9314.0 - Sales of New Motor Vehicles, Australia, Oct 2011

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ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 15/11/2011

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OCTOBER KEY FIGURES

	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
Vehicle sales (no.)

Trend	27 545	23 462	18 769	5 651	9 280	1 517	915	1 390	88 528
Seasonally Adjusted	27 707	23 256	18 875	5 374	9 139	1 502	931	1 398	88 182
Change from previous month (%)

Trend	1.9	1.8	2.2	1.5	0.9	1.9	3.4	2.0	1.8
Seasonally Adjusted	3.1	1.1	2.0	-6.4	-1.9	3.4	-2.9	2.7	1.1
Change from previous year (%)

Trend	5.7	2.3	11.5	4.8	-3.0	-4.0	9.6	3.0	4.7
Seasonally Adjusted	6.7	0.8	10.9	1.7	-2.6	-2.6	14.1	2.7	4.4

(a) Seasonally adjusted numbers of new motor vehicle sales in Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory should be used with caution. For more information, see paragraph 7 of the Explanatory Notes.

OCTOBER KEY POINTS

TOTAL NEW MOTOR VEHICLE SALES

The October 2011 trend estimate (88 528) has increased by 1.8% when compared with September 2011.
Seasonally Adjusted - The October 2011 seasonally adjusted estimate for new motor vehicle sales (88 182) increased by 1.1% when compared with September 2011.

SALES BY TYPE OF VEHICLE

Trend - When comparing national trend estimates for October 2011 with September 2011, sales of Passenger, Sports utility and Other vehicles increased by 1.3%, 2.9% and 1.8% respectively.
Seasonally Adjusted - When comparing seasonally adjusted estimates for October 2011 with September 2011, sales of Passenger vehicles increased by 3.0%, while sales of Sports utility and other vehicles decreased by 0.5% and 1.9% respectively.

SALES BY STATE

All eight states and territories have experienced an increase in the trend estimate for new motor vehicle sales when comparing October 2011 with September 2011. Northern Territory recorded the largest percentage increase (3.4%), followed by Queensland (2.2%) and Australian Capital Territory ( 2.0%).
In seasonally adjusted terms, sales of new motor vehicles decreased in three of the eight states and territories when comparing October 2011 with September 2011. South Australia recorded the largest percentage decrease of 6.4%, followed by Northern Territory (2.9%) and Western Australia (1.9%). Over the same period Tasmania recorded the largest percentage increase of 3.4%.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE	Release Date
November 2011	15 December 2011
December 2011	18 January 2012
January 2012	15 February 2012
February 2012	15 March 2012
March 2012	17 April 2012
April 2012	15 May 2012

ABOUT THIS ISSUE

This issue presents details for the Sales of New Motor Vehicles for October 2011.

DATA NOTES

The earthquake and tsunami that occurred in Japan on 11 March 2011 may have affected new motor vehicle sales in Australia due to associated delays in delivery of Japanese manufactured vehicles. Although the quality of the estimates in this publication are not affected, impacts from the earthquake and tsunami could continue to disrupt supply of new motor vehicles to Australia.

Widespread flooding in the eastern states, particularly Queensland, and other natural disasters in early 2011 have not adversely affected the quality of estimates in this release. These events may have had an impact on the number of new vehicles sales since February 2011. However, as new motor vehicle sales are influenced by a range of factors, it is not possible to quantify the specific impact of these events.

INQUIRIES

For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070.

SUMMARY COMMENTARY

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Long term
Graph: New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles—Long term

New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles - Short term
Graph: New Motor Vehicle Sales, Total vehicles—Short term

New motor vehicle sales by type of vehicle by month

		Passenger vehicles	Sports utility vehicles	Other vehicles	Total vehicles	Change Passenger vehicles	Change Sports utility vehicles	Change Other vehicles	Change Total vehicles
		no.	no.	no.	no.	%	%	%	%
Trend

