8501.0 - Retail Trade, Australia, Sep 2010  
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SEPTEMBER KEY FIGURES

Sep 10
Aug 10 to Sep 10
$m
% change
Turnover at current prices
Trend estimates
20 522.0
0.4
Seasonally adjusted estimates
20 509.6
0.3

Sep Qtr 2010
Jun Qtr 10 to Sep Qtr 10
$m
% change
Turnover in volume terms
Trend estimates
60 103.1
0.7
Seasonally adjusted estimates
60 156.4
0.7

Monthly Turnover, Current prices - Trend estimate
Graph: Monthly turnover_current prices_trend_% change

Quarterly turnover, in volume terms - Trend estimate
Graph: Quarterly turnover_in volume terms_Trend estimate_%change




SEPTEMBER KEY POINTS


CURRENT PRICES
  • The trend estimate rose 0.4% in September 2010. This follows a rise of 0.4% in August 2010 and a rise of 0.5% in July 2010.
  • The seasonally adjusted estimate rose 0.3% in September 2010. This follows a rise of 0.3% in August 2010 and a rise of 0.7% in July 2010.
  • In trend terms, Australian turnover rose 3.8% in September 2010 compared with September 2009.
  • The following industries rose in trend terms in September 2010: Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services (1.5%), Other retailing (0.8%), Household goods retailing (0.1%) and Clothing, footwear and personal accessory retailing (0.1%). Food retailing (0.0%) and Department stores (0.0%) remained unchanged in trend terms in September 2010.
  • The following states and territories rose in trend terms in September 2010: Victoria (0.7%), New South Wales (0.4%), Queensland (0.3%) and Western Australia (0.2%). The Northern Territory (0.0%) remained unchanged. Tasmania (-0.3%), South Australia (-0.1%), and the Australian Capital Territory (-0.1%) fell in trend terms in September 2010.


VOLUME MEASURES
  • In volume terms, the trend estimate for Australian retail turnover rose 0.7% in the September quarter 2010.


NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE Release Date
October 2010 2 December 2010
November 2010 10 January 2011
December 2010 7 February 2011
January 2011 1 March 2011
February 2011 31 March 2011
March 2011 5 May 2011



CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE

There are no changes in this issue.


REVISIONS

There are revisions to the seasonally adjusted estimates due to the concurrent methodology for deriving seasonal factors.

A new base year, 2008-09, has been introduced into the chain volume estimates. This has resulted in minor revisions to growth rates in subsequent periods. In addition, the chain volume estimates have been re-referenced to 2008-09. Additivity is preserved in the quarters of the reference year and subsequent quarters. Re-referencing affects the levels of, but not the movements in, chain volume estimates.


TIME SERIES DATA

Data available from the Downloads tab of this issue on the ABS website include longer time series of tables in this publication, the quarterly chain volume measures and the following additional current price monthly series:
  • Retail turnover by state and 15 industry subgroups in trend, seasonally adjusted and original terms
  • Retail turnover completely enumerated and sample sector, by six industry groups in original terms
  • Retail turnover completely enumerated and sample sector, by state in original terms
  • Retail turnover completely enumerated sector, total level in trend, seasonally adjusted and original terms.


INQUIRIES

For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070 or Paul Slater on Sydney (02) 9268 4581.