Using BEA'srecently released County-level GDP to construct a city-GDP.
Update: 3/3/2019
A tableau dashboard using BEA data to display County level GDPs to yield comparative insights. The dashboard can be accessed here
http://bit.ly/bea_gdp_county
A repurposable methodology to convert BEA's recently released County-level GDP County GDP to construct a synthetic per-City-GDP metric across US cities.
To assist with comparative economic analysis across US cities.
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"I used job counts from LEHD / @ CDP geos to calculate ratios & allocate MSA's GDP to its constituent cities." - @vr00n
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"I think you could break out government spending from each jurisdiction and look at a cities earnings tax (if they have one)." Eric Roche, Chief Data Officer, KCMO
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"...read the methodology in detail and determined its doable to use the same methodology to create city GDP given its reliance on income data." - NLC Economist not on Twitter via Christiana McFarland, NLC