2010
	August	48 177	20 228	17 169	85 574	-1.1	0.6	-1.1	-0.7
	September	47 863	20 146	16 960	84 968	-0.7	-0.4	-1.2	-0.7
	October	47 800	19 895	16 855	84 550	-0.1	-1.3	-0.6	-0.5
	November	47 935	19 592	16 934	84 462	0.3	-1.5	0.5	-0.1
	December	48 019	19 306	17 152	84 477	0.2	-1.5	1.3	-
2011
	January	47 808	18 975	17 345	84 128	-0.4	-1.7	1.1	-0.4
	February	47 270	18 589	17 395	83 254	-1.1	-2.0	0.3	-1.0
	March	46 607	18 297	17 287	82 190	-1.4	-1.6	-0.6	-1.3
	April	46 016	18 269	17 086	81 371	-1.3	-0.2	-1.2	-1.0
	May	45 737	18 575	16 936	81 249	-0.6	1.7	-0.9	-0.2
	June	45 892	19 180	16 940	82 012	0.3	3.3	-	0.9
	July	46 355	20 004	17 113	83 472	1.0	4.3	1.0	1.8
	August	46 972	20 888	17 394	85 254	1.3	4.4	1.6	2.1
	September	47 602	21 666	17 683	86 952	1.3	3.7	1.7	2.0
	October	48 230	22 293	18 005	88 528	1.3	2.9	1.8	1.8
Seasonally Adjusted

2010
	August	47 354	19 598	17 454	84 407	-0.2	-2.1	3.1	-
	September	48 395	20 786	16 793	85 974	2.2	6.1	-3.8	1.9
	October	47 263	20 459	16 723	84 445	-2.3	-1.6	-0.4	-1.8
	November	48 128	19 996	16 713	84 837	1.8	-2.3	-0.1	0.5
	December	50 954	17 982	17 274	86 210	5.9	-10.1	3.4	1.6
2011
	January	47 794	18 568	16 978	83 340	-6.2	3.3	-1.7	-3.3
	February	46 910	19 356	17 610	83 875	-1.8	4.2	3.7	0.6
	March	47 365	21 333	18 378	87 075	1.0	10.2	4.4	3.8
	April	47 057	19 102	17 118	83 278	-0.6	-10.5	-6.9	-4.4
	May	43 659	16 913	16 254	76 826	-7.2	-11.5	-5.0	-7.7
	June	44 917	17 209	15 877	78 004	2.9	1.7	-2.3	1.5
	July	46 983	20 837	17 513	85 332	4.6	21.1	10.3	9.4
	August	47 715	22 932	17 744	88 390	1.6	10.1	1.3	3.6
	September	47 370	21 671	18 147	87 187	-0.7	-5.5	2.3	-1.4
	October	48 813	21 566	17 803	88 182	3.0	-0.5	-1.9	1.1
Original

2010
	August	46 504	18 515	17 103	82 122	-2.3	-2.7	8.6	-0.3
	September	48 763	19 684	16 607	85 054	4.9	6.3	-2.9	3.6
	October	45 268	19 348	16 309	80 925	-7.2	-1.7	-1.8	-4.9
	November	49 405	20 806	17 131	87 342	9.1	7.5	5.0	7.9
	December	51 039	18 555	16 993	86 587	3.3	-10.8	-0.8	-0.9
2011
	January	43 539	17 032	13 013	73 584	-14.7	-8.2	-23.4	-15.0
	February	45 455	18 916	16 525	80 896	4.4	11.1	27.0	9.9
	March	50 228	23 066	20 690	93 984	10.5	21.9	25.2	16.2
	April	41 565	17 054	15 595	74 214	-17.2	-26.1	-24.6	-21.0
	May	r42 577	17 121	17 703	r77 401	2.4	0.4	13.5	4.3
	June	54 322	21 518	20 317	96 157	27.6	25.7	14.8	24.2
	July	45 701	19 383	15 907	80 991	-15.9	-9.9	-21.7	-15.8
	August	48 423	22 111	17 548	88 082	6.0	14.1	10.3	8.8
	September	47 700	20 778	18 341	86 819	-1.5	-6.0	4.5	-1.4
	October	47 536	20 400	17 260	85 196	-0.3	-1.8	-5.9	-1.9

- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
r revised

New motor vehicle sales by state/territory of registration

		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.(a)	NT(a)	ACT(a)	Aust.
		no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.	no.
Trend

