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Table B.5 Contributions to percentage change in real gross domestic product, expenditure-based

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Item Third quarter 2008 Fourth quarter 2008 First quarter 2009 Second quarter 2009 Third quarter 2009 Fourth quarter 2009 2008 2009
using seasonally adjusted data, percentage points

Notes:

The chained (2002) dollars data shown in the table "Real gross domestic product, expenditure-based, quarterly percentage change" are not additive. The contributions to percentage change shown in the above table are additive and provide a measure of the composition of GDP growth.

Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Economic Accounts Quarterly Review, catalogue number 13-010-X.

Personal expenditure on consumer goods and services
0.079 -0.443 -0.191 0.238 0.530 0.517 1.631 0.065
Durable goods
-0.013 -0.211 -0.211 0.061 0.211 0.180 0.389 -0.201
Semi-durable goods
0.022 -0.074 -0.088 -0.022 0.008 0.014 0.161 -0.131
Non-durable goods
-0.006 -0.047 0.088 0.000 0.056 -0.015 0.202 0.071
Services
0.076 -0.112 0.020 0.198 0.254 0.338 0.880 0.326
Government current expenditure on goods and services
-0.001 0.121 0.104 0.183 0.332 0.309 0.700 0.594
Government gross fixed capital formation
0.057 0.072 0.078 0.154 0.223 0.155 0.356 0.433
Government investment in inventories
-0.004 0.012 -0.007 0.000 0.001 0.002 0.001 -0.002
Business gross fixed capital formation
-0.021 -0.992 -1.909 -0.505 0.323 0.188 -0.162 -2.775
Residential structures
-0.085 -0.429 -0.391 0.107 0.148 0.441 -0.187 -0.518
Non-residential structures and equipment
0.063 -0.563 -1.518 -0.612 0.176 -0.253 0.025 -2.257
Non-residential structures
0.110 -0.020 -0.699 -0.356 -0.121 -0.117 -0.006 -0.979
Machinery and equipment
-0.047 -0.544 -0.818 -0.256 0.296 -0.135 0.032 -1.278
Business investment in inventories
0.028 -0.305 -1.193 0.082 0.329 -0.181 -0.228 -1.187
Non-farm
-0.110 -0.261 -0.960 0.143 0.130 -0.184 -0.444 -1.059
Farm
0.138 -0.045 -0.233 -0.062 0.198 0.003 0.216 -0.128
Exports of goods and services
-0.382 -1.707 -2.863 -1.526 0.804 1.027 -1.623 -4.594
Goods
-0.389 -1.726 -2.621 -1.560 0.924 0.971 -1.498 -4.339
Services
0.008 0.019 -0.242 0.033 -0.120 0.056 -0.125 -0.255
Deduct: Imports of goods and services
-0.293 -2.292 -4.065 -0.443 2.313 0.653 0.231 -4.644
Goods
-0.113 -2.024 -3.680 -0.654 2.239 0.414 0.236 -4.220
Services
-0.180 -0.268 -0.385 0.211 0.074 0.239 -0.005 -0.424
Statistical discrepancy
0.054 0.003 0.131 0.058 0.007 -0.131 -0.030 0.178
Gross domestic product at market prices
0.103 -0.949 -1.785 -0.875 0.235 1.233 0.414 -2.643
Final domestic demand
0.113 -1.242 -1.917 0.069 1.407 1.169 2.525 -1.683