JULY KEY FIGURES

The estimates in this release have been revised back to July 2007. The ABS has undertaken a review of Overseas Arrivals and Departures statistics, methodology and processing systems due to the removal of the outgoing passenger card. See NOTES section for details.

		Jul '17	Jun '17 to Jul '17	Jul '16 to Jul '17
		'000	% change	% change
Short-term visitor arrivals
	Trend	745.4	0.6	7.1
	Seasonally adjusted	747.8	2.4	..
	Original	746.1	..	..
Short-term resident returns
	Trend	884.3	0.1	6.5
	Seasonally adjusted	873.5	-0.2	..
	Original	1 070.4	..	..
. . not applicable

Visitor arrivals, Short-term

Resident returns, Short-term

JULY KEY POINTS

SHORT-TERM VISITOR ARRIVALS TO AUSTRALIA

• Trend estimates: Short-term visitor arrivals during July 2017 (745,400 movements) increased 0.6% compared with June 2017 (741,400 movements). This followed monthly increases of 0.8% in May 2017 and 0.7% June 2017. The current trend estimate for arrivals is 7.1% higher than in July 2016.
• Seasonally adjusted estimates: During July 2017, short-term visitor arrivals (747,800 movements) increased 2.4% compared with June 2017 (730,600 movements). This followed monthly decreases of 1.9% in May 2017 and 0.6% in June 2017.
• Original estimates: There were 746,100 short-term visitor arrivals to Australia in July 2017.

SHORT-TERM RESIDENT RETURNS TO AUSTRALIA

• Trend estimates: Short-term resident returns during July 2017 (884,300 movements) increased 0.1% compared with June 2017 (883,800 movements). This followed a monthly increase of 0.2% in May 2017 and 0.0% in June 2017. The current trend estimate for returns is 6.5% higher than in July 2016.
• Seasonally adjusted estimates: During July 2017, short-term resident returns (873,500 movements) decreased 0.2% compared with June 2017 (875,500 movements). This followed a monthly increase of 0.1% in May 2017 and a monthly decrease of 2.2% in June 2017.
• Original estimates: There were 1,070,400 short-term resident returns to Australia in July 2017.

NOTES


FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE	Release Date
August 2017	16 October 2017
September 2017	15 November 2017
October 2017	14 December 2017
November 2017	19 January 2018
December 2017	19 February 2018
January 2018	15 March 2018

DATA NOTES

This release contains overseas movement data which should not be interpreted as 'persons'. See paragraph 7 of the Explanatory Notes for more detail.

The statistics in this release have been rounded. See paragraph 33 of the Explanatory Notes for more detail.


CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE

In 2017, the ABS undertook a review of OAD statistics, methodology and processing systems due to the removal of the outgoing passenger card. The review has resulted in a break in series, necessitating a revised time series for OAD data from July 2007 to June 2017 based on the new methodology. Figures prior to June 2007 may not be strictly comparable to those which follow. For information on the changes, including OAD data that is no longer available see NOTES section of this issue or the Data Quality Issues (Appendix 2) in the left hand side navigation bar under the Explanatory Notes tab.

Prior to July 2017, the focus of this publication was on Short-term Visitor Arrivals and Short-term Resident Departures, with trend and seasonally adjusted data provided for both series. Since July 2017, the focus has shifted to Short-term Visitor Arrivals and Short-term Resident Returns. A full trend and seasonally adjusted series is now available for Short-term Resident Returns (i.e. a residents second leg of journey).


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