ABS Beta

The official Beta website of Australia’s national statistical agency, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Our Beta website is an official source of concepts we are showcasing and seeking user feedback on.

The ABS Beta website provides a simple pathway for users to test concepts that are making our digital information and services easier to find, understand and use.

Users of the ABS Beta website include government agencies, local councils, public and not-for-profit organisations, researchers, businesses, community groups, and individuals.

You can access the ABS Beta website.

Our Beta website is free to access.

Additional information and help can be found at contact us.

The ABS uses secure HTTPS connections for all of its websites. HTTPS is used to secure and protect personal or identifiable information which may be entered by customers on our contact forms and survey account forms. Customers can enjoy the wealth of data and information provided by the ABS, secure in the knowledge that any personal information is protected.

When you visit our website, we use cookies to collect the following information:

• your IP address
• the date and time of your visit
• the pages you accessed and the documents you downloaded
• the search terms you used
• the previous site you visited
• your top level domain name (such as .com, .gov.au)
• your network location name (such as your internet service provider or organisation's name)
• any cookies that your browser has presented to our server.

The ABS Privacy Policy for Managing and Operating our Business sets out how we handle personal information that is collected for managing and operating within the ABS, consistent with the Privacy Act 1988 (Privacy Act) and the Australian Privacy Principles. This policy covers personal information that may be collected if you use an ABS product or service, provide a product or service to us, lodge a query or complaint, work for us, or apply for a job with us.

We are committed to providing information and services to the widest possible audience. We continue to explore ways to make it easy for you to access information and improve our digital services. We’ve designed this digital service to trial new ways the ABS website can meet our obligation to comply with the Australian Government Digital Service Standard and aim to meet the latest WCAG Guidelines which describe how to make web content more usable and accessible for everyone. If there’s information you need that you can’t get, please contact us.

For the best website experience and improved online security, we recommend using the following desktop browsers.

The most current and previous two versions of these browsers are currently supported.

• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Edge
• Mozilla Firefox
• Apple Safari.

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Content on the ABS Beta Website is only updated when concepts have completed their life cycle or the ABS is trailing a new concept

We encourage you to provide your feedback, or If you have any questions about the concepts we are making please contact us.