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The Survey of Current Business (SCB) is a monthly publication by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) (a part of the United States Department of Commerce) that provides definitive information about the economic accounts for the economy of the United States maintained by the BEA.

History
The Survey of Current Business has been published monthly since July 1921, then under the auspices of the Bureau of the Census, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, and the Bureau of Standards divisions of the United States Department of Commerce. All archives of the survey are available online. Starting January 1994, the survey started publishing a table of contents online. Starting February 2014, print publication of the Survey was ceased on account of low demand for the print publication as well as budgetary constraints.

Archives of the Survey of Current Business are also available from other sources.

Content
Each issue of the Survey of Current Business includes a list of regularly reported national data, industry data, international data, and regional data. In addition, each issue contains articles about topical issues such as recent government budgets or laws or other national and international developments.

Reception
The Survey of Current Business is widely used by macroeconomists and financial analysts to understand the state of the US economy. The numbers reported in the SCB are often treated as standard values for reference purposes and are used to judge the accuracy of forecasts or other estimates. For instance, the Livingston Survey relies on the SCB for its quarterly variables of real non-residential fixed investment and corporate profit after taxes.