This implies a year-on-year growth rate of 2.2% for the three months to November 2015, compared with 2.3 from the three months to October 2015.
The institute has said that "reasonable economic growth" has continued into the fourth quarter of 2015.
NIESR’s latest quarterly forecast projects GDP growth of 2.4% per annum in 2015 and 2.3% in 2016.