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Economic dashboard

A macro snapshot of five headline indicators in one call: cash rate, CPI, unemployment, wage growth, and consumer spending.

history mode RBAABS

What it answers

The current state of the Australian economy at a glance. One call returns the RBA cash rate alongside ABS inflation, unemployment, wage growth, and household spending, each tagged with its own reference period, instead of fetching and aligning five separate series.

Call it

curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer ak_your_key' \
  https://api.ausdata.io/v1/economic-dashboard

History mode

Add start_period and end_period to walk the series back through time instead of returning only the latest point.

curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer ak_your_key' \
  'https://api.ausdata.io/v1/economic-dashboard?start_period=2015-Q1&end_period=2024-Q4'

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/economic-dashboard",
    "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 2 sources. Each source page lists the underlying datasets and canonical series.

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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Real wages Wage Price Index annual change minus CPI annual change, the headline "are wages keeping up" series.
Real rate regime RBA cash rate minus trimmed-mean CPI, with a regime classification (restrictive, neutral, accommodative).
Real savings rate RBA term-deposit rate minus CPI, with an after-tax overlay so savers see the real return.

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