NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER)	Release Date
September 2009	13 November 2009
December 2009	18 February 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 Wendy Hardy on Adelaide (08) 8237 7653.


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	mill. kWh
2003
	December	490	2 090	439	5 542	188	52 453
2004
	March	435	1 963	436	5 325	173	54 561
	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
2005
	March	416	1 980	383	5 287	170	55 035
	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
2006
	March	438	2 027	355	5 462	171	57 112
	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
2007
	March	427	2 140	359	5 750	186	56 244
	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
2008
	March	420	2 183	323	5 841	194	59 118
	June	390	2 558	371	7 032	229	56 660
	September	410	2 612	367	6 924	248	r63 297
	December	488	2 373	385	6 419	202	r58 438
2009
	March	415	1 963	r320	5 146	194	r57 604
	June	398	2 160	298	5 407	235	58 104
r revised

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
July	17 August 2009
August	16 September 2009
September	15 October 2009
October	18 November 2009
November	15 December 2009
December	18 January 2010

Monthly final data release

Pre-mixed concrete, Water heating equipment and Plasterboard

Forthcoming Issues
	Release Date
July	3 September 2009
August	6 October 2009
September	5 November 2009
October	3 December 2009
November	7 January 2010
December	4 February 2010

2008-09 Annual data release

Flour Millers' Sales, Semi-Trailers and Footwear

Data collected on an annual basis for 2008-09 will be released with the August 2009 issue of Manufacturing Production, Monthly (cat. no. 8301.0.55.003) on 6 October 2009.