Australian Farm Cash Income Averages by Statistical Division

1996-1997 to 1998-1999 average annual cash income data for broadacre and dairy farms in Australia. The dataset, created by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, reports income, relative standard error, and agricultural land area aggregated to the Statistical Division level.

Use Cases

• Analyze regional disparities in average farm cash income (Cash_inc) across Statistical Divisions (Sd name).
• Assess data reliability for income estimates by examining the relative standard error (RSE) column.
• Correlate farm income levels (Cash_inc) with the scale of agricultural activity using the agricultural land area (Ag_land_ha) feature.
• Map farm financial performance by joining income data to spatial boundaries using the unique Statistical Division code (Sd code).

Strengths

• Data covers a defined three-year period from 1996-1997 to 1998-1999.
• Includes a measure of estimate reliability via the relative standard error (RSE) column.
• Provides geographic coverage at the Statistical Division level for all of Australia.

Limitations

• Data is temporally stale, representing averages from over 25 years ago.
• Special values (-99999, -88888) for metropolitan and no-data areas require careful handling to avoid analysis errors.
• Row count and sample size from the underlying ABARE survey are unknown.

Provenance

Source

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES), Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry.

Collection Method

Collected via annual farm survey interviews supplemented by farm account information.

Time Range

1996-1997 to 1998-1999 (three-year average).

Freshness

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Geography

Australia, aggregated to Statistical Division (SD) level.