Motor Vehicle Hire

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    NAME OF ORGANISATION
    Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

    OVERVIEW

    The scope of the Motor Vehicle Survey was all employing businesses on the Australian Business Register (ABR) who are mainly engaged in leasing, hiring or renting motor vehicles from own stocks, without drivers (except licensed taxi cabs or hire cars), as defined by ANZSIC Class 7741.

    Businesses classified to SISCA 3000 (Government) and 6000 (Rest of the world) are excluded ftom the scope (as this is the practice adopted by Economy Wide Surveys). For 2002-03 there were no businesses on the ABR that are classified to SISCA 3000 or 6000 for ANZSIC 7741.
    The main internal demand for this survey is from the National Accounts Branch (NAB) who have a strong interest in the conduct of this survey as there is very little information available on the structure of this industry elsewhere. The outputs from this collection are required within NAB generally for subsidiary purposes, and more specifically in measuring the domestic supply of particular products which are used in deriving supply/use benchmarks.

    The Motor Vehicle survey is one of the three Hire services surveys that are part of an annual program of surveys targeting the Services Sector of the economy for 2002-03. The other selected hires services are Plant Hire and Leasing (Collection Id: 1356) and Personal and Household Goods Hire (Collection Id: 1355).

    PURPOSE

    The main purpose of this collection is to provide an overview of the structure, operation and characteristics of businesses that predominantly provide Motor Vehicle Hire services. This information is used in the compilation of Australia's National Accounts, and by industry bodies, government, researchers and others to understand how these businesses operate and how they would be affected by changes in policy or other conditions.

    SCOPE

    The scope of the Motor Vehicle Survey is all employing businesses on the Australian Business Register who are mainly engaged in leasing, hiring or renting motor vehicles from own stocks, without drivers (except licensed taxi cabs or hire cars), as defined by Class 7741 of ANZSIC.
    SISCA 3000 (Government) and 6000 (Rest of the world) were excluded from the scope.


    DATA DETAIL

    Conceptual framework

    The Motor Vehicle survey is one of the three Hire services surveys that are part of an annual program of surveys targeting the Services Sector of the economy for 2002-03. The other selected hires services are Plant Hire and Leasing (Collection Id: 1356) (ANZSIC 7743) and Personal and Household Goods Hire (Collection Id: 1355) (ANZSIC 9519).

    Main outputs

    The 2002-03 Hire Services publication (cat. no. 8567.0) includes a chapter of Motor vehicle hire.

    The tables in the publication include national data:

    • summary of operations
    • sources of income split by type of motor vehicle and other income sources
    • items of expenditure
    • selected statistics by income range groupings
    • selected performance ratios (including operating profit margin, average number of rental days per rental vehicle etc)
    • public liability and other insurance premiums expenses
    • type of client
    • proportion of motor vehicle rental received from airports

    Tables at the state level will include;
    • number of businesses
    • employment
    • wages and salaries
    • selected income
    • vehicles in rental fleet and vehicle rental days.

    Classifications

    For 2002-03 the Australian Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC) has been used to classify units to ANZSIC class 7741 - Motor Vehicle Hiring. This class consistend of businesses mainly engaged in the leasing, hiring or renting of motor vehicles from own stocks, without drivers (except licensed taxi cabs or hire cars).

    The 1991-92 cycle was based on ASIC (Australian Standard Industry Classification 5711, whereas the 2002-03 survey is based on ANZSIC 7741. Busineeses providing operating leases were excluded from this ASIC class.

    The Australian and New Zealand Standard Product Classification has been used to provide a basis for recompiling basic product statistics from their original classifications into a standard classification for analytical use. All product components have been mapped in ANZSPC.

    Other concepts (summary)


    GEOGRAPHIC DETAIL
    Australia
    New South Wales
    Victoria
    Queensland
    South Australia
    Western Australia
    Tasmania
    Northern Territory
    ACT

    Comments and/or Other Regions
    Not applicable

    COLLECTION FREQUENCY
    Adhoc

    Frequency comments
    Not applicable

    COLLECTION HISTORY
    The survey was first conducted in respect of 1991/92 and 2002/03.

    DATA AVAILABILITY
    Yes

    Data availability comments



    DATE OF LAST UPDATE FOR THIS DOCUMENT
    16/09/2004 01:11 PM