"Figure 2: Labour costs per hour quarter-on-quarter growth, seasonally adjusted – whole economy, private sector and public sector","" "UK, Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2009 to Quarter 2 (Apr to June) 2017","" "","" "Notes","1. Q1 refers to Quarter 1 (January to March), Q2 refers to Quarter 2 (April to June), Q3 refers to Quarter 3 (July to September) and Q4 refers to Quarter 4 (October to December). " "Unit","%" "","" "","Whole economy","Public sector","Private sector" "2009 Q1","-0.1","-2.3","-3.1" "2009 Q2","0.9","1.4","3.6" "2009 Q3","1.0","2.3","1.2" "2009 Q4","0.0","-1.2","0.9" "2010 Q1","1.7","2.3","0.0" "2010 Q2","-1.5","-1.5","-0.7" "2010 Q3","1.1","2.1","0.4" "2010 Q4","0.7","2.3","0.5" "2011 Q1 (r)","0.6","-3.0","0.6" "2011 Q2 (r)","0.0","3.8","0.0" "2011 Q3 (r)","0.0","-0.9","0.1" "2011 Q4 (r)","0.7","2.9","0.5" "2012 Q1 (r)","-0.5","-4.4","0.2" "2012 Q2 (r)","0.1","0.4","0.7" "2012 Q3 (r)","0.4","-0.3","0.0" "2012 Q4 (r)","-0.2","-0.7","0.0" "2013 Q1 (r)","0.0","3.0","-0.7" "2013 Q2 (r)","1.1","-2.8","2.3" "2013 Q3 (r)","-0.5","0.8","-0.9" "2013 Q4 (r)","0.1","0.1","0.0" "2014 Q1 (r)","0.4","1.9","0.1" "2014 Q2 (r)","-0.1","0.0","0.2" "2014 Q3 (r)","0.7","-0.1","0.6" "2014 Q4 (r)","1.2","0.1","1.3" "2015 Q1 (r)","1.1","2.7","0.6" "2015 Q2 (r)","0.5","-1.8","1.0" "2015 Q3 (r)","1.7","2.6","1.5" "2015 Q4 (r)","-0.2","-0.5","-0.3" "2016 Q1 (r)","1.2","1.1","1.6" "2016 Q2 (r)","0.5","-2.3","0.6" "2016 Q3 (r)","0.1","1.5","0.1" "2016 Q4 (r)","0.5","1.4","0.2" "2017 Q1 (r)","-0.1","-1.4","0.2" "2017 Q2 (p)","0.9","0.6","0.7"