6463.0 - Analytical Living Cost Indexes for Selected Australian Household Types, Sep 2010
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ROUNDING Any discrepancies between totals and sums of components in this publication are due to rounding. CPI DATA RE-REFERENCED TO JUNE QUARTER 1998 = 100.0 For ease of comparison, the index reference period for the CPI data used throughout this publication has been re-referenced to June quarter 1998 = 100.0. All index numbers and percentage changes shown are calculated on this basis. This may lead to some minor differences from the figures published in Consumer Price Index, Australia (cat. no. 6401.0). INQUIRIES For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070. SUMMARY COMMENTARY THE ANALYTICAL LIVING COST INDEX The Analytical Living Cost Indexes (ALCI) for Selected Australian Household Types have been designed to answer the question: 'By how much would after tax money incomes need to change to allow households to purchase the same quantity of consumer goods and services that they purchased in the base period?' In the September quarter 2010, changes in living costs ranged from a low of 0.9% (age pensioner recipient households and self funded retiree households) to a high of 1.2% (employee households and other government transfer recipient households), while the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 0.7% over the same period. Since the series began in June quarter 1998, changes in living costs for each household type have historically tracked closely to the CPI. The living costs of other government transfer recipient households showed the highest increase of 49.2% followed by age pensioner households which increased 47.4% and employee households which increased by 47.1%, slightly higher than the 43.2% increase in the CPI. The living costs of self-funded retiree households increased by 42.9%. These differences have come about for a number of reasons. The inclusion of mortgage interest and consumer credit charges in the analytical living cost indexes has a significant impact for employee and other government transfer recipient households. The inclusion of mortgage interest and consumer credit charges and the different treatments of housing and insurance in the ALCIs result in variations between the ALCIs and the CPI series. The expenditure patterns of those households measured by the ALCIs differ from those of the overall household sector covered by the CPI. This also contributes to differences in the percentage changes. For a discussion of the relationship between the ALCIs and CPI, see the Explanatory Notes. Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.
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