data instead of the annual data, not because it tells a very different story, but there are some distinctions. That is what I will be using in this discussion. I am also looking at the real GDP data to control for inflation changes over this time.