Document regarding The Coding Capability Service User Guide

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The release is the June 2025 user guide for the ABS Occupation Coding Service, a Whole-of-Australian-Government API that automatically assigns standard occupation classification codes (ANZSCO) to free-text occupation and task descriptions. It uses hierarchical support vector machine models with a confidence threshold to ensure output quality. Public users are throttled to one request per second and 100 requests per hour, and can code single records or batches of up to 300 records in real time, while partner users can also submit large asynchronous bulk files of up to millions of records. The guide covers authentication, endpoints, request and response formats, error codes and security controls. Security safeguards described include hosting in Australia, HTTPS-only endpoints, and an IRAP assessment against the Information Security Manual. The guide notes that the service is not optimised for high-throughput synchronous use.