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Summary Table - Key Indicators
Year and month Employment Unemployment Composite leading index Housing starts Consumer price index Real gross domestic product Retail sales volume Merchandise exports Merchandise imports
V2062811 V2062815 V7688 V52300157 V41690914 V41881175 V52367631 V191490 V183406
  percentage change rate percentage change (000s) percentage change
2008 1.5 6.1 0.7 212 2.3 0.6 3.2 5.8 6.8
2009 -1.6 8.3 -4.0 149 0.3 -2.6 -1.5 -24.6 -15.7
November 2008 -0.5 6.5 -0.6 170 -0.3 -0.8 -2.4 -8.1 -2.7
December 2008 -0.2 6.8 -1.0 149 -0.3 -1.0 -2.6 -10.9 -6.8
January 2009 -0.8 7.3 -1.1 136 -0.2 -0.7 0.5 -10.5 -8.9
February 2009 -0.5 8.0 -1.4 115 0.4 -0.2 0.1 5.4 -0.2
March 2009 -0.2 8.1 -1.4 146 -0.2 -0.6 0.4 -1.1 -3.4
April 2009 0.2 8.1 -0.9 112 -0.3 -0.2 0.4 -6.3 -0.9
May 2009 -0.2 8.5 0.0 128 0.3 -0.3 0.4 -6.0 -3.2
June 2009 0.0 8.6 0.1 143 0.3 0.2 0.7 3.3 -1.1
July 2009 -0.2 8.6 0.7 139 -0.3 0.2 0.6 5.8 8.5
August 2009 0.2 8.7 1.4 162 0.3 -0.1 0.0 -5.2 -2.7
September 2009 0.2 8.3 1.2 166 0.2 0.6 1.5 1.7 -1.2
October 2009 -0.1 8.4 0.7 188 0.3 0.3 0.4 4.1 0.0
November 2009 0.4 8.4 1.3 176 0.5 0.7 -0.9 1.1 3.0
December 2009 -0.2 8.4 1.3 176 0.0 0.5 0.5 4.2 3.2
January 2010 0.3 8.3 0.7 193 0.4 0.6 0.4 0.8 -1.5
February 2010 0.1 8.2 1.0 202 0.0 0.3 0.6 0.9 1.9
March 2010 0.1 8.2 1.1 199 -0.1 0.5 2.4 -0.6 2.8
April 2010 0.6 8.1 0.9 206 0.0 0.0 -2.3 -0.7 -2.4
May 2010 0.1 8.1 0.8 198 -0.2 0.1 0.3 4.4 6.5
June 2010 0.5 7.9 0.6 192 -0.2 0.3 0.8 -3.6 -0.4
July 2010 -0.1 8.0 0.6 199 0.6 0.0 0.1 -0.4 2.0
August 2010 0.2 8.1 0.6 191 0.1 0.3 0.5 1.9 -1.1
September 2010 0.0 8.0 -0.2 185 0.3 -0.1 0.4 -1.7 1.2
October 2010 0.0 7.9 0.2 168 0.7 .. .. .. ..
November 2010 0.1 7.6 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..