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Contributions to percentage change in real Gross domestic product, expenditure-based 1

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  Third quarter 2004 Fourth quarter 2004 First quarter 2005 Second quarter 2005 Third quarter 2005 Fourth quarter 2005 2004 2005
percentage points
Personal expenditure on consumer goods and services
0.481
0.526
0.828
0.527
0.337
0.396
1.933
2.217
Durable goods
0.093
0.117
0.150
0.142
0.057
-0.025
0.232
0.431
Semi-durable goods
0.096
0.001
0.113
0.068
-0.008
0.072
0.262
0.240
Non-durable goods
0.101
0.134
0.142
0.021
0.024
0.041
0.320
0.334
Services
0.191
0.275
0.423
0.295
0.263
0.308
1.118
1.211
Government current expenditure on goods and services
0.096
0.099
0.110
0.153
0.209
0.171
0.521
0.535
Government gross fixed capital formation
-0.002
0.022
0.049
0.012
0.031
0.067
0.126
0.105
Government investment in inventories
-0.008
-0.031
0.022
0.003
-0.008
0.005
0.000
0.000
Business gross fixed capital formation
0.310
0.344
0.278
0.229
0.408
0.369
1.174
1.199
Residential structures
0.112
0.083
-0.036
0.108
0.040
0.022
0.509
0.211
Non-residential structures
0.019
0.010
0.129
0.073
0.129
0.138
0.039
0.303
Machinery and equipment
0.179
0.252
0.185
0.048
0.239
0.209
0.627
0.685
Business investment in inventories
1.228
0.414
-0.388
-0.377
0.107
-0.190
-0.009
0.203
Non-farm
1.234
0.397
-0.385
-0.373
0.138
-0.203
0.065
0.215
Farm
-0.006
0.017
-0.003
-0.004
-0.031
0.013
-0.073
-0.012
Exports of goods and services
-0.274
-0.299
0.302
-0.050
0.678
0.881
1.901
0.900
Goods
-0.276
-0.337
0.305
-0.051
0.717
0.848
1.774
0.870
Services
0.002
0.038
-0.003
0.001
-0.040
0.034
0.127
0.030
Deduct: Imports of goods and services
1.014
0.685
0.630
-0.280
0.831
0.912
2.707
2.315
Goods
1.065
0.457
0.622
-0.327
0.829
0.860
2.284
2.109
Services
-0.050
0.227
0.007
0.047
0.002
0.053
0.423
0.206
Statistical discrepancy
0.056
0.143
-0.057
0.102
-0.067
-0.157
-0.007
0.092
Gross domestic product at market prices
0.872
0.533
0.514
0.877
0.865
0.629
2.933
2.936
Final domestic demand
0.885
0.991
1.265
0.920
0.985
1.003
3.753
4.055
1 The chained (1997) 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.