Australian Bureau of Statistics
StatisticsAUdata.api.abs.gov.au
Australian official statistics over SDMX: CPI, labour force, population and every other published dataflow.
Capabilities (10)
GET /v1/data/abs/categoryscheme1 creditReturns the categories inside one ABS topic tree, and with references=parentsandsiblings also returns every dataflow categorised under it, complete with ids, versions and descriptions.
GET /v1/data/abs/categoryschemes1 creditReturns the 25 top-level ABS category schemes with their ids and names, covering the subject areas (Economy, Labour, Health, Industries, People, Environment) and the Census and Data-by-region collections.
GET /v1/data/abs/codelist1 creditReturns every code in one codelist with its English name, description where one exists, display order annotation and parent code for hierarchical lists.
GET /v1/data/abs/codelists1 creditReturns the id, version and English name of all 573 codelists the ABS publishes, as stubs without the codes themselves.
GET /v1/data/abs/conceptscheme1 creditReturns the concepts in one scheme with their names and definitions, which is the ABS's own prose explanation of what a dimension or attribute such as OBS_VALUE, TSEST or FREQ means.
GET /v1/data/abs/contentconstraint1 creditReturns the cube region for one dataflow: the exact list of codes that actually carry data on each dimension, the covered time range and an obs_count annotation giving the total number of observations.
GET /v1/data/abs/dataflow1 creditReturns one dataflow's current version, English name, long description and the URN of the datastructure that defines its dimensions.
GET /v1/data/abs/dataflows1 creditReturns the id, current version and English name of every dataflow published by the ABS, 1,228 entries at last count, as a stub listing with no dimension detail.
GET /v1/data/abs/datastructure1 creditReturns the DSD for one dataset: its dimensions in positional order, the codelist URN behind each one, the time dimension, the attributes and the primary measure.
GET /v1/data/abs/series1 creditReturns SDMX-JSON 2.0 observations for one ABS dataflow and dimension key, with the dimension and attribute code lists needed to decode the observation keys in the structures block.
Licence
CC BY 4.0 for ABS data; the ABS Conditions of Sale apply to richer commercial products, not to this API.
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