Australia’s Westpac February Consumer Confidence (Table)

By Daniel Petrie

Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Following is the table for Australia’s February consumer confidence index from Westpac Banking Corp. and the Melbourne Institute released in Sydney. Beginning February 2007 Westpac has resumed reporting seasonally adjusted figures.

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                               Feb.    Jan.   Dec.   Nov.   Oct.  Sept.  Year
                               2009    2009   2008   2008   2008   2008   Ago
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                              --------------------- MoM% ---------------------
Consumer sentiment             -4.6%   -2.3%   7.6%   4.3% -11.1%   7.0%  -11.9%
Family finances, year ago       1.6%   10.6%   4.6%  -7.8%  -1.0%   3.6%   -8.6%
Family finances, year ahead    -6.2%   -4.8%   5.3%  -0.1%  -5.8%   9.3%  -12.2%
Economy 1 year ahead           -7.6%  -18.3%   5.6%  -1.7% -20.3%  19.5%  -36.6%
Economy 5 years ahead         -16.5%    4.0%  -3.7%  15.8%  -9.1%   8.1%  -17.9%
Buy major household items       5.8%   -3.4%  28.2%  15.8% -19.7%  -3.7%   13.8%
Current conditions              3.9%    2.3%  17.4%   3.5% -11.0%  -0.5%    2.8%
Expectations                  -10.5%   -5.1%   2.1%   4.7% -11.1%  11.7%  -21.0%

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                               Feb.    Jan.   Dec.   Nov.   Oct.  Sept.    Year
                               2009    2009   2008   2008   2008   2008     Ago
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                              --------------------- YoY% ---------------------
Consumer sentiment            -11.9%  -12.8% -18.2% -22.6% -28.9% -20.3%  -12.6%
Family finances, year ago      -8.6%  -23.0% -27.9% -28.0% -24.4% -26.7%   -5.8%
Family finances, year ahead   -12.2%   -7.2%  -1.2% -12.2%  -9.5%  -1.1%   -3.2%
Economy 1 year ahead          -36.6%  -43.6% -42.5% -40.2% -45.0% -30.7%  -28.5%
Economy 5 years ahead         -17.9%    3.8%  -6.6%  -4.5% -19.9% -12.5%    6.5%
Buy major household items      13.8%  -13.0% -10.9% -28.2% -42.6% -28.8%  -25.8%
Current conditions              2.8%  -17.8% -18.7% -28.1% -34.3% -27.9%  -17.2%
Expectations                  -21.0%  -15.6% -17.9% -19.1% -25.4% -15.3%   -9.5%
                              -------------------- Index ---------------------
Consumer sentiment              85.8    89.9   92.0   85.5   82.0   92.2    97.4
Family finances, year ago       83.5    82.2   74.3   71.0   77.0   77.8    91.3
Family finances, year ahead     99.2   105.8  111.1  105.5  105.6  112.1   113.0
Economy 1 year ahead            53.8    58.3   71.4   67.6   68.8   86.3    85.0
Economy 5 years ahead           84.8   101.5   97.6  101.4   87.6   96.4   103.2
Buy major household items      107.6   101.8  105.4   82.2   71.0   88.4    94.6
Current conditions              95.6    92.0   89.9   76.6   74.0   83.1    92.9
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                               Feb.    Jan.   Dec.   Nov.   Oct.  Sept.    Year
                               2009    2009   2008   2008   2008   2008     Ago
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                              -------------------- Index ---------------------
Expectations                    79.3    88.6   93.4   91.5   87.4   98.3   100.4
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Note: Westpac has resumed reporting seasonally adjusted figures, noting that research indicated monthly changes in January were generally significantly larger than monthly changes during the rest of the year. As a result a new methodology has been adopted to filter raw data and is the new consumer sentiment index.

Sources: Westpac Banking Corp., Melbourne Institute

To contact the reporter on this story: Daniel Petrie in Sydney at dpetrie5@bloomberg.net