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Summary Table - Key Indicators
Year and month Employment Unemployment Composite leading index Housing starts at annual rates 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
2010 1.4 8.0 9.4 190 1.8 3.4 5.0 9.6 10.6
2011 1.5 7.4 6.2 194 2.9 2.6 1.8 13.2 10.2
May 2010 0.2 8.1 0.8 199 0.0 0.4 0.2 4.7 6.1
June 2010 0.3 7.9 0.6 192 0.1 0.3 0.8 -3.6 0.2
July 2010 0.0 8.0 0.6 200 0.4 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.4
August 2010 0.1 8.1 0.6 192 0.1 0.3 0.4 1.5 1.5
September 2010 -0.1 8.0 -0.2 186 0.2 -0.1 0.5 -1.6 -1.2
October 2010 0.2 7.8 0.5 175 0.7 0.3 -0.3 3.3 0.4
November 2010 0.1 7.6 0.5 195 0.2 0.5 1.5 2.2 -1.4
December 2010 0.2 7.6 0.4 166 0.3 0.7 -0.8 7.2 1.4
January 2011 0.4 7.7 0.6 167 0.3 0.3 -0.6 2.0 3.1
February 2011 0.0 7.7 1.0 180 -0.1 -0.2 0.6 -6.9 -2.5
March 2011 0.0 7.6 0.6 184 0.8 0.2 -0.7 4.9 5.3
April 2011 0.2 7.6 0.7 190 0.3 0.0 0.0 -2.0 -0.4
May 2011 0.1 7.4 0.7 190 0.3 -0.3 0.1 2.1 2.6
June 2011 0.2 7.4 0.0 196 -0.4 0.2 1.7 -1.8 -0.6
July 2011 0.1 7.3 0.1 213 0.1 0.5 -0.8 2.6 -1.3
August 2011 0.0 7.3 0.2 191 0.3 0.5 0.1 1.4 2.5
September 2011 0.3 7.2 0.2 209 0.4 0.2 0.7 4.1 -0.4
October 2011 -0.3 7.4 0.2 211 0.3 0.0 0.6 -1.9 2.6
November 2011 0.0 7.5 0.9 186 0.1 -0.1 0.6 3.5 -0.5
December 2011 0.1 7.5 0.6 200 -0.2 0.5 0.3 5.4 0.1
January 2012 0.0 7.6 0.7 201 0.5 0.1 -0.1 -3.0 0.4
February 2012 0.0 7.4 0.7 204 0.1 -0.2 -0.6 -3.9 0.1
March 2012 0.5 7.2 0.3 214 0.2 0.1 0.4 0.2 0.1
April 2012 0.3 7.3 0.3 244 0.2 .. .. -1.2 0.1
May 2012 0.0 7.3 .. 211 .. .. .. .. ..