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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will conduct a large-scale Census Test in August 2025 as part of its preparation for the 2026 Census. Approximately 60,000 households have been selected to ...
6150.0.55.005 Update to measuring unpaid care and modelling sex and age in the Labour Account Sep 2024 27/06/2025 ...
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Building Approvals, Australia, June 2025 Release date 31/07/2025 11:30am AEST ...
Monthly and quarterly estimates of household spendingA media statement on Thursday 23 November 2023 announced that the ABS would be enhancing the Monthly Household Spending Indicator (MHSI), and ...
Statistics about international trade in goods, on a balance of payments and international trade basis. The seasonally adjusted balance on goods decreased $2,621m in May. Goods credits (exports) ...
The monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) indicator rose 2.1 per cent in the 12 months to October 2024, according to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Michelle Marquardt, ...
This release of the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO) was limited to a targeted update of occupations relating to agriculture, cyber security and naval ship ...
Michelle Marquardt, ABS head of prices statistics said: ‘Annual wage growth ticked up for the first time since the June quarter 2024. The 3.4 per cent increase in wages for the year to the March ...
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) produces two key measures of underlying inflation – the Trimmed mean and the Weighted median. These measures, also known as ‘core’ inflation, provide an ...
The monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) indicator rose 2.4 per cent in the 12 months to February 2025, according to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Michelle Marquardt, ...
In the 2021 Census, 89,000 people identified as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin (INGP) in WA, making up 3.3% of the population. This was an increase from 76,000 counted in ...