6467.0 - Selected Living Cost Indexes, Australia, Dec 2017 Quality Declaration
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 07/02/2018
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DECEMBER KEY POINTS NOTES FORTHCOMING ISSUES
CHANGES THIS ISSUE This issue includes the introduction of the 17th series Selected Living Cost Indexes (SLCI). For more details of changes resulting from the introduction of the 17th series SLCI, refer to Selected Living Cost Indexes: 17th Series Weighting Pattern, Sep 2017 (cat. no. 6474.0). ROUNDING Any discrepancies between totals and sums of components in this publication are due to rounding. TIME SERIES DATA Longer time series of statistics presented in this product are available from the Downloads tab for this product on the ABS website. They are available as Time Series Workbooks:
INQUIRIES For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070. SUMMARY COMMENTARY THE LIVING COST INDEXES The Living Cost Indexes (LCI) have been designed to answer the question: 'By how much would after tax money incomes need to change to allow households to purchase the same quantity of consumer goods and services that they purchased in the base period?' In the December quarter 2017, the living costs of other government recipient households rose 1.0%. Over the same period, pensioner and beneficiary households (PBLCI) rose 0.8% and employee households rose 0.7%. The living costs of self funded retiree households and age pensioner households rose 0.6%. For more information about the December quarter 2017 results see Main Contributors to Change. These differences arise for a number of reasons. The inclusion of mortgage interest and consumer credit charges and the different treatments of housing and insurance costs in the LCIs result in variations between the LCIs and the CPI series. The expenditure patterns of those households measured by the LCIs differ from those of the overall household sector in scope of the CPI; these also contribute to differences in the percentage changes. For a discussion of the relationship between the LCIs and CPI, see the Explanatory Notes. Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.
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