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MAY KEY FIGURES

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales (no.)
Trend	22 249	19 085	15 186	4 621	8 055	1 429	699	1 208	72 532
Seasonally Adjusted	23 015	20 206	15 713	4 873	8 244	1 460	751	1 209	75 472
Change from previous month (%)
Trend	0.2	0.3	-	0.1	-0.2	0.2	-1.0	-0.5	0.1
Seasonally Adjusted	4.0	9.6	3.5	7.4	3.1	5.5	4.6	-2.4	5.4
Change from previous year (%)
Trend	-14.9	-18.1	-18.5	-15.4	-20.2	-12.9	-24.5	-8.7	-17.1
Seasonally Adjusted	-11.6	-13.2	-12.3	-10.1	-17.3	-5.8	-15.0	-7.3	-12.6
- 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

• Caution should be used when interpreting recent trend estimates as they may be affected by unusual economic factors. For more details on trend estimates, please see paragraphs 11 and 12 of the explanatory notes.

• Trend - In May 2009, the first increase was recorded for total sales of new motor vehicles since the peak in January 2008. The May 2009 trend estimate for new motor vehicle sales (72 532) was 0.1% higher than the corresponding estimate for April 2009 and 17.1% lower than the trend estimate in May 2008.
• Seasonally adjusted - The May 2009 seasonally adjusted estimate for total sales of new motor vehicles (75 472) increased by 5.4% compared with April 2009.

• Trend - In May 2009 the trend estimate for new vehicle sales increased by 0.1% when compared with April 2009. Passenger vehicle sales decreased by 0.6%, while sales of sports utility vehicles increased by 1.4% and other vehicles increased by 0.9%. Compared with 12 months earlier, sales of total vehicles were 17.1% lower in May 2009. Sales of passenger vehicles decreased by 18.2%, other vehicles by 16.7% and sports utility vehicles by 14.3% when compared with the May 2008 level.
• Seasonally adjusted - On a seasonally adjusted basis, May 2009 sales of all vehicles increased by 5.4% when compared with April 2009. During the same period other vehicles increased by 11.3%, sports utility vehicles by 6.4% and passenger vehicles by 2.9%.

• Trend - The Northern Territory, the Australian Capital Territory and Western Australia were the only states/territories to record a decrease in trend estimates when comparing May 2009 with April 2009. The Northern Territory showed the highest decrease with 1.0% followed by the Australian Capital Territory with 0.5% and Western Australia with 0.2%. An increase of 0.3% in the trend estimate was recorded in both Victoria and Tasmania. New South Wales and South Australia increased by 0.2% while Queensland showed no change.
• Seasonally adjusted - All states except the Australian Capital Territory recorded seasonally adjusted sales in May 2009 above those in April 2009. Victoria had the highest increase of 9.6% while South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory increased by 7.5%, 5.5% and 4.5% respectively followed by New South Wales 4.0%, Queensland 3.5% and Western Australia 3.1%. The Australian Capital Territory was the only state to show a decline in seasonally adjusted sales with a decrease of 2.3% in May 2009 when compared with April 2009.

