51. Agricultural price and volume indicators: concepts, data sources and methods
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Zammit, Kirk, Boult, Christopher, Zhao, Shiji, and Cao, Liangyue
- Abstract
Australia's agricultural sector is highly export oriented. The value of these exports, and therefore their components, volume and price, are important indicators of farm performance. Rather than just communicating commodity specific developments, there is a policy need to understand developments across industries and sectors. This paper outlines the recent development of aggregate price and volume indicators for Australian agricultural exports. The development of these indicators is couched in an accounting framework to ensure consistency across multiple levels of aggregation and index frequency. This paper documents the concepts, sources and methods that have been used to produce the Australian export price and volume indicators.
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- 2019
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