Use BEA VA chain price indices for VA elements in nowcasted Intermediate Use tables

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useeior/data-raw/CalculateIntermediateUseAndCommodityMix.R

Lines 53 to 57 in 6e730eb

	# There are no values in Rho for VA, so we calculate a weighted average Rho value for the VA rows for the current year
	# by using the commodity output values as weights, multiplying the Rho values by the weights,
	# diving by the sum of the weights, and averaging the result
	Rho_year_index = which(colnames(Make_Use_2017$Rho) %in% year)
	weighted_av_Rho = mean((Make_Use_2017$Rho[,Rho_year_index] * Make_Use_2017$q)/Make_Use_2017$q)

A commodity output weighted average of CPI is used for a VA CPI. Instead we could used published VA-specific CPI values provided by BEA at a summary plus level of res: