RDP 9512: Consumption, Investment and International Linkages Appendix F: Data

Guy Debelle and Bruce Preston

December 1995

Australian Data

Data Source
GDP(A) ABS Cat. No. 5206, Table 48.
Consumption ABS Cat. No. 5206, Table 52.
Residential investment Calculated as the sum of the Dwellings and Real Estate Transfer series ABS Cat. No 5206, Table 52.
Non-dwelling construction ABS Cat. No. 5206, Table 52.
Equipment investment ABS Cat. No. 5206, Table 52.
Business fixed investment Calculated as the sum of Non Dwelling Construction and Equipment Investment series.
Increase in stocks private non-farm ABS Cat. No. 5206, Table 52.
Exports of goods and services ABS Cat. No. 5206, Table 52.
GDP(E) implicit deflator ABS Cat. No. 5206, Table 19.
Non-durable consumption NIF-10 Database.
Durable consumption NIF-10 Database.
Household disposable income ABS Cat. No. 5206, Table 28. Deflating this series using the private consumption deflator gives Real Household Disposable Income.
Non-dwelling capital stock ABS Cat. No. 5221, Table 6.
Equipment capital stock ABS Cat. No. 5221, Table 6.
Business fixed capital stock Calculated as the sum of Equipment and Non-Dwelling Construction Capital Stocks.
Capacity utilisation ACCI Westpac survey data from ‘Survey of Industrial Trends’.
Business confidence ACCI Westpac survey data from ‘Survey of Industrial Trends’.
Credit RBA unpublished AFI Credit by Sector series.
Retail trade ABS Cat. No. 8501, Table 14.
Gross operating surplus ABS Cat. No. 5206, Table 22.
Gross operating surplus net of interest payments Calculated as Gross Operating Surplus less ABS unpublished series for net interest payments. Series is deflated using GDP(E) implicit deflator.
Australian cash rate RBA, Bulletin, Table F1. (Unofficial market 11am call generate observations before 1982:Q2).
Nominal 10 year bond yield RBA Bulletin, Table F2.
Nominal 5 year bond yield RBA Bulletin, Table F2.
All ordinaries share price index RBA Bulletin, Table F6.
Business fixed investment deflator Calculated as the ratio of nominal to real Business Fixed Investment ABS Cat. No 5206.
Real share price Calculated by deflating the All Ordinaries Share Price Index with the Business Fixed Investment deflator.

Foreign Data

Data Source
US
GDP Datastream, USGDP...D.
Business fixed investment Datastream, USNRSINVD.
Non-farm inventory changes Datastream, USBINNFMD.
CPI Datastream, USCPANNL.
US Bond Yield Datastream, USTRBYLD.
Fed Fund Rate Datastream, USFEDFUN.
Dow Jones Index Datastream, USDJINDS.
Japan
GDP Datastream, JGDP...D.
Tokyo Share Price Datastream, JPTOKYO.
OECD
GDP Datastream, OCGDP.D.