UnderlyingGDPbyIndustry suggests quarterly but only accepts Annually..

[slecrenski]

----------------------------------UnderlyingGDPbyIndustry---------------------------------------
  ParameterName ParameterDataType                                                  ParameterDescription  ParameterIsRequiredFlag ParameterDefaultValue  MultipleAcceptedFlag AllValue
0     Frequency            string                                                           Q-Quarterly                        1                                           1      ALL
1      Industry            string                          List of industries to retrieve (ALL for All)                        1                                           1      ALL
2       TableID           integer  The unique Underlying GDP by Industry table identifier (ALL for All)                        1                                           1      ALL
3          Year           integer                     List of year(s) of data to retrieve (ALL for All)                        1                                           1      ALL
{
    "ParameterName": {
        "0": "Frequency",
        "1": "Industry",
        "2": "TableID",
        "3": "Year"
    },
    "ParameterDataType": {
        "0": "string",
        "1": "string",
        "2": "integer",
        "3": "integer"
    },
    "ParameterDescription": {
        "0": "Q-Quarterly",
        "1": "List of industries to retrieve (ALL for All)",
        "2": "The unique Underlying GDP by Industry table identifier (ALL for All)",
        "3": "List of year(s) of data to retrieve (ALL for All)"
    },
    "ParameterIsRequiredFlag": {
        "0": 1,
        "1": 1,
        "2": 1,
        "3": 1
    },
    "ParameterDefaultValue": {
        "0": "",
        "1": "",
        "2": "",
        "3": ""
    },
    "MultipleAcceptedFlag": {
        "0": 1,
        "1": 1,
        "2": 1,
        "3": 1
    },
    "AllValue": {
        "0": "ALL",
        "1": "ALL",
        "2": "ALL",
        "3": "ALL"
    }
}
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Key    Desc
0   A  Annual

[slecrenski]

Also all does not work for frequency. So the api here is somewhat nonsensical. How could underlying gdpbyindustry only have annual data? only produced annually?

[bquistorff-bea]

That information returned from beaapi.get_parameter_list(beakey, 'UnderlyingGDPbyIndustry') doesn't look right, in that only annual data is currently available. I'll send a note to try to fix that.

And yes, some published data products are only available as annual series (not quarterly or monthly). The frequency depends on data quality/quantity, staff review time, among other factors.