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StatisticsAU

data.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 credit

Returns the categories inside one ABS topic tree, and with references=parentsandsiblings also returns every dataflow categorised under it, complete with ids, versions and descriptions.

schemeIdreferences?detail?
GET /v1/data/abs/categoryschemes1 credit

Returns 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.

No parameters
GET /v1/data/abs/codelist1 credit

Returns every code in one codelist with its English name, description where one exists, display order annotation and parent code for hierarchical lists.

codelistIdreferences?detail?
GET /v1/data/abs/codelists1 credit

Returns the id, version and English name of all 573 codelists the ABS publishes, as stubs without the codes themselves.

No parameters
GET /v1/data/abs/conceptscheme1 credit

Returns 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.

schemeIdreferences?detail?
GET /v1/data/abs/contentconstraint1 credit

Returns 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.

constraintIdreferences?detail?
GET /v1/data/abs/dataflow1 credit

Returns one dataflow's current version, English name, long description and the URN of the datastructure that defines its dimensions.

flowIdreferences?detail?
GET /v1/data/abs/dataflows1 credit

Returns 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.

No parameters
GET /v1/data/abs/datastructure1 credit

Returns 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.

structureIdreferences?detail?
GET /v1/data/abs/series1 credit

Returns 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.

flowkeystartPeriod?endPeriod?detail?lastNObservations?firstNObservations?dimensionAtObservation?

Licence

CC BY 4.0 for ABS data; the ABS Conditions of Sale apply to richer commercial products, not to this API.

https://www.abs.gov.au/about/legislation-and-policy/purchasing-data/abs-conditions-sale

Attribution

Display this wherever you show the data. It arrives on every response as provenance.attribution_text.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics

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