Media Release ABS to Publish the RBA's Consumer Price Measures

Number 2007-05
Date

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) have agreed that, commencing with the release of the June quarter CPI on 25 July 2007, the ABS will publish the trimmed mean and weighted median measures of underlying inflation on behalf of the Bank. This will ensure more timely publication of these data.

Further details are in the ABS press release also issued today.

Enquiries

Dr Tony Richards
Head of Economic Analysis Department
Reserve Bank of Australia
SYDNEY

Phone: +61 2 9551 8801

Manager, Media Office
Information Department
Reserve Bank of Australia
SYDNEY

Phone: +61 2 9551 8111
Fax: +61 2 9551 8033
E-mail: rbainfo@rba.gov.au