Australian Farms with Significant Soil Acidity Problems, 1998-1999

Australian data on the proportion of broadacre and dairy farms experiencing significant soil acidity problems during the 1998-1999 period. The dataset was collected via the Resource Management Supplementary survey accompanying the ABARE Annual farm survey and is reported at the Statistical Division level. It is provided by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences.

Use Cases

• Map regional soil acidity prevalence based on Statistical Division-level data.
• Analyze the relative standard error of soil acidity estimates for the 1998-1999 period.
• Identify areas with no data or metropolitan exclusions based on the -88888 and -99999 placeholder values.

Strengths

• Provides a specific temporal snapshot for the 1998-1999 period.
• Includes relative standard error (RSE) estimates for data quality assessment.
• Covers broadacre and dairy farms run by owner managers across Australian Statistical Divisions.

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.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the single-year survey from data_gov_au.

Provenance

Source

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences

Collection Method

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

Time Range

1998-1999

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 21:06:12.630030; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia, at the Statistical Division level.