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

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ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 15/12/2011

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NOVEMBER KEY FIGURES

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

Trend	28 152	23 396	18 971	5 436	9 461	1 428	901	1 399	89 144
Seasonally Adjusted	28 020	22 664	18 549	5 156	9 480	1 302	831	1 367	87 370
Change from previous month (%)

Trend	1.7	1.0	1.5	-0.4	1.0	-0.7	1.3	1.3	1.2
Seasonally Adjusted	1.1	-2.2	-1.4	-2.3	3.0	-11.6	-11.0	-2.1	-0.7
Change from previous year (%)

Trend	8.1	1.7	12.8	1.2	0.2	-10.8	9.8	4.5	5.5
Seasonally Adjusted	7.2	-0.8	8.2	-4.5	-0.7	-23.7	-1.8	8.0	2.9

(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.

NOVEMBER KEY POINTS

TOTAL NEW MOTOR VEHICLE SALES

The November 2011 trend estimate (89 144) has increased by 1.2% when compared with October 2011.
Seasonally Adjusted - The November 2011 seasonally adjusted estimate for new motor vehicle sales (87 370) decreased by 0.7% when compared with October 2011.

SALES BY TYPE OF VEHICLE

Trend - When comparing national trend estimates for November 2011 with October 2011, sales of Passenger, Sports utility and Other vehicles increased by 0.7%, 2.5% and 0.9% respectively.
Seasonally Adjusted - When comparing seasonally adjusted estimates for November 2011 with October 2011, sales of Passenger vehicles decreased by 3.5%, while sales of Sports utility vehicles increased by 5.5%. Other vehicles decreased by 0.6% over the same period.

SALES BY STATE

Six of the eight states and territories have experienced an increase in the trend estimate for new motor vehicle sales when comparing November 2011 with October 2011. New South Wales recorded the largest percentage increase (1.7%), followed by Queensland (1.5%), Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory (both 1.3%).
In seasonally adjusted terms, sales of new motor vehicles decreased in six of the eight states and territories when comparing November 2011 with October 2011. Tasmania recorded the largest percentage decrease of 11.6%, followed by Northern Territory (11.0%) and South Australia (2.3%). Over the same period Western Australia recorded the largest percentage increase of 3.0%.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

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December 2011	18 January 2012
January 2012	15 February 2012
February 2012	15 March 2012
March 2012	17 April 2012
April 2012	15 May 2012
May 2012	18 June 2012

ABOUT THIS ISSUE

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

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
	September	47 820	20 188	16 955	84 963	-0.6	-0.5	-1.2	-0.7
	October	47 789	19 900	16 853	84 542	-0.1	-1.4	-0.6	-0.5
	November	47 960	19 562	16 935	84 457	0.4	-1.7	0.5	-0.1
	December	48 076	19 252	17 155	84 483	0.2	-1.6	1.3	-
2011
	January	47 881	18 915	17 350	84 146	-0.4	-1.7	1.1	-0.4
	February	47 334	18 544	17 401	83 279	-1.1	-2.0	0.3	-1.0
	March	46 652	18 275	17 291	82 218	-1.4	-1.4	-0.6	-1.3
	April	46 043	18 269	17 088	81 400	-1.3	-	-1.2	-1.0
	May	45 741	18 564	16 935	81 240	-0.7	1.6	-0.9	-0.2
	June	45 866	19 182	16 932	81 980	0.3	3.3	-	0.9
	July	46 286	20 057	17 100	83 443	0.9	4.6	1.0	1.8
	August	46 813	21 031	17 381	85 224	1.1	4.9	1.6	2.1
	September	47 292	21 886	17 661	86 838	1.0	4.1	1.6	1.9
	October	47 642	22 548	17 878	88 068	0.7	3.0	1.2	1.4
	November	47 981	23 119	18 043	89 144	0.7	2.5	0.9	1.2
Seasonally Adjusted

