EARL translates official U.S. economic-account data into a business-facing framework designed to make the structure and performance of the economy easier to interpret, analyze, and explore.
The project connects National, Corporate, and Industry perspectives with transparent methodology, reproducible construction, downloadable data, and documented statistical-release practices.
Read official economic-account concepts through a consistent business-facing statement framework while keeping the underlying source meaning visible.
Compare economic structure and performance using validated statement lines, margins, and explicitly defined analytical measures.
Move from statements to charts, downloadable data, methodology, and preserved statistical releases without losing the source context.
Economy-wide U.S. domestic production.
Domestic corporate-business perspective.
Individual industries and industry aggregates.
EARL is developed as a collaborative research and publication project. Core contributors combine economic methodology, data engineering, validation, product specification, and website implementation.
Conceptual framework, economic methodology, and research direction.
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Project management, product specification, QA, methodology, and website and release coordination.
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Data architecture, R / Quarto implementation, validation, and analytical tooling.
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When referring to EARL as a research project or methodological framework, cite the Methodology Paper:
Economic Accounts Research Lab (2026), EARL Methodology: Constructing Business-Style Economic Accounts from U.S. Economic Data, Version 1.0, October 2026.
When using data, results, or a publication snapshot, cite the specific dataset or Statistical Release together with its date or version and public link.
EARL is an analytical presentation of official economic-account data, not a collection or consolidation of firm-level financial statements. Business-facing labels are intended to aid interpretation; they do not assert formal equivalence to GAAP, IFRS, tax-accounting, or company-reporting definitions.
Interpretation & limitations →The underlying official source data changed.
EARL changed a mapping, construction, or calculation.
A previously published EARL output contained an error.
Published release artifacts are preserved so that changes can be distinguished rather than silently overwriting prior publication states.
Project contact: Mike Aguilar mike.aguilar@duke.edu