8762.0 - Engineering Construction Activity, Australia, Jun 2007  
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 11/10/2007   
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JUNE KEY FIGURES

Jun qtr 07
Mar qtr 07 to Jun qtr 07
Jun qtr 06 to Jun qtr 07
$m
% change
% change

TREND ESTIMATES VOLUME TERMS(a)

Value of work done
For the private sector
na
na
na
For the public sector(b)
na
na
na
Total engineering construction
11 986.5
3.6
11.4

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED VOLUME TERMS(a)

Value of work done
For the private sector
8 174.5
4.3
20.9
For the public sector(b)
3 637.4
-9.8
-16.0
Total engineering construction
11 812.0
-0.5
6.5

na not available
(a) Chain volume measures, reference year 2004-05.
(b) Includes work done by the private sector for the public sector and work done by the public sector.

Value of work done, Total engineering - Volume terms
Graph: Value of work done, Total engineering—Volume terms



JUNE KEY POINTS


VALUE OF WORK DONE, VOLUME TERMS

Total
  • The trend estimate for the value of total engineering construction work done rose by 3.6% in the June 2007 quarter.
  • The seasonally adjusted estimate for the value of total engineering construction work done was $11,812.0m in the June quarter, a fall of 0.5% from the March quarter 2007.


Private Sector
  • The seasonally adjusted estimate for the value of work done for the private sector rose 4.3% in the June 2007 quarter to $8,174.5m.


Public Sector
  • The seasonally adjusted estimate for the value of work done for the public sector fell 9.8% to $3,637.4m.


VALUE OF WORK COMMENCED AND YET TO BE DONE
  • The value of work commenced in June 2007 quarter was $13,177.8m, a decrease of 16.2% from March 2007 quarter.
  • The value of work yet to be done fell 1.4% in June 2007 quarter to $32,537.4m, down from $33,011.7m in March 2007 quarter.


NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER) Release Date
September 2007 18 January 2008
December 2007 17 April 2008



ABOUT THIS ISSUE

This publication updates the preliminary estimates released in Construction Work Done, Australia (cat. no. 8755.0) on 29 August 2007.



CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE

Telstra Corporation was effectively privatised on 20 November 2006. For the purpose of ABS statistics this change from public sector to private sector is effective from March quarter 2007. This change has impacted on the data series presented in this publication, starting with the March quarter 2007 movements for private and public sector estimates.


As a result the private and public sector trend estimates have been suspended for Engineering and Construction Work Done for the June quarter 2007 as they were in the March quarter 2007. It is expected that the publication of trend estimates by sector will resume in September quarter 2007.


For more information please see ABS Information Paper: Treatment of Telstra in ABS Statistics (cat. no. 8102.0) released 26 February 2007.


A new chain volume reference year is updated every June quarter. From 2007 onwards the updating of the reference year will be completed in the September quarter each year. In September 2007 the new reference year will be 2005-06 for chain volume estimates. This will result in revisions to growth rates in quarters following 2005-06 but will preserve additivity in those quarters. For earlier periods re-referencing affects the levels of, but not the movements in, chain volume estimates.



SIGNIFICANT REVISIONS THIS QUARTER

There are no significant revisions to the data.



DATA NOTES

There are no notes about the data in this issue.



INQUIRIES

For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070 or James Inglis on Adelaide (08) 8237 7646.