Farm family Cash Income, 1996-1997 to 1998-1999 (three year average)

This data relates to the average annual cash income 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. Average farm cash income is calculated as difference between total cash receipts (total revenues received by the farm business during the financial year) and total cash costs (payments made by the farm business for materials and services, which includes debt repayments and permanent/casual labour costs). The data is reported at the Statistical Division (SD) level for Australia. This data relates to broadacre and dairy farms run by owner managers and 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),Cash_inc a the average annual farm cash income 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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