Statistical Clearing House § ABARE survey of businesses in Australia's mining technology services sector

ABARE survey of businesses in Australia's mining technology services sector, Financial Year 2003/2004

Contents

C1 Alternative sources
C2 Inadequacies
C3 Joint data with other agencies

C. Alternative Sources of Data

What alternative sources of data are available and what use is made of them? (C1)
Note. Should include surveys conducted during the previous two years that collect similar data, other sources apart from surveys, and Commonwealth, State Government and private sector sources.

This ABARE survey will be the only source of information available to assess progress in achieving the recommendations identified by the MTS Action Agenda. However, ABARE may extract related information from other sources such as Austmine and the ABS. Austmine, an industry supported marketing agent for the mining industry, conducts regular surveys of their members, which may yield some relevant information to incorporate into our analysis.

The ABS does not publish MTS sector specific information. Instead the ABS uses defined ANZSIC industry codes. Currently the MTS sector is classified into several different ANZSIC codes. This ABARE survey will attempt to link survey results to ABS ANZSIC codes to enable some ABS data, such as exports, to be used (data from ABS Input-Output tables).

Return to top

C2 Inadequacies

In what respects are these alternative sources insufficient? (C2)

Coverage of the Austmine member survey is limited to current Austmine membership. The number of MTS companies is significantly higher than the number of current Austmine members.

There is no specific ABS ANZSIC industry code to represent the entire MTS sector.

Return to top

C3 Joint data with other agencies

What consideration has been given to working with other agencies or organisations to make their data more suited to your needs? (C3)

N/A.

Return to top