Causes of personal insolvency

Created 12/05/2016

Updated 09/08/2023

AFSA collect information about the reason persons become insolvent based on data from the statement of affairs. The statement of affairs requires the debtor to select a single cause of insolvency from a given list. The causes of insolvency are debtors’ opinions of what best describes the main reason for becoming insolvent.

For more information about the data, please visit https://www.afsa.gov.au/resources/statistics/socio-economic-statistics/causes-1/guide-to-causes-of-personal-insolvency

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title Causes of personal insolvency
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/518bdeb5-2026-4ff3-bebc-486b32996e51
Contact Point
Australian Financial Security Authority
statistics@afsa.gov.au
Reference Period 12/05/2016
Geospatial Coverage http://www.ga.gov.au/place-names/PlaceDetails.jsp?submit1=GA1
Data Portal Data.gov.au