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FEBRUARY KEY FIGURES

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales (no.)
Trend	26 360	23 400	16 485	5 362	9 173	1 541	827	1 337	84 485
Seasonally Adjusted	25 580	23 376	17 137	5 356	9 133	1 447	747	1 346	84 122
Change from previous month (%)
Trend	-0.5	0.4	-0.6	-0.3	-0.8	-1.5	-0.7	-	-0.3
Seasonally Adjusted	-2.8	-0.8	9.6	-0.1	-1.1	-6.5	-21.1	-1.7	0.2
Change from previous year (%)
Trend	0.9	1.1	-7.6	-2.9	-1.0	-8.4	-2.8	0.6	-1.5
Seasonally Adjusted	-2.4	2.5	-2.8	-1.6	-4.0	-13.5	-8.0	1.1	-1.5
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
(a) Seasonally adjusted numbers of new motor vehicle sales in Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory should be used with caution. For more information, see paragraph 7 of the Explanatory Notes.

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Short term

• Trend - The February 2011 trend estimate (84 485) has shown a decrease of 0.3% when compared with January 2011.
• Seasonally Adjusted - The February 2011 seasonally adjusted estimate for new motor vehicle sales (84 122) increased by 0.2% when compared with January 2011.

• Trend - When comparing trend estimates for February 2011 with January 2011, sales of Passenger and Sports utility vehicles decreased by 0.3% and 1.1% respectively. Over the same period sales of Other vehicles increased by 0.6%.
• Seasonally Adjusted - When comparing seasonally adjusted estimates for February 2011 with January 2011, sales of Passenger vehicles decreased by 2.7%, while sales of Sports utility and Other vehicles increased by 4.1% and 4.2% respectively.

• Six of the eight states and territories have experienced a decrease in the trend estimate for new motor vehicle sales when comparing February 2011 with January 2011. Tasmania recorded the largest percentage decrease with (1.5%), followed by Western Australia (0.8%), Northern Territory (0.7%), Queensland (0.6%), New South Wales (0.5%) and South Australia (0.3%). Victoria recorded a percentage increase of 0.4% over the same period. This was the largest percentage recorded for any state or territory. The estimate for the Australian Capital Territory remained unchanged (0.0%).
• In seasonally adjusted terms, sales of new motor vehicles decreased in seven of the eight states and territories for February 2011 when compared with January 2011. The Northern Territory recorded the largest percentage decrease of 21.1%, followed by Tasmania (6.5%) and New South Wales (2.8%). For the same period Queensland reported an increase for new motor vehicle sales of 9.6%.

