Based on the complexity of measuring GDP and the frequent large swings due to corrections applied later on, I think a small figure in the +/-1% range has too much uncertainty to make sense as an accurate measure (see how +0.7% swung to -0.2%). If there is a high (and uneven) inflation regime as we are in now (large inflation in food & energy, none in labor, deflation in house prices), I think the figures are even more unreliable. Ideally, BEA should bound the figures with margins of error and say GDP increased by +1.9% +/- 1%. (That way we know it was somewhere between 0.9% to 2.9%)