ABS provides key Australian statistics to the world.

In Australia as much as anywhere, accurate, reliable, and timely information is the backbone of sound investment and marketing decisions. Imagine having all the official Australian statistics you need right at your fingertips – a virtual pipeline to the rich data holdings of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

Online access
This resource is already online. It’s called AusStats, and businesses can access it and download selections through any standard web browser on a subscription basis. Individual publications and related datasets can be purchased online without a subscription.

AusStats gives business, academic, government and other clients online access to every current or recently published statistical report produced by the ABS, plus a lot more. There are more than 2000 spreadsheets, multi-dimensional datasets and census Basic Community Profiles giving census information on every locality in Australia.

“AusStats gives clients a key to the most sought-after statistics we produce,” says ABS’s head of information services, Dick Crockett. “It provides immediate access to the latest findings in a host of areas, so that investment and marketing decisions can be as soundly based as possible.

“It’s as much as most clients will need. But we also offer a consultancy service that can draw on our huge reserves of data to provide individual clients with reports tailored to their requirements.”

ABS is Australia’s national statistical agency, recognised internationally as an independent source of statistics produced with state-of-the-art methodology to the highest standards of accuracy and integrity.

AusStats is updated every day at 11.30am Canberra time, with the day’s newly-published reports instantly available to subscribers at the same time as they are first delivered to Australia’s government and media users.

An annual subscription to AusStats starts from as little as A$1080. Details are available on the ABS website. The site itself is a mine of freely-available statistics as well as a portal to the riches of the AusStats resource.

Website: www.abs.gov.au