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Table B.5 Contributions to percentage change in real gross domestic product, expenditure-based 1

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Item	Second quarter 2007	Third quarter 2007	Fourth quarter 2007	First quarter 2008	Second quarter 2008	Third quarter 2008	2006	2007
Item	using seasonally adjusted data, percentage points
1. 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	0.777	0.566	1.008	0.345	0.280	0.096	2.358	2.513
Durable goods	0.256	-0.025	0.197	0.286	0.017	0.005	0.540	0.511
Semi-durable goods	0.030	0.092	0.034	0.051	0.064	0.046	0.327	0.256
Non-durable goods	0.172	0.074	0.129	-0.020	-0.006	-0.024	0.182	0.446
Services	0.319	0.425	0.649	0.027	0.205	0.068	1.309	1.301
Government current expenditure on goods and services	0.129	0.333	0.271	0.107	0.186	0.023	0.712	0.716
Government gross fixed capital formation	0.080	0.088	0.007	0.061	0.027	0.000	0.181	0.220
Government investment in inventories	-0.004	0.010	-0.005	0.008	-0.011	-0.005	-0.005	0.004
Business gross fixed capital formation	0.190	0.218	0.203	-0.022	0.014	0.025	1.330	0.666
Residential structures	0.080	0.072	0.033	-0.126	-0.067	-0.001	0.147	0.210
Non-residential structures and equipment	0.110	0.146	0.170	0.104	0.081	0.026	1.182	0.456
Non-residential structures	-0.118	-0.064	-0.051	0.069	0.085	0.040	0.482	-0.023
Machinery and equipment	0.228	0.210	0.221	0.035	-0.005	-0.014	0.700	0.480
Business investment in inventories	-0.021	0.939	0.002	-1.027	0.379	0.117	-0.173	0.154
Non-farm	-0.040	0.950	-0.038	-1.070	0.299	0.002	-0.029	0.187
Farm	0.018	-0.011	0.040	0.043	0.079	0.115	-0.143	-0.033
Exports of goods and services	0.220	-0.099	-0.645	-0.358	-0.466	-0.493	0.223	0.362
Goods	0.174	-0.002	-0.681	-0.251	-0.448	-0.418	0.284	0.442
Services	0.046	-0.097	0.036	-0.107	-0.018	-0.075	-0.061	-0.080
Deduct: Imports of goods and services	0.400	1.533	0.675	-0.759	0.222	-0.521	1.524	1.834
Goods	0.173	1.399	0.223	-0.438	0.313	-0.272	1.358	1.504
Services	0.228	0.134	0.452	-0.321	-0.091	-0.249	0.166	0.330
Statistical discrepancy	-0.014	0.054	0.035	-0.016	-0.037	0.042	0.008	-0.089
Gross domestic product at market prices	0.957	0.576	0.202	-0.144	0.150	0.325	3.110	2.713
Final domestic demand	1.177	1.206	1.490	0.491	0.507	0.144	4.580	4.116

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