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

\r\n\r\nThis data relates to the average annual cash income of broadacre and dairy\r\nfarm properties which responded to the ABARE annual farm survey over a three\r\nyear period from 1996-1997 to 1998-1999. Average farm cash income is\r\ncalculated as difference between total cash receipts (total revenues received\r\nby the farm business during the financial year) and total cash costs (payments\r\nmade by the farm business for materials and services, which includes debt\r\nrepayments and permanent/casual labour costs). The data is reported at the\r\nStatistical Division (SD) level for Australia. This data relates to broadacre\r\nand dairy farms run by owner managers and has been collected by annual farm\r\nsurvey interview and is supplemented by information in the farm accounts.The\r\ndata is presented at a scale of 25000000. Projection -P Albers Equal-Area\r\nConic -D WGS84 -m 132 -o 0 -p -18 -p -36 -e 0 -n 0The following attributes are\r\ncontained within the dataset; Sd code a a unique 3 digit code for Statistical\r\nDivisions (SD), Sd name a the name of the Statistical Division (SD),Cash_inc a\r\nthe average annual farm cash income for the period 1996-1997 to 1998-1999RSE a\r\nthe relative standard error of the average farm equity ratio for the period\r\n1996-1997 to 1998-1999.Ag_land_ha a hectares of agricultural land use in the\r\nStatistical Division (SD).Note that metropolitan areas are assigned a value of\r\n-99999, whilst areas with no data are assigned a value of -88888.\r\n\r\nSee [further metadata](http://data.daff.gov.au/anrdl/metadata_files/pa_fci__r9aa\r\n__00811a00.xml) for more detail.\r\n\r\n