SEPTEMBER KEY FIGURES

	Jun Qtr 09 to Sep Qtr 09	Sep Qtr 08 to Sep Qtr 09
STAGE OF PRODUCTION	% change	% change
Final (Stage 3) commodities (excl. exports)	0.1	0.2
Domestic	1.0	-0.6
Imports	-5.1	6.5
Intermediate (Stage 2) commodities	-0.6	-4.9
Domestic	-0.6	-3.9
Imports	-1.0	-10.7
Preliminary (Stage 1) commodities	-0.5	-7.5
Domestic	-0.9	-5.5
Imports	2.2	-19.2

Final Stage, Base 1998-99 = 100.0

Final Stage, Quarterly % change

SEPTEMBER KEY POINTS


FINAL (STAGE 3) COMMODITIES

• increased by 0.1% in the September quarter 2009.
• mainly due to price increases in electricity, gas and water (+12.1%), bakery product manufacturing (+10.4%) and petroleum refining (+6.0%).
• partially offset by price decreases in computer services (-7.1%) and industrial machinery and equipment manufacturing (-5.0%).
• increased by 0.2% through the year to September quarter 2009.

INTERMEDIATE (STAGE 2) COMMODITIES

• decreased by 0.6% in the September quarter 2009.
• mainly due to price decreases in coal mining (-19.4%), property operators and developers (-2.9%), iron and steel manufacturing (-6.7%), and computer services (-5.5%).
• partially offset by price increases in oil and gas extraction (+19.0%), petroleum refining (+6.0%) and electricity, gas and water supply (+4.5%).
• decreased by 4.9% through the year to September quarter 2009.

PRELIMINARY (STAGE 1) COMMODITIES

• decreased by 0.5% in the September quarter 2009.
• mainly due to price decreases in coal mining (-19.4%), iron and steel manufacturing (-6.7%), property operators and developers (-2.9%) and metal ore mining (-13.0%).
• partially offset by price increases in oil and gas extraction (+19.0%), electricity, gas and water supply (+6.1%) and petroleum refining (+6.2%).
• decreased by 7.5% through the year to September quarter 2009.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER)	Release Date
December 2009	25 January 2010
March 2010	27 April 2010
June 2010	26 July 2010
September 2010	25 October 2010

CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE

The format and content of this publication has changed with this issue. The publication now only includes the economy-wide Stage of Production (SOP) producer price indexes (tables 1-9), which remain classified according to the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC) 1993 edition. The SOP indexes will be presented on an ANZSIC 2006 basis in 2011.

Tables 10-23 and associated commentary which were previously included in this publication are now available on the ABS website <https://www.abs.gov.au>. These tables are based on ANZSIC 2006, which is a revised version of the classification. Data presented in previous issues of this publication are based on the ANZSIC 1993.

Information on the implementation of ANZSIC 2006 is included in Information Paper: Update on ANZSIC 2006 Implementation for Producer and International Trade Price Indexes, Australia, 2009 (cat. no. 6427.0.55.002).

The scope of the manufacturing industry indexes has changed from a net sector to a gross sector basis (further information can be found in paragraphs 43-51 of the Explanatory Notes).

A new price index for ANZSIC 2006 Group 510 - Postal and courier pick-up and delivery services is presented in time series spreadsheets on the ABS website <https://www.abs.gov.au> (see table 19).


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>.


INQUIRIES

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