Australia - Building Approvals by Local Government Area (LGA 2025)

Name: Australia - Building Approvals by Local Government Area (LGA 2025)
Creator: Australian Bureau of Statistics
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

One row is an SDMX observation for this ABS dataflow, with OBS_VALUE broken down by the table's dimensions. The monthly Building Approvals (BAPS) collects data relating to residential and non-residential building work. It provides estimates of future building activity and the sampling framework for the quarterly Building Activity Survey, which is a major contributor to the quarterly National Accounts estimates. Reference period: 2020-21. Unit of measure: AUD Number Percent. Geographic coverage: LGA2022. Catalogue number: 8731.0 Profiled coverage: time coverage 2025-07 to 2026-04; geographic coverage LGA2022. Current profile has 1,103,220 rows. Dimension values are ABS SDMX codes; use the source code lists for full labels where a label column is not present.

australian-bureau-of-statistics-ba-lga2025·14 columns·9.0 MB·Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International·updated 6d ago

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics · connector code

Schema

dataflow	VARCHAR
measure	BIGINT
sector	BIGINT
work_type	VARCHAR
building_type	VARCHAR
region_type	VARCHAR
region	VARCHAR
freq	VARCHAR
time_period	DATE
obs_value	DOUBLE
unit_measure	VARCHAR
unit_mult	BIGINT
obs_status	VARCHAR
obs_comment	VARCHAR

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