BEA County Personal Income

How much income the people of each Louisiana county receive, and where it comes from, every year since 1969: pay from work, business and farm profits, dividends, interest and rent, and government payments such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and unemployment insurance, with per-person figures and the earnings commuters carry across county lines. Use it to compare counties' prosperity and growth over half a century, to see how much a county depends on retirement and other government payments, or how much of its residents' pay is earned elsewhere.

Published by: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Source: BEA (regional economic accounts)
Original data: apps.bea.gov
Terms of use: Public domain
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From the publisher

Personal income consists of the income that persons receive in return for their provision of labor, land, and capital used in current production as well as other income, such as personal current transfer receipts. In the state and local personal income accounts the personal income of an area represents the income received by or on behalf of the persons residing in that area.

Per capita personal income is the personal income of a given area divided by the resident population of the area.

The adjustment for residence is the net inflow of the earnings of interarea commuters.

Fields

What each record holds, as the publisher describes it: 34 fields.

Field	Description
geoid	A county's FIPS code, or '22000' for Louisiana as a whole
name	BEA's name for the area (Franklin, OH)
year	Calendar year
personal_income	Personal income, dollars
nonfarm_personal_income	Personal income less farm income, dollars
farm_income	Farm income, dollars
population	Midyear population, persons (the Census Bureau's estimate)
per_capita_personal_income	Personal income per person, dollars
earnings_by_place_of_work	Earnings of people working here, wherever they live, dollars
contributions_for_social_insurance	Contributions for government social insurance, subtracted, dollars
employee_contributions_for_social_insurance	Employee and self-employed contributions, dollars
employer_contributions_for_social_insurance	Employer contributions for government social insurance, dollars
adjustment_for_residence	Earnings residents bring home from other areas less those carried out by people commuting in, dollars
net_earnings_by_place_of_residence	Earnings of residents, wherever they work, net of contributions, dollars
dividends_interest_rent	Dividends, interest and rent, dollars
transfer_receipts	Personal current transfer receipts, dollars
wages_and_salaries	Wages and salaries, by place of work, dollars
supplements_to_wages	Supplements to wages and salaries, dollars
employer_pension_and_insurance	Employer contributions for employee pension and insurance funds, dollars
proprietors_income	Proprietors' income, dollars
farm_proprietors_income	Farm proprietors' income, dollars
nonfarm_proprietors_income	Nonfarm proprietors' income, dollars
income_maintenance_benefits	Income maintenance benefits (SSI, EITC, SNAP and others), dollars
unemployment_insurance	Unemployment insurance compensation, dollars
retirement_and_other_transfers	Retirement and other transfers, Social Security and Medicare among them, dollars
per_capita_net_earnings	Net earnings by place of residence per person, dollars
per_capita_transfer_receipts	Transfer receipts per person, dollars
per_capita_income_maintenance	Income maintenance benefits per person, dollars
per_capita_unemployment_insurance	Unemployment insurance per person, dollars
per_capita_retirement_and_other	Retirement and other transfers per person, dollars
per_capita_dividends_interest_rent	Dividends, interest and rent per person, dollars
earnings_inflows	Earnings residents bring home from work in other areas, dollars (1990 on)
earnings_outflows	Earnings carried out by people who work here and live elsewhere, dollars (1990 on)
codes	BEA's code for each column it published no figure for ({"gdp": "D"}); null when every figure is published

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