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Time Series Data
This is an Excel Spreadsheet with some great data for you to use with Time Series exercises. There are many worksheets with monthly data taken from the actual Reserve Bank figures. The categories are Population, Retail Sales, Accommodation, Motor Vehicles, Electricity Generation, Employment, Electronic Transactions, Housing Loans, Exports, Birth Deaths and Marriages. There are excellent examples of seasonal patterns - especially in the retail sales sector with a number of categories such as Department Stores (see why they rely on Christmas sales and see what happened in December 2010!), liquor sales, supermarket sales, meat and vegetable sales, appliance sales, recreational goods and hardware sales. The file was last updated in March 2012 and therefore a lot of the figures will now include data from the first two months of 2012. We will continue update this file periodically to include the most up to date figures. Note: Some of the data is now only published as quarterly figures. This means we may redesign this spreadsheet in the future to incorporate this new format.
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