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MAIN FEATURES EXPENDITURE CHAIN VOLUME MEASURES

			Trend			Seasonally adjusted
			% change Mar 10 to Jun 10	% change Jun 09 to Jun 10	% points contributions to growth in GDP Mar 10 to Jun 10	% change Mar 10 to Jun 10	% change Jun 09 to Jun 10	% points contributions to growth in GDP Mar 10 to Jun 10
Final consumption expenditure
	General government		1.3	5.9	0.2	1.8	6.3	0.3
	Households		1.0	3.2	0.5	1.6	3.2	0.9
Gross fixed capital formation
	Private
		Dwellings	0.7	5.6	-	5.0	11.3	0.3
		Ownership transfer costs	-1.8	0.3	-	-3.2	-2.9	-
		Non-dwelling construction	0.6	-4.0	-	1.5	-4.7	0.1
		Machinery and equipment	-2.1	0.7	-0.1	-3.1	-0.5	-0.2
		Cultivated biological resources	-2.0	-1.0	-	3.6	4.6	-
		Intellectual property products	2.5	8.8	0.1	2.3	9.0	0.1
	Public		4.7	38.5	0.3	-	38.4	-
Changes in inventories			na	na	-0.1	na	na	-0.7
Gross national expenditure			1.0	6.1	1.1	0.6	5.8	0.6
Exports of goods and services			2.1	4.0	0.4	5.6	4.7	1.1
Imports of goods and services			1.9	15.9	-0.4	3.0	17.3	-0.7
Statistical discrepancy (E)			na	na	-0.2	na	na	0.2
Gross domestic product			0.9	3.2	0.9	1.2	3.3	1.2
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
na not available

• Government final consumption expenditure increased 1.8% and Household final consumption expenditure increased 1.6% in seasonally adjusted terms. The main contributors to growth in Household final consumption were Purchase of vehicles (up 11.2%), Recreation and culture (up 3.3%) and Insurance and other financial services (up 2.6%).

• Gross fixed capital formation increased 0.6% in seasonally adjusted terms. Total private gross fixed capital formation increased 0.8%, reflecting a rise in Total dwellings investment (up 5.0%). Public gross fixed capital formation was flat. This was the result of a fall in Public corporations investment (down 1.4%) that was offset by a rise in Total general government investment (up 0.7%).

• Total inventories fell by $514m in seasonally adjusted terms compared with an increase of $1770m last quarter. The change in inventories detracted 0.7 percentage points from GDP growth during the quarter.

• Exports of goods and services rose 5.6% in seasonally adjusted terms. Seasonally adjusted Exports of goods rose 7.3%, driven by Non-rural exports (up 7.5%).
• Imports of goods and services rose 3.0% in seasonally adjusted terms. Seasonally adjusted Imports of services rose 1.4%, while Imports of goods rose 3.5%.