Textiles, clothing & footwear trade up in Apr 2006

31 May '06

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For services debits, the Easter proximity correction and the SARS correction for April 2003 have been reviewed and made more consistent between tourism related services and the component series.

This has improved the consistency of these seasonally adjusted series for April observations since 2000 and has resulted in some other minor revisions. Despite this improvement, independent seasonal adjustment can still result in variation between seasonally adjusted series.

The ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) is investigating changing the seasonal adjustment of tourism related services so that it is derived from the seasonally adjusted component series. Details of any change will be announced in a future issue.

Consumption Goods
The trend estimate of imports of consumption goods rose $19m to $4,273m. In seasonally adjusted terms, imports of consumption goods rose $201m (5 percent) to $4,381m. All components contributed to the rise in the seasonally adjusted estimates. The movements were:

Consumption goods n.e.s., up $57m (4 percent)
Textiles, clothing and footwear, up $50m (9 percent)
Non-industrial transport equipment, up $27m (2 percent)

In original terms, imports of consumption goods fell $183m (4 percent) to $3,948m.

Australian Bureau of Statistics

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