6467.0 - Pensioner and Beneficiary Living Cost Index, Dec 2011 
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DECEMBER KEY POINTS THE ALL GROUPS PENSIONER AND BENEFICIARY LIVING COST INDEX (PBLCI)
OVERVIEW OF PBLCI MOVEMENTS
NOTES FORTHCOMING ISSUES
FUTURE CHANGES The June quarter 2012 issue of this product will be the last issue in this format. From the September quarter 2012 issue (scheduled for release on 31 October 2012), statistics on the Pensioner and Beneficiary Living Cost Index (cat. no. 6467.0) and the Analytical Living Cost Indexes for Selected Australian Household Types (cat. no. 6463.0) will be amalgamated into a single product Selected Living Cost Indexes, Australia (cat. no. 6467.0). From the September quarter 2012, all index numbers will be calculated on a new reference base of 2011–12. This will result in the index numbers for each index series being reset to 100.0 for the financial year 2011–12. Period–to–period percentage changes may differ slightly to those previously published due to rounding and the re–referencing. These differences do not constitute a revision. Further information on re–referencing can be found in chapter 12 of Information Paper: Consumer Price Index, Concepts, Sources and Methods, 2011 (cat. no. 6461.0). ROUNDING Any discrepancies between totals and sums of components in this publication are due to rounding. INDEX NUMBERS USE REFERENCE BASE OF JUNE QUARTER 2007 = 100.0 To allow comparison of the Pensioner and Beneficiary Living Cost Index with other ABS price indexes, all index numbers in this publication use a reference base of June quarter 2007 = 100.0. However, percentage changes used in this publication for the Consumer Price Index are as published in Consumer Price Index, Australia (cat. no. 6401.0). The percentage changes for Analytical Living Cost Indexes used in this publication are as published in Analytical Living Cost Indexes for Selected Australian Household Types (cat. no. 6463.0). INQUIRIES For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070. SUMMARY COMMENTARY THE PENSIONER AND BENEFICIARY LIVING COST INDEX The Pensioner and Beneficiary Living Cost Index (PBLCI) has been designed to answer the question: 'By how much would after tax money incomes need to change to allow age pensioners and other households whose principal source of income is government benefits to purchase the same quantity of consumer goods and services that they purchased in the base period?' The PBLCI has been derived by combining the age pensioner Analytical Living Cost Index (ALCI) and the other government transfer recipient ALCI. Living cost indexes are intended to measure the impact of changes in prices on the out–of–pocket expenses incurred by these particular household types. In the December quarter 2011 the PBLCI fell 0.2%. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) was unchanged over the same period. Since the PBLCI series began in June quarter 2007 it has risen 16.7% to the December quarter 2011, compared to 13.9% for the CPI. Differences have occurred for a number of reasons that relate to factors that affect the component series used to compile the PBLCI. The inclusion of mortgage interest and consumer credit charges and the different treatments of housing and insurance in the PBLCI result in variations between the PBLCI and the CPI series. The expenditure patterns of age pensioner and other government transfer recipient households differ from those of the overall household sector covered by the CPI, which also contributes to differences in the percentage changes. For more information on the relationship between the PBLCI, CPI and the ALCIs, see the Explanatory Notes. Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.
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