Which statement is most accurate when studying Real Growth in New York State?

• State GDP rankings require consistent metric definitions, periods, and releases because nominal, real, annual, and quarterly series answer different questions.
• BEA revisions are part of normal statistical production and make publication dates essential metadata for state-economy research.
• The approximately 2.9% increase in New York real GDP from 2024 to 2025 should be described as growth in inflation-adjusted output, not income growth.
• Real GDP uses chained-dollar methods to estimate changes in production while reducing the effect of price changes.