EconoMonitor's Australian series come from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), monthly or quarterly from January 2006 where the publisher's history allows. Data for individual banks and superannuation funds from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is loaded and checked, and will be published on institution pages once those pages are built.
Sources
- Reserve Bank of Australia statistical tables: the cash rate target, government bond yields and credit aggregates.
- Australian Bureau of Statistics Data API: GDP, consumer prices and the unemployment rate.
- APRA statistical publications: capital, risk-weighted assets, loans and deposits for authorized deposit-taking institutions, and superannuation fund data.
Checks for this dataset
- Check A: every series value and every APRA value rebuilt from the raw tables equals the stored value.
- Check B: real GDP growth agrees with growth computed from real GDP levels, within 0.1 percentage points of rounding.
- Check B: the published quarterly change in the consumer price index agrees with the change in the index itself, within 0.1 percentage points.
- Check B: the RBA's monthly bond yields equal the average of its daily yields.
- Check B: total credit excluding financial businesses equals housing plus other personal plus non-financial business credit.
- Check B: APRA capital ratios equal capital divided by risk-weighted assets, risk-weighted assets equal the sum of their risk charges, and loan and deposit totals equal the sum of their components.
Units and periods
Monthly values are dated at the last day of the month and quarterly values at the last day of the quarter. Amounts are in Australian dollars as published.
Series definitions
Australian Government 10-year bond yield
Yield on Australian government bonds, interpolated, 10 years maturity, monthly average.
- Unit
- percent
- Frequency
- monthly, not applicable
- Source
- Reserve Bank of Australia statistical tables (RBA table F2.1), series
FCMYGBAG10 - Data page
- Australian Government 10-year bond yield
Australian Government 10-year minus 2-year yield spread
Difference between the monthly average 10-year and 2-year government bond yields.
- Unit
- percentage points
- Frequency
- monthly, not applicable
- Formula
- au_agb_10y - au_agb_2y
- Source
- Reserve Bank of Australia statistical tables (RBA table F2.1), series
FCMYGBAG10 (Australian Government 10-year bond yield), FCMYGBAG2 (Australian Government 2-year bond yield); the spread is derived by EconoMonitor - Data page
- Australian Government 10-year minus 2-year yield spread
Australian Government 2-year bond yield
Yield on Australian government bonds, interpolated, 2 years maturity, monthly average.
- Unit
- percent
- Frequency
- monthly, not applicable
- Source
- Reserve Bank of Australia statistical tables (RBA table F2.1), series
FCMYGBAG2 - Data page
- Australian Government 2-year bond yield
Business credit (series ended June 2019)
Business credit, seasonally adjusted. Discontinued by the RBA in June 2019; see au_nonfinancial_business_credit.
- Unit
- AUD
- Frequency
- monthly, seasonally adjusted
- Source
- Reserve Bank of Australia statistical tables (RBA table D2), series
DLCACBS - Status
- Series discontinued by the publisher
- Data page
- Business credit (series ended June 2019)
Business credit growth, 12 months (series ended June 2019)
12-month-ended growth in business credit. Discontinued by the RBA in June 2019.
- Unit
- percent
- Frequency
- monthly, seasonally adjusted
- Source
- Reserve Bank of Australia statistical tables (RBA table D1), series
DGFACB12 - Status
- Series discontinued by the publisher
- Data page
- Business credit growth, 12 months (series ended June 2019)
RBA cash rate target
Cash rate target, monthly average.
- Unit
- percent
- Frequency
- monthly, not applicable
- Source
- Reserve Bank of Australia statistical tables (RBA table F1.1), series
FIRMMCRT - Data page
- RBA cash rate target
Consumer price index, all groups
All groups CPI, Australia, original series, index numbers on the base the ABS currently publishes.
- Unit
- index (as published by ABS)
- Frequency
- quarterly, not seasonally adjusted
- Source
- Australian Bureau of Statistics Data API (Consumer Price Index (6401.0)), series
ABS,CPI,2.0.0:1.10001.10.50.Q - Data page
- Consumer price index, all groups
CPI change from the previous quarter
Percent change in the all groups CPI from the previous quarter, as published by the ABS.
- Unit
- percent
- Frequency
- quarterly, not seasonally adjusted
- Source
- Australian Bureau of Statistics Data API (Consumer Price Index (6401.0)), series
ABS,CPI,2.0.0:2.10001.10.50.Q - Data page
- CPI change from the previous quarter
CPI inflation, change from a year earlier
Percent change in the all groups CPI from the same quarter a year earlier, calculated by EconoMonitor from the ABS index.
