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

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ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 16/06/2011

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MAY KEY FIGURES

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

Trend	25 132	21 033	17 125	4 838	9 033	1 335	820	1 247	80 562
Seasonally Adjusted	24 276	19 364	16 308	4 639	8 852	1 308	814	1 172	76 732
Change from previous month (%)

Trend	-1.0	-2.6	0.2	-2.6	-0.8	-3.3	-0.6	-1.7	-1.3
Seasonally Adjusted	-5.3	-12.3	-7.3	-6.8	-4.1	-5.7	-2.1	-8.5	-7.6
Change from previous year (%)

Trend	-4.8	-11.8	-1.9	-14.2	-5.6	-17.0	-5.2	-10.4	-7.2
Seasonally Adjusted	-9.4	-20.2	-10.4	-18.2	-18.7	-19.5	-7.9	-18.7	-14.5

(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

MAY KEY POINTS

TOTAL NEW MOTOR VEHICLE SALES

Trend - The May 2011 trend estimate (80 562) has decreased by 1.3% when compared with April 2011.
Seasonally Adjusted - The May 2011 seasonally adjusted estimate for new motor vehicle sales (76 732) decreased by 7.6% when compared with April 2011.

SALES BY TYPE OF VEHICLE

Trend - When comparing national trend estimates for May 2011 with April 2011, sales of Passenger vehicles decreased by 1.5%. Sports utility and Other vehicles decreased by 1.2% and 0.7% respectively.
Seasonally Adjusted - When comparing seasonally adjusted estimates for May 2011 with April 2011, sales of Passenger vehicles, Sports utility and Other vehicles decreased by 7.5%,10.6% and 4.5% respectively.

SALES BY STATE

Seven of the eight states and territories have experienced a decrease in the trend estimate for new motor vehicle sales when comparing May 2011 with April 2011. Tasmania recorded the largest percentage decrease with 3.3%, followed by Victoria and South Australia, both 2.6%. Queensland recorded an increase of 0.2% over the same period.
In seasonally adjusted terms, sales of new motor vehicles decreased in all eight states and territories for May 2011 when compared with April 2011. Victoria recorded the largest percentage decrease of 12.3%, followed by the Australian Capital Territory (8.5%) and Queensland (7.3%).

NOTES

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ABOUT THIS ISSUE

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

DATA NOTES

Widespread flooding in the eastern states, particularly Queensland, and other natural disasters have not adversely affected the quality of estimates in this release. These events may have had an impact on the number of new motor vehicle sales between March 2011 and May 2011. However, as new motor vehicle sales are influenced by a range of factors, it is not possible to quantify the specific impact of these events.

The earthquake and tsunami that occurred in Japan on 11 March 2011 have affected new motor vehicle sales in Australia due to associated delays in delivery of Japanese manufactured vehicles. Although the quality of the estimates in this publication are not affected, impacts from the earthquake and tsunami could continue to disrupt supply of new motor vehicles to Australia.

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
	March	49 679	18 927	17 465	86 071	1.2	0.7	-0.3	0.8
	April	49 970	19 103	17 484	86 557	0.6	0.9	0.1	0.6
	May	49 873	19 399	17 514	86 786	-0.2	1.6	0.2	0.3
	June	49 418	19 825	17 479	86 723	-0.9	2.2	-0.2	-0.1
	July	48 821	20 222	17 377	86 420	-1.2	2.0	-0.6	-0.3
	August	48 341	20 414	17 211	85 965	-1.0	0.9	-1.0	-0.5
	September	48 065	20 346	17 011	85 422	-0.6	-0.3	-1.2	-0.6
	October	47 989	20 056	16 895	84 940	-0.2	-1.4	-0.7	-0.6
	November	48 072	19 687	16 946	84 705	0.2	-1.8	0.3	-0.3
	December	48 069	19 314	17 113	84 496	-	-1.9	1.0	-0.2
2011
	January	47 797	18 995	17 289	84 081	-0.6	-1.6	1.0	-0.5
	February	47 289	18 744	17 407	83 440	-1.1	-1.3	0.7	-0.8
	March	46 652	18 523	17 424	82 599	-1.3	-1.2	0.1	-1.0
	April	45 970	18 287	17 356	81 614	-1.5	-1.3	-0.4	-1.2
	May	45 258	18 072	17 232	80 562	-1.5	-1.2	-0.7	-1.3
Seasonally Adjusted

