Statement 10: Historical Australian Government Data
Statement 10 reports historical data for the Australian Government fiscal aggregates across the general government, public non–financial corporations and non–financial public sectors.
Data sources
Data is sourced from Australian Government Final Budget Outcomes, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), and Australian Government Consolidated Financial Statements.
- Accrual data from 1996‑97 onwards and cash data, net debt data and net worth data from 1999‑2000 onwards are sourced from Australian Government Final Budget Outcomes. Back‑casting adjustments for accounting classification changes and other revisions have been made from 1999‑2000 onwards where applicable.
- Cash data prior to 1999‑2000 is sourced from ABS data, which has been calculated using a methodology consistent with that used for data for later years in ABS cat. no. 5512.0 Government Finance Statistics.
- Net debt data prior to 1999‑2000 is from ABS cat. no. 5512.0 Government Finance Statistics 2003‑04 in 1998‑99, ABS cat. no. 5501.0 Government Financial Estimates 1999‑2000 and ABS cat. no. 5513.0 Public Sector Financial Assets and Liabilities 1998 in 1987‑88 to 1997‑98, and Treasury estimates (see Treasury's Economic Roundup, Spring 1996, pages 97‑103) prior to 1987‑88.
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