"Figure 2: Whole economy year on year changes to unit labour costs","" "Seasonally adjusted, UK, quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2008 to quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2015","" "","" "Notes","" "Unit","Percentage Points" "","" "Percent change on year","Output per hour (sign reversed)","Labour costs per hour","ULC" "Q1 2008","-1.8","4.8","3.0" "Q2 2008","-0.7","1.1","0.4" "Q3 2008","1.0","0.1","1.1" "Q4 2008","2.2","1.0","3.2" "Q1 2009","4.0","-1.0","3.0" "Q2 2009","2.9","3.3","6.2" "Q3 2009","1.1","3.7","4.8" "Q4 2009","0.3","4.4","4.7" "Q1 2010","-2.7","5.7","3.0" "Q2 2010","-1.9","3.1","1.2" "Q3 2010","-1.6","2.5","0.8" "Q4 2010","-1.6","0.9","-0.7" "Q1 2011","-0.1","-0.4","-0.5" "Q2 2011","-1.4","0.3","-1.1" "Q3 2011","-1.5","0.3","-1.3" "Q4 2011","-0.9","1.3","0.4" "Q1 2012","-1.6","1.6","0.0" "Q2 2012","1.3","0.6","1.9" "Q3 2012","2.0","1.8","3.7" "Q4 2012","1.0","0.7","1.7" "Q1 2013","2.8","-0.9","1.9" "Q2 2013","0.3","2.5","2.8" "Q3 2013","0.4","-0.3","0.1" "Q4 2013","0.0","0.9","0.9" "Q1 2014","-0.4","2.1","1.7" "Q2 2014","0.0","-1.3","-1.3" "Q3 2014","-0.6","1.3","0.7" "Q4 2014","-0.1","1.3","1.2" "Q1 2015","-1.3","1.1","-0.2"