Thursday, October 29, 2009

[IWS] BEA: GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT: THIRD QUARTER 2009 (ADVANCE ESTIMATE) [29 October 2009]

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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
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Cornell University
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---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
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GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT: THIRD QUARTER 2009 (ADVANCE ESTIMATE) [29 October 2009]
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2009/gdp3q09_adv.htm
or
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2009/pdf/gdp3q09_adv.pdf
[full-text, 14 pages]
or
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2009/xls/gdp3q09_adv.xls
[spreadsheet]
and
Highlights
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2009/pdf/gdp3q09_adv_fax.pdf

Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property
located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the third quarter of 2009,
(that is, from the second quarter to the third quarter), according to the "advance" estimate released by the
Bureau of Economic Analysis.  In the second quarter, real GDP decreased 0.7 percent.

      The Bureau emphasized that the third-quarter advance estimate released today is based on source
data that are incomplete or subject to further revision by the source agency (see the box on page 5).  The
"second" estimate for the third quarter, based on more complete data, will be released on November 24,
2009.

      The increase in real GDP in the third quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from
personal consumption expenditures (PCE), exports, private inventory investment, federal government
spending, and residential fixed investment.  Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP,
increased.

      The upturn in real GDP in the third quarter primarily reflected upturns in PCE, in private
inventory investment, in exports, and in residential fixed investment and a smaller decrease in
nonresidential fixed investment that were partly offset by an upturn in imports, a downturn in state and
local government spending, and a deceleration in federal government spending.

      Motor vehicle output added 1.66 percentage points to the third-quarter change in real GDP after
adding 0.19 percentage point to the second-quarter change.  Final sales of computers subtracted 0.11
percentage point from the third-quarter change in real GDP after subtracting 0.04 percentage point from
the second-quarter change.

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FOOTNOTE.--Quarterly estimates are expressed at
seasonally adjusted annual rates, unless otherwise specified.
Quarter-to-quarter dollar changes are differences between these published
estimates.  Percent changes are calculated from unrounded data and are
annualized.  "Real" estimates are in chained (2005) dollars.  Price indexes
are chain-type measures.

      This news release is available on BEA's Web site along with the < http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2009/pdf/tech3q09_adv.pdf > Technical Note and < http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2009/pdf/gdp3q09_adv_fax.pdf > Highlights
related to this release.
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AND MUCH MORE...including TABLES....
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