Registered Organization Counts from the Office of Fair Trading

Registered organization counts from the Queensland Office of Fair Trading, covering Incorporated Associations, Cooperatives, Charities, and Community Purpose Fundraising Authorities. The data is published by the Queensland Justice department under a CC-BY-4.0 license and was last updated on 2026-05-12.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in nonprofit registrations based on organization types mentioned in the description
• Benchmark the prevalence of different legal structures like cooperatives and charities
• Monitor changes in the registered organization landscape over time

Strengths

• Data is sourced directly from the government's Office of Fair Trading registry
• Covers multiple organization types: Incorporated Associations, Cooperatives, Charities, and Community Purpose Fundraising Authorities

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download

Provenance

Source

Queensland Office of Fair Trading via data.gov.au

Collection Method

Administrative registry data

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 03:43:43.526313; freshness should be verified

Geography

Queensland, Australia