Spending on home care rose 11 percent, to $47.5 billion in 2005, the third straight year of double-digit growth.
Nothing can bring back the double-digit annual growth these companies once enjoyed.
It is the second consecutive year of double-digit economic growth and the world's highest in 1987, the central bank said.
"We've had double-digit growth there over the last few years."
Two countries showed double-digit growth over the past four months.
There has been double-digit growth for the past seven years.
However, the 1987 increase was well below double-digit growth seen in some previous years.
Only two other groups are expected to record double-digit growth, and just barely.
Their catalogue sales have seen double-digit growth in every year since.
But it would take a few years of less than double-digit growth before they started to think along those lines.