NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER)	Release Date
December 2008	17 February 2009
March 2009	13 May 2009
June 2009	13 August 2009
September 2009	13 November 2009

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 Damian Sparkes on Adelaide (08) 8237 7425.


SUMMARY COMMENTARY


QUARTERLY MANUFACTURING PRODUCTION COMMODITIES

Table 1

QUARTERLY MANUFACTURING PRODUCTION COMMODITIES, Australia
		Beer	Portland cement	Clay bricks (SBE)	Pre-mixed concrete	Gas	Electricity
		megalitres	'000 tonnes	million	'000 m2	Petajoules	million kWh
2002
	March	435	1 831	409	4 771	172	51 415
2003
	June	380	1 892	439	5 213	204	51 379
	September	421	2 227	465	5 903	232	54 808
	December	490	2 090	439	5 542	188	52 453
	March	435	1 963	436	5 325	173	54 561
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	248	59 316

ANNUAL MANUFACTURING PRODUCTION COMMODITIES

Table 2

Annual production for selected commodities
	Semi-trailers	Footwear	Malt(a)	Flour sales(b)
	no.	'000 pairs	'000 tonnes	'000 tonnes
2003-04	6 465	4 037	681	2 135
2004-05	6 961	3 301	713	2 078
2005-06	7 092	2 767	666	2 081
2006-07	7 175	2 186	772	2 016
2007-08	9 191	1 523	753	2 083
(a) Whether or not roasted. Includes malt flour.
(b) Sales by Flour Millers. For the purpose of these statistics, 'sales' include sales made to other locations (e.g., bakeries) of the business unit.

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, half-yearly 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 Damian Sparkes on (08) 8237 7425.


Monthly preliminary data release

Pre-mixed concrete for capital cities only

Forthcoming issues
Issue (Month)	Release Date
October 2008	14 November 2008
November 2008	16 December 2008
December 2008	16 January 2009
January 2009	16 February 2009
February 2009	16 March 2009
March 2009	17 April 2009

Monthly final data release

Pre-mixed concrete, Water heating equipment and Plasterboard

Forthcoming issues
Issue (Month)	Release Date
October 2008	10 December 2008
November 2008	12 January 2009
December 2008	11 February 2009
January 2009	11 March 2009
February 2009	14 April 2009
March 2009	12 May 2009