2010
	August	26 265	23 197	17 117	5 500	9 697	1 545	865	1 388	85 574
	September	26 149	22 988	16 966	5 432	9 654	1 561	851	1 367	84 968
	October	26 069	22 930	16 832	5 393	9 563	1 581	834	1 349	84 550
	November	26 064	23 014	16 790	5 384	9 463	1 589	819	1 339	84 462
	December	26 081	23 101	16 829	5 369	9 379	1 575	810	1 333	84 477
2011
	January	26 002	22 981	16 877	5 307	9 299	1 533	807	1 322	84 128
	February	25 772	22 593	16 906	5 200	9 200	1 470	807	1 305	83 254
	March	25 489	22 081	16 942	5 092	9 086	1 410	805	1 286	82 190
	April	25 261	21 644	16 994	5 036	8 994	1 372	802	1 269	81 371
	May	25 233	21 477	17 093	5 063	8 952	1 364	803	1 263	81 249
	June	25 471	21 646	17 278	5 172	8 971	1 386	813	1 275	82 012
	July	25 924	22 074	17 568	5 319	9 033	1 420	831	1 302	83 472
	August	26 481	22 584	17 965	5 459	9 119	1 456	857	1 333	85 254
	September	27 021	23 052	18 372	5 569	9 202	1 488	885	1 362	86 952
	October	27 545	23 462	18 769	5 651	9 280	1 517	915	1 390	88 528
Seasonally Adjusted

2010
	August	26 211	22 905	16 652	5 393	9 578	1 433	852	1 382	84 407
	September	26 379	22 869	17 505	5 536	9 773	1 660	857	1 394	85 974
	October	25 973	23 073	17 013	5 283	9 385	1 541	817	1 361	84 445
	November	26 179	22 802	17 124	5 385	9 616	1 624	837	1 272	84 837
	December	28 072	22 999	16 664	5 398	9 302	1 651	794	1 330	86 210
2011
	January	25 987	23 266	15 687	5 335	9 251	1 512	949	1 354	83 340
	February	25 614	23 065	17 222	5 342	9 127	1 426	753	1 326	83 875
	March	27 173	23 306	18 566	5 148	9 267	1 442	856	1 316	87 075
	April	25 688	22 246	17 620	5 052	9 188	1 385	822	1 277	83 278
	May	24 313	19 482	16 304	4 611	8 822	1 310	806	1 177	76 826
	June	24 072	20 923	16 162	5 022	8 532	1 291	777	1 226	78 004
	July	26 350	22 777	17 917	5 662	8 998	1 440	812	1 377	85 332
	August	27 546	23 548	18 506	5 552	9 497	1 588	817	1 336	88 390
	September	26 861	22 996	18 496	5 740	9 320	1 453	959	1 362	87 187
	October	27 707	23 256	18 875	5 374	9 139	1 502	931	1 398	88 182
Original

2010
	August	25 287	22 312	15 966	5 233	9 753	1 407	819	1 345	82 122
	September	26 079	22 511	16 939	5 548	10 121	1 715	785	1 356	85 054
	October	24 451	22 847	15 904	4 974	9 244	1 477	717	1 311	80 925
	November	27 422	23 491	17 025	5 651	9 738	1 902	809	1 304	87 342
	December	27 195	23 873	16 422	5 636	9 238	2 181	714	1 328	86 587
2011
	January	23 560	20 323	13 300	4 792	8 289	1 309	772	1 239	73 584
	February	25 048	22 446	16 283	5 128	8 686	1 273	680	1 352	80 896
	March	29 750	24 808	20 395	5 360	9 718	1 520	995	1 438	93 984
	April	22 570	19 535	16 403	4 467	8 101	1 124	862	1 152	74 214
	May	24 470	r19 570	16 519	4 782	8 703	1 268	942	1 147	r77 401
	June	29 685	25 091	21 062	6 057	10 424	1 443	985	1 410	96 157
	July	24 893	21 743	17 341	5 255	8 433	1 196	800	1 330	80 991
	August	27 274	23 436	18 298	5 446	9 903	1 581	802	1 342	88 082
	September	26 661	22 845	18 040	5 853	9 731	1 494	881	1 314	86 819
	October	26 608	22 996	17 972	5 041	8 974	1 439	808	1 358	85 196

r revised
(a) Seasonally adjusted numbers of new motor vehicle sales in Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory should be used with caution. For more information, see paragraph 7 of the Explanatory Notes.