survey; for details, see Berkelmans L and G Spence (2013), “Realisation Ratios in the Capital Expenditure Survey”, RBA Bulletin, December, pp 1–6.
It is also worth noting that the Capex survey provides only a partial read on non-mining business investment because it excludes firms from a number of key industries, including agriculture, health care and education (which accounted for about 16 per cent of private non-mining business investment in 2012/13) and it excludes investment in intangible assets (which accounts for about 15 per cent of total private business investment).