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Cost of living

CPI by capital city across the top expenditure groups.

snapshot ABS

What it answers

How does the cost of living compare across Australian capital cities? This returns ABS CPI by capital city across the top expenditure groups in one snapshot, rather than stitching together separate city series.

Call it

curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer ak_your_key' \
  https://api.ausdata.io/v1/cost-of-living

Returns

Every response uses the same {data, meta, links} envelope:

data: the answer, an object for a snapshot or a list when there is one row per entity.
meta: reference periods, retrieved_at, per-source attribution to reproduce on publish, and the stale flag.
links: a csv alternative when one is available.

Example response shape

{
  "data": { ... },
  "meta": {
    "endpoint": "/v1/cost-of-living",
    "query": { ... },
    "period": { "start": "...", "end": "..." },
    "row_count": 1,
    "retrieved_at": "<ISO-8601 UTC>",
    "sources": [
      { "name": "...", "url": "...", "attribution": "..." }
    ],
    "stale": false,
    "stale_reason": null,
    "server_version": "..."
  },
  "links": { "csv": null }
}

Draws from

This signal joins data from one source. Each source page lists the underlying datasets and canonical series.

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Cross-source signals join multiple sources into one response. Reliability: a signal returns current data or a clear 503; it never serves an older vintage as the current answer.

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