Archive:Agricultural census introduction
An agricultural census is a survey collecting information about all agricultural holdings in a given country. Its objective is to present an updated picture of the structure of agricultural activities, from an economical, social and environmental point of view. Topics normally covered in an agricultural census are:
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- the size of the farms;
- the type of crops;
- the number and type of livestock;
- the labour force involved in the farm work.
Agricultural census 2010
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations is currently organising the ninth round of the World Agricultural Census (2010). These have been taking place every 10 years since 1930. Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union (EU), has followed FAO's recommendation on the world-wide decennial agricultural census since the 1970 round. Additionnally, Eurostat has also carried out intermediate surveys every 2/3 years. These surveys, known as "Farm structure survey (FSS)", have made it possible to assess and monitor European agriculture.
The 2010 Agricultural census is currently launched in the EU countries and in the EFTA countries, using common rules and procedures. Three countries have started to conduct the census in 2009: Greece, Spain and Portugal. The forecasts for data dissemination of first results are mid-2011, for Greece, Spain and Portugal, or mid-2012 for the rest of the countries.
Harmonised EU results should be available by the end of 2012, beginning of 2013.
First EU results are available here: Agricultural census 2010 - provisional results
Provisional national results
Details on national censuses and some provisional results are available through the following links:
- Austria: Agrarstrukturerhebung 2010;
- Bulgaria:
- Czech Republic: Strukturální šetření v zemědělství a metody zemědělské výroby AGC 2010;
- Estonia: 2010 Agricultural census;
- Finland: Maatalouslaskenta 2010;
- France: Recensement agricole 2010;
- Germany:
- Landwirtschaftszählung 2010 (Deutsch);
- Census of Agriculture 2010 (English);
- Greece: Απογραφή Γεωργίας & Κτηνοτροφίας 2009;
- Hungary:
- Ireland: Census of Agriculture 2010;
- Italy: Censimentoagricoltura 2010;
- Latvia: Agricultural census 2010
- Lithuania: 2010 agricultural census of the Republic of Lithuania
- Netherlands
- Agriculture - Crops, livestock and land use by general farm type and region; Landbouw; gewassen, dieren en grondgebruik naar hoofdbedrijfstype, regio
- Agriculture - Labour force by region; Landbouw; arbeidskrachten naar regio
- Landbouw; gewassen, dieren en grondgebruik naar regio
- Landbouw; gewassen, dieren en grondgebruik naar gemeente
- Landbouw; gewassen, dieren en grondgebruik naar bedrijfstype, nationaal
- Landbouw; klassenindeling gewassen, dieren en grondgebruik naar regio
- Landbouw; economische omvang naar omvangsklasse, bedrijfstype
- Landbouw; economische omvang naar omvangsklasse, hoofdbedrijfstype, regio
- Landbouw; bedrijven met verbredingsactiviteiten, hoofdbedrijfstype, regio
- Norway:
- Poland: Powszechny Spis Rolny 2010;
- Portugal:
- Recenseamento agricola 2009;
- What has changed in Portuguese Agriculture over the last ten years - INE press release of 15 December 2010;
- Slovenia:
- PopisKmetijstva 2010 (information on the Census);
- Agricultural census 2010 - Provisional data;
- Sweden: Jordbruksverket statistikdatabas;
- United Kingdom: June survey of agriculture and horticulture
See also
- Agri-environmental indicators
- Agricultural census 2010 - provisional results
- All farm structure articles by country
- Farm structure evolution
- Farm structure survey - thresholds
Further Eurostat information
Publications
Main tables
- Agriculture (t_agri), see:
- Farm structure: historical data (1990-2007) (t_ef)
Database
- Agriculture (agri), see:
- Structure of agricultural holdings (ef)
- Overview of agricultural holdings (ef_ov)
- Land Use (ef_lu)
- Livestock (ef_ls)
- Special interest topics (ef_so)
- Standard gross margin (SGM) coefficients used for typology (ef_tsgm)
- Standard output (SO) coefficients used for typology (ef_tso)
- Structure of agricultural holdings by region, main indicators (ef_r_main)
Dedicated section
Methodology / Metadata
- Structure of agricultural holdings (ESMS metadata file - ef_esms)
Source data for tables, figures and maps on this page (MS Excel)
Other information
- Regulation 1166/2008 of 19 November 2008 on farm structure surveys and the survey on agricultural production methods and repealing Council Regulation 571/88
- Regulation 1200/2009 of 30 November 2009 implementing Regulation 1166/2008 on farm structure surveys and the survey on agricultural production methods, as regards livestock unit coefficients and definitions of the characteristics