Revised data suggests the performance in the first quarter of the year was better than originally thought while the second quarter performance was revised down.

First quarter growth was 1.9% compared to an original estimate of 1.4% while the economy shrank marginally in the second quarter compared to an original estimate of 0.4% growth.

The figures also suggest that the NI economy may have been performing better than the UK average.

However those comparisons need to be treated with caution as the NI and UK figures are not fully equivalent, for example the UK figures include a more sophisticated measure of public sector output.