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State employment snapshot

Employed persons per state from ABS Labour Force.

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What it answers

How many people are employed in each state and territory? This returns employed persons per state from the ABS Labour Force survey in one snapshot, rather than querying each region separately.

Call it

curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer ak_your_key' \
  https://api.ausdata.io/v1/state-employment-snapshot

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/state-employment-snapshot",
    "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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