Gross Domestic Product: March 2010 quarter

Gross domestic product (GDP):

• Economic activity was up 0.6 percent in the March 2010 quarter, following a 0.9 percent increase in the December 2009 quarter.
• Manufacturing activity was up 1.6 percent, and wholesale trade activity was up 1.4 percent. 
• Gross domestic product contracted 0.4 percent in the year ended March 2010 compared with the year ended March 2009.

• The expenditure measure of GDP was also up 0.6 percent in the March 2010 quarter.
• Household consumption expenditure was up 0.2 percent.
• General government final consumption expenditure was up 1.7 percent.