9314.0 - Sales of New Motor Vehicles, Australia, Jan 2012

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JANUARY KEY FIGURES

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales (no.)

Trend	26 864	22 447	18 315	5 025	9 525	1 234	881	1 356	85 647
Seasonally Adjusted	26 440	22 566	18 382	5 044	9 703	1 154	955	1 379	85 624
Change from previous month (%)

Trend	-0.9	-0.9	-0.7	-2.2	0.3	-4.4	-	-0.5	-0.9
Seasonally Adjusted	-0.3	1.5	2.6	-0.5	4.1	-14.0	22.5	5.0	1.3
Change from previous year (%)

Trend	3.1	-2.6	8.3	-5.9	2.5	-20.5	9.2	2.3	1.6
Seasonally Adjusted	0.7	-2.6	17.3	-6.1	6.8	-24.7	2.3	2.8	2.7

- 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.

JANUARY KEY POINTS

TOTAL NEW MOTOR VEHICLE SALES

The January 2012 trend estimate (85 647) has decreased by 0.9% when compared with December 2011.
Seasonally Adjusted - The January 2012 seasonally adjusted estimate for new motor vehicle sales (85 624) increased by 1.3% when compared with December 2011.

SALES BY TYPE OF VEHICLE

When comparing national trend estimates for January 2012 with December 2011, sales of Passenger vehicles decreased by 0.6%, while sales of Sports utility vehicles increased by 0.4%. Over the same period sales of Other vehicles decreased by 3.3%.
Seasonally Adjusted - When comparing seasonally adjusted estimates for January 2012 with December 2011, sales of Passenger vehicles, Sports utility vehicles and Other vehicles increased by 0.2%, 3.0% and 2.3% respectively.

SALES BY STATE

Six of the eight states and territories have experienced a decrease in the trend estimate for new motor vehicle sales when comparing January 2012 with December 2011. Tasmania recorded the largest percentage decrease (4.4%), followed by South Australia (2.2%). Sales in Western Australia have increased by 0.3% over the same period.
In seasonally adjusted terms, sales of new motor vehicles increased in five of the eight states and territories when comparing January 2012 with December 2011. Northern Territory recorded the largest percentage increase, with 22.5%, followed by the Australian Capital Territory (5.0%) and Western Australia (4.1%). Over the same period Tasmania decreased by 14.0%.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE	Release Date
February 2012	15 March 2012
March 2012	17 April 2012
April 2012	15 May 2012
May 2012	18 June 2012
June 2012	17 July 2012
July 2012	14 August 2012

ABOUT THIS ISSUE

This issue presents details for the Sales of New Motor Vehicles for January 2012.

DATA NOTES

Recent flooding in Thailand may have had an impact on new vehicle sales in Australia due to associated delays in delivery of Thai manufactured vehicles and vehicle parts. Impacts from the flooding could continue to disrupt the supply of new motor vehicles to Australia from Thailand in coming months.

The earthquake and tsunami which occurred in Japan in March 2011 had an impact on the number of new vehicle sales in Australia in mid 2011 due to a reduction in supply. These events are no longer affecting the supply of new vehicles, with Japanese motor vehicle production now returning to levels observed before March 2011.

As new motor vehicle sales are influenced by a range of factors, it is not possible to quantify the specific impacts of these events.

INQUIRIES

For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070.

SUMMARY COMMENTARY

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Long term
Graph: New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles—Long term

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Short term
Graph: 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

2010
	November	47 981	19 609	16 887	84 477	0.4	-1.6	0.8	-
	December	48 120	19 297	17 182	84 598	0.3	-1.6	1.7	0.1
2011
	January	47 932	18 948	17 446	84 326	-0.4	-1.8	1.5	-0.3
	February	47 376	18 558	17 540	83 474	-1.2	-2.1	0.5	-1.0
	March	46 674	18 265	17 427	82 366	-1.5	-1.6	-0.6	-1.3
	April	46 043	18 239	17 189	81 471	-1.4	-0.1	-1.4	-1.1
	May	45 730	18 521	16 990	81 241	-0.7	1.5	-1.2	-0.3
	June	45 857	19 125	16 981	81 963	0.3	3.3	-0.1	0.9
	July	46 293	19 985	17 147	83 426	1.0	4.5	1.0	1.8
	August	46 807	20 962	17 333	85 102	1.1	4.9	1.1	2.0
	September	47 203	21 823	17 382	86 408	0.8	4.1	0.3	1.5
	October	47 328	22 420	17 175	86 923	0.3	2.7	-1.2	0.6
	November	47 208	22 800	16 766	86 775	-0.3	1.7	-2.4	-0.2
	December	46 994	23 091	16 298	86 383	-0.5	1.3	-2.8	-0.5
2012
	January	46 707	23 177	15 764	85 647	-0.6	0.4	-3.3	-0.9
Seasonally Adjusted

2010
	November	48 284	19 793	16 615	84 692	2.6	-3.6	1.7	0.9
	December	51 393	18 247	17 499	87 139	6.4	-7.8	5.3	2.9
2011
	January	47 782	18 402	17 200	83 384	-7.0	0.8	-1.7	-4.3
	February	46 915	19 278	17 740	83 932	-1.8	4.8	3.1	0.7
	March	47 422	21 366	18 398	87 187	1.1	10.8	3.7	3.9
	April	47 117	19 064	17 205	83 386	-0.6	-10.8	-6.5	-4.4
	May	43 621	16 900	16 459	76 980	-7.4	-11.4	-4.3	-7.7
	June	44 904	17 214	15 744	77 861	2.9	1.9	-4.3	1.1
	July	46 911	20 841	17 521	85 273	4.5	21.1	11.3	9.5
	August	47 638	22 849	17 525	88 012	1.6	9.6	-	3.2
	September	47 075	21 869	18 143	87 087	-1.2	-4.3	3.5	-1.1
	October	48 462	21 642	17 323	87 427	2.9	-1.0	-4.5	0.4
	November	46 558	23 019	17 271	86 849	-3.9	6.4	-0.3	-0.7
	December	46 514	22 806	15 165	84 485	-0.1	-0.9	-12.2	-2.7
2012
	January	46 617	23 499	15 507	85 624	0.2	3.0	2.3	1.3
Original

