5368.0 - International Trade in Goods and Services, Australia, Mar 2017 Quality Declaration 
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 04/05/2017   
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CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE


IMPROVEMENT TO THE SEASONAL ADJUSTMENT METHOD OF CURRENT PRICE VALUES OF METAL ORES AND MINERALS AND OF OTHER MINERAL FUELS

An improvement has been applied to the seasonal adjustment method of current price goods credits components 'metal ores and minerals' and 'other mineral fuels' of this publication. For the quarterly series (included in Balance of Payments and International Investment Position, Australia (cat. no. 5302.0)) from September quarter 2005 onwards, seasonal factors derived from the corresponding chain volume measures will be applied to seasonally adjust the current price values. For the monthly series, although chain volume measures are not available on a monthly basis, a similar method has been used to seasonally adjust the monthly current price value series from July 2005 onwards. As a result of this improvement, trend break corrections previously applied to the 'metal ores and minerals' and 'other mineral fuels' trend series have been removed. This improvement has been implemented from the March 2017 issue of this publication and will be implemented for the March quarter 2017 issue of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position, Australia (cat. no. 5302.0) publication.