NAME OF COLLECTION
Manufacturing Production Collections
Contact
Supervisor
Manufacturing Commodity and Wine Statistics Section
Australian Bureau of Statistics
GPO Box 2272
ADELAIDE SA 5001
Telephone: Adelaide 1800 809 168
Facsimile: Adelaide 08 8237 7620
Email: client.services@abs.gov.au
Web site: <www.abs.gov.au>
Purpose
To collect production quantities of selected manufacturing commodities for Australia.
Description
Data are collected from a number of different sources. The prime sources are the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) surveys of manufacturing production. Data are also obtained from surveys undertaken by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE), the Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources, the Australian Dairy Corporation and from ABS agriculture collections. Scope and coverage vary slightly depending on the source of the information.
Where production statistics are collected by the ABS manufacturing production surveys, they are not collected from single establishment manufacturing businesses with less than four persons employed, or from establishments predominantly engaged in non-manufacturing activities but which may carry out some manufacturing.
For mining-related products, most of the production data originate from surveys conducted by ABARE. Gas data comes from the ABS' surveys of manufacturing production.
Main data detail
Production quantities of manufacturing commodities, including the following which are relevant to the mining industry:
- automotive gasoline;
- fuel oil;
- aviation turbine fuel;
- automotive diesel oil;
- alumina;
- zinc;
- silver;
- copper;
- lead;
- tin;
- gold; and
- gas.
Please note iron and steel no longer collected.
Geographic coverage
Australia.
Frequency of data availability
Quarterly.
Reference period
Quarters ended 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December.
Historical data
Data are available for different periods for various products - at least 25 years for most.
Products and services
Publication
Other
- Special data services are available on request.
Example of information available
PRODUCTION OF SELECTED MANUFACTURING COMMODITIES - AUSTRALIA: ORIGINAL
 | Units | Dec qtr 2000 | Mar qtr 2001 | Jun qtr 2001 | Sep qtr 2001 | Dec qtr 2001 |
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| Alumina | '000 tonnes | 4,049 | 3,950 | 4,096 | 4,119 | 4,106 |
| Zinc | '000 tonnes | 130 | 127 | 137 | 144 | 146 |
| Silver | '000 tonnes | 148 | 140 | 134 | 154 | 148 |
| Copper | '000 tonnes | 127 | 133 | 141 | 147 | 139 |
| Lead | '000 tonnes | 63 | 54 | 47 | 66 | 70 |
| Tin | tonnes | 182 | 296 | 345 | 266 | 187 |
| Gold | tonnes | 82 | 92 | 108 | 85 | 88 |
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