NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE	Release Date
September 2009	5 November 2009
October 2009	3 December 2009
November 2009	7 January 2010
December 2009	4 February 2010
January 2010	4 March 2010
February 2010	8 April 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.

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 Paul Sutcliffe on Adelaide (08) 8237 7302.


SUMMARY COMMENTARY


MONTHLY MANUFACTURING PRODUCTION COMMODITIES

Table 1

Monthly commodity production
	Plasterboard	Pre-mixed concrete	Water heaters
	'000 m2	'000 m3	no.
2006-07	148 317	24 932	576 914
2007-08	152 913	26 573	557 276
2008-09	152 778	23 895	539 363
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	49 870
June	12 717	1 794	53 729
July	13 831	2 062	58 245
August	12 411	1 918	54 631

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
2008-09	7 699	1 114	na	2 252
na not available
(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.

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.