8301.0.55.003 - Manufacturing Production, Monthly, May 2009  
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FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE Release Date
June 2009 7 August 2009
July 2009 3 September 2009
August 2009 6 October 2009
September 2009 5 November 2009
October 2009 3 December 2009
November 2009 7 January 2010



CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE

There are no changes in this issue.


DATA NOTES

This publication presents monthly estimates of the manufacturing production for Pre-mixed concrete, Plasterboard and Water heaters in Australia.

The May 2009 figure for Water heaters in not yet available due to investigations into the quality of the data for this month. The May 2009 Water heater figure will be released with the June 2009 release.

More detailed breakdowns and other commodity items collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) are available on request for a charge. 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


MONTHLY MANUFACTURING PRODUCTION COMMODITIES

Monthly commodity production
Plasterboard
Pre-mixed concrete
Water heaters
'000 m2
'000 m3
no.
2005-06
143 142
23 913
540 682
2006-07
148 317
24 932
576 914
2007-08
152 913
26 573
557 276
March
11 933
2 155
45 452
April
13 013
2 384
43 185
May
14 795
2 564
48 613
June
12 393
2 083
55 345
July
14 344
2 246
49 899
August
14 050
2 337
48 006
September
14 428
2 341
51 131
October
14 744
2 453
50 313
November
13 845
2 063
47 686
December
10 116
1 902
31 626
January
9 153
1 323
24 975
February
12 085
1 814
41 703
March
12 829
2 009
51 064
April
11 357
1 694
36 361
May
13 109
1 919
nya
nya not yet available



AVAILABLE DATA ITEMS FROM THE MANUFACTURING COMMODITY COLLECTIONS

The ABS releases data items from the Manufacturing Commodity collections on a monthly basis in this publication and also releases more detailed breakdowns and other commodity items on a quarterly and annual basis on request for a charge. More detail about these commodity items can be obtained by contacting Wendy Hardy on (08) 8237 7653.