DECEMBER KEY FIGURES

	Sep Qtr 10 to Dec Qtr 10	Dec Qtr 09 to Dec Qtr 10
STAGE OF PRODUCTION	% change	% change
Final (Stage 3) commodities (excl. exports)	0.1	2.7
Domestic	0.7	3.5
Imports	-4.4	-2.4
Intermediate (Stage 2) commodities	0.0	3.3
Domestic	0.5	3.7
Imports	-3.5	0.4
Preliminary (Stage 1) commodities	0.1	3.8
Domestic	0.5	4.1
Imports	-3.1	1.5

Final Stage, Base 1998-99 = 100.0

Final Stage, Quarterly % change

DECEMBER KEY POINTS


FINAL (STAGE 3) COMMODITIES

• increased 0.1% in the December quarter 2010.
• mainly due to rises in the prices received for other agriculture (+18.3%), building construction (+0.8%) and accommodation (+8.6%).
• partly offset by falls in the prices received for industrial machinery and equipment manufacturing (-3.2%) and electronic equipment and appliance manufacturing (-7.1%).
• increased 2.7% through the year to December quarter 2010.

INTERMEDIATE (STAGE 2) COMMODITIES

• remained unchanged in the December quarter 2010.
• rises in the prices received for electricity, gas and water supply (+2.8%) and basic non-ferrous metal manufacturing (+6.6%) were offset by falls in the prices received for coal mining (-4.6%) and basic chemical manufacturing (-3.7%).
• increased 3.3% through the year to December quarter 2010.

PRELIMINARY (STAGE 1) COMMODITIES

• increased 0.1% in the December quarter 2010.
• mainly due to rises in the prices received for electricity, gas and water supply (+2.4%), basic non-ferrous metal manufacturing (+6.7%) and oil and gas extraction (+1.1%).
• partly offset by falls in the prices received for coal mining (-4.6%), basic chemical manufacturing (-3.7%) and iron and steel manufacturing (-2.0%).
• increased 3.8% through the year to December quarter 2010.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER)	Release Date
March 2011	21 April 2011
June 2011	25 July 2011
September 2011	24 October 2011
December 2011	23 January 2012

IMPACT OF THE FLOODS

Flooding in Queensland began in late December 2010. It is expected that the first significant economic impact of this and floods in other states will be reflected in the March quarter 2011 release of this publication.

Price collection for the December quarter 2010 was not affected by the floods.


ANZSIC 2006 CORRESPONDENCE

From the September quarter 2009, data available on the ABS website in tables 10-23 and associated commentary are based on the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC) 2006 edition. Data in previous issues were based on the ANZSIC 1993 edition.

Correspondences between the old (ANZSIC 1993) and new (ANZSIC 2006) classification are available as a data cube that can be downloaded via the 'Downloads' tab associated with this publication on the ABS website <https://www.abs.gov.au>. These correspondences are available on the ABS website and in this issue.

As a result of the September quarter 2009 changes, several tables released in this publication and on the ABS website also changed. A concordance between the old and new PPI tables was released as part of the Information Paper: Update on ANZSIC 2006 Implementation for Producer and International Trade Price Indexes, Australia, 2009 (cat. no. 6427.0.55.002). This concordance is also available as an appendix in this issue.


ROUNDING

Any discrepancies between totals and sums of components are due to rounding.


DATA REFERENCES

Data referenced in the Key Points and Commentary are available from the tables shown in this publication, or in the corresponding tables of this publication on the ABS website <https://www.abs.gov.au>.


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