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SEPTEMBER KEY FIGURES

		September 2013	August 2013 to September 2013
		$m	% change
Turnover at current prices
	Trend	22 040.6	0.3
	Seasonally Adjusted	22 145.5	0.8

		September Qtr 2013	June Qtr 2013 to September Qtr 2013
		$m	% change
Turnover in volume terms
	Trend	65 538.1	0.6
	Seasonally Adjusted	65 473.5	0.7

Monthly Turnover, Current Prices - Trend Estimate

Quarterly Turnover, in volume terms - Trend estimate

• The trend estimate rose 0.3% in September 2013. This follows a rise of 0.3% in August 2013 and a rise of 0.2% in July 2013.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate rose 0.8% in September 2013. This follows a rise of 0.5% in August 2013 and a rise of 0.1% in July 2013.
• In trend terms, Australian turnover rose 2.6% in September 2013 compared with September 2012.
• The following industries rose in trend terms in September 2013: Clothing, footwear and personal accessory retailing (1.3%), Food retailing (0.2%), Household goods retailing (0.4%), Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services (0.4%), Other retailing (0.1%) and Department stores (0.2%).
• The following states and territories rose in trend terms in September 2013: Victoria (0.5%), New South Wales (0.2%), Queensland (0.3%), South Australia (0.6%), Tasmania (0.7%), the Northern Territory (1.0%) and the Australian Capital Territory (0.1%). Western Australia (0.0%) was relatively unchanged in trend terms in September 2013.

• In volume terms, the trend estimate for Australian turnover rose 0.6% in the September quarter 2013.

• This issue includes a feature article on the coverage of Household Final Consumption Expenditure (HFCE) provided by this publication. A new appendix is also included with experimental estimates of consumer sales of electricity and gas, with the aim of improving the coverage of HFCE provided by this publication.
• The reference and base year for chain volume estimates is updated each September. A new base year, 2011-12, has been introduced into the chain volume estimates which has resulted in revisions to growth rates in subsequent periods. The chain volume estimates have also been re-referenced to 2011-12. Additivity is preserved in the quarters of the reference year and subsequent quarters. Re-referencing affects the level of, but not the movements in, chain volume estimates.
• This September, the chain volume estimates have also been revised as result of changes to the price deflator weights and the mapping of weights to detailed price indexes. These changes aim to improve the coherence between the price deflators used for Retail Trade and the price deflators used for HFCE in the Australian System of National Accounts. These changes have resulted in revisions to the chain volume estimates from the September quarter 2009 through to the June quarter 2013.