NAME OF COLLECTION
Price Indexes of Materials Used in Manufacturing Industries
Contact
Manager
Price Indexes of Materials Used in Manufacturing Industries
Producer Price Indexes Section
Australian Bureau of Statistics
PO Box 10
BELCONNEN ACT 2616
Telephone: 02 6252 5348
Facsimile: 02 6252 7060
Email: client.services@abs.gov.au
Internet: www.abs.gov.au
Purpose
To provide an indication of price movements of materials used by establishments classified to designated 'sectors' of Australian manufacturing industry.
Description
The price indexes of materials used in manufacturing industries are on a 'net sector' basis; that is, each relates only to those materials which are used in the defined 'sector' of Australian manufacturing industry and which have been produced by establishments outside that 'sector'. These establishments are either Australian manufacturing establishments classified to other manufacturing 'sectors', or to other divisions of Australian industry (e.g. 'Agriculture, forestry and fishing' or 'Mining'), or are overseas producers (including overseas manufacturing establishments).
Method of collection
Prices of these materials are generally obtained from suppliers (producers and wholesalers). Prices of imported materials are generally obtained from importers and relate to shipments arriving in Australia that quarter.
Data detail
Contribution of materials classified by Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC) industry of origin (including Coal mining, Oil and gas extraction, Metal ore mining and Other mining) to the total Manufacturing Division Index
Manufacturing ANZSIC Subdivision and Group Indexes (including Petroleum and coal products (251, 252) and Basic metal products (271-273))
Indexes of metallic minerals used in the fabricated metal products industry
Geographic coverage
Australia.
Frequency of data availability
Quarters ending 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December.
Historical data
Available from 1968-69 to the present.
Products and services available
Publications
Price Indexes of Materials Used in Manufacturing Industries, Australia (cat. no. 6411.0)
Other products and services
Special data services may be available on request - there is a CD-ROM placed in the back of the publication which contains the information in the publication as well as a series of detailed tables