Economy-wide, real gross output—principally a measure of an industry's sales or receipts, which includes sales to final users in the economy (GDP) and sales to other industries (intermediate inputs)—increased 2.7 percent in the first quarter. This reflected an increase of 3.2 percent for the private goods-producing sector, 3.0 percent for the private services-producing sector, and 0.3 percent for the government sector. Overall, 13 of 22 industry groups contributed to the increase in real gross output.