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Quarterly national accounts

National accounts - Base 2005

Last update: May 30, 2013

Quarterly accounts are a consistent set of indicators which provides a global overview of recent economic activity.

Time series of the main aggregates of quarterly national accounts can be accessed through the "Summary". They are classified into three categories:

- Goods and Services: GDP and GDP broken down in a demand approach, main operations (consumption, foreign trade, investment...) broken down by products, supply and use balances for the main aggregates

- Activities: value added, employment, wages... broken down by industries,

- Institutional Sectors: main economic agents acounts (households, corporations ...), purchasing power and households'account ratios, non financial corporations' profit share, public debt....

For each category, are available :

- synthetic files displaying from the accounts the relevant information for economic analysis

- one or two files displaying all the data available

Figures' analysis for each release can be accessed through "Publications".

French GDP decreased again in Q1 2013 (-0.2%)

GOODS AND SERVICES: SUPPLY AND USES CHAIN-LINKED VOLUMES
percentage change from previous period,trading-days and seasonally adjusted data
2012 Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2013 Q1 2012 2013 (ovhg)
GDP -0.2 0.1 -0.2 -0.2 0.0 -0.3
Imports 0.2 0.1 -1.3 0.1 -0.9 -0.7
Household consumption *expenditure -0.4 0.0 0.0 -0.1 -0.4 -0.2
General government's *consumption expenditure 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.3 1.4 0.8
GFCF -0.2 -0.7 -0.8 -0.9 -1.2 -1.8
*of which Non financial corporated and unincorporated enterprises -0.2 -0.9 -0.7 -0.8 -1.9 -1.9
Households -0.2 -0.3 -0.8 -1.3 -0.4 -2.1
General government 0.2 -0.5 -0.9 -0.7 -0.6 -1.6
Exports 0.9 0.5 -0.7 -0.5 2.5 -0.6
Contributions :        
Internal demand excluding inventory changes -0.2 0.0 -0.1 -0.1 -0.1 -0.2
Inventory changes -0.2 0.0 -0.3 0.1 -0.8 -0.1
Net foreign trade 0.2 0.1 0.2 -0.2 1.0 0.1
Sectoral accounts
percentage change from previous period,trading-days and seasonally adjusted data
*NFC: non-financial corporations
2012 Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2013 Q1 2012 2013 (ovhg)
Profit ratio of NFC* (level) 28.5 28.5 27.9   28.3  
Household purchasing power 0.2 -0.1 -0.9   -0.9 -0.6