Australia - Building Activity

Name: Australia - Building Activity
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. Building Activity. Provides estimates of value of building work and number of dwellings commenced, completed, under construction and in the pipeline. Unit of measure: AUD Units. Geographic coverage: Australia/State. Catalogue number: 8752.0 Profiled coverage: time coverage 1955-Q1 to 2025-Q4; geographic coverage Australia/State. Current profile has 598,484 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-building-activity·15 columns·4.1 MB·Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International·updated 6d ago

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics · connector code

Schema

dataflow	VARCHAR
measure	VARCHAR
region	VARCHAR
price_adj	VARCHAR
bld_work_type	VARCHAR
sector_own	BIGINT
type_bldg	VARCHAR
tsest	BIGINT
freq	VARCHAR
time_period	VARCHAR
obs_value	DOUBLE
unit_measure	VARCHAR
unit_mult	BIGINT
obs_status	VARCHAR
obs_comment	VARCHAR

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