2010
	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
	March	50 228	23 066	20 690	93 984	10.5	21.9	25.2	16.2
	April	41 565	17 054	15 595	74 214	-17.2	-26.1	-24.6	-21.0
	May	r42 577	17 121	17 703	r77 401	2.4	0.4	13.5	4.3
	June	54 322	21 518	20 317	96 157	27.6	25.7	14.8	24.2
	July	45 701	19 383	15 907	80 991	-15.9	-9.9	-21.7	-15.8
	August	48 423	22 111	17 548	88 082	6.0	14.1	10.3	8.8
	September	47 700	20 778	18 341	86 819	-1.5	-6.0	4.5	-1.4
	October	47 536	20 400	17 260	85 196	-0.3	-1.8	-5.9	-1.9
	November	46 712	24 182	17 760	88 654	-1.7	18.5	2.9	4.1
	December	45 764	22 367	14 328	82 459	-2.0	-7.5	-19.3	-7.0
2012
	January	42 555	22 123	12 105	76 783	-7.0	-1.1	-15.5	-6.9

- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
r revised

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

2010
	November	26 011	23 024	16 819	5 377	9 485	1 598	821	1 341	84 477
	December	26 080	23 139	16 872	5 383	9 386	1 592	812	1 336	84 598
2011
	January	26 057	23 037	16 919	5 338	9 290	1 552	807	1 325	84 326
	February	25 868	22 654	16 933	5 238	9 181	1 486	806	1 308	83 474
	March	25 595	22 129	16 946	5 125	9 063	1 418	803	1 287	82 366
	April	25 344	21 672	16 981	5 060	8 973	1 372	800	1 269	81 471
	May	25 256	21 476	17 074	5 080	8 930	1 360	803	1 262	81 241
	June	25 455	21 621	17 281	5 184	8 951	1 380	817	1 274	81 963
	July	25 922	22 030	17 588	5 318	9 021	1 413	834	1 300	83 426
	August	26 495	22 499	17 948	5 416	9 129	1 433	852	1 330	85 102
	September	26 972	22 823	18 282	5 430	9 253	1 428	868	1 353	86 408
	October	27 210	22 900	18 460	5 360	9 357	1 395	877	1 363	86 923
	November	27 217	22 801	18 485	5 250	9 431	1 345	880	1 365	86 775
	December	27 117	22 647	18 449	5 139	9 495	1 292	881	1 363	86 383
2012
	January	26 864	22 447	18 315	5 025	9 525	1 234	881	1 356	85 647
Seasonally Adjusted

2010
	November	26 015	22 763	17 179	5 440	9 544	1 644	847	1 261	84 692
	December	28 097	23 313	16 900	5 454	9 496	1 713	804	1 363	87 139
2011
	January	26 268	23 179	15 677	5 369	9 083	1 534	934	1 341	83 384
	February	25 644	23 110	17 208	5 367	9 106	1 422	751	1 325	83 932
	March	27 207	23 367	18 534	5 190	9 269	1 443	853	1 323	87 187
	April	25 747	22 282	17 638	5 049	9 185	1 380	829	1 276	83 386
	May	24 503	19 477	16 281	4 637	8 801	1 309	796	1 175	76 980
	June	23 987	20 940	16 103	5 020	8 521	1 290	775	1 226	77 861
	July	26 328	22 723	17 941	5 633	9 034	1 427	816	1 372	85 273
	August	27 396	23 381	18 533	5 561	9 435	1 555	819	1 332	88 012
	September	26 896	22 976	18 425	5 675	9 358	1 437	960	1 359	87 087
	October	27 503	23 039	18 705	5 198	9 215	1 443	926	1 398	87 427
	November	27 714	22 548	18 501	5 168	9 474	1 253	835	1 357	86 849
	December	26 513	22 242	17 909	5 069	9 317	1 342	780	1 313	84 485
2012
	January	26 440	22 566	18 382	5 044	9 703	1 154	955	1 379	85 624
Original

2010
	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
	March	29 750	24 808	20 395	5 360	9 718	1 520	995	1 438	93 984
	April	22 570	19 535	16 403	4 467	8 101	1 124	862	1 152	74 214
	May	24 470	r19 570	16 519	4 782	8 703	1 268	942	1 147	r77 401
	June	29 685	25 091	21 062	6 057	10 424	1 443	985	1 410	96 157
	July	24 893	21 743	17 341	5 255	8 433	1 196	800	1 330	80 991
	August	27 274	23 436	18 298	5 446	9 903	1 581	802	1 342	88 082
	September	26 661	22 845	18 040	5 853	9 731	1 494	881	1 314	86 819
	October	26 608	22 996	17 972	5 041	8 974	1 439	808	1 358	85 196
	November	28 966	23 049	18 038	5 304	9 650	1 435	799	1 413	88 654
	December	25 109	22 356	17 225	5 275	8 880	1 687	666	1 261	82 459
2012
	January	24 004	20 278	15 732	4 622	9 014	1 008	820	1 305	76 783

r revised
(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.