3401.0 - Overseas Arrivals and Departures, Australia, Oct 2007  
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 05/12/2007   
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OCTOBER KEY FIGURES

Oct '07
Sep '07 to Oct '07
Oct '06 to Oct '07
'000
% change
% change

Short-term visitor arrivals
Trend
468.7
-
0.6
Seasonally adjusted
463.6
-2.3
. .
Original
465.7
. .
. .
Short-term resident departures
Trend(a)
467.3
0.7
13.1
Seasonally adjusted
472.4
2.6
. .
Original
435.0
. .
. .

. . not applicable
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
(a) Break in trend series from December 2006 - see Explanatory Notes, paragraph 23.

Visitor arrivals, Short-term
Graph: Visitor arrivals, Short-term

Resident departures, Short-term
Graph: Resident departures, Short-term



OCTOBER KEY POINTS


TREND ESTIMATES

  • Trend estimates for short-term visitor arrivals to Australia during October 2007 (468,700 movements) changed little compared with September 2007 (468,600 movements). Over the past three months the trend estimate has remained stable.
  • Currently, short-term visitor arrivals are 0.6% higher than in October 2006.
  • During October 2007, short-term resident departures (467,300 movements) increased by 0.7% compared with September 2007 (464,100 movements). This followed monthly increases of 0.8% for August 2007 and 0.7% for September 2007.
  • Short-term resident departures have continued to increase since the December 2006 trend series break - see Explanatory Notes, paragraph 23. However, the rate of growth has slowed in recent months.


SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ESTIMATES
  • Seasonally adjusted estimates for short-term visitor arrivals during October 2007 (463,600 movements) decreased by 2.3% compared with September 2007. This followed a monthly increase of 3.7% for August 2007 and a decrease of 0.2% for September 2007.
  • Short-term resident departures for October 2007 (472,400 movements) increased 2.6% compared with September 2007 (460,200 movements). This followed a monthly increase of 1.8% for August 2007 and a monthly decrease 1.3% for September 2007.


ORIGINAL ESTIMATES
  • In original movement terms, there were 465,700 short-term visitor arrivals to Australia and 435,000 short-term resident departures from Australia during October 2007.


NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE Release Date
November 2007 15 January 2008
December 2007 5 February 2008
January 2008 6 March 2008
February 2008 9 April 2008
March 2008 6 May 2008
April 2008 4 June 2008



EARLY ESTIMATES

Early estimates of short-term visitor arrivals for November 2007 will be available on the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) website on 18 December 2007. These estimates can be accessed by going to the ABS website at <www.abs.gov.au>. Select All statistics - Access to all ABS products & statistics, then By Catalogue Number, then 3. Demography, then 34. Migration. Choose Short-term Visitor Arrival Estimates, Australia (cat. no. 3401.0.55.001).



DATA NOTES

This publication contains movement data. Care should be taken when interpreting this movement data as 'people'. See paragraph 5 of the Explanatory Notes for more detail.


The statistics in this publication have been rounded to the nearest 100 for short-term movements and to the nearest 10 for permanent and long-term movements. As a result, sums of the components may not add exactly to totals. Analysis featured in the Key Points and Main Features of this publication is based on unrounded data. Calculations made on rounded data may differ to those published.



CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE

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INQUIRIES

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