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FORTHCOMING ISSUES

DATA NOTES

This publication presents quarterly estimates of selected indicators of manufacturing production in Australia.

More detailed breakdowns and other commodity items collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) are available on request for a charge. Monthly series are also available for a limited number of data items. Items for which additional production data are available are listed in paragraph 7 of the Explanatory Notes.

ROUNDING

Where figures have been rounded, discrepancies may occur between sums of the component items and totals.

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SUMMARY COMMENTARY


QUARTERLY MANUFACTURING PRODUCTION COMMODITIES

Table 1

Table 1 Quarterly Commodity Production
		Beer	Portland cement	Clay bricks (SBE) (a)	Pre-mixed concrete	Gas	Electricity
		megalitres	'000 tonnes	million	'000 m3	Petajoules	million kWh
2002
	Jun	408	1 992	426	5 148	204	51 486
	Sep	406	2 030	441	5 570	228	53 299
	Dec	506	1 978	444	5 433	186	51 646
2003
	Mar	435	1 831	409	4 771	172	51 415
	Jun	380	1 892	439	5 213	204	51 379
	Sep	421	2 227	465	5 903	232	54 808
	Dec	490	2 090	439	5 542	188	52 453
2004
	Mar	435	1 963	436	5 325	173	54 561
	Jun	390	2 180	449	5 698	215	54 644
	Sep	412	2 307	456	5 983	227	55 915
	Dec	454	2 157	424	5 625	190	52 850
2005
	Mar	416	1 980	383	5 287	170	55 035
	Jun	403	2 481	442	6 020	206	55 117
	Sep	408	2 340	407	6 462	221	56 043
	Dec	482	2 265	421	5 911	180	54 992
2006
	Mar	438	2 027	355	5 462	171	57 112
	Jun	386	2 278	423	6 079	224	57 157
	Sep	405	2 427	422	6 544	233	58 400
	Dec	491	2 451	396	6 519	192	56 249
2007
	Mar	427	2 140	359	5 750	186	56 244
	Jun	383	2 362	393	6 119	233	55 036
	Sep	394	2 536	387	6 884	244	59 806
	Dec	473	2 475	378	6 836	205	56 411
(a) For further information on clay bricks by standard brick equivalent see Glossary.

FORTHCOMING DATA RELEASE DATES

The ABS releases selected data items from the Manufacturing Commodity collections on a quarterly basis in this publication and also releases more detailed breakdowns and other commodity items on a monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and annual basis on request for a charge. Details on the release dates of the preliminary Pre-mixed concrete production data for capital cities and final monthly Pre-mixed concrete, Water heating equipment and Plasterboard data are specified below. More detail about these releases or subscription to the data series can be obtained by contacting Damian Sparkes on (08) 8237 7425.

Monthly preliminary data release 2006-07

Pre-mixed concrete for capital cities only

Monthly preliminary data release
Month	Release Date
January	14 February 2008
February	13 March 2008
March	14 April 2008
April	14 May 2008
May	14 June 2008
June	14 July 2008

Monthly final data release
Month	Release Date
January	11 March 2008
February	9 April 2008
March	13 May 2008
April	10 June 2008
May	10 July 2008
June	13 August 2008