Australian Farm Irrigation Salinity Problems by Statistical Division, 1998-1999

Australian data on the proportion of broadacre and dairy farms experiencing significant irrigation salinity problems during the 1998-1999 period. The data was collected via the Resource Management Supplementary survey accompanying the ABARE Annual farm survey and is reported at the Statistical Division level. It includes attributes for SD code, SD name, proportion of affected farmers, and hectares of agricultural land.

Use Cases

• Mapping regional soil salinity risk based on reported farm problems.
• Analyzing the correlation between agricultural land area and salinity incidence.
• Assessing historical irrigation management challenges for policy evaluation.

Strengths

• Data is georeferenced with a defined projection (Albers Equal-Area Conic, WGS84).
• Includes clear metadata codes for missing data (-88888) and metropolitan areas (-99999).
• Covers a specific agricultural subset (broadacre and dairy farms run by owner managers).

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry, South Australian Governments

Collection Method

Resource Management Supplementary (RMS) survey interview accompanying the ABARE Annual farm survey.

Time Range

1998-1999

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 21:08:55.939215; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia, at the Statistical Division (SD) level.