What it answers
What is the current state of the Australian economy at a glance? This call returns the RBA cash rate alongside ABS inflation, unemployment, wage growth, and household spending, each tagged with its own reference period. It saves you from fetching and aligning five separate series before you can read the macro picture.
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 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/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.
Related signals
- Real wages Wage Price Index annual change minus CPI annual change, the headline "are wages keeping up" series.
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- Real savings rate RBA term-deposit rate minus CPI, with an after-tax overlay so savers see the real return.