As part of the annual reworking of the US National Income and Product Accounts that was released in July 2011, Commerce Department statisticians slashed their earlier estimates of consumer spending. The 14-quarter growth trend from early 2008 to mid-2011 was cut from 0.5% to 0.2%; the bulk of the downward revision was concentrated in the first six quarters of this period – for which the estimate of the annualized consumption decline was doubled, from 1.1% to 2.2%.
这些数字要比初报数字低很多。作为7月发布的美国国民收入和产出账户年度修订工作的一部分，美国商务部统计学家将调低了他们此前对消费支出的估计。从2008年初到2011年中这14个季度的增长趋势从0.5%调低为0.2%，向下修订部分主要来自一开始的6个季度——年化消费支出降幅被提高了一倍，从1.1%修正为2.2%。