Approvals vs completions

Building approvals against building activity completions, the housing supply pipeline.

history mode ABS

What it answers

How much of what gets approved actually gets built? This lines up ABS building approvals against ABS building-activity completions to show the housing supply pipeline and where dwellings stall between sign-off and handover.

Call it

curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer ak_your_key' \
  https://api.ausdata.io/v1/approvals-vs-completions

History mode

Add start_period and end_period to walk the series back through time instead of returning only the latest point.

curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer ak_your_key' \
  'https://api.ausdata.io/v1/approvals-vs-completions?start_period=2015-Q1&end_period=2024-Q4'

Returns

Every response uses the same {data, meta, links} envelope:

data: the answer, an object for a snapshot or a list when there is one row per entity.
meta: reference periods, retrieved_at, per-source attribution to reproduce on publish, and the stale flag.
links: a csv alternative when one is available.

Example response shape

{
  "data": { ... },
  "meta": {
    "endpoint": "/v1/approvals-vs-completions",
    "query": { ... },
    "period": { "start": "...", "end": "..." },
    "row_count": 1,
    "retrieved_at": "<ISO-8601 UTC>",
    "sources": [
      { "name": "...", "url": "...", "attribution": "..." }
    ],
    "stale": false,
    "stale_reason": null,
    "server_version": "..."
  },
  "links": { "csv": null }
}

Draws from

This signal joins data from one source. Each source page lists the underlying datasets and canonical series.

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Cross-source signals join multiple sources into one response. Reliability: a signal returns current data or a clear 503; it never serves an older vintage as the current answer.

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