JANUARY KEY FIGURES
![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | ![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | Jan 16 | Dec 15 to Jan 16 | Jan 15 to Jan 16 |
![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | ![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | no. | % change | % change |
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TREND | ![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | ![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | ![](/icons/ecblank.gif) |
![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | Total dwelling units approved | 17 872 | -1.0 | -8.7 |
![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | Private sector houses | 9 507 | 0.1 | -1.9 |
![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | Private sector dwellings excluding houses | 8 167 | -2.3 | -14.6 |
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED | ![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | ![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | ![](/icons/ecblank.gif) |
![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | Total dwelling units approved | 17 446 | -7.5 | -15.5 |
![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | Private sector houses | 9 319 | -6.0 | -3.3 |
![](/icons/ecblank.gif) | Private sector dwellings excluding houses | 7 829 | -10.8 | -26.7 |
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Dwelling units approved
![Graph: Dwelling units approved](/ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/825e389625a64ae5ca257f880019eca5/Body/0.1674!OpenElement&FieldElemFormat=gif)
| Private sector houses approved
![Graph: Private sector houses approved](/ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/825e389625a64ae5ca257f880019eca5/Body/0.22AA!OpenElement&FieldElemFormat=gif)
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JANUARY KEY POINTS
TOTAL DWELLING UNITS
- The trend estimate for total dwellings approved fell 1.0% in January and has fallen for 10 months.
- The seasonally adjusted estimate for total dwellings approved fell 7.5% in January following a rise of 8.6% in the previous month.
PRIVATE SECTOR HOUSES
- The trend estimate for private sector houses approved rose 0.1% in January after falling for eight months.
- The seasonally adjusted estimate for private sector houses fell 6.0% in January following a rise of 6.9% in the previous month.
PRIVATE SECTOR DWELLINGS EXCLUDING HOUSES
- The trend estimate for private sector dwellings excluding houses fell 2.3% in January and has fallen for 10 months.
- The seasonally adjusted estimate for private sector dwellings excluding houses fell 10.8% in January following a rise of 9.7% in the previous month.
VALUE OF BUILDING APPROVED
- The trend estimate of the value of total building approved fell 1.8% in January and has fallen for seven months. The value of residential building fell 2.0% and has fallen for nine months. The value of non-residential building fell 1.3% and has fallen for five months.
- The seasonally adjusted estimate of the value of total building approved fell 10.7% in January following a rise of 0.4% in the previous month. The value of residential building fell 11.4% following a rise of 3.8% in the previous month. The value of non-residential building fell 9.2% and has fallen for two months.
NOTES
FORTHCOMING ISSUES
ISSUE | Release Date |
January 2016 - Additional | 8 March 2016 |
February 2016 | 4 April 2016 |
February 2016 - Additional | 11 April 2016 |
March 2016 | 3 May 2016 |
March 2016 - Additional | 10 May 2016 |
April 2016 | 31 May 2016 |
DATA NOTES
For the January Building Approvals release each year, the ABS provides additional detail regarding the revisions that have been made to Building Approvals data prior to the beginning of the previous financial year. In this release, revisions are provided for the time period from July 2011 to June 2014 and include revisions resulting from the Building Approvals Annual Review. The Building Approvals Annual Review has been operating since July 2015, requesting historical data back to the most recent large scale review (June 2012). Further information about the Annual Review and other potential sources of revisions can be found in the feature article released with this month's publication - "
Revisions to Building Approval Statistics".
Small area data cubes will be released in an “Additional Information” release five business days after the main publication. The data cubes will be for Statistical Area Level 2 and Local Government Areas. Release dates are published under the “Forthcoming Issues” section of the publication and in ABS Release Advice.
A number of time series spreadsheets contain ‘np’ (not available for publication) annotations. This is due to confidential data being contained in these series.
REVISIONS THIS MONTH
Revisions to the total number of dwelling units approved in this issue are:
Dwellings | Up to and including June 2014 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | TOTAL |
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NSW | 1 850 | 1 850 | 716 | 4 416 |
Vic. | 172 | 13 | 315 | 500 |
Qld | 1 166 | 1 271 | 16 | 2 453 |
SA | 353 | 139 | 58 | 550 |
WA | 566 | 170 | 5 | 741 |
Tas. | 76 | 47 | - | 123 |
NT | 10 | 5 | - | 15 |
ACT | - | 2 | 3 | 5 |
Total | 4 193 | 3 497 | 1 113 | 8 803 |
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- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells) |
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