Economic activity up 0.2 percent
Economic activity up 0.2 percent – Media
release
Economic activity, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP), was up 0.2 percent in the September 2012 quarter, Statistics New Zealand said today. This growth follows revised growth of 0.3 percent in the June 2012 quarter.
The main movements by industry this quarter were:
• construction (up 4.5 percent), due to increases in
residential and non-residential building, with Canterbury
featuring in both
• manufacturing (down 1.1 percent),
due to decreases in metal product and food and beverage
manufacturing
• agriculture (down 2.8 percent),
falling this quarter after higher than usual growth in the
first six months of the year.
"The growth in the latest quarter was driven by construction," national accounts manager Rachael Milicich said.
Economic activity was up 2.5 percent for the year ended September 2012. Compared with the September 2011 quarter, economic activity was 2.0 percent higher in the September 2012 quarter.
The
expenditure measure of GDP was up 0.2 percent in the
September 2012 quarter. The main features of this growth
were:
• Household consumption expenditure, which
measures the volume of spending by New Zealand households,
was flat this quarter (0.0 percent).
• Investment in
fixed assets (down 1.8 percent). Increased investment in
residential and non residential buildings was offset by a
large decline in investment in plant, machinery, and
equipment.
• Exports of goods and services (up 4.0
percent), mainly driven by a 27.7 percent increase in the
volume of dairy product exports.
The size of the economy
(in current prices) was $208 billion for the year ended
September 2012.
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Authorised
by:
Geoff Bascand
Government
Statistician
Published 20 December 2012
For more
information about these statistics:
• Visit Gross Domestic Product: September 2012
quarter
• Open the attached files
Information release (PDF) Tables (Excel) Copy of this media release (PDF)
(See
attached file: GrossDomesticProductSep12qtr.pdf)(See
attached file: gdp-Sep12-alltables.xls)(See attached file:
GrossDomesticProductSep12qtrMR.pdf)
GrossDomesticProductSep12qtrMR.pdf
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