8301.0.55.001 - Manufacturing Production, Australia, Sep 2007  
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NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER) Release Date
December 2007 13 February 2008
March 2008 13 May 2008


CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE

Due to a reduction of commodity items collected on an annual basis in 2006-07 table 2 has been removed from this and future September publications.


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.


INQUIRIES

For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070 or Damian Sparkes on Adelaide (08) 8237 7425.


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
Mar
428
1 729
365
4 896
166
50 639
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
187
56 244
Jun
383
2 362
393
6 119
234
55 036
Sep
394
2 536
387
6 884
245
59 806

(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

October
14 November 2007
November
13 December 2007
December
17 January 2008
January
13 February 2008
February
13 March 2008
March
14 April 2008



Monthly final data release 2006-07

Pre-mixed concrete, Water heating equipment and Plasterboard

Monthly final data release

Month
Release Date

October
10 December 2007
November
14 January 2008
December
13 February 2008
January
11 March 2008
February
9 April 2008
March
13 May 2008



Annual data release 2007-08

Flour, semi-trailers, floor coverings, wool yarn and footwear

23 October 2008