New BEA Data on Outdoor Recreation Economy?Provide Comment
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has released prototype estimates from the Outdoor Recreation Satellite Account (ORSA), spotlighting BEA?s new work on estimating the economic impact of outdoor recreation. Additional information is available on BEA?s Outdoor Recreation webpage. The public is invited to submit comments and feedback on these preliminary statistics by emailing OutdoorRecreation@bea.gov. Final statistics are scheduled for release in the fall of 2018, and feedback will be used to help finalize the definitions, data sources, and methodology that underpin the new account and the format in which final results are displayed. To ensure consideration, comments should be submitted no later than April 27, 2018.
