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Canadian economic accounts key indicators¹
	Fourth quarter 2007	First quarter 2008	Second quarter 2008	Third quarter 2008	Fourth quarter 2008	First 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	799,508	812,496	820,916	827,116	831,936	826,304	784,839	823,116
	1.9	1.6	1.0	0.8	0.6	-0.7	5.6	4.9
Corporation profits before taxes	207,212	213,056	229,532	237,708	182,900	138,676	204,131	215,799
	0.8	2.8	7.7	3.6	-23.1	-24.2	4.1	5.7
Interest and miscellaneous investment income	73,620	76,572	85,660	86,136	77,568	73,692	71,847	81,484
	1.0	4.0	11.9	0.6	-9.9	-5.0	7.7	13.4
Net income of unincorporated business	90,924	93,516	95,500	97,860	98,108	97,432	90,407	96,246
	0.0	2.9	2.1	2.5	0.3	-0.7	4.4	6.5
Taxes less subsidies	169,128	164,368	166,016	166,464	163,220	160,280	166,443	165,017
	0.9	-2.8	1.0	0.3	-1.9	-1.8	3.7	-0.9
Personal disposable income	915,076	938,832	948,596	955,512	960,852	955,260	897,562	950,948
	1.5	2.6	1.0	0.7	0.6	-0.6	5.3	5.9
Personal saving rate²	1.9	3.3	3.4	3.1	4.9	4.7	2.5	3.7
	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
	millions of chained (2002) dollars
Personal expenditure on consumer goods and services	805,026	810,096	812,310	813,469	807,018	803,863	787,063	810,723
	1.9	0.6	0.3	0.1	-0.8	-0.4	4.6	3.0
Government current expenditure on goods and services	257,965	261,546	264,477	264,462	266,084	266,884	254,740	264,142
	0.8	1.4	1.1	-0.0	0.6	0.3	3.3	3.7
Gross fixed capital formation	317,660	318,328	318,118	318,616	305,999	288,780	312,482	315,265
	0.8	0.2	-0.1	0.2	-4.0	-5.6	3.7	0.9
Investment in inventories	25,132	9,362	14,466	14,872	10,386	-5,823	15,006	12,272
	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Exports of goods and services	501,456	498,552	493,352	488,152	464,964	424,655	510,323	486,255
	-1.7	-0.6	-1.0	-1.1	-4.8	-8.7	1.1	-4.7
Imports of goods and services	592,697	585,633	589,968	584,824	547,196	485,937	572,078	576,905
	1.6	-1.2	0.7	-0.9	-6.4	-11.2	5.8	0.8
Gross domestic product at market prices	1,325,490	1,323,013	1,324,093	1,325,452	1,312,880	1,294,805	1,315,907	1,321,360
	0.3	-0.2	0.1	0.1	-0.9	-1.4	2.5	0.4
	millions of chained (2002) dollars
Gross domestic product by industry at basic prices
Goods producing industries	371,248	367,134	365,400	365,882	357,118	342,855	374,126	363,884
	-1.1	-1.1	-0.5	0.1	-2.4	-4.0	0.5	-2.7
Industrial production	271,769	267,075	264,894	264,930	257,134	245,769	274,908	263,508
	-1.5	-1.7	-0.8	0.0	-2.9	-4.4	0.2	-4.1
Energy sector	84,855	83,904	82,469	83,128	82,561	81,416	85,827	83,016
	-1.4	-1.1	-1.7	0.8	-0.7	-1.4	1.0	-3.3
Manufacturing	182,957	178,755	178,278	176,698	168,813	158,450	185,311	175,636
	-1.4	-2.3	-0.3	-0.9	-4.5	-6.1	-0.9	-5.2
Non-durable manufacturing	71,623	70,752	70,682	70,168	68,216	66,831	72,507	69,955
	-1.8	-1.2	-0.1	-0.7	-2.8	-2.0	-1.8	-3.5
Durable manufacturing	111,673	108,265	107,847	106,769	100,720	91,483	113,149	105,900
	-1.2	-3.1	-0.4	-1.0	-5.7	-9.2	-0.3	-6.4
Construction	73,467	74,367	74,840	75,508	74,695	72,185	72,890	74,853
	0.3	1.2	0.6	0.9	-1.1	-3.4	2.9	2.7
Services producing industries	857,799	861,637	865,248	867,494	863,153	858,866	846,591	864,383
	0.8	0.4	0.4	0.3	-0.5	-0.5	3.5	2.1
Wholesale trade	72,063	71,837	71,722	71,009	67,030	63,291	70,256	70,399
	1.6	-0.3	-0.2	-1.0	-5.6	-5.6	5.5	0.2
Retail trade	73,734	74,486	74,983	75,154	73,654	73,067	72,391	74,570
	1.5	1.0	0.7	0.2	-2.0	-0.8	5.8	3.0
Transportation and warehousing	56,863	56,845	57,122	56,966	56,093	54,959	56,624	56,757
	-0.2	-0.0	0.5	-0.3	-1.5	-2.0	1.7	0.2
Finance, insurance, real estate and renting	243,946	245,802	246,485	247,682	247,775	248,699	240,536	246,936
	0.7	0.8	0.3	0.5	0.0	0.4	4.0	2.7
Information and communication technologies	58,065	58,327	58,805	58,967	58,758	58,318	57,199	58,714
	0.7	0.5	0.8	0.3	-0.4	-0.7	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 period-to-period percentage change.

Actual rate.

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