Australian Real-Time Macroeconomic Database

This website provides a macroeconomic database for Australia which includes measures of GDP, its components, prices, and key monetary and labour market statistics over the last fifty years as published and revised in real time. The vintages of data are collated from various sources and accommodate multiple definitional changes, providing a comprehensive description of the macroeconomic environment as experienced by Australian policy- and decision-makers.

For an introductory overview and a background for researchers, see Lee, K., Olekalns, N., Shields, K. and Wang, Z (2011a), The Australian Real-Time Database: An Overview and an Illustration of its Use in Business Cycle Analysis.

Funding from the ARC Discovery project DP0988112 (2009 2011) : 'Australian Real-Time Data: Construction, Analysis and Implications for Real-Time Policy Making' is gratefully acknowledged.