Australia Yearbook - 2001

948 Year Book Australia 2001
Price movements by city
Table 28.2 presents All groups index numbers for
each of the eight capital cities and for the
weighted average of the eight capital cities,
together with percentage changes.
The capital city indexes measure price
movements over time in each city individually.
They do not measure differences in price levels
between cities. For example, the index for
Adelaide in 1999–2000 of 126.3, compared with
the corresponding index for Sydney of 125.4,
does not mean that prices in Adelaide are higher
than those in Sydney. It simply means that, since
the base period (1989–90), prices in Adelaide
have increased by a greater percentage than
those in Sydney (26.3% compared with 25.4%).
Price movements by broad
commodity group
Table 28.3 presents, for the weighted average of
the eight capital cities, index numbers for each of
the eleven major commodity groups of the 14th
Series CPI and for the All groups, together with
percentage changes.
28.2 CONSUMER PRICE INDEX, All Groups Index Numbers(a)(b)
Year Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Adelaide Perth Hobart Canberra Darwin
Weighted
average of
eight capital
cities
INDEX NO.(c)
1993–94 109.2 111.1 110.6 113.4 108.5 111.7 111.4 111.5 110.4
1994–95 113.0 114.1 114.7 116.9 112.3 115.2 115.1 114.7 113.9
1995–96 118.7 118.4 119.1 121.2 116.7 119.6 120.3 119.5 118.7
1996–97 120.4 119.9 121.0 122.3 118.3 121.4 121.2 121.6 120.3
1997–98 120.5 119.8 121.6 121.6 118.0 121.3 120.4 121.3 120.3
1998–99 122.5 120.9 122.9 123.2 120.1 122.5 121.5 122.4 121.8
1999–00 125.4 124.1 125.0 126.3 122.9 124.8 124.2 124.2 124.7
CHANGE FROM PREVIOUS YEAR (%)
1993–94 1.4 2.0 1.9 2.0 2.2 2.9 1.7 1.8 1.8
1994–95 3.5 2.7 3.7 3.1 3.5 3.1 3.3 2.9 3.2
1995–96 5.0 3.8 3.8 3.7 3.9 3.8 4.5 4.2 4.2
1996–97 1.4 1.3 1.6 0.9 1.4 1.5 0.7 1.8 1.3
1997–98 0.1 –0.1 0.5 –0.6 –0.3 –0.1 –0.7 –0.2 0.0
1998–99 1.7 0.9 1.1 1.3 1.8 1.0 0.9 0.9 1.2
1999–00 2.4 2.6 1.7 2.5 2.3 1.9 2.2 1.5 2.4
(a) Reference base year 1989–90 = 100.0. (b) The separate city indexes measure price movements within each city individually.
They do not compare price levels between cities. (c) Index numbers for financial years are calculated as the simple arithmetic
averages of the quarterly index numbers.
Source: Consumer Price Index, Australia (6401.0).