Corrections
When a number on the site changes after publication — usually because the upstream publisher reissued a release — we record it here. This is the full, public, append-only log.
- unemployment-rateAffected: 1 Mar 2026 – 1 July 2026
Restored NT and ACT unemployment data after ABS discontinued the seasonally-adjusted series for both territories.
A data audit on 2026-08-24 found the NT and ACT state-level unemployment series had been frozen at March 2026 for five months. ABS has discontinued the seasonally-adjusted Labour Force series (TSEST=20) for these two territories specifically, while the other six states are unaffected; the ingester was silently failing on the resulting 404 without raising an error. ABS still publishes a Trend series (TSEST=30) for NT and ACT, which the ingester now uses for these two territories only — clearly labelled "(Trend)" in the stored source so it is not confused with the Seasonally Adjusted methodology used elsewhere. Both series are now current to the same month as the other six states.
- household-debt-to-incomeAffected: 1 Jan 2025 – 1 Oct 2025
Identified orphaned rows from a data source removed in April 2026 that were still interleaved with the correct series.
A data audit on 2026-08-24 found 37 observations from a source ("RBA Table E2 — Household Finances") whose ingest code was actually removed back on 2026-04-10 (commit 0466536), landing on a Jan/Apr/Jul/Oct grid that does not match RBA Table E2's real Mar/Jun/Sep/Dec release quarters. These are stale leftovers, not currently being rewritten by any active script. A database cleanup to remove these orphaned rows is still pending as of this correction; the correct automated series (RBA Table E2 — Household debt to annualised disposable income) is unaffected and continues to update normally.
- median-home-priceAffected: 1 Jan 2024 – 24 Aug 2026
Removed a second, incompatible data source that had been silently alternating with the correct series since 2024.
A data audit on 2026-08-24 found this metric was fed by two different measures on an interleaved quarterly grid: RBA Table E1 (mean dwelling price, automated, Mar/Jun/Sep/Dec quarters) and a hardcoded `manual_ingest.ts` block citing ABS Cat. 6416.0 (Jan/Apr/Jul/Oct quarters). Because the two used different calendar quarters they never collided on the same date and both persisted, producing a ±5-8% sawtooth in the chart that was a pure artefact of alternating sources rather than real price movement. The hardcoded block has been removed from the ingest pipeline; a follow-up database cleanup to remove the historical Cat. 6416.0 rows is still pending as of this correction.
- population-growth-rateAffected: 1 Jan 2024 – 1 July 2025
Corrected values previously overwritten by a stale hardcoded fallback that ran after the live ABS ingest each week.
Same root cause as the dwelling-completions correction filed today: a hardcoded `manual_ingest.ts` fallback block (2024-01 to 2025-07) ran after the automated ABS ERP_Q ingest and overwrote its live figures every week. The fallback has been removed; the metric now reflects ABS National, State and Territory Population estimates directly.
- dwelling-completionsAffected: 1 Jan 2024 – 1 Oct 2025
Corrected values previously overwritten by a stale hardcoded fallback that ran after the live ABS ingest each week.
A data audit on 2026-08-24 found that `manual_ingest.ts` carried a hardcoded fallback block for this metric covering 2024-01 to 2025-10, and that this script ran *after* the automated ABS SDMX ingest in the weekly pipeline — so the hardcoded (and increasingly stale) values silently overwrote the correct, live ABS figures every week. The fallback block has been removed; the metric now reflects ABS Building Activity (Cat. 8752.0) directly, refreshed automatically each week.
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