In many cases there is a need to balance commodity-flow system data quickly and with limited resources. In order to compile new supply and use tables and investment matrices consistent with revised national accounts data, it can be necessary to apply some sort of automatic balancing technique....

The timeliness of the US input-output (I-O) accounts is a major concern for policymakers and industry analysts, as well as academics. In response, the Bureau of Economic Analysis initiated research in 2001 to identify, develop and implement an estimating method for producing more timely and...