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Canadian economic accounts key indicators¹
	First quarter 2008	Second quarter 2008	Third quarter 2008	Fourth quarter 2008	First quarter 2009	Second quarter 2009	2007	2008
	Seasonally adjusted at annual rates
	millions of dollars at current prices
Gross domestic product by income and by expenditure
Wages, salaries and supplementary labour income	812,496	820,916	827,116	831,936	824,428	820,248	784,839	823,116
	1.6	1.0	0.8	0.6	-0.9	-0.5	5.6	4.9
Corporation profits before taxes	213,056	229,532	237,708	182,900	147,508	131,168	204,131	215,799
	2.8	7.7	3.6	-23.1	-19.4	-11.1	4.1	5.7
Interest and miscellaneous investment income	76,572	85,660	86,136	77,568	65,720	66,492	71,847	81,484
	4.0	11.9	0.6	-9.9	-15.3	1.2	7.7	13.4
Net income of unincorporated business	93,516	95,500	97,860	98,108	96,000	97,540	90,407	96,246
	2.9	2.1	2.5	0.3	-2.1	1.6	4.4	6.5
Taxes less subsidies	164,368	166,016	166,464	163,220	159,916	161,516	166,443	165,017
	-2.8	1.0	0.3	-1.9	-2.0	1.0	3.7	-0.9
Personal disposable income	938,832	948,596	955,512	960,852	953,256	958,648	897,562	950,948
	2.6	1.0	0.7	0.6	-0.8	0.6	5.3	5.9
Personal saving rate²	3.3	3.4	3.1	4.9	4.5	4.5	2.5	3.7
	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
	millions of chained (2002) dollars
Personal expenditure on consumer goods and services	810,096	812,310	813,469	807,018	804,514	808,071	787,063	810,723
	0.6	0.3	0.1	-0.8	-0.3	0.4	4.6	3.0
Government current expenditure on goods and services	261,546	264,477	264,462	266,084	267,477	269,574	254,740	264,142
	1.4	1.1	-0.0	0.6	0.5	0.8	3.3	3.7
Gross fixed capital formation	318,328	318,118	318,616	305,999	286,570	282,381	312,482	315,265
	0.2	-0.1	0.2	-4.0	-6.3	-1.5	3.7	0.9
Investment in inventories	9,362	14,466	14,872	10,386	-8,909	-10,548	15,006	12,272
	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Exports of goods and services	498,552	493,352	488,152	464,964	424,701	402,504	510,323	486,255
	-0.6	-1.0	-1.1	-4.8	-8.7	-5.2	1.1	-4.7
Imports of goods and services	585,633	589,968	584,824	547,196	483,871	473,282	572,078	576,905
	-1.2	0.7	-0.9	-6.4	-11.6	-2.2	5.8	0.8
Gross domestic product at market prices	1,323,013	1,324,093	1,325,452	1,312,880	1,292,424	1,281,390	1,315,907	1,321,360
	-0.2	0.1	0.1	-0.9	-1.6	-0.9	2.5	0.4
	millions of chained (2002) dollars
Gross domestic product by industry at basic prices
Goods producing industries	366,990	365,912	366,089	356,561	340,230	327,984	374,126	363,888
	-1.1	-0.3	0.0	-2.6	-4.6	-3.6	0.5	-2.7
Industrial production	266,931	265,380	265,103	256,531	243,656	233,575	274,908	263,486
	-1.8	-0.6	-0.1	-3.2	-5.0	-4.1	0.2	-4.2
Energy sector	83,934	82,555	83,175	82,395	80,833	77,424	85,827	83,015
	-1.1	-1.6	0.8	-0.9	-1.9	-4.2	1.0	-3.3
Manufacturing	178,532	178,643	176,834	168,375	156,785	150,813	185,311	175,596
	-2.4	0.1	-1.0	-4.8	-6.9	-3.8	-0.9	-5.2
Non-durable manufacturing	70,615	70,783	70,169	68,116	66,360	64,498	72,507	69,921
	-1.4	0.2	-0.9	-2.9	-2.6	-2.8	-1.8	-3.6
Durable manufacturing	108,182	108,116	106,908	100,374	90,271	86,106	113,149	105,895
	-3.1	-0.1	-1.1	-6.1	-10.1	-4.6	-0.3	-6.4
Construction	74,385	74,829	75,510	74,783	71,718	70,196	72,890	74,877
	1.2	0.6	0.9	-1.0	-4.1	-2.1	2.9	2.7
Services producing industries	862,031	864,963	867,347	863,544	859,388	861,696	846,591	864,471
	0.5	0.3	0.3	-0.4	-0.5	0.3	3.5	2.1
Wholesale trade	72,012	71,682	70,929	66,964	63,686	63,668	70,256	70,397
	-0.1	-0.5	-1.1	-5.6	-4.9	-0.0	5.5	0.2
Retail trade	74,486	74,979	75,154	73,848	73,139	73,292	72,391	74,617
	1.0	0.7	0.2	-1.7	-1.0	0.2	5.8	3.1
Transportation and warehousing	56,917	57,069	56,921	56,112	55,020	54,551	56,624	56,755
	0.1	0.3	-0.3	-1.4	-1.9	-0.9	1.7	0.2
Finance, insurance, real estate and renting	245,987	246,430	247,508	247,853	248,750	252,464	240,536	246,945
	0.8	0.2	0.4	0.1	0.4	1.5	4.0	2.7
Information and communication technologies	58,333	58,758	58,997	58,738	58,256	58,087	57,199	58,707
	0.5	0.7	0.4	-0.4	-0.8	-0.3	4.0	2.6

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The first line is the series itself expressed in millions of dollars, seasonally adjusted at annual rates. The second line is the quarter to quarter percentage change at quarterly rates.

Actual rate.

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