"Figure 1: Labour costs per hour year-on-year growth, seasonally adjusted - whole economy, private sector and public sector","" "UK, Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2009 to Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2016","" "","" "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). 2. p = provisional, r = revised. " "Unit","%" "","" "Period","Whole economy","Private sector","Public sector" "2009Q1","1.0","-1.2","-1.0" "2009Q2","1.9","2.2","2.5" "2009Q3","2.6","3.6","2.9" "2009Q4","1.8","2.5","0.2" "2010Q1","3.6","5.8","4.9" "2010Q2","1.1","1.4","2.0" "2010Q3","1.3","0.5","1.7" "2010Q4","2.0","0.2","5.3" "2011Q1","1.6","1.8","-0.3" "2011Q2","3.4","2.7","5.1" "2011Q3","2.3","2.6","1.9" "2011Q4","2.4","2.7","2.5" "2012Q1","0.4","1.0","1.2" "2012Q2","0.4","1.5","-2.1" "2012Q3","0.7","1.3","-1.6" "2012Q4","-0.3","0.8","-5.1" "2013Q1","0.4","-0.1","2.0" "2013Q2","1.4","1.7","-1.2" "2013Q3","0.4","0.6","0.3" "2013Q4","0.8","0.7","1.1" "2014Q1","1.5","1.9","0.2" "2014Q2","0.2","-0.4","3.2" "2014Q3","1.2","0.9","1.8" "2014Q4","2.3","2.1","2.3" "2015Q1","2.4","2.1","2.0" "2015Q2","2.9","2.9","0.6" "2015Q3 (r)","4.2","3.9","3.5" "2015Q4 (r)","2.7","2.6","2.3" "2016Q1","2.8","3.5","1.2" "2016Q2","2.9","3.3","0.8" "2016Q3 (r)","1.6","2.1","-0.2" "2016Q4 (p)","2.3","2.5","1.9"