investment in 1995 was the service sector which accounted for 76 per cent of the total. The
two negative values for net investment imply contractions in those sectors. In the UK,
there has been a decrease in the size of the agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing
sector while the construction sector is notoriously susceptible to cyclical movements and
is sometimes negative and sometimes positive. It is difficult to say whether low investment
causes low growth or vice versa, as in the case of the primary sector in the UK.