This table provides metadata for the actual indicator available from US statistics closest to the corresponding global SDG indicator. Please note that even when the global SDG indicator is fully available from US statistics, this table should be consulted for information on national methodology and other US-specific metadata information.
| Actual indicator available | Personal Consumption Expenditure, Goods |
|---|---|
| Actual indicator available - description | Goods purchased by “persons”—that is, by households and by nonprofit institutions serving households (NPISHs)—who are resident in the United States. |
| Date of national source publication | 4/2019 |
| Method of computation | DMC reports the amount of materials that are used that are used in a national economy. DMC is a territorial (production side) indicator. DMC also presents the amount of material that needs to be handled within an economy, which is either added to material stocks of buildings and transport infrastructure or used to fuel the economy as material throughput. DMC describes the physical dimension of economic processes and interactions. It can also be interpreted as long-term waste equivalent. Per-capita DMC describes the average level of material use in an economy ' an environmental pressure indicator - and is also referred to as metabolic profile. |
| Periodicity | Annual |
| Scheduled update by national source | 5/2019 |
| U.S. method of computation | |
| Comments and limitations | Values are nominal |
| Date metadata updated | 2019-5-24 |
| Disaggregation geography | |
| Unit of measurement | Domestic Material Consumption: Millions of Dollars, Per Capita: Dollars |
| Disaggregation categories | |
| International and national references | |
| Time period | 2000-2018 |
| Scheduled update by SDG team |