An Empirical Analysis of Municipal Performance in Australian Local Government - Dataset

The data set consists of a series of four spreedsheets containing data on Australian local government, comprising data publically available on government websites, for the purposes of econometric analysis. All of them include data on size and population density, but also include different specialised financial variables suited to the specific purposes they were used for. Three are limited to specific Australian states while one covers all LGAs in Australia. The spreadsheets are organised with a row for each observation and a column for each variable. In the case of panel samples, each observation continues to have its own row, whereas time period is one of the columns

本数据集包含四份电子表格，所收录的澳大利亚地方政府相关数据均取自政府网站公开信息，专为计量经济学分析构建。所有表格均涵盖规模与人口密度相关数据，同时还收录了适配各自研究用途的各类专业化金融变量。其中三份仅限定于澳大利亚特定州份，剩余一份则覆盖澳大利亚全境所有地方政府区域（Local Government Areas，LGAs）。该批电子表格采用标准组织形式：每一行对应一个观测值，每一列对应一个变量。对于面板样本而言，每个观测值仍单独占用一行，而时间维度则作为其中一列存在。