9314.0 - Sales of New Motor Vehicles, Australia, Mar 2011

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ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 14/04/2011

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MARCH KEY FIGURES

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

Trend	26 756	23 334	17 306	5 251	9 185	1 474	824	1 332	85 462
Seasonally Adjusted	27 382	23 251	18 431	5 167	9 296	1 457	827	1 330	87 141
Change from previous month (%)

Trend	0.1	0.2	1.1	-0.8	-0.5	-2.6	-0.9	-0.1	0.2
Seasonally Adjusted	6.7	-0.2	6.7	-2.9	1.4	1.0	9.9	-0.9	3.4
Change from previous year (%)

Trend	2.0	-0.7	-2.6	-5.6	-2.3	-12.4	-3.3	-1.2	-1.0
Seasonally Adjusted	6.0	-3.6	8.4	-6.0	1.5	-15.9	-1.0	-1.4	1.9

(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
Graph: New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles—Short term

MARCH KEY POINTS

TOTAL NEW MOTOR VEHICLE SALES

Trend - The March 2011 trend estimate (85,462) has increased by 0.2% when compared with February 2011.
Seasonally Adjusted - The March 2011 seasonally adjusted estimate for new motor vehicle sales (87 141) increased by 3.4% when compared with February 2011.

SALES BY TYPE OF VEHICLE

Trend - When comparing national trend estimates for March 2011 with February 2011, sales of Passenger vehicles decreased by 0.7%. Sports utility vehicles and Other vehicles increased by 0.7% and 1.7% respectively over the same period.
Seasonally Adjusted - When comparing seasonally adjusted estimates for March 2011 with February 2011, sales of Passenger vehicles, Sports utility vehicles and Other vehicles increased by 1.3%, 7.8% and 4.3% respectively.

SALES BY STATE

Five of the eight states and territories have experienced a decrease in the trend estimate for new motor vehicle sales when comparing March 2011 with February 2011. Tasmania recorded the largest percentage decrease with 2.6%, followed by the Northern Territory (0.9%) and South Australia (0.8%). Queensland recorded the largest percentage increase of 1.1% over the same period.
In seasonally adjusted terms, sales of new motor vehicles increased in five of the eight states and territories for March 2011 when compared with February 2011. The Northern Territory recorded the largest percentage increase of 9.9%, followed by New South Wales and Queensland, both 6.7%. Over the same period South Australia recorded the largest percentage decrease of 2.9%.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE	Release Date
April 2011	16 May 2011
May 2011	16 June 2011
June 2011	18 July 2011
July 2011	15 August 2011
August 2011	15 September 2011
September 2011	17 October 2011

IMPACT OF THE FLOODS

The impact of recent flooding and cyclone events on new motor vehicles sales is beginning to show in trend estimates for Queensland. For both February and March 2011, Queensland recorded the largest increase in the trend estimate (1.0% and 1.1% respectively). It is expected that the flooding events will continue to have an impact on sales in both Queensland and a number of other states over the next few months as damaged vehicles are replaced.

The collection and processing of data on new motor vehicle sales for this publication were not disrupted due to the flooding. In general, data produced for this release are of the same scope and quality as normally released by the ABS.

ABOUT THIS ISSUE

This issue presents details for the Sales of New Motor Vehicles for March 2011.

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
	January	48 629	18 704	17 670	85 003	1.4	2.3	-0.1	1.3
	February	49 346	18 911	17 555	85 812	1.5	1.1	-0.7	1.0
	March	49 886	18 993	17 461	86 339	1.1	0.4	-0.5	0.6
	April	50 061	19 088	17 438	86 588	0.4	0.5	-0.1	0.3
	May	49 815	19 303	17 439	86 558	-0.5	1.1	-	-
	June	49 200	19 673	17 393	86 266	-1.2	1.9	-0.3	-0.3
	July	48 523	20 061	17 303	85 887	-1.4	2.0	-0.5	-0.4
	August	48 122	20 286	17 169	85 577	-0.8	1.1	-0.8	-0.4
	September	48 057	20 245	17 008	85 310	-0.1	-0.2	-0.9	-0.3
	October	48 251	19 998	16 922	85 171	0.4	-1.2	-0.5	-0.2
	November	48 480	19 696	16 978	85 154	0.5	-1.5	0.3	-
	December	48 536	19 479	17 156	85 171	0.1	-1.1	1.0	-
2011
	January	48 392	19 422	17 403	85 217	-0.3	-0.3	1.4	0.1
	February	48 138	19 518	17 671	85 327	-0.5	0.5	1.5	0.1
	March	47 824	19 662	17 977	85 462	-0.7	0.7	1.7	0.2
Seasonally Adjusted

