Quarterly Business Indicators (sales, profits, wages, inventories)

Name: Quarterly Business Indicators (sales, profits, wages, inventories)
Creator: Australian Bureau of Statistics
Published: 2026-06-07
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Quarterly Business Indicators Survey - sales, inventories, wages, and gross operating profits across the corporate and unincorporated sectors, by ANZSIC industry. Source: ABS Catalogue 5676.0.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics · Licensed CC-BY 4.0 · dataset id abs.BUSINESS_INDICATORS

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Full description

Quarterly Business Indicators Survey - sales, inventories, wages, and gross operating profits across the corporate and unincorporated sectors, by ANZSIC industry. Source: ABS Catalogue 5676.0. This is the "how is the corporate sector doing?" dataset: - Sales: top-line revenue across industries - Wages: total wage bill, complementary to AWE's per-employee view - Gross Operating Profits: industry-level profit pool - Inventories: stock build / drawdown signal Pairs naturally with WPI (wage prices), CPI (inflation), ANA_AGG (GDP) for full top-down macro analysis. Customer query examples: - "Mining gross operating profits, last 2 years" → `get_data('BUSINESS_INDICATORS', filters={'measure': 'gross_operating_profits', 'industry': 'mining'}, start_period='2024-Q1')` - "Quarterly sales growth - All Industries" → `get_data('BUSINESS_INDICATORS', filters={'measure': 'sales_qoq_pct', 'industry': 'all'})`

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