Annual transactions from unpublished BEA data on nonfinancial corporate investment in research and development (a portion of Fixed Asset Table 4.7 Investment in Private Nonresidential Fixed Assets by Industry Group and Legal Form of Organization; line 40, Corporate nonfinancial, Intellectual property products). Annual transactions are converted to seasonally adjusted quarterly transactions by calculating the ratio of the above series to annual data on private domestic investment in research and development (a portion of NIPA, Table 1.1.5 Gross Domestic Product, line 12, Private domestic, Nonresidential, Intellectual property products); multiplied by quarterly data on private domestic investment in software (a portion of line 12, Private domestic, Nonresidential, Intellectual property products). Unadjusted transactions are calculated as transactions at a seasonally adjusted annual rate divided by 4. Series has no levels.
Last edited on: 09/17/2013