Higher Qualifications of Farmers and Farm Managers, 1996

The geography of this dataset is Australian Statistical Local Area (SLA). This data relates to members of the population who classified themselves as having an occupation of aFarmera or aFarm Managera in the 1996 Population and Housing Census and have a Bachelor degree, Undergraduate diploma, Associate diploma, Higher degree or Post-graduate qualifications.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; Sla_code a unique code for Statistical Local Areas (SLA), Sla_name a the name of the Statistical Local Area (SLA) and,Bach_degre a median age of farmers and farm managers as at census night 1996. Ugrad_dip a hectares of agricultural land use in the Statistical Local Area (SLA).Post_grad a number of farmers/farm managers with postgraduate qualificationsHigher_deg a number of farmers/farm managers with a higher degreeAssoc_dip a number of farmers/farm managers with an associate diploma Totalqual a total number of farmers/farm managers with higher qualificationsTotalpop a total farmer population 1996%Pop a per cent of farmers who have higher qualificationsAg_land_ha a hectares of agricultural land use in the Statistical Local Area (SLA).

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