NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE	Release Date
August 2012	28 September 2012
September 2012	26 October 2012
October 2012	23 November 2012
November 2012	21 December 2012
December 2012	25 January 2013
January 2013	22 February 2013

CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE

The production of plasterboard survey was discontinued in June 2012, this is the first issue of the Production of Selected Construction Materials publication that does not contain current data for plasterboard production. The time series for plasterboard production will remain in this publication for a further two months.

There have been revisions to the previous 12 months of the Production of pre-mixed concrete series due to additional businesses being included in the survey from the July 2012 survey cycle. The impact of this increase in coverage has been back cast over the previous 12 months resulting in a break in the pre-mixed concrete time series between June 2011 and July 2011. The impact of the change in coverage has been an upward increase in pre-mixed concrete production of approximately 3.5% per month at the Australia level over the last 12 months.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has historically released pre-mixed concrete production estimates for selected sub-state regions based on the Australian Standard Geography Classification (ASGC). From this issue, sub-state estimates will be released based on the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS). This data will be available on request from the release of the August 2012 publication on September 28, 2012.


DATA NOTES

This publication presents estimates at the national and state level. More detailed breakdowns collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) may be available on request for a charge. Items for which additional production data are available are listed in paragraphs 8 and 9 of the Explanatory Notes.


ROUNDING

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


INQUIRIES

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SUMMARY COMMENTARY


MONTHLY MANUFACTURING PRODUCTION COMMODITIES

Monthly Commodity Production
			Plasterboard (a)	Pre-mixed concrete (b)
			'000 m2	'000 m3
Australia
	2009-10		149 495	23 323
	2010-11		157 093	23 483
	2011-12		146 613	24 502
	2011
		May	13 342	2 069
		June	13 134	2 025
		July	13 481	2 133
		August	13 538	2 268
		September	13 066	2 294
		October	12 866	2 116
		November	13 624	2 268
		December	10 794	1 867
	2012
		January	9 498	1 307
		February	11 995	2 094
		March	11 798	2 141
		April	10 295	1 768
		May	13 095	2 366
		June	12 563	1 903
		July	na	2 109
(a) Plasterboard production data no longer available from July 2012 onwards (b) Break in series at July 2011 due to a change in survey coverage. Refer to "Changes in this issue" for more information.