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.
See [further metadata](http://data.daff.gov.au/anrdl/metadata_files/pa_fer__r9aa
__00411a00.xml) for more detail.