6467.0 - Selected Living Cost Indexes, Australia, Mar 2016 Quality Declaration
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 04/05/2016
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MARCH KEY POINTS NOTES FORTHCOMING ISSUES
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. The ABS Privacy Policy outlines how the ABS will handle any personal information that you provide to us. 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 March quarter 2016, the living costs of pensioner and beneficiary households (PBLCI) recorded no change. Over the same period, the living costs of self–funded retiree households fell 0.4%, other government transfer recipient households fell 0.1%, employee households and age pensioner households recorded no change. For more information about the March quarter 2016 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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