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Long term

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Short term

New motor vehicle sales by type of vehicle by month
		Passenger vehicles	Sports utility vehicles	Other vehicles	Total vehicles	Change Passenger vehicles	Change Sports utility vehicles	Change Other vehicles	Change Total vehicles
		no.	no.	no.	no.	%	%	%	%
Trend
2009
	December	47 962	18 272	17 656	83 890	1.0	3.7	1.1	1.6
2010
	January	48 608	18 695	17 649	84 952	1.3	2.3	-	1.3
	February	49 316	18 905	17 544	85 765	1.5	1.1	-0.6	1.0
	March	49 855	18 992	17 465	86 313	1.1	0.5	-0.4	0.6
	April	50 039	19 095	17 456	86 590	0.4	0.5	-0.1	0.3
	May	49 808	19 317	17 463	86 588	-0.5	1.2	-	-
	June	49 206	19 687	17 416	86 309	-1.2	1.9	-0.3	-0.3
	July	48 539	20 069	17 320	85 928	-1.4	1.9	-0.6	-0.4
	August	48 140	20 287	17 176	85 604	-0.8	1.1	-0.8	-0.4
	September	48 070	20 272	17 030	85 373	-0.1	-0.1	-0.9	-0.3
	October	48 257	20 051	16 953	85 261	0.4	-1.1	-0.5	-0.1
	November	48 480	19 716	16 968	85 164	0.5	-1.7	0.1	-0.1
	December	48 569	19 367	17 046	84 982	0.2	-1.8	0.5	-0.2
2011
	January	48 537	19 061	17 160	84 758	-0.1	-1.6	0.7	-0.3
	February	48 386	18 843	17 256	84 485	-0.3	-1.1	0.6	-0.3
Seasonally Adjusted
2009
	December	46 357	19 532	22 996	88 885	-3.0	8.3	12.4	3.0
2010
	January	48 974	18 651	18 772	86 397	5.6	-4.5	-18.4	-2.8
	February	49 400	18 584	17 429	85 413	0.9	-0.4	-7.1	-1.1
	March	49 647	18 672	17 154	85 473	0.5	0.5	-1.6	0.1
	April	53 902	20 663	17 397	91 962	8.6	10.7	1.4	7.6
	May	51 383	19 645	17 590	88 618	-4.7	-4.9	1.1	-3.6
	June	49 467	19 512	17 748	86 726	-3.7	-0.7	0.9	-2.1
	July	47 607	20 277	16 953	84 837	-3.8	3.9	-4.5	-2.2
	August	47 505	19 794	17 626	84 925	-0.2	-2.4	4.0	0.1
	September	48 338	20 825	16 832	85 995	1.8	5.2	-4.5	1.3
	October	47 635	20 619	16 754	85 008	-1.5	-1.0	-0.5	-1.1
	November	48 301	20 157	16 760	85 218	1.4	-2.2	-	0.2
	December	50 611	18 142	17 255	86 007	4.8	-10.0	3.0	0.9
2011
	January	48 318	18 678	16 968	83 964	-4.5	3.0	-1.7	-2.4
	February	47 002	19 443	17 677	84 122	-2.7	4.1	4.2	0.2
Original
2009
	December	46 623	19 616	22 469	88 708	-0.9	6.8	10.1	3.3
2010
	January	43 580	16 900	14 384	74 864	-6.5	-13.8	-36.0	-15.6
	February	47 829	18 073	16 317	82 219	9.7	6.9	13.4	9.8
	March	53 717	21 643	19 384	94 744	12.3	19.8	18.8	15.2
	April	47 156	18 067	16 178	81 401	-12.2	-16.5	-16.5	-14.1
	May	50 450	20 065	18 703	89 218	7.0	11.1	15.6	9.6
	June	60 820	24 597	23 305	108 722	20.6	22.6	24.6	21.9
	July	47 591	19 032	15 753	82 376	-21.8	-22.6	-32.4	-24.2
	August	46 504	18 515	17 103	82 122	-2.3	-2.7	8.6	-0.3
	September	48 763	19 684	16 607	85 054	4.9	6.3	-2.9	3.6
	October	45 268	19 348	16 309	80 925	-7.2	-1.7	-1.8	-4.9
	November	49 405	20 806	17 131	87 342	9.1	7.5	5.0	7.9
	December	51 039	18 555	16 993	86 587	3.3	-10.8	-0.8	-0.9
2011
	January	43 539	17 032	13 013	73 584	-14.7	-8.2	-23.4	-15.0
	February	45 455	18 916	16 525	80 896	4.4	11.1	27.0	9.9
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)

