Appendix 1
Real gross domestic product - Final expenditure on production

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Quarterly estimates

1. Quarterly expenditure-based estimates of real R&D GDP were calculated from the annual series (see Appendix 7). These estimates were calculated for the years 1997 to 2006 and are required if the R&D estimates are to be integrated into the quarterly Income And Expenditure Accounts in the CSNA. In the years from 1997 to 2001, R&D GDP generally grew more quickly than the total economy (see graph A1). This trend reversed for the period from 2002 to the first quarter of 2003 as R&D was hit hard by the downturn in technology spending. In the last few years, growth rates for R&D GDP and GDP for the total economy have been similar.

Graph A1
Research and development gross domestic product experiences three differing periods of growth

percent change to gross domestic product, Research and development gross domestic product