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MAIN FEATURES INCOME AT CURRENT PRICES

		Trend			Seasonally adjusted
		% change Sep 15 to Dec 15	% change Dec 14 to Dec 15	% points contributions to growth in GDP Sep 15 to Dec 15	% change Sep 15 to Dec 15	% change Dec 14 to Dec 15	% points contributions to growth in GDP Sep 15 to Dec 15
Compensation of employees		0.8	3.0	0.4	0.4	2.9	0.2
Gross operating surplus
	Private non-financial corporations	0.2	-2.2	-	0.9	-1.8	0.1
	Other(a)	1.0	4.2	0.2	1.3	3.9	0.2
Gross mixed income		1.1	10.4	0.1	-0.5	9.6	-
Taxes less subsidies on production and imports		1.3	6.3	0.1	0.5	6.2	-
Statistical discrepancy (I)		na	na	-0.2	na	na	-0.2
Gross domestic product		0.6	2.5	0.6	0.4	2.4	0.4
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
na not available
(a) Includes Public non-financial corporations, Financial corporations, General government and Dwellings owned by persons.

• Seasonally adjusted COE increased 0.4%, reflecting a fall of 0.6% in average earnings per employee, and an increase of 1.0% in the number of employees.
• Private sector COE rose 0.3% and the public sector COE rose 0.7%. The relatively weak increase (when compared with employment growth) was a result of increases seen in labour intensive industries such as Retail trade and Health care and social assistance.
• Trend COE represented 54.0% of Total factor income.

COE SHARE OF TOTAL FACTOR INCOME: Trend

• Total GOS rose 1.1% for the December quarter. Seasonally adjusted Total corporations GOS increased 1.1%. Financial corporations and Private non-financial corporations were the main contributors with Financial corporations increasing 2.1% and Private non-financial corporations recording an increase of 0.9%.
• Trend GOS for Total corporations represented 36.5% of Total factor income.

PROFIT (a) SHARE OF TOTAL FACTOR INCOME: Trend