MARCH KEY FIGURES

	Dec Qtr 10 to Mar Qtr 11	Mar Qtr 10 to Mar Qtr 11
STAGE OF PRODUCTION	% change	% change
Final (Stage 3) commodities (excl. exports)	1.2	2.9
Domestic	1.4	3.9
Imports	-0.3	-3.9
Intermediate (Stage 2) commodities	2.3	4.4
Domestic	2.3	4.7
Imports	2.0	2.1
Preliminary (Stage 1) commodities	2.6	5.5
Domestic	2.4	5.4
Imports	3.9	5.4

Final Stage, Base 1998-99 = 100.0

Final Stage, Quarterly % change

MARCH KEY POINTS


FINAL (STAGE 3) COMMODITIES

• increased by 1.2% in the March quarter 2011.
• mainly due to rises in the prices received for petroleum refining (+13.0%), other agriculture (+13.7%) and electricity, gas and water (+2.7%).
• partly offset by falls in the prices received for commercial fishing (-7.6%).
• increased by 2.9% through the year to March quarter 2011.

INTERMEDIATE (STAGE 2) COMMODITIES

• increased by 2.3% in the March quarter 2011.
• mainly due to rises in the prices received for petroleum refining (+14.2%), grain, sheep, beef and dairy cattle farming (+9.4%) and oil and gas extraction (+11.1%).
• partly offset by falls in the prices received for structural metal product manufacturing (-2.6%).
• increased by 4.4% through the year to March quarter 2011.

PRELIMINARY (STAGE 1) COMMODITIES

• increased by 2.6% in the March quarter 2011.
• mainly due to rises in the prices received for oil and gas extraction (+11.1%), petroleum refining (+14.1%), grain, sheep, beef and dairy cattle farming (+10.6%).
• partly offset by falls in the prices received for iron and steel manufacturing (-1.9%).
• increased by 5.5% through the year to March quarter 2011.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

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

IMPACT OF THE FLOODS AND CYCLONE YASI

The collection and processing of data included in this publication were not disrupted - see page 3 - Impact of the floods and Cyclone Yasi.


CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE

To conform with ABS data release policies, the following series has been discontinued: Tables 10 and 11, ANZSIC Class 1212 Beer manufacturing. The series is available at the more aggregated industry group level.


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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