Australian Farm Landcare Work Proportions by Statistical Division, 1998-1999

1998-1999 survey data from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences reports the proportion of owner-managed broadacre and dairy farms undertaking Landcare-related work. The dataset provides geospatial attributes at the Statistical Division level, including hectares of agricultural land and special codes for metropolitan or missing data areas. It was published by the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry and is available in multiple geospatial formats.

Use Cases

• Mapping regional adoption rates of Landcare practices based on the 'Relwork' proportion attribute.
• Analyzing the relationship between agricultural land area ('Ag_land_ha') and Landcare activity across statistical divisions.
• Identifying geographic areas with missing or metropolitan data using the -88888 and -99999 placeholder codes.

Strengths

• Provides a specific temporal snapshot from the 1998-1999 Resource Management Supplementary Survey.
• Includes geospatial data at the Statistical Division level with a defined coordinate reference system.
• Contains explicit codes (-99999, -88888) to handle metropolitan areas and missing data.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to a single survey period from 1998-1999.

Provenance

Source

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES)

Collection Method

Collected by survey interview as part of the ABARE Annual Farm Survey.

Time Range

1998-1999

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-26 17:10:26.020030; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia, at the Statistical Division (SD) level.