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FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1991

EXPENDITURE- COMPARED WITH THE ORIGINAL ESTIMATES, THE REVISED BASED ANNUAL GDP ESTIMATES ONLY DIFFER BY NOT MORE THAN PLUS/MINUS 0.8 OF A PERCENTAGE POINT IN TERMS OF THE REAL GROWTH RATES OF GDP AND NOT

THE MORE

1.4 THAN PLUS/MINUS

PER CENT IN TERMS OF

LEVEL OF GDP ESTIMATES AT CURRENT MARKET PRICES THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PERIOD 1966 TO 1990. THE REVISION REPRESENTS A REFINEMENT IN THE OVERALL FIGURE AND MORE PRECISE ESTIMATES OF THE COMPONENTS.

SPECIAL BOOKLET

FROM GDP

THE COMPLETE QUARTERLY GDP SERIES FROM THE FIRST QUARTER OF SERIES 1973 TO THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1991, AND THE REVISED ANNUAL GDP

'GROSS FROM 1966 TO 1990, ARE CONTAINED IN A SPECIAL BOOKLET ENTITLED DOMESTIC PRODUCT: QUARTERLY ESTIMATES AND REVISED ANNUAL ESTIMATES'.

SUPERSEDE

THE REVISED ANNUAL ESTIMATES IN THIS SPECIAL BOOKLET THE CORRESPONDING ESTIMATES PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN THE 'ESTIMATES GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT, 1966 TO 1990' REPORT.

THIS

ALSO

CONTAINS A

DESCRIPTION

OF

OF THE GDP

SPECIAL BOOKLET CONCEPTS, DATA SOURCES AND ESTIMATION METHODS OF THE QUARTERLY ESTIMATES AND THE SCOPE OF REVISION FOR THE ANNUAL GDP ESTIMATES.

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