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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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National Income and Product Accounts

Gross Domestic Product, 3rd quarter 2011 (advance estimate) [27 October 2011]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2011/gdp3q11_adv.htm

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2011/pdf/gdp3q11_adv.pdf

[full-text, 14 pages]

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2011/xls/gdp3q11_adv.xls

[spreadsheet]

and

Highlights

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2011/pdf/gdp3q11_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 2.5 percent in the third quarter of 2011 (that

is, from the second quarter to the third quarter) according to the "advance" estimate released by the

Bureau of Economic Analysis.  In the second quarter, real GDP increased 1.3 percent.

      The Bureau emphasized that the third-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 3).  The

"second" estimate for the third quarter, based on more complete data, will be released on November 22,

2011.

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

personal consumption expenditures (PCE), nonresidential fixed investment, exports, and federal

government spending that were partly offset by negative contributions from private inventory

investment and state and local government spending.  Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation

of GDP, increased.

      The acceleration in real GDP in the third quarter primarily reflected accelerations in PCE and in

nonresidential fixed investment and a smaller decrease in state and local government spending that were

partly offset by a larger decrease in private inventory investment.

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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.

AND MUCH MORE...including TABLES....

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