MAIN FEATURES INCOME AT CURRENT PRICES
| | Trend | Seasonally adjusted |
| | % change
Sep 15
to Dec 15 | % change Dec 14 to Dec 15 | % points contributions to growth in GDP Sep 15 to Dec 15 | % change
Sep 15
to Dec 15 | % change Dec 14 to Dec 15 | % points contributions to growth in GDP Sep 15 to Dec 15 |
|
Compensation of employees | 0.8 | 3.0 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 2.9 | 0.2 |
Gross operating surplus | | | | | | |
| Private non-financial corporations | 0.2 | -2.2 | - | 0.9 | -1.8 | 0.1 |
| Other(a) | 1.0 | 4.2 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 3.9 | 0.2 |
Gross mixed income | 1.1 | 10.4 | 0.1 | -0.5 | 9.6 | - |
Taxes less subsidies on production and imports | 1.3 | 6.3 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 6.2 | - |
Statistical discrepancy (I) | na | na | -0.2 | na | na | -0.2 |
Gross domestic product | 0.6 | 2.5 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 0.4 |
|
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells) |
na not available |
(a) Includes Public non-financial corporations, Financial corporations, General government and Dwellings owned by persons. |
DECEMBER QUARTER
Summary Comments
Compensation of employees (COE)
- Seasonally adjusted COE increased 0.4%, reflecting a fall of 0.6% in average earnings per employee, and an increase of 1.0% in the number of employees.
- Private sector COE rose 0.3% and the public sector COE rose 0.7%. The relatively weak increase (when compared with employment growth) was a result of increases seen in labour intensive industries such as Retail trade and Health care and social assistance.
- Trend COE represented 54.0% of Total factor income.
COE SHARE OF TOTAL FACTOR INCOME: Trend
Gross operating surplus (GOS)
- Total GOS rose 1.1% for the December quarter. Seasonally adjusted Total corporations GOS increased 1.1%. Financial corporations and Private non-financial corporations were the main contributors with Financial corporations increasing 2.1% and Private non-financial corporations recording an increase of 0.9%.
- Trend GOS for Total corporations represented 36.5% of Total factor income.
PROFIT (a) SHARE OF TOTAL FACTOR INCOME: Trend