Geography: This article is applicable for ANZ Transactive - Global customers banking in Australia. Full details are available in Features by Geography.
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About Economic Pulse
Economic Pulse in ANZ Transactive - Global, uses ANZ’s retail spending data and translates the Australian consumer spending habits into customisable graphs, charts and maps displayed on your dashboard.
Economic Pulse allows you to benchmark up-to-date weekly spend against any year from 2019 onwards, and drill down to industries that are most relevant to you.
Using the graphs, charts and maps, you can compare how industry spending habits and behaviours rate across timelines, against other states or territories, and even to a granular region or postcode.
With multiple graphs and charts, you can also view E-commence vs. in-store trends, industry breakdowns and year-on-year growth.
From the dashboard, you can export the graphs, charts and map content into a CSV file for further analysis.
Economic Pulse data is updated regularly and provides data up to two days prior, e.g., if refreshed on a Monday, then data is available up to and including the previous Saturday.
Economic Pulse Dashboard
Summary Panel
The Summary Panel shows key highlights from the past week in relation to the year-on-year consumer spending growth/decline at a National or State level and based on the criteria selected from the Control Bar.
Control Bar
The control bar allows you to manage your dashboard content based on your filtered selections, such as the time range, the comparison year, the location, the industry level and itemised industry level.
Time Range and Comparison Year
Time Range - Choose from:
- Last Full Week
- Last 1 week
- Last 4 weeks
- Last 12 weeks
- Last 26 weeks
- Last 52 weeks
- Last 104 weeks
- Custom range (available from December 2019 to current)
Comparison Year - Choose from:
- Previous Year
- Other listed years from 2019 onwards
Location
Choose from:
- National (Australia wide)
- ACT
- NSW
- NT
- QLD
- SA
- TAS
- VIC
- WA
Industry Level 1 & 2
When selecting a specific industry level such as Travel, you can then choose to select a granular option such as accommodation, car hire, transport, etc.
| Industry Level 1 | Industry Level 2 |
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| All | All |
| Entertainment |
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| Food/Drink |
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| Groceries |
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| Health & Fitness |
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| Services |
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| Shopping |
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| Travel |
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Customise your dashboard
Your dashboard can be customised to suit your preferences by adding, removing, resizing, and repositioning your widgets.
Click the pencil icon from the bottom right of your screen to edit your dashboard.
Click the pencil icon from the bottom right of your screen to edit your dashboard.
Click Drag Widget to reposition your widgets to another position on your dashboard. You can also resize the widgets by clicking and dragging from the bottom right-hand corner.
Click the Plus icon to add or remove widgets on your dashboard, then click the Save icon to save any changes to the screen. You can also use the 'x' to remove the widget from the dashboard view.
Export dashboard widget content
Once you have updated your dashboard and selected your preferred time range, location, and industry levels, you can export the content of your individual widgets to a CSV file.
Click the export icon from the widget to view and save the CSV file to your preferred location.
Click the export icon from the widget to view and save the CSV file to your preferred location.
Sample exported file
Chart Types
The charts available are based the selected National or State location.
- Hover over the graphs and charts to view more details.
- Click the x-axis data labels to show or hide the information on the graphs and charts.
In some cases, data is not available for a given industry and region combination if there are a very small number of merchants, or the industry is dominated by a single merchant. Additionally, growth values may not be available for some dates because the comparison period has no transactions for this selection.
Chart Types available
| LOCATION TYPE | CHART TYPE | DESCRIPTION |
| National | National Pulse | Year-on-year comparison of weekly consumer spending at a National level. |
| State Economic Growth | Year-on-year growth/decline of weekly consumer spending at a State level. | |
| YoY Growth by Industry | A heatmap of growth/decline in consumer spending observed for various industries for each state. | |
| E-commerce & In-store Trend | Year-on-year growth/decline of weekly E-commerce and In-store spending. | |
| State | State Pulse | Year-on-year comparison of weekly consumer spending for the selected state. |
| Industry Breakdown | The trend of year-on-year growth/decline of weekly consumer spending on various industries for the selected state. | |
| YoY Growth by SA3 | Year-on-year growth/decline of weekly consumer spend for various industries as well as the overall growth/decline for the selected state. | |
| Top and Bottom SA3 Regions | The top 3 SA3 regions for the selected state where the largest growth and decline in consumer spending were observed. |
National Charts
There are four National charts available providing a holistic view of economic spending habits across Australia for the selected time ranges and industry levels.
National Pulse
This chart shows the year-on-year comparison of weekly consumer spending at a National level. The chart includes:
- Trends in consumer spending in the current and comparison year
- Growth/decline in consumer spending year-on-year
Sample exported file:
State Economic Growth
This chart shows the year-on-year growth/decline of weekly consumer spending at a State level. The chart also includes significant event markers, which may allow for analysis of the impact of such events on spending.
Sample exported file:
YoY Growth by Industry
This chart shows a heatmap of growth/decline in consumer spending observed for various industries for each state. Growth/decline is measured by comparing consumer spend for each industry with the consumer spend over the same period in the comparison year. The map is coloured according to change in economic activity. The region with most economic activity is coloured brightest. A blank cell indicates that data is not available for the industry and region combination.
Sample exported file:
E-commerce & In-store Trend
This chart shows the year-on-year growth/decline of weekly E-commerce and In-store spending. The chart also includes significant event markers, which may allow for analysis of the impact of such events on spending.
Sample exported file:
State Charts
There are four State charts available providing a holistic view of economic spending habits across the state or territory for the selected time ranges and industry levels.
State Pulse
This chart shows the year-on-year comparison of weekly consumer spending for the selected state. The chart includes:
- Trends in consumer spending in the current and comparison year
- Growth/decline in consumer spending year-on-year
Sample exported file:
Industry Breakdown
This chart shows the trend of year-on-year growth/decline of weekly consumer spending on various industries for the selected state. The chart also includes significant event markers, which may allow for analysis of the impact of certain events on spending.
Sample exported file:
YoY Growth by SA3
This chart shows the year-on-year growth/decline of weekly consumer spend for various industries as well as the overall growth/decline for the selected state. Growth/decline is measured by comparing consumer spend for each industry with the consumer spend over the same period in the comparison year. In rare instances, data on state aggregate may not meet our data governance requirements, but it may on subset of individual SA3 regions. Similarly, on aggregate, industry breakdown can pass data governance rules but fail for all individual SA3 regions.
Statistical Area Level 3 (SA3) is an Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) term referring to the 358 geographical areas that cover the whole of Australia. Statistical Areas are used by the ABS to standardise statistical data.
Sample exported file:
Click on SA3 region in map to observe data for an individual SA3 region. You can also click on any of the industries on the right to drill down on that industry. When selecting the industry from the list, all other widgets will update with data for that industry. Click Reset to revert back to the state map.
Top and Bottom SA3 Regions
This chart shows the top 3 SA3 regions in the selected State where the largest growth and decline in consumer spending were observed. Growth/decline is measured by comparing consumer spend for each industry with the consumer spend over the same period in the comparison year.
Use toggle icon to switch between percentage change view and total change view. You can also click on any of the bars on this chart to automatically select it on the YoY Growth by SA3 widget.
Use toggle icon to switch between percentage change view and total change view. You can also click on any of the bars on this chart to automatically select it on the YoY Growth by SA3 widget.
Sample exported file: