Table 5.—Real Private Fixed Investment

	Billions of chained (1996) dollars					Percent change from preceding quarter
	Level	Change from preceding quarter				1999
	1999	1999				I	II	III	IV
	IV	I	II	III	IV
Private fixed investment	1,615.8	33.4	25.1	26.3	8.5	9.1	6.6	6.8	2.1
Nonresidential	1,242.0	21.9	20.2	31.4	7.7	7.8	7.0	10.9	2.5
Structures	243.4	–3.8	–3.4	–2.4	–2.7	–5.8	–5.3	–3.8	–4.3
Nonresidential buildings, including farm	176.5	–.8	–5.4	–4.0	–.7	–1.8	–11.1	–8.4	–1.7
Utilities	37.4	–.6	–.1	.5	–1.1	–5.7	–1.5	5.3	–10.5
Mining exploration, shafts, and wells	23.5	–2.0	1.0	1.7	–.8	–30.1	19.5	35.6	–13.2
Other structures	6.2	–.2	1.1	–.8	–.1	–12.3	100.1	–38.2	–5.5
Equipment and software	1,008.0	27.2	25.2	35.7	11.4	12.5	11.2	15.7	4.7
Information processing equipment and software	538.5	21.9	30.6	25.0	12.5	21.0	28.6	21.6	9.8
Computers and peripheral equipment/1/	242.0	15.1	19.5	20.6	8.5	38.6	46.9	44.5	15.5
Software/2/	155.5	3.8	5.4	5.0	3.5	11.7	16.1	14.3	9.4
Other	177.6	6.9	10.6	6.3	2.9	19.6	29.9	15.7	6.9
Industrial equipment	154.7	–3.9	1.6	3.4	4.7	–9.9	4.3	9.8	12.9
Transportation equipment	200.6	5.0	.8	12.4	–3.4	11.2	1.6	28.7	–6.5
Of which: Motor vehicles	162.8	2.2	3.7	14.0	–7.2	6.0	10.3	41.0	–15.9
Other	129.4	6.0	–3.7	–3.2	–.7	18.7	–10.2	–8.7	–2.7
Residential	376.1	11.1	5.1	–3.7	1.0	12.9	5.5	–3.8	1.0
Single-family structures	195.9	6.5	0	–4.1	4.2	14.4	–.1	–8.0	9.1
Multifamily structures	22.8	2.2	–.4	0	–.1	48.7	–6.5	–.8	–.8
Other/3/	157.4	2.3	5.6	.5	–3.3	6.1	15.4	1.2	–7.9

1. Includes new computers and peripheral equipment only.

2. Excludes software "embedded," or bundled, in computers and other equipment.

3. "Other" residential investment includes home improvements, new manufactured home sales, brokers' commissions on home sales, residential equipment, net purchases of used structures, and other residential structures (which consists primarily of dormitories and of fraternity and sorority houses).

NOTE.—See note to table 1 for an explanation of chained (1996) dollar series. Chained (1996) dollar levels and residuals are shown in NIPA tables 5.5 and 8.9B (motor vehicles). Percent changes in major aggregates are shown in NIPA table S.1.