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MAIN FEATURES EXPENDITURE CHAIN VOLUME MEASURES

			Trend			Seasonally adjusted
			% change Jun 12 to Sep 12	% change Sep 11 to Sep 12	% points contributions to growth in GDP Jun 12 to Sep 12	% change Jun 12 to Sep 12	% change Sep 11 to Sep 12	% points contributions to growth in GDP Jun 12 to Sep 12
Final consumption expenditure
	General government		0.6	3.9	0.1	-0.4	3.5	-0.1
	Households		0.8	3.7	0.4	0.3	3.3	0.2
Gross fixed capital formation
	Private
		Dwellings	-0.9	-6.6	-	0.7	-6.3	-
		Ownership transfer costs	-0.9	-1.4	-	0.6	-0.4	-
		Non-dwelling construction	5.1	34.8	0.5	0.1	21.6	-
		Machinery and equipment	1.5	1.5	0.1	6.2	1.6	0.4
		Cultivated biological resources	4.5	0.5	-	8.1	-2.5	-
		Intellectual property products	1.7	5.5	-	2.4	6.0	0.1
	Public		-4.9	-7.7	-0.2	-8.2	-7.0	-0.4
Changes in inventories			-	-	na	na	na	0.3
Gross national expenditure			0.8	4.6	0.8	0.5	4.1	0.5
Exports of goods and services			0.7	4.9	0.2	0.8	4.7	0.2
Imports of goods and services			0.6	5.1	-0.1	0.1	3.5	-
Statistical discrepancy (E)			na	na	-0.1	na	na	-0.2
Gross domestic product			0.6	3.4	0.6	0.5	3.1	0.5
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
na not available

• Household final consumption expenditure increased 0.3% in seasonally adjusted terms. The main contributors to growth in Household final consumption were Insurance and other financial services (0.2 percentage points), Rent and other dwelling services (0.1 percentage points), Hotels, cafes and restaurants (0.1 percentage points) and Recreation and culture (0.1 percentage points), offset with detractions from Food (-0.1 percentage points) and Transport services (-0.1 percentage points). Government final consumption expenditure decreased 0.4% in seasonally adjusted terms.

• Gross fixed capital formation increased 0.4% in seasonally adjusted terms. Total private gross fixed capital formation increased 2.1%, reflecting a rise in Total machinery and equipment (up 6.2%), offset by Total Public gross fixed capital formation (down 8.2%).

• Total inventories increased $1 939m in seasonally adjusted terms compared with an increase of $700m last quarter. The change in inventories contributed 0.3 percentage points to GDP growth during the quarter.

• Exports of goods and services increased 0.8% in seasonally adjusted terms. Seasonally adjusted Exports of goods increased 0.7%, with Rural exports up 2.4%, and Non-rural exports up 0.9%.
• Imports of goods and services increased 0.1% in seasonally adjusted terms. Seasonally adjusted Imports of goods decreased 0.2%, with Intermediate goods up 3.7%, but Capital goods imports down -6.6%.