Australia: headline labour force indicators (monthly)
Headline labour market indicators for Australia — unemployment rate, participation rate and employment-to-population ratio — monthly, seasonally adjusted, persons, total age. Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Labour Force dataflow (ABS/LF/1.0.0), keyless SDMX REST API. Method: one keyless SDMX-XML query per indicator (MEASURE.SEX.AGE.TSEST.REGION.FREQ = M{12,13,16}.3.1599.20.AUS.M); all values are percentages (UNIT_MEASURE=PCT). Caveats: seasonally adjusted figures are revised by the ABS as new months are published, so past months can change between ingests; this dataset covers Australia total only (no state or age-band detail).
- Rows
- 582
- Columns
- 4
- Source cadence
- Monthly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 23, 2026
- Theme
- economy
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| month | string | Reference month, YYYY-MM (ABS TIME_PERIOD). Join key. |
| unemployment_rate_pct | float | Unemployed persons as a percentage of the labour force (ABS measure M13), seasonally adjusted. (unit: percent) |
| participation_rate_pct | float | Labour force as a percentage of the civilian population aged 15+ (ABS measure M12), seasonally adjusted. (unit: percent) |
| employment_to_population_ratio_pct | float | Employed persons as a percentage of the civilian population aged 15+ (ABS measure M16), seasonally adjusted. (unit: percent) |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| month | unemployment_rate_pct | participation_rate_pct | employment_to_population_ratio_pct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978-02 | 6.645 | 61.246 | 57.176 |
| 1978-03 | 6.303 | 60.966 | 57.123 |
| 1978-04 | 6.267 | 61.167 | 57.333 |
| 1978-05 | 6.209 | 61.083 | 57.291 |
| 1978-06 | 6.304 | 61.079 | 57.228 |
| 1978-07 | 6.222 | 60.922 | 57.132 |
| 1978-08 | 6.49 | 61.068 | 57.105 |
| 1978-09 | 6.255 | 60.766 | 56.965 |
| 1978-10 | 6.163 | 60.691 | 56.951 |
| 1978-11 | 6.331 | 60.639 | 56.8 |
Profiled Sep 23, 2026 from snapshot 20260923T095326Z-19f30ee86a36
Measured- Completeness
- 100%
- Rows
- 582
- Columns
- 4
- Columns with gaps
- 0
| Column | Missing | Distinct | Range | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| monthvarchar | 0% | 536 | — |
|
| unemployment_rate_pctdouble | 0% | 622 | 3.44 → 11.22median 6.1 | 12 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| participation_rate_pctdouble | 0% | 502 | 60.13 → 67.19median 63.55 | 12 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| employment_to_population_ratio_pctdouble | 0% | 634 | 54.03 → 64.42median 59.57 | 12 outside 1st–99th percentile |
- Current
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582 rows · first snapshot
Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).
curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/abs/abs_labour_force_headline_monthly" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/abs/abs_labour_force_headline_monthly").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/abs/abs_labour_force_headline_monthly
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2026). Australia: headline labour force indicators (monthly) [Data set, snapshot 20260923T095326Z-19f30ee86a36, sha256 19f30ee86a36]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-23, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/abs/abs_labour_force_headline_monthly?snapshot=20260923T095326Z-19f30ee86a36
@misc{dz_abs_abs_labour_force_headline_monthly_19f30ee8,
title = {{Australia: headline labour force indicators (monthly)}},
author = {{Australian Bureau of Statistics}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/abs/abs_labour_force_headline_monthly?snapshot=20260923T095326Z-19f30ee86a36}},
note = {Snapshot 20260923T095326Z-19f30ee86a36, sha256 19f30ee86a368b03aa5903a5ad26e7d807ca9732c9ff66bb2d31be1470562d91; accessed 2026-09-23}
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