8782.0.65.001 - Construction Activity: Chain Volume Measures, Australia, Jun 2010  
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These spreadsheets contain revised data for some of the chain volume measures series released in 8755.0 Construction Work Done, Australia, Preliminary.

BUILDING ACTIVITY, AUSTRALIA, JUNE QTR 2010 (cat. no. 8752.0)

About this issue

This publication updates the preliminary estimates released in Construction Work Done, Australia (cat. no. 8755.0) on 25 Aug 2010, and Dwelling Unit Commencements, Australia (cat. no. 8750.0) on 15 September 2010. The data in this publication are based on a response rate of approximately 96% of the value of building work done during the quarter. The data are subject to revision when returns from the following quarter are processed. Final data for the June quarter 2010 will be released in the next release of this publication, Building Activity, Australia (cat. no. 8752.0) on 19 January 2011.

Data Notes

The trend estimates should be interpreted with caution as the underlying behaviour of building activity may be affected by initiatives within the Government stimulus package, including the "Building the Education Revolution" (BER) program and Social Housing Initiative as well as other developments associated with global economic conditions. Though the impact of the BER program was excluded from the trend estimates in the June 2009 through to the March 2010 releases of this data, this will no longer be the case from the June quarter 2010. As with the publication Construction Work Done, Australia (cat. no. 8755.0) affected trend estimates have been revised to include building activity resulting from the BER program. For more details on trend estimates, please see paragraphs 28 to 30 of the explanatory notes.


ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY, AUSTRALIA, JUNE QTR 2010 (cat. no. 8762.0)

Significant revisions

Compared with the current price estimates in original terms published in the previous issue of this publication:

  • The March quarter work done estimates have been revised downward by $21.1m. These revisions occurred predominantly in the Oil, gas, coal and other minerals commodities.