NAME OF COLLECTION
Price Indexes of Materials Used in Manufacturing Industries
Contact
Manager
Price Indexes of Materials Used in Manufacturing Industries
Producer Price Indexes Section
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Locked Bag 10
BELCONNEN ACT 2616
Telephone: Canberra 02 6252 6519
Facsimile: Canberra 02 6252 7060
Email: client.services@abs.gov.au
Web site: <www.abs.gov.au>
Purpose
To provide an indication of price movements of materials used by establishments classified to designated 'sectors' of Australian manufacturing industry.
Description
The price indexes of materials used in manufacturing industries are on a 'net sector' basis; that is, each relates only to those materials which are used in the defined 'sector' of Australian manufacturing industry and which have been produced by establishments outside that 'sector'. These establishments are either Australian manufacturing establishments classified to other manufacturing 'sectors', or to other divisions of Australian industry (e.g. 'Agriculture, forestry and fishing' or 'Mining'), or are overseas producers (including overseas manufacturing establishments).
Prices of these materials are generally obtained from suppliers (producers and wholesalers). Prices of imported materials are generally obtained from importers and relate to shipments arriving in Australia that quarter.
In concept, pricing for these indexes is at the point at which the material physically enters the defined manufacturing 'sector'. Therefore, as far as possible prices are on a 'delivered in store' basis.
The items included in the indexes were selected on the basis of the values of materials used in 1989-90.
Main data detail
Some of the data items available are:
- contribution of materials classified by Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC) industry of origin (including Coal mining, Oil and gas extraction, Metal ore mining and Other mining) to the total Manufacturing Division Index;
- manufacturing ANZSIC Subdivision and Group Indexes (including Petroleum and coal products (251, 252) and Basic metal products (271-273)); and
- indexes of metallic minerals used in the fabricated metal products industry.
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 from 1968-69.
Products and services
Publication
Other
- Special data services may be available on request.
Example of information available
MANUFACTURING DIVISION INDEX, CONTRIBUTION OF MATERIALS BY ANZSIC INDUSTRY OF ORIGIN(a)
| Industry of origin | Dec Qtr 2001 | Mar Qtr 2002 | Change |
|
| Manufacturing Division | 132.0 | 130.6 | -1.4 |
| Agriculture | 38.74 | 39.19 | 0.45 |
| Forestry and logging | 1.58 | 1.60 | 0.02 |
| Coal mining | 1.05 | 1.03 | -0.02 |
| Oil and gas extraction | 19.57 | 18.12 | -1.45 |
| Metal ore mining | 10.12 | 10.30 | 0.18 |
| Other mining | 4.71 | 4.96 | 0.25 |
| Textile, clothing, footwear and leather\nmanufacturing | 6.54 | 6.51 | -0.03 |
| Wood and paper product manufacturing | 6.26 | 6.14 | -0.12 |
| Petroleum, coal, chemical and associated\nproduct manufacturing | 13.01 | 12.25 | -0.76 |
| Non-metallic mineral product manufacturing | 0.80 | 0.80 | - |
| Metal product manufacturing | 5.81 | 5.80 | -0.01 |
| Machinery and equipment manufacturing | 12.38 | 12.26 | -0.12 |
| Electricity and gas supply | 11.46 | 11.66 | 0.20 |
|
| (a) This table provides an analysis of the contributions materials (classified by ANZSIC industry of origin) make to the total Manufacturing Division index. |
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