value added

Value added measures an industry's contribution to GDP — gross output minus intermediate inputs.

BEA's industry economic accounts publish it for US wholesale trade (NAICS 42) annually back to 1947 and quarterly alongside each GDP estimate.

In this catalog it appears concretely: - GDP by Industry — "value added, gross output, intermediate inputs and KLEMS measures for US wholesale trade (NAICS 42)". - BEA coverage — "Annual series back to 1947 in the industry accounts; quarterly series released with each quarterly GDP estimate".

BEA coverage is the second reference point worth knowing: "Annual series back to 1947 in the industry accounts; quarterly series released with each quarterly GDP estimate". Reading the two together shows how much variation sits underneath one shared label.

A table is only as good as the column you actually need. If this field is absent, sparsely populated or defined inconsistently across rows, no amount of surrounding richness rescues the analysis, so it deserves its own line in your evaluation checklist.

The failure mode is concrete: a source can carry the value added label while differing from what you need on exactly the dimension that matters — value added, gross output, intermediate inputs and KLEMS measures for US wholesale trade (NAICS 42). Comparing two sources on that line usually settles the choice faster than any feature matrix.

You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and GDP by Industry lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.

Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:

1. Open GDP by Industry and confirm its record — "value added, gross output, intermediate inputs and KLEMS measures for US wholesale trade (NAICS 42)" — against the files you actually receive. 2. Open BEA coverage and confirm its record — "Annual series back to 1947 in the industry accounts; quarterly series released with each quarterly GDP estimate" — against the files you actually receive. 3. Pin down update cadence in writing.

Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - naics - Wholesale trade (NAICS 424)