What it answers
How much harder is it for young Australians to find work than the wider labour force? This pairs the ABS youth unemployment rate with the all-ages rate and reports the youth premium, the gap between them. It quantifies youth labour-market disadvantage in a single snapshot.
Call it
curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer ak_your_key' \
https://api.ausdata.io/v1/youth-unemployment 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/youth-unemployment",
"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.
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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