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MAIN FEATURES EXPENDITURE CHAIN VOLUME MEASURES

			Trend			Seasonally adjusted
			% change Jun 08 to Sep 08	% change Sep 07 to Sep 08	% points contribution to growth in GDP Jun 08 to Sep 08	% change Jun 08 to Sep 08	% change Sep 07 to Sep 08	% points contribution to growth in GDP Jun 08 to Sep 08
Final consumption expenditure
	General government		0.7	3.7	0.1	0.6	3.6	0.1
	Households		-	1.6	-	0.1	1.7	-
Gross fixed capital formation
	Private
		Dwellings	0.6	2.7	-	0.2	2.6	-
		Business investment	np	np	np	1.5	12.8	0.3
		Ownership transfer costs	-8.5	-21.6	-0.1	-14.0	-23.8	-0.2
	Public		np	np	np	3.9	18.4	0.2
Changes in inventories
	Private non-farm		. .	. .	-0.1	. .	. .	0.1
	Farm and public authority		. .	. .	-	. .	. .	0.1
Gross national expenditure			0.6	3.8	0.6	0.5	4.0	0.6
Exports of goods and services			1.5	6.3	0.3	-	5.0	-
Imports of goods and services			2.6	13.5	-0.6	1.6	13.2	-0.4
Statistical discrepancy (E)			. .	. .	0.2	. .	. .	-0.1
Gross domestic product			0.2	2.0	0.2	0.1	1.9	0.1
. . not applicable
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
np not available for publication but included in totals where applicable, unless otherwise indicated

• Household final consumption expenditure increased 0.1% in seasonally adjusted terms. The main positive contributor to growth in seasonally adjusted terms was Rent and other dwelling services (up 0.6%) and Insurance and other financial services (up 1.0%). The main negative contributors to growth in seasonally adjusted terms were Purchase of vehicles (down 7.9%) and Hotels, cafes and restaurants (down 0.7%).

• Private business investment increased 1.5% in seasonally adjusted terms. This increase was due to investment in Engineering construction (up 11.8%), offset by a fall in New building (down 1.9%). Dwelling investment showed a moderate increase of 0.2% this quarter. This was due to an increase in New and used dwellings (up 0.5%), offset by a decrease in Alterations and additions (down 0.1%).

• Total inventories rose by $671m in trend terms, following a rise of $1,021m in the June quarter. Seasonally adjusted, total inventories rose by $938m following a $493m rise in the previous quarter. Changes in inventories contributed 0.2 percentage points to seasonally adjusted GDP growth during the quarter.

• In trend terms, Exports of goods and services rose 1.5%, while in seasonally adjusted they were flat. Seasonally adjusted Exports of goods fell 0.5%, with a fall in Other non-rural (down 22.5%), offset by a rise in Mineral Ores (up 1.3%) and Coal (up 1.7%).
• Imports of goods and services rose 2.6% in trend terms and 1.6% in seasonally adjusted terms. Imports of goods increased 2.3%, with growth in Capital goods (up 6.5%), Other Goods (up 18.2%) and Intermediate goods (up 1.7%).