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Contacting the ABS

Many unpublished index numbers are available on request. This special data service provides, separately for each capital city and for the weighted average of the eight capital cities, time series of index numbers for all expenditure classes, subgroups, groups and the special groupings.

If you want to know more about the CPI, or CPI special data services, write to:

Director
Consumer Price Indexes Section
Australian Bureau of Statistics
PO Box 10
Belconnen ACT 2616

Phone: (02) 6252 6006
Fax: (02) 6252 6130

A full list of statistical publications produced by the ABS is detailed in the Catalogue of Publications and Products, Australia (Cat. no. 1101.0), which is available on request to this address or from any of our State offices.



ABS publications on prices

• Consumer Price Indexes

• Consumer Price Index (Cat. no. 6401.0)—quarterly

• Average Retail Prices of Selected Items, Eight Capital Cities (Cat. no. 6403.0)—quarterly

• House Price Indexes: Eight Capital Cities (Cat. no. 6416.0)—quarterly

• The Australian Consumer Price Index: Concepts, Sources and Methods (Cat. no. 6461.0)—infrequent

• Information Paper: Feasibility of Constructing Price Indexes for Special Population Groups (Cat. no. 6445.0)

• Information Paper: An Analytical Framework for Price Indexes in Australia (Cat. no. 6421.0)

• Information Paper: Issues to be Considered During the 13th Series Australian Consumer Price Index Review (Cat. no. 6451.0)

• Information Paper: Outcome of the 13th Series Australian Consumer Price Index Review (Cat. no. 6453 .0)

• Information Paper: Introduction of the 13th Series Australian Consumer Price Index (Cat. no. 6454.0)

• Price Index of Materials Used in Building Other Than House Building, Six State Capital Cities (Cat. no. 6407.0)—quarterly

• Price Index of Materials Used in House Building, Six State Capital Cities (Cat. no. 6408.0)—quarterly

• Price Indexes of Materials Used in Manufacturing Industries, Australia (Cat. no. 6411.0)—quarterly

• Price Indexes of Materials Used in Coal Mining, Australia (Cat. no. 6415.0)—quarterly

• Price Indexes of Articles Produced by Manufacturing Industry, Australia (Cat. no. 6412.0)—quarterly

• Price Indexes of Copper Materials, Australia (Cat. no. 6410.0)—quarterly

• Export Price Index (Cat. no. 6405.0)—quarterly

• Import Price Index (Cat. no. 6414.0)—quarterly

Household Expenditure Survey

• Household Expenditure Survey, Australia: Detailed Expenditure Items (Cat. no. 6535.0)