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Monthly Household Spending Indicator (MHSI)

Name: Monthly Household Spending Indicator (MHSI)
Creator: Australian Bureau of Statistics
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Monthly Australian household spending by category and state. The ABS-blessed successor to the discontinued Retail Trade publication (RT, ceased 31 July 2025). Built from comprehensive transactions data (banks, point-of-sale, payment processors) - more representative than the lega

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

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Returns JSON with the original Australian Bureau of Statistics attribution on every response. Add ?format=csv for CSV, ?start=YYYY-MM to return rows from a period forward, or ?limit=1000 to fetch more than the default page.

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