NAME OF COLLECTION
Balance of Payments and International Investment Position
Contact
For balance of payments (BOP) statistics:
Assistant Director
Balance of Payments Section
Australian Bureau of Statistics
PO Box 10
BELCONNEN ACT 2616
Telephone: 02 6252 5336
Facsimile: 02 6252 7219
Email: client.services@abs.gov.au
Internet: www.abs.gov.au
For international investment position (IIP) statistics:
Assistant Director
International Investment Section
Australian Bureau of Statistics
PO Box 10
BELCONNEN ACT 2616
Telephone: 02 6252 5364
Facsimile: 02 6252 6164
Email: client.services@abs.gov.au
Internet: www.abs.gov.au
Purpose
To provide a systematic record of Australia's transactions with the rest of the world, including international transactions for the energy sector (specifically coal, coke and briquettes, and other mineral fuels) and Australia's stock of foreign financial assets and liabilities.
Description
The ABS conducts a number of surveys of businesses, individuals and organisations with international transactions and uses a variety of administrative by-product records in the compilation of BOP and IIP statistics.
Method of collection
Mail questionnaires. ABS and other collections that are used in estimating the energy-related components of the BOP and IIP statistics include the:
International Merchandise Trade Statistics Collection which supplies data on a wide range of energy products exported from and imported into Australia
Survey of International Trade in Services
Survey of International Investment which collects data on financial stocks and transactions
Both surveys are conducted as a sample survey covering all Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification Subdivisions.
Data detail
Current account, includes energy products exported abroad
Seasonally adjusted and trend estimates for current account aggregates
Capital account
Financial account (includes official reserve assets)
Exchange rates
IIP statistics about transactions and end of period levels on foreign assets and liabilities for the Australian energy industry are available.
Geographic coverage
Australia.
Frequency of data availability
Only goods and summary services data are released monthly. BOP and IIP statistics are available quarterly and annually. Also quarters ending 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December.
Historical data
Available from September quarter 1959; monthly data available from July 1971. Energy services data available from 1991-92 onwards. Foreign liabilities data are available from September quarter 1988, while annual data are available from 1991-92. Foreign assets data are available on an annual basis only, from 1991-92 onwards.
Products and services available
Publications
Balance of Payments and International Investment Position, Australia: Concepts, Sources and Methods (cat. no. 5331.0)
Balance of Payments and International Investment Position, Australia (cat. no. 5302.0) - quarterly
Balance of Payments and International Investment Position, Australia (cat. no. 5363.0) - annual
A Guide to Australian Balance of Payments Statistics and International Investment Position Statistics (cat. no. 5362.0)
Balance of Payments Statistics, Information Paper on Quality (cat. no. 5342.0)
International Trade in Goods and Services, Australia (cat. no. 5368.0)
Other products and services
Special data services are available on request
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