5232.0 - Australian National Accounts: Financial Accounts, Mar 2014 Quality Declaration 
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MARCH KEY FIGURES

Credit market outstandings at end
Demand for credit during
Other changes during
Credit market outstandings at end
Dec Qtr 2013
Mar Qtr 2014
Mar Qtr 2014
Mar Qtr 2014
NON-FINANCIAL DOMESTIC SECTORS
$b
$b
$b
$b

Non-financial corporations
Investment funds
188.0
3.3
4.9
196.2
Other private
2 346.2
5.9
-13.9
2 338.3
National public
2.4
-0.4
0.1
2.0
State and local public
113.0
-1.4
-
111.5
General government
National
325.4
15.9
0.9
342.1
State and local
140.7
1.9
-
142.6
Households
1 774.0
21.1
3.5
1 798.6
Total
4 889.7
46.2
-4.6
4 931.3

- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)

Total demand for credit
Graph: Total demand for credit

Credit market outstandings
Graph: Credit market outstandings




MARCH KEY POINTS


SUMMARY
  • Total credit market outstanding of the domestic non-financial sectors at 31 March 2014 was $4,931.3b, an increase of $41.6b from the previous quarter. Demand for credit during the quarter was $46.2b and valuation decreases were $4.6b.
  • Demand for credit decreased by $40.3b from the previous quarters level, driven by other private non-financial corporations (down $25.8b), households (down $4.5b), and national general government (down $3.2b).


NON-FINANCIAL CORPORATIONS
  • Other private non-financial corporations raised a net $5.9b; through loan borrowings of $8.9b and equity issuance of $5.4b. This was partially offset by maturities of bonds of $4.6b and bills of exchange of $3.2b.


GENERAL GOVERNMENT
  • National general government raised a net $15.9b during the quarter driven by issuances of bonds of $25.1b. This was partially offset by maturities of one name paper of $9.2b. State and local general government raised $1.9b during the quarter through loan borrowings of $1.9b.


HOUSEHOLDS
  • Households raised a net $21.1b down $4.5b from the previous quarter estimate of $25.6b, primarily through loans of $21.9b during the March quarter 2014.


NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER) Release Date
June 2014 25 September 2014
September 2014 18 December 2014
December 2014 26 March 2015
March 2015 25 June 2015



CHANGES TO THIS ISSUE
  • There are no significant changes to this issue.


SIGNIFICANT EVENTS
  • In September quarter 2013 issue of this publication the ABS announced that there would be revisions to previously published aggregates back to June quarter 1988 as part of the quality assurance work undertaken through reviews of compilation methods and through data provided to the ABS. These changes will be published in the June quarter 2014 issue of this publication.
  • During the March quarter 2014, the deposit activity of a unit has been confidentialised to maintain the anonymity of the unit. As a consequence of suppressing estimates directly impacted, other series have been consequentially suppressed in affected tables to preserve confidentiality.


REVISIONS IN THIS ISSUE

There have been revisions to previously published aggregates:
  • from September quarter 2012 onwards, revisions are due to quality assurance reviews of the compilation of published estimates and through data providers to the ABS Survey of Financial Information, ABS Survey of International Investment and APRA administrative data sets.
  • from June 1988 onwards, there are small revisions to the sectorial capital accounts due to updated sources and methodology.


CHANGES IN FUTURE ISSUES
  • The September quarter issue of this publication will introduce an expanded set of sector accounts. An information paper will be released with the June quarter describing the upcoming changes.


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