3401.0 - Overseas Arrivals and Departures, Australia, Nov 2017 Quality Declaration 
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 19/01/2018   
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NOVEMBER KEY FIGURES

Nov '17
Oct '17 to Nov '17
Nov '16 to Nov '17
'000
% change
% change
Short-term visitor arrivals
Trend
759.1
0.4
7.2
Seasonally adjusted
760.3
0.4
..
Original
776.9
..
..
Short-term resident returns
Trend
889.5
0.3
4.7
Seasonally adjusted
892.0
0.4
..
Original
772.9
..
..
. . not applicable



Visitor arrivals, Short-term
Graph: Visitor arrivals, Short-term

Resident returns, Short-term
Graph: Resident returns, Short-term


NOVEMBER KEY POINTS

SHORT-TERM VISITOR ARRIVALS TO AUSTRALIA
  • Trend estimates: Short-term visitor arrivals during November 2017 (759,100 movements) increased 0.4% compared with October 2017 (755,900 movements). This followed monthly increases of 0.5% in September 2017 and 0.4% in October 2017. The current trend estimate for arrivals is 7.2% higher than in November 2016.
  • Seasonally adjusted estimates: During November 2017, short-term visitor arrivals (760,300 movements) increased 0.4% compared with October 2017 (757,400 movements). This followed a monthly decrease of 2.3% in September 2017 and a monthly increase of 1.8% in October 2017.
  • Original estimates: There were 776,900 short-term visitor arrivals to Australia in November 2017.


SHORT-TERM RESIDENT RETURNS TO AUSTRALIA
  • Trend estimates: Short-term resident returns during November 2017 (889,500 movements) increased 0.3% compared with October 2017 (887,000 movements). This followed monthly increases of 0.2% in both September 2017 and October 2017. The current trend estimate for returns is 4.7% higher than in November 2016.
  • Seasonally adjusted estimates: During November 2017, short-term resident returns (892,000 movements) increased 0.4% compared with October 2017 (888,500 movements). This followed a monthly increase of 1.4% in September 2017 and a monthly decrease of 0.3% in October 2017.
  • Original estimates: There were 772,900 short-term resident returns to Australia in November 2017.


NOTES


FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE Release Date
December 201719 February 2018
January 201815 March 2018
February 201818 April 2018
March 201815 May 2018
April 201818 June 2018
May 201816 July 2018

DATA NOTES

This release contains overseas movement data which should not be interpreted as 'persons'. See paragraph 7 of the Explanatory Notes for more detail.

The statistics in this release have been rounded. See paragraph 33 of the Explanatory Notes for more detail.


CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE

In this issue, the ABS is releasing OAD statistics via ABS.Stat in addition to the usual release products. See the Downloads tab for the ABS.Stat data.


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