2010
	September	48 221	20 971	16 759	85 951	2.0	6.7	-3.9	1.9
	October	47 109	20 556	16 729	84 394	-2.3	-2.0	-0.2	-1.8
	November	48 460	19 667	16 753	84 880	2.9	-4.3	0.1	0.6
	December	51 050	17 990	17 272	86 313	5.3	-8.5	3.1	1.7
2011
	January	47 714	18 554	16 949	83 217	-6.5	3.1	-1.9	-3.6
	February	46 961	19 321	17 623	83 906	-1.6	4.1	4.0	0.8
	March	47 457	21 309	18 391	87 157	1.1	10.3	4.4	3.9
	April	47 108	19 100	17 123	83 331	-0.7	-10.4	-6.9	-4.4
	May	43 623	16 922	16 263	76 808	-7.4	-11.4	-5.0	-7.8
	June	44 888	17 268	15 857	78 013	2.9	2.0	-2.5	1.6
	July	46 954	20 867	17 499	85 320	4.6	20.8	10.4	9.4
	August	47 639	23 026	17 719	88 385	1.5	10.3	1.3	3.6
	September	47 129	21 838	18 154	87 120	-1.1	-5.2	2.5	-1.4
	October	48 500	21 750	17 753	88 003	2.9	-0.4	-2.2	1.0
	November	46 789	22 940	17 641	87 370	-3.5	5.5	-0.6	-0.7
Original

2010
	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	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

- 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
	September	26 164	22 970	16 975	5 409	9 668	1 558	852	1 366	84 963
	October	26 069	22 918	16 852	5 372	9 561	1 587	835	1 348	84 542
	November	26 049	23 015	16 815	5 372	9 447	1 601	821	1 338	84 457
	December	26 057	23 114	16 854	5 369	9 354	1 589	812	1 332	84 483
2011
	January	25 980	23 003	16 897	5 318	9 275	1 544	808	1 322	84 146
	February	25 758	22 619	16 914	5 217	9 183	1 475	807	1 305	83 279
	March	25 486	22 107	16 936	5 110	9 080	1 408	805	1 286	82 218
	April	25 266	21 667	16 978	5 054	8 997	1 367	801	1 270	81 400
	May	25 220	21 484	17 073	5 083	8 953	1 359	803	1 264	81 240
	June	25 449	21 635	17 264	5 189	8 970	1 382	814	1 276	81 980
	July	25 930	22 047	17 557	5 319	9 043	1 412	831	1 303	83 443
	August	26 547	22 529	17 954	5 420	9 153	1 434	852	1 334	85 224
	September	27 160	22 913	18 357	5 463	9 269	1 443	873	1 361	86 838
	October	27 687	23 164	18 683	5 458	9 368	1 439	890	1 381	88 068
	November	28 152	23 396	18 971	5 436	9 461	1 428	901	1 399	89 144
Seasonally Adjusted

2010
	September	26 436	22 815	17 499	5 506	9 790	1 650	859	1 395	85 951
	October	25 982	23 038	17 032	5 209	9 442	1 514	815	1 363	84 394
	November	26 131	22 854	17 136	5 396	9 545	1 705	846	1 266	84 880
	December	28 023	23 065	16 778	5 421	9 244	1 660	790	1 331	86 313
2011
	January	25 973	23 224	15 613	5 350	9 246	1 506	952	1 353	83 217
	February	25 606	23 084	17 244	5 356	9 115	1 423	751	1 326	83 906
	March	27 159	23 348	18 607	5 163	9 269	1 440	855	1 315	87 157
	April	25 717	22 256	17 607	5 070	9 197	1 381	823	1 280	83 331
	May	24 353	19 510	16 229	4 602	8 830	1 305	804	1 175	76 808
	June	24 038	20 947	16 147	5 057	8 532	1 290	776	1 226	78 013
	July	26 372	22 744	17 894	5 664	9 030	1 425	811	1 380	85 320
	August	27 547	23 476	18 567	5 558	9 499	1 580	819	1 340	88 385
	September	26 978	22 924	18 465	5 671	9 340	1 428	954	1 360	87 120
	October	27 721	23 176	18 819	5 278	9 207	1 472	934	1 396	88 003
	November	28 020	22 664	18 549	5 156	9 480	1 302	831	1 367	87 370
Original

2010
	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	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

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.