Australia: unemployment rate by sex (monthly)
Unemployment rate by sex (persons / males / females), monthly, seasonally adjusted, total age, Australia. Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Labour Force dataflow (ABS/LF/1.0.0), keyless SDMX REST API. Method: one keyless SDMX-XML query per sex (MEASURE.SEX.AGE.TSEST.REGION.FREQ = M13.{1,2,3}.1599.20.AUS.M); 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.
- Rows
- 1,746
- Columns
- 3
- Source cadence
- Monthly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 23, 2026
- Theme
- economy
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| month | string | Reference month, YYYY-MM (ABS TIME_PERIOD). Join key. |
| sex | string | persons / males / females (ABS SEX codelist: 3 / 1 / 2). |
| unemployment_rate_pct | float | Unemployed persons as a percentage of the labour force (ABS measure M13), seasonally adjusted. (unit: percent) |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| month | sex | unemployment_rate_pct |
|---|---|---|
| 1978-02 | females | 8.457 |
| 1978-02 | males | 5.626 |
| 1978-02 | persons | 6.645 |
| 1978-03 | females | 8.08 |
| 1978-03 | males | 5.305 |
| 1978-03 | persons | 6.303 |
| 1978-04 | females | 7.865 |
| 1978-04 | males | 5.363 |
| 1978-04 | persons | 6.267 |
| 1978-05 | females | 7.901 |
Profiled Sep 23, 2026 from snapshot 20260923T095337Z-00390c330c99
Measured- Completeness
- 100%
- Rows
- 1,746
- Columns
- 3
- Columns with gaps
- 0
| Column | Missing | Distinct | Range | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| monthvarchar | 0% | 536 | — |
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| sexvarchar | 0% | 3 | — |
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| unemployment_rate_pctdouble | 0% | 1,843 | 3.28 → 12.01median 6.06 | 36 outside 1st–99th percentile |
- Current
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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/abs/abs_unemployment_rate_by_sex_monthly" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/abs/abs_unemployment_rate_by_sex_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_unemployment_rate_by_sex_monthly
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2026). Australia: unemployment rate by sex (monthly) [Data set, snapshot 20260923T095337Z-00390c330c99, sha256 00390c330c99]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-23, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/abs/abs_unemployment_rate_by_sex_monthly?snapshot=20260923T095337Z-00390c330c99
@misc{dz_abs_abs_unemployment_rate_by_sex_monthly_00390c33,
title = {{Australia: unemployment rate by sex (monthly)}},
author = {{Australian Bureau of Statistics}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/abs/abs_unemployment_rate_by_sex_monthly?snapshot=20260923T095337Z-00390c330c99}},
note = {Snapshot 20260923T095337Z-00390c330c99, sha256 00390c330c995c31d502735fbe32c24e68264f1ecc06bc15a7767d8b5d45871d; accessed 2026-09-23}
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