Building Approvals by state and capital city, monthly (selected series)

The Building Approvals of the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the number of dwelling units and the value of building work approved by local councils and other approving authorities, one row per series and month. Series run from January 1956 for Australia and its states and territories (some from 1965), and from July 2001 for the Greater Capital City Statistical Areas and the rest of each state. This dataset keeps a selected slice of the ABS flow: original (not seasonally adjusted) series for all sectors, the private sector and the public sector, for all work and for new building, and for seven building types: total residential; houses; semi-detached, row or terrace houses and townhouses; apartments; total other residential; total non-residential; and total building. The ABS's finer building types, its work types that change an existing building (alterations, additions and conversions), its count of jobs valued at $50,000 or more and its split by value range are left out. Values are whole numbers: dwelling units, or thousands of Australian dollars (GST included from July 2000), as unit_measure and unit_mult say. The ABS's headline figures are seasonally adjusted, so they differ from these original series. A month with no row means the ABS published no figure for that series (some public-sector series of the smaller states have gaps between 1991 and 2001), which is not the same as zero. Rows of different levels (a total and its parts, Australia and its states) overlap, so do not add them up across levels: a total can differ from the sum of its parts by the ABS's rounding, by more before 1990, and, for the value of non-residential building, between a state and its two areas in some months. The areas follow the 2011, 2016 and 2021 editions of the ABS's geography for the months before July 2011, up to June 2016 and after, so an area may not cover the same ground in every period. The ABS revises the last 12 to 18 months with each release. The Data API is an ABS beta service whose data can trail the ABS website.