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Credit impulse

Change in the flow of RBA private credit divided by GDP, a leading indicator of demand.

history mode RBAABS

What it answers

Is the flow of new credit speeding up or slowing down across the economy? This measures the change in the flow of RBA private-sector credit as a share of ABS GDP, the credit impulse that often leads turns in demand. It reads the acceleration of borrowing rather than its level.

Call it

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

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/credit-impulse?start_period=2015-Q1&end_period=2024-Q4'

Returns

Every response uses the same envelope, {data, meta, links}. The data field carries the answer (an object for a single snapshot, a list when there is one row per entity). The meta field carries the trust contract: the reference periods, retrieved_at, the per-source attribution you reproduce on publish, and the stale flag. The links field offers a csv alternative when one is available.

{
  "data": { ... },
  "meta": {
    "endpoint": "/v1/credit-impulse",
    "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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