ELABORATELY TRANSFORMED MANUFACTURES This article presents
statistics for manufactured goods classified by degree of
transformation. The basic premise of this classification is that
each manufactured product reaching the point of sale will have
been subjected to one or more processes beginning at a raw
material state and passing through a range of manufacturing
processes and intermediate products to become a final end use
product. The number and complexity of such processes determine
the category for degree of transformation to which that product
is classified. Readers should note that the statistics presented
are still experimental as the classification used to categorise
goods by degree of transformation is still under development by
the ABS. Statistics in graph 19.8 and table 19.9 are indicative
rather than precisely classified estimates. The concept of
degree of transformation is also related to the concept of value
adding. The amount and complexity of transformation strongly
influence the amount of value