Time Series Directory

Time Series Directory is an Application Programming Interface (API) for querying & returning a user defined subset of ABS time series metadata.

• A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) formula to query the ABS Time Series Directory service. 
• Access to time series metadata without having to download time series spreadsheets.
• Metadata returned in eXtensible Markup Language (XML) format, which provides a single source of time series information at the granular level of individual time series. 
• Returned information which includes metadata already available on time series spreadsheets provided on the ABS web site, as well as statistical product relationships and URLs to the actual spreadsheets.

The API is designed to be used in a machine-to-machine context. The metadata returned from a query can be and is typically used to facilitate the automated download of the ABS time series spreadsheet/s associated with the parameters defined in that query.

Time series metadata can be accessed using a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) formula to query the ABS Time Series Directory service, more information on how to access ABS Time Series Directory.

Time Series Directory is free to use.

Information about how to use Time Series Directory can be found in the ABS Time Series Directory guide.

Use of the Time Series Directory does not require user registration.

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As this is a downloadable file, accessibility is reliant on features in the product used to view and analyse the content (for example, SAS, SPSS, Stata and CSV).

The ABS Website contains a wide range of statistical outputs in an accessible format.

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