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Long term

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Short term

New motor vehicle sales by type of vehicle
		Count Passenger vehicles	Count Sports utility vehicles	Count Other vehicles	Count Total vehicles	Change Passenger vehicles	Change Sports utility vehicles	Change Other vehicles	Change Total vehicles
		no.	no.	no.	no.	%	%	%	%
Trend
2008
	March	52 719	17 846	19 421	89 986	-0.8	-1.1	-0.4	-0.8
	April	52 197	17 504	19 189	88 891	-1.0	-1.9	-1.2	-1.2
	May	51 597	17 038	18 875	87 510	-1.2	-2.7	-1.6	-1.6
	June	50 819	16 471	18 550	85 841	-1.5	-3.3	-1.7	-1.9
	July	49 780	15 868	18 263	83 911	-2.0	-3.7	-1.5	-2.2
	August	48 585	15 297	18 059	81 941	-2.4	-3.6	-1.1	-2.3
	September	47 453	14 809	17 864	80 127	-2.3	-3.2	-1.1	-2.2
	October	46 479	14 437	17 602	78 518	-2.1	-2.5	-1.5	-2.0
	November	45 608	14 167	17 164	76 938	-1.9	-1.9	-2.5	-2.0
	December	44 860	14 040	16 615	75 516	-1.6	-0.9	-3.2	-1.8
2009
	January	44 169	14 033	16 124	74 326	-1.5	-	-3.0	-1.6
	February	43 495	14 099	15 784	73 379	-1.5	0.5	-2.1	-1.3
	March	42 911	14 227	15 622	72 760	-1.3	0.9	-1.0	-0.8
	April	42 470	14 394	15 587	72 451	-1.0	1.2	-0.2	-0.4
	May	42 209	14 594	15 728	72 532	-0.6	1.4	0.9	0.1
Seasonally Adjusted
2008
	March	52 957	18 102	19 704	90 763	1.3	0.3	3.4	1.5
	April	51 634	17 516	20 127	89 278	-2.5	-3.2	2.1	-1.6
	May	51 506	16 446	18 408	86 360	-0.2	-6.1	-8.5	-3.3
	June	52 083	17 357	18 124	87 564	1.1	5.5	-1.5	1.4
	July	49 918	15 488	18 268	83 674	-4.2	-10.8	0.8	-4.4
	August	47 848	15 092	17 798	80 738	-4.1	-2.6	-2.6	-3.5
	September	47 572	14 988	17 713	80 274	-0.6	-0.7	-0.5	-0.6
	October	46 320	14 489	18 711	79 520	-2.6	-3.3	5.6	-0.9
	November	44 709	13 670	16 719	75 099	-3.5	-5.7	-10.6	-5.6
	December	45 274	14 256	16 977	76 506	1.3	4.3	1.5	1.9
2009
	January	45 557	14 251	15 880	75 687	0.6	-	-6.5	-1.1
	February	43 504	14 096	15 167	72 767	-4.5	-1.1	-4.5	-3.9
	March	41 076	13 693	15 640	70 409	-5.6	-2.9	3.1	-3.2
	April	42 176	14 330	15 120	71 626	2.7	4.7	-3.3	1.7
	May	43 398	15 241	16 833	75 472	2.9	6.4	11.3	5.4
Original
2008
	March	53 122	18 425	19 738	91 285	0.2	0.8	6.2	1.5
	April	47 639	16 654	19 768	84 061	-10.3	-9.6	0.2	-7.9
	May	51 416	17 279	19 945	88 640	7.9	3.8	0.9	5.4
	June	61 524	21 388	23 629	106 541	19.7	23.8	18.5	20.2
	July	51 068	14 842	18 066	83 976	-17.0	-30.6	-23.5	-21.2
	August	46 114	14 233	16 977	77 324	-9.7	-4.1	-6.0	-7.9
	September	48 865	14 200	17 873	80 938	6.0	-0.2	5.3	4.7
	October	45 978	14 357	18 770	79 105	-5.9	1.1	5.0	-2.3
	November	43 019	12 736	15 862	71 617	-6.4	-11.3	-15.5	-9.5
	December	45 696	14 422	16 392	76 510	6.2	13.2	3.3	6.8
2009
	January	41 309	13 435	12 335	67 079	-9.6	-6.8	-24.7	-12.3
	February	42 463	13 699	14 079	70 241	2.8	2.0	14.1	4.7
	March	43 484	15 022	17 144	75 650	2.4	9.7	21.8	7.7
	April	36 697	13 092	14 176	63 965	-15.6	-12.8	-17.3	-15.4
	May	42 245	15 562	17 634	75 441	15.1	18.9	24.4	17.9
- 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
2008
