Wool Receivals and Purchases

NAME OF ORGANISATION
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

OVERVIEW

The Wool Receivals, Purchases and Sales survey (WOO) is a quarterly survey which collects information on wool receivals, purchases, sales, interstate movements and stocks. More specifically within these categories, providers provide information on the number of bales, net weight and value of bales. Estimates are published quarterly by state/territory and Australia for wool receivals by wool brokers and dealers.

Some time series (seasonally adjusted and trend series) are produced for the wool receivals category and made available on the ABS website.

PURPOSE

The purpose of the Wool Receivals and Purchases Survey is to provide a measure of the wool receivals, purchases, sales and stocks by registered brokers and dealers in Australia each quarter. The ABS uses the estimates in the compilation of National Accounts and as input to the calculation of the Value of Agricultural Commodities Produced (VACP). External users of the data include the Australian Wool Forecasting Committee, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES), state agricultural departments and other key industry bodies such as the Australian Wool Testing Authority (AWTA) Limited, who monitor wool receivals, purchases, sales and stocks to formulate policies and create forecasts of future industry activity.

SCOPE
All wool brokers and dealers registered with the Australian Taxation Office

DATA DETAIL

Conceptual framework
The WOO provides a measure of the wool receivals, purchases, sales and stocks by registered brokers and dealers.

Main outputs

Brokers and Dealers Receivals of Taxable Wool: All series (tonnes)

Classifications

Quarter: ODB_TIME (280056)
Selling Centre: AG_SELLC (74483)

Other concepts (summary)
Not applicable.

GEOGRAPHIC DETAIL
Australia
New South Wales
Victoria
Queensland
South Australia
Western Australia
Tasmania

Comments and/or Other Regions
Northern Territory has limited stocks of wool
Australian Capital Territory wool stock is sold in New South Wales

COLLECTION FREQUENCY
Quarterly

Frequency comments
Prior to the September quarter of 1998 this collection was a monthly collection.

COLLECTION HISTORY

This collection was included in the first issue of Livestock Products, Australia (ABS cat. no. 7215.0) in March 1981. Prior to this it was published as a separate bulletin in Wool, Australia 1979-80 (ABS cat. no. 7212.0). The collection was significantly revised in 1994 to address data quality concerns. This resulted in a single form being used to collect both brokers and dealers data.

Up until June 1998, data was collected monthly. After this time, data was collected quarterly.

DATA AVAILABILITY
Yes