Services and the changing economic base of regions in the united states.

This article presents estimates of the contribution of service industries to the economic base of regional economies in the United States over the 1995–2000 time period. The article utilises data for the 172 BEA Economic Areas, and directly confronts the change in statistical accounts in the United States from the SIC to NAICS classification system. The article documents the strong contribution of service industries to the growth in the economic base of these regions, and it also documents the uneven pattern of growth among regions in the United States during this time period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]