6455.0.55.001 - Consumer Price Index Standard Data Report: Capital Cities Index Numbers by Expenditure Class, Mar 2006 Final  
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 27/04/2006  Final
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This issue introduces the 15th Series Australian Consumer Price Index. It incorporates an updated weighting pattern and some structural changes including the introduction of financial services into the CPI in a new group 'Financial and insurance services'. For more details of changes resulting from the introduction of the 15th Series CPI, refer to Information Paper: Introduction of the 15th Series Australian Consumer Price Index (Reissue) (cat. no. 6462.0) which was released on 11 October 2005. Details of the new weighting pattern have also been released in Consumer Price Index: 15th Series Weighting Pattern (Reissue) (cat. no. 6430.0).