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Feature Article - Work done on housing jobs each quarter


This article was published in Building Approvals, Australia (Cat. no. 8731.0) March 2003


INTRODUCTION

This article examines new houses commenced between December quarter 2000 and September quarter 2001, to determine the proportion of the value of jobs which are completed in the commencement quarter and subsequent quarters. The time period between commencement and completion of these jobs includes economic cycles of low building housing activity (i.e. post GST period) and high activity (i.e. introduction of first home owners grant scheme).

Data presented in this article has been obtained from the Building Activity Survey.


RESULTS


Australia

The tables and graph below show that the proportion of value of work done on housing jobs each quarter is greater in the initial quarters.

For all housing jobs commenced in Australia between December quarter 2000 and September quarter 2001, 42.2% ($5,545m) of the work done occurred in the quarter of commencement, and an extra 33.3% ($4,380m) was done in the quarter following commencement. Cumulatively, 75.5% of work was done in this period. It should be noted that a high number of jobs were completed within two quarters. The jobs completed in the commencement quarter accounted for 11.4% of the value of all housing jobs, and those completed in the quarter following commencement accounted for 39% of the total value.

VALUE OF WORK DONE PER QTR ON HOUSES, Australia
					WORK DONE IN
						Total for
	First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth	completed
	qtr(a)	qtr	qtr	qtr	qtr	jobs
	$m	$m	$m	$m	$m	$m
Jobs completed in
One qtr(a)	1,498.9	-	-	-	-	1,498.9
Two qtrs	2,768.4	2,364.7	-	-	-	5,133.1
Three qtrs	826.6	1,404.7	806.4	-	-	3,037.7
Four qtrs	269.2	393.3	406.5	302.7	-	1,371.7
Five or more qtrs	182.2	217.3	231.8	208.3	1,270.6	2,110.2
All jobs	5,545.3	4,380.0	1,444.7	511.0	1,270.6	13,151.6

PERCENTAGE VALUE OF WORK DONE PER QTR ON HOUSES, Australia
					WORK DONE IN
	First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth	Total of	Proportion for
	qtr(a)	qtr	qtr	qtr	qtr	all jobs	completed jobs
	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Jobs completed in
One qtr(a)	100.0	-	-	-	-	100.0	11.4
Two qtrs	53.9	46.1	-	-	-	100.0	39.0
Three qtrs	27.2	46.2	26.5	-	-	100.0	23.1
Four qtrs	19.6	28.7	29.6	22.1	-	100.0	10.4
Five or more qtrs	8.6	10.3	11.0	9.9	60.2	100.0	16.0
All jobs	42.2	33.3	11.0	3.9	9.7	100.0	100.0

PERCENTAGE VALUE OF WORK DONE PER QTR ON HOUSES, States and Territories
					WORK DONE IN
	First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth	Total of
	qtr(a)	qtr	qtr	qtr	qtr	all jobs
	%	%	%	%	%	%
NSW	37.1	33.9	12.3	4.4	12.3	100.0
Vic.	36.7	32.6	13.6	5.0	12.1	100.0
Qld	61.2	29.6	4.8	1.6	2.9	100.0
SA	43.6	36.4	10.4	2.8	6.9	100.0
WA	37.3	38.0	11.2	4.2	9.3	100.0
Tas.	41.4	34.4	8.8	2.4	12.9	100.0
NT	53.4	28.8	6.8	1.7	9.2	100.0
ACT	45.4	35.2	12.3	2.3	4.7	100.0
Aust.	42.2	33.3	11.0	3.9	9.7	100.0

PERCENTAGE VALUE OF WORK DONE PER QTR ON HOUSES, Australia
					WORK DONE IN
	First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth	Total of	Proportion
	qtr(a)	qtr	qtr	qtr	qtr	all jobs	of all jobs
House category(b)	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Low	57.0	31.7	4.6	1.5	5.1	100.0	12.4
Medium	48.8	36.3	8.3	2.0	4.6	100.0	50.2
High	33.1	33.8	16.6	5.5	11.0	100.0	24.6
Very High	19.1	22.3	16.8	10.6	31.2	100.0	12.8
All	42.2	33.3	11.0	3.9	9.7	100.0	100.0

Low: Completion Value of less than $100,000.
Medium: Completion Value between $100,000 and $199,999.
High: Completion Value between $200,000 and $399,999.
Very High: Completion Value $400,000 or more.