Monthly Household Spending Indicator

The Monthly Household Spending Indicator of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, its monthly measure of household spending: one row per series and month from July 2012, for Australia and each state and territory. Series give household spending in current prices (millions of Australian dollars) with its percentage changes from the previous month and through the year, in original, seasonally adjusted and trend terms, in total, for goods and services, for discretionary and non-discretionary spending, and for nine categories such as food, transport, health, and hotels, cafes and restaurants. Estimates up to December 2018 come from other sources and methods than later ones; the ABS says so in the obs_comment of those rows for 11 of the 14 categories, but not for food, clothing and footwear, or furnishings and household equipment. A value the ABS does not publish (trend estimates from 2020 to 2023, changes with no earlier period to compare) is empty, with the ABS's reason in obs_status. The ABS builds the indicator from de-identified bank card data and other sources. The Data API is an ABS beta service whose data can trail the ABS website.