JANUARY KEY FIGURES
 | | Jan '07 | Dec '06 to Jan '07 | Jan '06 to Jan '07 | |
| | '000 | % change | % change | |
| |
| Short-term visitor arrivals | | | | |
| Trend | 475.9 | 0.8 | 3.5 | |
| Seasonally adjusted | 476.6 | -1.2 | . . | |
| Original | 458.2 | . . | . . | |
| Short-term resident departures | | | | |
| Trend | 424.4 | 0.6 | 8.4 | |
| Seasonally adjusted | 422.7 | -1.6 | . . | |
| Original | 369.5 | . . | . . | |
| |
| . . not applicable |
Visitor arrivals, Short-term
| Resident departures, Short-term
|
JANUARY KEY POINTS
TREND ESTIMATES
- Trend estimates for short-term visitor arrivals to Australia during January 2007 (475,900 movements) increased by 0.8% compared with December 2006. This followed monthly increases of 0.9% for November 2006 and 0.8% for December 2006.
- Currently, short-term visitor arrivals are 5.1% higher than when the series last troughed in July 2006 (452,600 movements) and 3.5% higher than in January 2006.
- During January 2007, short-term resident departures (424,400 movements) increased by 0.6% compared with December 2006. This followed monthly increases of 0.5% each for November 2006 and December 2006.
- Currently, short-term resident departures are 8.4% higher than in January 2006, the last time the series troughed (391,500 movements).
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ESTIMATES
- Seasonally adjusted estimates for short-term visitor arrivals during January 2007 (476,600 movements) decreased by 1.2% compared with December 2006. This followed a monthly decrease of 0.3% for November 2006 and a monthly increase of 3.2% for December 2006.
- Short-term resident departures for January 2007 (422,700 movements) decreased by 1.6% compared with December 2006 and followed a monthly decrease of 2.7% for November 2006 and a monthly increase of 4.2% for December 2006.
ORIGINAL ESTIMATES
- In original movement terms, there were 458,200 short-term visitor arrivals to Australia and 369,500 short-term resident departures from Australia during January 2007.
NOTES
FORTHCOMING ISSUES
| ISSUE | Release Date |
| February 2007 | 5 April 2007 |
| March 2007 | 9 May 2007 |
| April 2007 | 5 June 2007 |
| May 2007 | 6 July 2007 |
| June 2007 | 3 August 2007 |
| July 2007 | 4 September 2007 |
EARLY ESTIMATES
Early estimates of short-term visitor arrivals for February 2007 will be available on the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) web site on 16 March 2007. These estimates can be accessed by going to the ABS web site at <https://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 THE ISSUE
There are no changes in this issue.
INQUIRIES
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