	March	26 992	23 675	19 463	5 542	10 332	1 671	938	1 373	89 986
	April	26 580	23 580	19 057	5 506	10 225	1 653	937	1 351	88 891
	May	26 141	23 307	18 625	5 459	10 088	1 641	926	1 323	87 510
	June	25 659	22 863	18 154	5 405	9 938	1 626	905	1 290	85 841
	July	25 143	22 277	17 631	5 347	9 772	1 601	883	1 256	83 911
	August	24 629	21 653	17 124	5 293	9 583	1 567	865	1 228	81 941
	September	24 149	21 069	16 728	5 222	9 371	1 524	851	1 214	80 127
	October	23 711	20 578	16 428	5 131	9 139	1 482	836	1 212	78 518
	November	23 290	20 142	16 146	5 014	8 875	1 444	812	1 216	76 938
	December	22 938	19 783	15 868	4 888	8 616	1 416	784	1 223	75 516
2009
	January	22 641	19 485	15 624	4 775	8 407	1 409	758	1 228	74 326
	February	22 404	19 243	15 410	4 688	8 256	1 415	736	1 226	73 379
	March	22 265	19 089	15 263	4 636	8 149	1 421	718	1 220	72 760
	April	22 214	19 026	15 179	4 614	8 073	1 425	706	1 214	72 451
	May	22 249	19 085	15 186	4 621	8 055	1 429	699	1 208	72 532
Seasonally Adjusted
2008
	March	27 313	23 707	19 446	5 531	10 605	1 666	1 052	1 443	90 763
	April	25 922	23 383	20 076	5 433	10 400	1 802	930	1 332	89 278
	May	26 045	23 269	17 916	5 422	9 969	1 550	884	1 304	86 360
	June	26 516	23 544	18 585	5 505	9 723	1 534	857	1 298	87 564
	July	25 031	22 208	17 529	5 317	9 787	1 593	917	1 292	83 674
	August	24 004	21 291	16 664	5 256	9 637	1 780	897	1 209	80 738
	September	24 367	20 881	16 847	5 230	9 468	1 453	844	1 184	80 274
	October	23 860	20 883	16 802	5 167	9 399	1 415	795	1 199	79 520
	November	23 011	19 499	15 602	4 975	8 539	1 453	812	1 207	75 099
	December	23 126	20 211	16 160	4 976	8 564	1 384	830	1 256	76 506
2009
	January	22 886	20 081	15 891	4 887	8 494	1 445	758	1 245	75 687
	February	22 371	18 836	15 454	4 420	8 294	1 387	752	1 252	72 767
	March	21 492	18 580	14 511	4 614	7 978	1 457	626	1 152	70 409
	April	22 138	18 439	15 176	4 535	7 996	1 384	719	1 238	71 626
	May	23 015	20 206	15 713	4 873	8 244	1 460	751	1 209	75 472
Original
2008
	March	28 128	23 153	20 231	5 334	10 483	1 470	1 108	1 378	91 285
	April	24 489	21 814	19 109	5 293	9 475	1 496	1 049	1 336	84 061
	May	26 334	23 865	18 672	5 803	10 067	1 585	1 025	1 289	88 640
	June	32 027	27 638	24 335	6 568	11 564	1 778	1 128	1 503	106 541
	July	25 216	22 272	17 963	5 237	9 580	1 510	900	1 298	83 976
	August	22 669	20 575	15 679	5 034	9 652	1 680	855	1 180	77 324
	September	24 513	21 479	16 697	5 074	9 679	1 561	755	1 180	80 938
	October	23 448	21 337	16 024	5 069	9 850	1 478	750	1 149	79 105
	November	22 043	18 756	14 111	4 935	8 284	1 575	743	1 170	71 617
	December	22 421	20 792	16 163	5 028	8 416	1 660	751	1 279	76 510
2009
	January	21 085	17 493	13 521	4 355	7 648	1 234	588	1 155	67 079
	February	21 969	18 273	14 604	4 336	7 864	1 227	706	1 262	70 241
	March	23 550	19 503	16 124	4 779	8 329	1 388	718	1 259	75 650
	April	19 596	16 395	13 801	4 128	7 043	1 146	772	1 084	63 965
	May	22 958	19 995	15 884	5 025	8 150	1 404	851	1 174	75 441
(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.