RDP 2007-03: Forecasting with Factors: The Accuracy of Timeliness Appendix A: Data Panel

Table A1: Data Panel
Code Time
National accounts
GDP, sa 5 68
Non-farm GDP, sa 5 68
Public final demand: ex-transfers, sa 5 68
Private final demand: ex-transfers, sa 5 68
Private gross fixed capital formation (GFCF): total, sa 5 68
Gross operating surplus:
Financial corporations, sa 5 68
Private non-financial corporations, sa 5 68
Public non-financial corporations, sa 5 68
Household final consumption expenditure:
Total, sa 5 68
Cigarettes & tobacco, sa 5 68
Alcoholic beverages, sa 5 68
Clothing & footware, sa 5 68
Food, sa 5 68
Furnishing & household equipment, sa 5 68
Purchase of vehicles, sa 5 68
Rent & other dwelling services, sa 5 68
Hotels, cafes & restaurants, sa 5 68
Transport services, sa 5 68
Private GFCF: dwellings:
Alterations and additions, sa 5 68
New and used, sa 5 68
Private non-farm inventories to sales ratio, sa 1 68
Labour market
Employment:
Males, sa 5 6
Females, sa 5 6
Total, sa 5 6
Unemployment rate, sa 1 6
Labour productivity: heads, sa 5 68
Real unit labour costs, sa 5 68
Average weekly earnings:
Males, sa 5 48
Females, sa 5 48
ACCI-Westpac surveys:
Capacity utilisation, net balance, nsa 1 −24
General business situation, next 6mths net balance, nsa 1 −24
Output actual, change in past 3mths net balance, nsa 1 −24
Output expected, change in next 3mths net balance, nsa 1 −24
Building
Commencements: total new houses and flats excl conversions, number, sa 5 110
Completed: total new houses and flats excl conversions, number, sa 5 110
Building approvals:
Private new houses and flats, number, sa 5 35
Public new houses and flats, number, sa 5 35
Total new houses and flats, number, sa 5 35
Internal trade
Motor vehicle registrations, sa 5 24
Overseas transactions
Current account: excluding RBA gold and frigate, as a share of GDP, sa 1 68
Services imports, sa 5 67
Services exports, sa 5 67
Goods imports, sa 5 67
Goods exports, sa 5 67
Prices
Consumer price index, nsa 5 26
ABS house prices, nsa 5 55
GDP deflator, sa 5 68
Export price index: goods and services credits IPD, sa 5 67
Import price index: goods and services debits IPD, sa 5 67
Financial data
Oil prices 5 0
Commodity price index 5 3
Share prices 5 0
Real trade-weighted exchange rate 5 0
Notes: Code represents the transformation made to the data series: 1 indicates no transformation, 5 indicates a log-difference, as in Stock and Watson (2002b). Time is the number of days after the end of the quarter that the data series is published, based on release dates for 2006:Q1.