SASEBEA Interface Engine
Functional Summary
Table 1 summarizes the options that the SASEBEA engine uses.
Table 1: Summary of SASEBEA Interface Engine Options
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| AFFILIATION= | Specifies the affiliation classification of the services transaction |
| AREAORCOUNTRY= | Specifies the counterparty area or country for which to select BEA time series data |
| CASLIB= | Specifies the name of the caslib where the in-memory CAS table containing the BEA data is stored |
| CASOUT= | Specifies the name of the in-memory CAS table, which contains the data that the SASEBEA interface engine returns |
| CLASSIFICATION= | Specifies the name of the classification by which the data are returned |
| COMPONENT= | Specifies either the position (Pos) or a component in the change of position (ChgPosTrans) from the previous period |
| COUNTRY= | Specifies the geographic area code of the selected data to retrieve |
| DEBUG= | Specifies whether to include diagnostic message logging in the SAS log window |
| DESCRIPTION= | Specifies whether to use a long or short label |
| DIRECTIONOFINVESTMENT= | Specifies the direction of investment for multinational enterprise, with respect to United States (inward or outward) |
| FOOTNOTES= | Specifies whether to include footnotes in the data to retrieve |
| FREQ= | Specifies the frequency of the data to retrieve |
| GEOFIPS= | Specifies a list of the federal information processing system (FIPS) codes for state, county, or MSA codes of the data to retrieve |
| GOCAS= | Specifies whether to generate an in-memory CAS table for the BEA data |
| INDICATOR= | Specifies a list of series indicators to retrieve |
| INDUSTRY= | Specifies a list of industries to retrieve |
| LINECODE= | Specifies the line code in the table to retrieve |
| NONBANKAFFILIATESONLY= | Specifies whether the selection of data is for nonbank affiliates only (1) or for both bank and nonbank affiliates (0) |
| OUT= | Specifies the name of the SAS data set and the JSON file, which contains the data that the SASEBEA interface engine returns |
| OWNERSHIPLEVEL= | Specifies the selection of data for all affiliates (OWNERSHIP=1), or for majority-owned affiliates (OWNERSHIP=0) |
| SERIESID= | Specifies the series identifier (integer) of the time series data to retrieve |
| SETNAME= | Specifies the name of the BEA data set from which to retrieve the time series data |
| STATE= | Specifies the two-digit FIPS code of the state to select the time series data to retrieve |
| TABLEID= | Specifies the table identifier of the data table to retrieve |
| TABLENAME= | Specifies the name of the data table to retrieve |
| TRADEDIRECTION= | Specifies the trade direction to retrieve data for |
| TYPEOFINVESTMENT= | Specifies the type of investment to retrieve data for |
| TYPEOFSERVICE= | Specifies the type of service to retrieve data for |
| USER= | Specifies the required BEA access key to authenticate the request for the retrieved data |
| YEAR= | Specifies a list of years to retrieve data for |
Last updated: July 09, 2026