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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT:  FOURTH QUARTER 2009 (ADVANCE ESTIMATE) [29 January 2010]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2010/gdp4q09_adv.htm

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2010/pdf/gdp4q09_adv.pdf

[full-text, 14 pages]

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2010/xls/gdp4q09_adv.xls

[spreadsheet]

and

Highlights

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2010/pdf/gdp4q09_adv_fax.pdf

 

  Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property

located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 5.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009,

(that is, from the third quarter to the fourth quarter), according to the "advance" estimate released by the

Bureau of Economic Analysis.  In the third quarter, real GDP increased 2.2 percent.

 

      The Bureau emphasized that the fourth-quarter advance estimate released today is based on

source data that are incomplete or subject to further revision by the source agency (see the box on page

4).  The "second" estimate for the fourth quarter, based on more complete data, will be released on

February 26, 2010.

 

      The increase in real GDP in the fourth quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from

private inventory investment, exports, and personal consumption expenditures (PCE).  Imports, which

are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased.

 

      The acceleration in real GDP in the fourth quarter primarily reflected an acceleration in private

inventory investment, a deceleration in imports, and an upturn in nonresidential fixed investment that

were partly offset by decelerations in federal government spending and in PCE.

 

      Motor vehicle output added 0.61 percentage point to the fourth-quarter change in real GDP after

adding 1.45 percentage points to the third-quarter change.  Final sales of computers subtracted 0.03

percentage point from the fourth-quarter change in real GDP after subtracting 0.08 percentage point

from the third-quarter change.

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FOOTNOTE.--Quarterly estimates are expressed at seasonally adjusted annual rates, unless otherwise

specified.  Quarter-to-quarter dollar changes are differences between these published estimates.  Percent

changes are calculated from unrounded data and are annualized.  “Real” estimates are in chained (2005)

dollars.  Price indexes are chain-type measures.

 

            This news release is available on BEA’s Web site along with the Technical Note and Highlights

related to this release.

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