Annual Industry Accounts - Revised Statistics for 2004-2006

摘要

IN 2006, economic growth was again powered by the private services industries. In particular, the finance and insurance industries accounted for one-fourth of real gross domestic product (GDP) growth, reflecting strong securities and credit intermediation industry activity, according to the annual update of the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) annual industry accounts, which was released on January 29, 2008. The updated statistics also show that the professional, scientific, and technical services industries accounted for 14 percent of real economic growth, while information-communication-technology-producing industries (ICT) accounted for 15 percent of economic growth. In addition, the effects of energy prices were felt across the economy. Notably, value-added price indexes - which measure changes in prices of labor and capital - decelerated in the oil and gas extraction mining industry and in the petroleum and coal products manufacturing industry; these decelerations helped slow growth in the value-added price index for the overall private goods-producing sector.