2010
	March	49 286	18 485	16 942	84 713	-	0.2	-2.6	-0.5
	April	53 314	20 622	17 415	91 351	8.2	11.6	2.8	7.8
	May	51 991	19 944	17 845	89 780	-2.5	-3.3	2.5	-1.7
	June	49 742	19 662	17 829	87 234	-4.3	-1.4	-0.1	-2.8
	July	47 830	20 344	16 903	85 078	-3.8	3.5	-5.2	-2.5
	August	47 710	19 975	17 741	85 426	-0.3	-1.8	5.0	0.4
	September	48 368	20 887	16 770	86 025	1.4	4.6	-5.5	0.7
	October	47 568	20 623	16 704	84 895	-1.7	-1.3	-0.4	-1.3
	November	48 276	20 116	16 774	85 166	1.5	-2.5	0.4	0.3
	December	50 845	17 921	17 257	86 023	5.3	-10.9	2.9	1.0
2011
	January	47 830	18 523	16 911	83 264	-5.9	3.4	-2.0	-3.2
	February	46 866	19 272	17 639	83 776	-2.0	4.0	4.3	0.6
	March	47 116	21 127	18 280	86 523	0.5	9.6	3.6	3.3
	April	46 906	18 885	17 210	83 002	-0.4	-10.6	-5.9	-4.1
	May	43 400	16 891	16 441	76 732	-7.5	-10.6	-4.5	-7.6
Original

2010
	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
	April	41 565	17 054	15 595	74 214	-17.2	-26.1	-24.6	-21.0
	May	42 582	17 121	17 703	77 406	2.4	0.4	13.5	4.3

- 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
	March	26 162	23 387	17 697	5 552	9 393	1 681	853	1 346	86 071
	April	26 302	23 693	17 579	5 605	9 496	1 652	859	1 371	86 557
	May	26 409	23 843	17 455	5 641	9 572	1 608	865	1 393	86 786
	June	26 456	23 798	17 347	5 645	9 635	1 566	871	1 405	86 723
	July	26 427	23 591	17 283	5 613	9 689	1 544	870	1 403	86 420
	August	26 351	23 344	17 204	5 553	9 710	1 547	865	1 392	85 965
	September	26 265	23 142	17 066	5 487	9 664	1 566	857	1 375	85 422
	October	26 182	23 048	16 915	5 436	9 564	1 588	849	1 357	84 940
	November	26 148	23 079	16 834	5 403	9 455	1 596	844	1 346	84 705
	December	26 097	23 107	16 817	5 364	9 356	1 579	840	1 336	84 496
2011
	January	25 985	22 975	16 844	5 299	9 279	1 536	837	1 326	84 081
	February	25 823	22 647	16 925	5 202	9 216	1 482	834	1 311	83 440
	March	25 617	22 164	17 026	5 086	9 156	1 428	830	1 292	82 599
	April	25 380	21 594	17 098	4 964	9 102	1 381	825	1 269	81 614
	May	25 132	21 033	17 125	4 838	9 033	1 335	820	1 247	80 562
Seasonally Adjusted

2010
	March	25 540	23 817	16 886	5 431	9 141	1 718	843	1 336	84 713
	April	26 649	25 708	17 693	5 697	11 714	1 658	855	1 377	91 351
	May	26 795	24 275	18 198	5 670	10 892	1 625	884	1 442	89 780
	June	26 645	24 094	17 359	5 770	9 586	1 553	846	1 380	87 234
	July	25 861	23 272	16 763	5 530	9 864	1 488	906	1 394	85 078
	August	26 405	23 269	16 861	5 511	9 659	1 480	851	1 391	85 426
	September	26 344	22 853	17 484	5 593	9 830	1 645	875	1 400	86 025
	October	26 198	23 276	17 110	5 255	9 300	1 548	825	1 383	84 895
	November	26 271	22 823	17 188	5 436	9 691	1 633	847	1 277	85 166
	December	28 052	22 919	16 674	5 394	9 234	1 644	785	1 320	86 023
2011
	January	26 016	23 273	15 610	5 308	9 213	1 533	955	1 357	83 264
	February	25 579	23 035	17 213	5 305	9 132	1 430	755	1 328	83 776
	March	27 046	23 041	18 473	5 082	9 292	1 437	841	1 312	86 523
	April	25 628	22 071	17 592	4 979	9 234	1 386	831	1 281	83 002
	May	24 276	19 364	16 308	4 639	8 852	1 308	814	1 172	76 732
Original

2010
	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
	April	22 570	19 535	16 403	4 467	8 101	1 124	862	1 152	74 214
	May	24 470	19 575	16 519	4 782	8 703	1 268	942	1 147	77 406

(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.