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Technical Note
Gross Domestic Product
Second Quarter of 2007 (Final)
September 27, 2007
This technical note provides background information about the source data and
estimating methods used to produce the estimates presented in the GDP news release.
The complete set of estimates for the second quarter is available on BEA's Web site at
www.bea.gov; a brief summary of "highlights" is also posted on the Web site. In a few
weeks, the estimates will be published in BEA's monthly journal, the Survey of Current
Business, along with a more detailed analysis of the estimates ("GDP and the
Economy").
Sources of Revision to Components of Real GDP
Real GDP growth in the second quarter was 3.8 percent (annual rate), which was 0.2
percentage point less than that in the preliminary estimate. The downward revision to
real GDP primarily reflected an upward revision to imports, which are a subtraction in the
calculation of GDP:
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Imports of both goods and services were revised up, reflecting the incorporation
of revised Census goods data for June and revised services data from BEA’s
international transactions accounts for the first and second quarters.
The price index for gross domestic purchases increased 3.8 percent in the second
quarter, the same as in the preliminary estimate.
Corporate Profits
Profits from current production increased $94.7 billion, or 6.1 percent (quarterly rate), in
the second quarter, which was $3.6 billion less than in the preliminary estimate. The
revision reflected revised source data, which include preliminary tabulations of Census
quarterly financial reports, regulatory agency reports, and compilations of publicly
available corporate financial statements.
In the second quarter, real gross value added of nonfinancial corporate business
increased, unit labor costs increased, unit nonlabor costs decreased, and profits per unit
of real value added increased.
Brent R. Moulton
Associate Director for National Economic Accounts
Bureau of Economic Analysis
(202) 606-9606
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