- Unit
- percent
- Frequency
- quarterly, not seasonally adjusted
- Formula
- (au_cpi / au_cpi 4 quarters earlier - 1) x 100
- Source
- Australian Bureau of Statistics Data API (Consumer Price Index (6401.0)), series
ABS,CPI,2.0.0:1.10001.10.50.Q (Consumer price index, all groups); the change on a year earlier is derived by EconoMonitor - Data page
- CPI inflation, change from a year earlier
Housing credit
Owner-occupier plus investor housing credit, seasonally adjusted, including securitisations.
- Unit
- AUD
- Frequency
- monthly, seasonally adjusted
- Formula
- DLCACOHS + DLCACIHS
- Source
- Reserve Bank of Australia statistical tables (RBA table D2), series
DLCACOHS + DLCACIHS; the total is derived by EconoMonitor - Data page
- Housing credit
Housing credit growth, 12 months
12-month-ended growth in housing credit (adjusted for series breaks by the RBA).
- Unit
- percent
- Frequency
- monthly, seasonally adjusted
- Source
- Reserve Bank of Australia statistical tables (RBA table D1), series
DGFACH12 - Data page
- Housing credit growth, 12 months
Investor housing credit
Investor housing credit, seasonally adjusted.
- Unit
- AUD
- Frequency
- monthly, seasonally adjusted
- Source
- Reserve Bank of Australia statistical tables (RBA table D2), series
DLCACIHS - Data page
- Investor housing credit
Non-financial business credit
Credit to non-financial businesses, seasonally adjusted, including securitisations.
- Unit
- AUD
- Frequency
- monthly, seasonally adjusted
- Source
- Reserve Bank of Australia statistical tables (RBA table D2), series
DLCACNFBS - Data page
- Non-financial business credit
Non-financial business credit growth, 12 months
12-month-ended growth in credit to non-financial businesses (adjusted for series breaks by the RBA).
- Unit
- percent
- Frequency
- monthly, seasonally adjusted
- Source
- Reserve Bank of Australia statistical tables (RBA table D1), series
DGFACBNF12 - Data page
- Non-financial business credit growth, 12 months
Owner-occupier housing credit
Owner-occupier housing credit, seasonally adjusted.
- Unit
- AUD
- Frequency
- monthly, seasonally adjusted
- Source
- Reserve Bank of Australia statistical tables (RBA table D2), series
DLCACOHS - Data page
- Owner-occupier housing credit
Real GDP
Gross domestic product, chain volume measures, seasonally adjusted.
- Unit
- AUD (chain volume)
- Frequency
- quarterly, seasonally adjusted
- Source
- Australian Bureau of Statistics Data API (Australian National Accounts (5206.0)), series
ABS,ANA_AGG,1.0.0:M1.GPM.20.AUS.Q - Data page
- Real GDP
Real GDP growth (quarter on quarter)
Percent change in real GDP from the previous quarter, as published by the ABS.
- Unit
- percent
- Frequency
- quarterly, seasonally adjusted
- Source
- Australian Bureau of Statistics Data API (Australian National Accounts (5206.0)), series
ABS,ANA_AGG,1.0.0:M2.GPM.20.AUS.Q - Data page
- Real GDP growth (quarter on quarter)
Total credit (series ended June 2019)
Total credit, seasonally adjusted. Discontinued by the RBA in June 2019; see au_total_credit_excl_financial.
- Unit
- AUD
- Frequency
- monthly, seasonally adjusted
- Source
- Reserve Bank of Australia statistical tables (RBA table D2), series
DLCACS - Status
- Series discontinued by the publisher
- Data page
- Total credit (series ended June 2019)
Total credit excluding financial businesses
Total credit excluding lending to financial businesses, seasonally adjusted, including securitisations.
- Unit
- AUD
- Frequency
- monthly, seasonally adjusted
- Source
- Reserve Bank of Australia statistical tables (RBA table D2), series
DLCACFS - Data page
- Total credit excluding financial businesses
Unemployment rate
Unemployment rate, persons, 15 years and over, seasonally adjusted.
- Unit
- percent
- Frequency
- monthly, seasonally adjusted
- Source
- Australian Bureau of Statistics Data API (Labour Force, Australia (6202.0)), series
ABS,LF,1.0.0:M13.3.1599.20.AUS.M - Data page
- Unemployment rate
Built from data build 20261026T074019Z, exported 2026-10-26.