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National Income and Product Accounts

Gross Domestic Product: First Quarter 2014 (advance estimate) [30 April 2014]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdpnewsrelease.htm

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2014/pdf/gdp1q14_adv.pdf

[full-text, 17 pages]

or

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2014/xls/gdp1q14_adv.xls

[spreadsheet]

and

Highlights

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2014/pdf/gdp1q14_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 0.1 percent in the first quarter (that is, from

the fourth quarter of 2013 to the first quarter of 2014), according to the "advance" estimate released by

the Bureau of Economic Analysis.  In the fourth quarter, real GDP increased 2.6 percent.

 

      The Bureau emphasized that the first-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 and

"Comparisons of Revisions to GDP" on page 5).  The "second" estimate for the first quarter, based on

more complete data, will be released on May 29, 2014.

 

      The increase in real GDP in the first quarter primarily reflected a positive contribution from

personal consumption expenditures (PCE) that was partly offset by negative contributions from exports,

private inventory investment, nonresidential fixed investment, residential fixed investment, and state and

local government spending.  Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, decreased.

 

 

BOX___________

 

Annual Revision of the National Income and Product Accounts

 

      The annual revision of the national income and product accounts will be released along with the

"advance" estimate of GDP for the second quarter of 2014 on July 30.  In addition to the regular revision

of estimates for the most recent 3 years and the first quarter of 2014, GDP and select components will be

revised back to the first quarter of 1999 (see the Technical Note).  The August Survey of Current

Business will contain an article that describes the annual revision in detail.

 

FOOTNOTE______

 

      NOTE.  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 (2009)

dollars.  Price indexes are chain-type measures.

 

This news release is available on BEA’s Web site along with the Technical Note

and Highlights related to this release.

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      The deceleration in real GDP growth in the first quarter primarily reflected downturns in exports

and in nonresidential fixed investment, a larger decrease in private inventory investment, a deceleration

in PCE, and a downturn in state and local government spending that were partly offset by an upturn in

federal government spending and a downturn in imports.

 

      The price index for gross domestic purchases, which measures prices paid by U.S. residents,

increased 1.4 percent in the first quarter, compared with an increase of 1.5 percent in the fourth.

Excluding food and energy prices, the price index for gross domestic purchases increased 1.4 percent in

the first quarter, compared with an increase of 1.8 percent in the fourth.

 

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

 

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