NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER)	Release Date
March 2010	12 May 2010
June 2010	12 August 2010

CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE

There are no changes in this issue.


DATA NOTES

This publication presents quarterly estimates of selected indicators of manufacturing production in Australia.

More detailed breakdowns and other commodity items collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) are available on request for a charge. Monthly series are also available for a limited number of data items. Items for which additional production data are available are listed in paragraphs 7 to 11 of the Explanatory Notes.


ROUNDING

Where figures have been rounded, discrepancies may occur between sums of the component items and totals.


INQUIRIES

For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070 or Paul Sutcliffe on Adelaide (08) 8237 7302.


SUMMARY COMMENTARY


QUARTERLY MANUFACTURING PRODUCTION COMMODITIES

Table 1

QUARTERLY MANUFACTURING PRODUCTION COMMODITIES, Australia
		Beer	Portland cement	Clay bricks (SBE)	Pre-mixed concrete	Gas	Electricity
		ML	'000 t	mill.	'000 m3	PJ	GWh
2004
	June	390	2 180	449	5 698	215	54 644
	September	412	2 307	456	5 983	227	55 915
	December	454	2 157	424	5 625	190	52 850
	March	416	1 980	383	5 287	170	55 035
2005
	June	403	2 481	442	6 020	206	55 117
	September	408	2 340	407	6 462	221	56 043
	December	482	2 265	421	5 911	180	54 992
	March	438	2 027	355	5 462	171	57 112
2006
	June	386	2 278	423	6 079	224	57 157
	September	405	2 427	422	6 544	233	58 400
	December	491	2 451	396	6 519	192	56 249
	March	427	2 140	359	5 750	186	56 244
2007
	June	383	2 362	393	6 119	233	55 036
	September	394	2 536	387	6 884	244	59 806
	December	473	2 562	378	6 836	205	56 411
	March	420	2 183	323	5 841	194	59 118
2008
	June	390	2 558	371	7 032	229	56 660
	September	410	2 612	367	6 924	249	64 067
	December	488	2 373	385	6 419	203	59 045
	March	415	1 963	320	5 146	196	58 368
2009
	June	398	2 160	298	5 407	238	57 471
	September	419	2 325	r375	5 969	252	58 394
	December	488	2 273	335	5 905	210	57 336
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FORTHCOMING DATA RELEASE DATES

The ABS releases selected data items from the Manufacturing Commodity collections on a quarterly basis in this publication and also releases more detailed breakdowns and other commodity items on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis on request for a charge. Details on the release dates of the preliminary Pre-mixed concrete production data for capital cities and final monthly Pre-mixed concrete, Water heating equipment and Plasterboard data are specified below. More detail about these releases can be obtained by contacting Wendy Hardy on (08) 8237 7653.


Monthly preliminary data release

Pre-mixed concrete for capital cities only

Forthcoming Issues
	Release Date
February	17 March 2010
March	16 April 2010
April	18 May 2010
May	17 June 2010
June	15 July 2010
July	18 August 2010

Monthly final data release

Pre-mixed concrete, Water heating equipment and Plasterboard

Forthcoming Issues
	Release Date
January	4 March 2010
February	8 April 2010
March	6 May 2010
April	3 June 2010
May	1July 2010
June	5 August 2010