WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) will publish the fourth-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) report on Thursday at 08:30 a.m (1330 GMT) after it was delayed by a 35-day partial shutdown of the government that ended on Jan. 25.

The Commerce Department was among the federal agencies that were shuttered on Dec. 22 following the lapse in funding, affecting the collection and processing of economic data.

Here is what to expect:

WHAT THE REPORT WILL LOOK LIKE

The BEA normally publishes three estimates of GDP for a given quarter. The advance estimate was previously scheduled for release on Jan. 30, with the second estimate of GDP due on Feb. 28. The report on Thursday, which the BEA calls initial, will replace the advance and second GDP estimates.

This combined report will contain one set of GDP numbers based on the data available from the BEA’s data suppliers, including its sister agency, the U.S. Census Bureau.

The report will include data that would have been used to compile the advance fourth-quarter GDP estimate and annual GDP for 2018, as well as some of the data that would usually go into the calculation of the second estimate.

The release of the third estimate of fourth-quarter GDP is scheduled for March 28.

ECONOMISTS’ EXPECTATIONS

While almost all of the December source data for the fourth-quarter GDP report would have been released by Thursday, with a few exceptions such as construction spending and new home sales figures, the delays in publishing the data have left economists with fewer details for making their estimates.

“We have significantly less information relevant to projecting GDP growth than is normally seen by this time,” said Sam Bullard, a senior economist at Wells Fargo Securities in Charlotte, North Carolina.

According to a Reuters survey of economists, GDP likely increased at a 2.3 percent annualized rate. The estimate was compiled before Monday’s release of December wholesale inventories and Tuesday’s housing starts data, as well as December factory orders and advance goods trade deficit and retail inventories reports on Wednesday.

Following the release of these reports, several institutions lowered their estimates. JPMorgan is forecasting fourth-quarter GDP rising at a 1.8 percent rate and Goldman Sachs sees a 1.7 percent growth pace. The Atlanta Federal Reserve estimates GDP increasing at a 1.8 percent rate.

The economy grew at a 3.4 percent pace in the third quarter.