Farm Equity Ratio, 1996-1997 to 1998-1999 (three year average)

This data relates to the farm equity ratio of broadacre and dairy farm properties which responded to the ABARE annual farm survey over a three year period from 1996-1997 to 1998-1999. Median farm area is reported at the Statistical Division (SD) level for Australia. This data relates to farm business equity as a percentage of owned capital at 30 June for broadacre and dairy farms run by owner managers. Represented here as a three-year average the data shows the farm business equity-value of owned capital less farm business debt, as a percentage of owned capital. The data has been collected by annual farm survey interview and is supplemented by information in the farm accounts.The data is presented at a scale of 25000000. Projection -P Albers Equal-Area Conic -D WGS84 -m 132 -o 0 -p -18 -p -36 -e 0 -n 0The following attributes are contained within the dataset; Sd_code a a unique 3 digit code for Statistical Divisions (SD), Sd_name a the name of the Statistical Division (SD),Ratio a the average farm equity ratio for the period 1996-1997 to 1998-1999Less80er a proportion of properties with a farm equity ratio of less than 80% for the period 1996-1997 to 1998-1999RSE a the relative standard error of the average farm equity ratio for the period 1996-1997 to 1998-1999.Ag_land_ha a hectares of agricultural land use in the Statistical Division (SD).Note that metropolitan areas are assigned a value of -99999, whilst areas with no data are assigned a value of -88888.

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