Index of Services, April 2015

30 Jun 2015 02:17 PM

Main points

• The Index of Services is estimated to have increased by 2.8% in April 2015 compared with April 2014. All of the 4 main components of the services industries increased in the most recent month compared with the same month a year ago.
• The largest contributions came from: business services and finance, which contributed 1.2 percentage points to total growth; and distribution, hotels and restaurants, which contributed 0.9 percentage points to total growth.
• The latest Index of Services estimates show that output increased by 0.2% between March 2015 and April 2015, following an increase of 0.1% between February 2015 and March 2015.
• The Index of Services increased by 0.4% in Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2015 compared with Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2014. This figure was unrevised from the estimate of 0.4% used in the Second Estimate of GDP, published on 28 May 2015 and is consistent with the Quarterly National Accounts, published on 30 June 2015.
• The figures within this release are estimates and are on a seasonally adjusted basis. The earliest period open for revision in this release is January 2014.

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