New motor vehicle sales by state/territory of registration
		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
		no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.
Trend
2009
	December	25 751	22 379	17 769	5 452	8 800	1 603	838	1 298	83 890
2010
	January	25 960	22 781	17 846	5 490	9 064	1 653	846	1 312	84 952
	February	26 125	23 142	17 849	5 521	9 266	1 683	851	1 328	85 765
	March	26 250	23 447	17 775	5 551	9 407	1 682	854	1 347	86 313
	April	26 334	23 653	17 639	5 585	9 506	1 648	858	1 366	86 590
	May	26 370	23 712	17 473	5 608	9 574	1 602	864	1 384	86 588
	June	26 323	23 609	17 316	5 608	9 630	1 559	869	1 394	86 309
	July	26 254	23 395	17 218	5 582	9 678	1 538	868	1 394	85 928
	August	26 252	23 188	17 136	5 536	9 698	1 542	865	1 386	85 604
	September	26 340	23 057	17 046	5 483	9 653	1 562	859	1 372	85 373
	October	26 462	23 043	16 959	5 442	9 560	1 583	854	1 359	85 261
	November	26 549	23 113	16 853	5 413	9 450	1 590	848	1 348	85 164
	December	26 555	23 211	16 715	5 392	9 343	1 582	841	1 341	84 982
2011
	January	26 496	23 313	16 592	5 377	9 245	1 565	834	1 337	84 758
	February	26 360	23 400	16 485	5 362	9 173	1 541	827	1 337	84 485
Seasonally Adjusted
2009
	December	27 745	22 927	19 321	5 907	9 112	1 759	822	1 292	88 885
2010
	January	25 967	22 907	18 250	5 871	9 493	1 719	887	1 303	86 397
	February	26 203	22 800	17 639	5 444	9 511	1 673	812	1 331	85 413
	March	25 975	23 789	17 183	5 435	9 171	1 724	853	1 342	85 473
	April	26 733	25 785	18 112	5 666	11 788	1 645	859	1 375	91 962
	May	26 468	23 993	17 848	5 606	10 816	1 603	873	1 411	88 618
	June	26 533	23 842	17 265	5 731	9 584	1 553	846	1 371	86 726
	July	25 775	23 145	16 728	5 512	9 888	1 492	903	1 393	84 837
	August	26 286	23 070	16 764	5 481	9 623	1 469	853	1 380	84 925
	September	26 347	22 808	17 486	5 619	9 811	1 645	874	1 405	85 995
	October	26 210	23 276	17 185	5 265	9 316	1 550	825	1 382	85 008
	November	26 325	22 882	17 117	5 452	9 684	1 625	854	1 280	85 218
	December	27 774	23 197	16 595	5 435	9 222	1 650	801	1 332	86 007
2011
	January	26 308	23 566	15 631	5 363	9 231	1 547	947	1 369	83 964
	February	25 580	23 376	17 137	5 356	9 133	1 447	747	1 346	84 122
Original
2009
	December	26 848	23 398	18 995	6 213	8 967	2 242	737	1 308	88 708
2010
	January	22 820	19 746	15 253	5 151	8 521	1 487	716	1 170	74 864
	February	25 708	21 924	16 744	5 242	9 048	1 474	742	1 337	82 219
	March	29 083	26 380	19 480	5 950	9 636	1 711	1 038	1 466	94 744
	April	23 616	22 660	16 326	4 944	10 331	1 406	872	1 246	81 401
	May	26 531	23 994	18 370	5 798	10 604	1 527	997	1 397	89 218
	June	33 240	29 192	22 956	7 109	11 647	1 779	1 133	1 666	108 722
	July	25 050	22 499	16 516	5 208	9 572	1 292	881	1 358	82 376
	August	25 287	22 312	15 966	5 233	9 753	1 407	819	1 345	82 122
	September	26 079	22 511	16 939	5 548	10 121	1 715	785	1 356	85 054
	October	24 451	22 847	15 904	4 974	9 244	1 477	717	1 311	80 925
	November	27 422	23 491	17 025	5 651	9 738	1 902	809	1 304	87 342
	December	27 195	23 873	16 422	5 636	9 238	2 181	714	1 328	86 587
2011
	January	23 560	20 323	13 300	4 792	8 289	1 309	772	1 239	73 584
	February	25 048	22 446	16 283	5 128	8 686	1 273	680	1 352	80 896
(a) Seasonally adjusted numbers of new motor vehicle sales in Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory should be used with caution. For more information, see paragraph 7 of the Explanatory Notes.