Abstract
This article describes a newly constructed macroeconomic database for Australia including measures of gross domestic product (GDP), its components, prices and key monetary and labour market statistics over the last 50 years as published and revised in real time. Data vintages are collated from various sources and accommodate multiple definitional changes, providing a comprehensive description of the macroeconomic environment actually experienced by Australian policy‐ and decision‐makers. The database exposes the difficulties in drawing inferences and decision‐making based on macroeconomic data that is subsequently revised. Methods are described that can exploit the real‐time dataset and they are illustrated through an analysis of the Australian output gap.
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