Transcript General features regarding farm structure surveys

General features regarding
Agricultural Census/ farm structure
surveys in EU
Presentation in a training
workshop 23-24 September 2011
“Preparing for Agricultural Census
of Armenia”
Rolf Selander
Agricultural Census in EU
• Conducted in all member states in
2010 according to regulation nr
1166/2008
• The regulation includes the
following:
1.Basic definitions on
- Agricultural holding/farm
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- Livestock unit, specific coefficients
related to different types of livestock
- Location of farm
2. Thresholds, defining that at least
98 % of the agricultural area and at
least 98 % of the number of
livestock units must be included
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3. General acceptance for use of
specific administrative data sources
(data quality must be secured)
- Integrated Administration and
Control System (IACS)
- Bovine Animal Register
- Organic Farming Register
- Other data sources accepted by EU
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4.Reference period
- Certain information connected to a
specific date and other information
connected to a whole year
5. Data transmission
-Validated micro data provided to EU
6. Methodological report
- Includes all steps in the survey
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• Other comments
- Survey on agricultural production
methods (SAPM) connected to the
AC 2010
- A handbook with definitions and
explanations is continously updated
- The organisation of an AC is up to
each member state to decide
The meaning of farm structure
• What’s meant by “structure”?
The meaning of structure is to describe the
farms by many different aspect, most common
are:
Region
Size of agricultural area
Size of area with specific crops
Size of livestock, (cattle, sheep, pigs etc.)
Type of farm, specialisation (see later).
Combinations of these aspects
How can we create farm structure
statistics?
• We need to conduct a survey
A survey:
• can be a total or a sample survey
• is most often based on questionnaires
• can also be based on registers from other
authorities
• or a combination of questionnaires and
registers
• can be conducted by personal interviews,
questionnaires sent by post or telephone
interviews
Content of a farm structure survey, part 1
crops
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Cereals (e.g. wheat and rice)
Pulses (peas, beans)
Root crops (potatoes, sugar beets)
Industrial plants (e.g. rape and cotton)
Seeds for sowing
Fodder (grass, maize, cereals for green fodder)
Fruits and berries
Vegetables
Flowers
Fallow land, land not used in a season
Green house area
Other crops?
Information is given in number of hectares
Content of a farm structure survey, part 2
livestock
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Cattle
Pigs
Sheep
Goats
Horses
Donkeys
Camels
Poultry, (hens, turkeys, ducks, geese)
Other livestock?
Information is given in number of animals one specific
day.
Content of a farm structure survey, part 3
labour force
• Work time of the farmer
• Work time of the manager, for instance for state and
collective farms
• Work time of the farmers wife, if she also works on the
farms
• Number of family workers and work time (children,
parents, brothers, sisters)
• Number of non family workers and work time
Work time could be:
40 hours per week or more
30-39 hours per week
20-29 hours per week
10-19 hours per week
1-9 hours per week
Content of a farm structure survey, part 4
more information on labour force
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Work outside the farm
The farmer
The farmer’s wife
Is work outside the farm more or less important than
the farm work?
The farmer
The farmer’s wife
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Does the farm produce other things than agriculture?
Could be:
Agro tourism (bed and breakfast)
Small dairies (processing of milk)
Shops selling agricultural products
Handicraft
All other things
Content of a farm structure survey, part 5
machinery and equipment
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Tractors
Combine harvesters
Sowing machines
Ploughs
Machinery spreading fertilizers
Slurry silos or slurry lagoons
Milking machines
Equipment for irrigation
Other machinery?
The purpose of these questions is to investigate the
technological development in agriculture.
Content of a farm structure survey, part 6
use of raw materials
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Water for irrigation
Livestock manure
Commercial fertilizers
Pesticides
Seeds
Fodder for the animals
Energy, (oil and gasoline)
Other raw materials?
Such information is normally rather difficult to collect.
Be very careful when asking these questions!
Other information in the farm structure
survey
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Age of the farmer (maybe personal code)
Age of the farmer’s wife (maybe personal code)
Geographical information, municipality code
Business register code
(So that merging with other registers is possible)
• Extrapolation factor (if sample survey)
Type of farms, specialisation, European
system
• Divide the farms into different groups:
1. Cultivation of cereals, pulses, potatoes etc.
2. Horticulture, vegetables and flowers
3. Plantation, fruits, berries, vine
4. Cattle, sheep and goats
5. Pigs and poultry
6. Mixed crops
7. Mixed livestock
8. Other, “fifty fifty” crops and livestock
The division is based on the economic importance of
the different activities.
Each groups can be further subdivided.
Final output of the survey: The survey
register
• A survey register has information on all farms in the
survey.
• The survey register contains answers for all the
questions: crops, livestock, labour force etc.
• The survey register should be stored at the central
statistical office as a computer file.
• If information is collected locally individually local offices
should report individual farm information to the central
office.
• Thereby the statistical office has the freedom to create
statistical results according to wishes of the users.
After the Agricultural Census
•A base for creating a Statistical
Farm Register (SFR) is received
•The SFR can be used as a frame
when introducing new sample
surveys on structure, livestock
crops etc.