2010
	January	49 062	18 720	18 830	86 612	5.9	-3.6	-18.3	-2.5
	February	49 330	18 682	17 493	85 505	0.5	-0.2	-7.1	-1.3
	March	49 846	18 602	17 074	85 521	1.0	-0.4	-2.4	-
	April	53 824	20 649	17 381	91 855	8.0	11.0	1.8	7.4
	May	51 365	19 623	17 564	88 552	-4.6	-5.0	1.1	-3.6
	June	49 512	19 500	17 706	86 718	-3.6	-0.6	0.8	-2.1
	July	47 568	20 299	16 974	84 841	-3.9	4.1	-4.1	-2.2
	August	47 486	19 760	17 629	84 876	-0.2	-2.7	3.9	-
	September	48 319	20 825	16 842	85 987	1.8	5.4	-4.5	1.3
	October	47 623	20 666	16 706	84 994	-1.4	-0.8	-0.8	-1.2
	November	48 292	20 180	16 800	85 272	1.4	-2.4	0.6	0.3
	December	50 617	18 072	17 343	86 032	4.8	-10.4	3.2	0.9
2011
	January	48 363	18 715	17 049	84 127	-4.5	3.6	-1.7	-2.2
	February	46 931	19 582	17 742	84 255	-3.0	4.6	4.1	0.2
	March	47 534	21 106	18 501	87 141	1.3	7.8	4.3	3.4
Original

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
	March	50 228	23 066	20 690	93 984	10.5	21.9	25.2	16.2

- 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

2010
	January	25 999	22 757	17 886	5 486	9 068	1 652	844	1 311	85 003
	February	26 142	23 153	17 865	5 524	9 267	1 684	849	1 328	85 812
	March	26 238	23 491	17 761	5 561	9 404	1 683	852	1 348	86 339
	April	26 297	23 715	17 600	5 599	9 500	1 651	858	1 368	86 588
	May	26 319	23 770	17 424	5 622	9 568	1 604	865	1 386	86 558
	June	26 273	23 650	17 273	5 617	9 625	1 560	872	1 396	86 266
	July	26 215	23 414	17 192	5 585	9 675	1 538	871	1 395	85 887
	August	26 234	23 188	17 130	5 533	9 697	1 542	866	1 386	85 577
	September	26 325	23 038	17 019	5 479	9 655	1 563	859	1 372	85 310
	October	26 455	23 005	16 919	5 435	9 561	1 584	853	1 358	85 171
	November	26 587	23 055	16 874	5 400	9 453	1 590	848	1 346	85 154
	December	26 672	23 143	16 875	5 368	9 357	1 575	842	1 338	85 171
2011
	January	26 714	23 219	16 954	5 331	9 283	1 546	837	1 334	85 217
	February	26 733	23 281	17 115	5 291	9 229	1 513	831	1 333	85 327
	March	26 756	23 334	17 306	5 251	9 185	1 474	824	1 332	85 462
Seasonally Adjusted

2010
	January	26 156	22 818	18 409	5 851	9 470	1 716	891	1 299	86 612
	February	26 250	22 730	17 755	5 413	9 547	1 668	815	1 326	85 505
	March	25 842	24 116	16 996	5 496	9 154	1 732	835	1 349	85 521
	April	26 696	25 796	18 020	5 682	11 774	1 650	860	1 376	91 855
	May	26 412	23 984	17 825	5 610	10 819	1 603	885	1 413	88 552
	June	26 497	23 883	17 266	5 734	9 568	1 552	844	1 372	86 718
	July	25 769	23 154	16 718	5 516	9 887	1 495	907	1 394	84 841
	August	26 247	23 063	16 766	5 478	9 626	1 465	849	1 381	84 876
	September	26 339	22 808	17 467	5 612	9 830	1 646	880	1 405	85 987
	October	26 233	23 273	17 178	5 252	9 301	1 549	827	1 381	84 994
	November	26 360	22 879	17 168	5 436	9 680	1 625	847	1 276	85 272
	December	27 870	23 005	16 725	5 425	9 231	1 649	797	1 331	86 032
2011
	January	26 463	23 495	15 724	5 336	9 247	1 540	957	1 366	84 127
	February	25 651	23 303	17 281	5 321	9 164	1 442	752	1 342	84 255
	March	27 382	23 251	18 431	5 167	9 296	1 457	827	1 330	87 141
Original

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
	March	29 750	24 808	20 395	5 360	9 718	1 520	995	1 438	93 984

(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.