Ed, I have always used the “regional economic data set” from SANDAG as it offers a lot of the info I need in one neat spreadsheet. I compared to BEA data and it looks like they are in lockstep but then started to diverge by a couple percent in 05 or thereabouts. Not sure what this is all about — I will look into it when I get some time. But it shouldn’t account for a big difference in aggregate…
Regarding income growing faster than CPI, this seems reasonable based on the shift in jobs here and economic growth in general (which would hopefully see incomes grow faster than the cost of living over time).
