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MAIN FEATURES EXPENDITURE CHAIN VOLUME MEASURES

			Trend			Seasonally adjusted
			% change Jun 09 to Sep 09	% change Sep 08 to Sep 09	% points contributions to growth in GDP Jun 09 to Sep 09	% change Jun 09 to Sep 09	% change Sep 08 to Sep 09	% points contributions to growth in GDP Jun 09 to Sep 09
Final consumption expenditure
	General government		0.7	2.2	0.1	0.7	2.1	0.1
	Households		0.6	1.8	0.3	0.7	1.8	0.4
Gross fixed capital formation
	Private
		Dwellings	-0.8	-8.8	-	5.9	-6.7	0.3
		Ownership transfer costs	6.2	17.0	0.1	1.2	17.7	-
		Non-dwelling construction	-2.1	-2.1	-0.1	-4.3	-4.0	-0.3
		Machinery and equipment	-1.9	-11.1	-0.1	-4.1	-12.7	-0.3
		Cultivated biological resources	6.5	8.6	-	14.1	4.3	-
		Intellectual property products	1.0	5.4	-	1.0	6.3	-
	Public		2.2	0.3	0.1	6.2	1.0	0.3
Changes in inventories			na	na	0.4	na	na	0.8
Gross national expenditure			0.9	-0.3	0.9	1.3	-0.7	1.4
Exports of goods and services			-0.1	0.7	-	-2.3	-0.2	-0.5
Imports of goods and services			1.5	-9.4	-0.3	5.8	-8.3	-1.1
Statistical discrepancy (E)			na	na	0.5	na	na	0.4
Gross domestic product			0.5	1.0	0.5	0.2	0.6	0.2
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
na not available

• Government final consumption expenditure increased 0.7% and Household final consumption expenditure increased 0.7% in seasonally adjusted terms. The main contributors to growth in Household final consumption were Food (up 1.1%) and Insurance and other financial services (up 1.9%).

• Gross fixed capital formation increased 0.4% in seasonally adjusted terms. Total private gross fixed capital formation decreased 0.9%, largely reflecting a decrease in Non-dwelling construction investment (down 4.3%) and a decrease in Machinery and equipment investment (down 4.1%). These were offset by an increase in Dwelling investment, up 5.9%. Public gross fixed capital formation rose 6.2%, driven by General government, State and local investment (up 8.1%).

• Total inventories rose by $253m in seasonally adjusted terms compared with a fall of $2,093m last quarter. The change in inventories has contributed 0.8 percentage points to GDP growth during the quarter.

• Exports of goods and services fell 2.3% in seasonally adjusted terms. Seasonally adjusted Exports of goods fell 3.6%, with Rural and Non-rural exports falling 9.5% and 2.1% respectively.
• Imports of goods and services rose 5.8% in seasonally adjusted terms. Seasonally adjusted Imports of services rose 8.9%, while Imports of goods rose 5.0%.