NAME OF ORGANISATION
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
OVERVIEW
The survey was established to provide data for the Australian Financial Accounts not otherwise available.
PURPOSE
The survey was established to provide data for the Australian Financial Accounts not otherwise available.
SCOPE
In theory the scope of the Survey of Financial Information (SFI) is those institutional units transacting in financial assets or liabilities with other institutional units. In practice the coverage is a small subset of the scope. ABS cover only those units about which suitable data from some other source (eg administrative data from APRA, ATO, etc) cannot obtained.
DATA DETAIL
Conceptual framework
The conceptual framework is based on the System of National Accounts 2008 (SNA08). More information regarding SNA08 may be found in the following website, http://www.un.org/depts/unsd/nataccts/.
Main outputs
Consolidated balance sheet aggregates for use in compilation of Managed Funds and the Australian Financial Accounts.
Classifications
Standard Institutional Sector Classification of Australia (SISCA)
Australian Standard Financial Instrument Classification
Other concepts (summary)
Consolidated financial data.
GEOGRAPHIC DETAIL
Australia
Comments and/or Other Regions
It covers Australian entities only (this includes non-resident holdings of resident assets and resident holdings of non-resident assets and and does not include non-resident holdings of non-resident assets). It does not include state dissections.
COLLECTION FREQUENCY
Quarterly
Frequency comments
Venture Capital Funds collection is annual.
COLLECTION HISTORY
July 1988 - first balance-sheet data collected (for June Quarter 1988)
DATA AVAILABILITY
Yes
Data availability comments
Managed funds, Australia (cat. no. 5655.0) publication released quarterly, approximately 2 months after the reference period.
From the June 2003 reference period, the 5655.0 electronic release incorporates what was previously released in the following publications:
Assets and liabilities of Australian securitisers (cat. no. 5232.0.55.001), special data service, released quarterly, approximately 2 months after the reference period.
DATE OF LAST UPDATE FOR THIS DOCUMENT
03/06/2020 02:42 PM
