Archive:Agricultural census 2010
An Agricultural Census (AC) is the collection of information about all agricultural holdings in a given country. The objective of this statistical operation is to obtain updates on economical, social and environmental information pertaining to the structure of agricultural activities. The size of the farms, the type of crops, the number and type of livestock, the labour force involved in the farm work are topics that are normally covered in an AC.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations are currently in the process of organising the ninth round of the World Agricultural Census (2010). These have been taken place every 10 years since 1930. Eurostat (the European Union's statistical office) has followed FAO's recommendation on the world-wide decennial AC since the 1970. Eurostat has also carried out intermediate surveys every 2/3 years. The assessment and monitoring of European agriculture has been followed by these surveys known as the "Farm Structure Survey (FSS)".
The 2010 AC is currently launched in the EU countries and in the EFTA countries. 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 the Greece, Spain and Portugal) and mid 2012 for the rest of the countries. Provisional harmonised EU results should be available by the end of 2012.
Provisional national results
Details on national censuses and some provisional results are available through the following links:
- Bulgaria: www.agrobroene.bg/
- Czech Republic: Strukturální šetření v zemědělství a metody zemědělské výroby AGC 2010;
- Estonia: 2010 Agricultural census;
- Ireland: Census of Agriculture 2010;
- France: Recensement agricole 2010;
- Italy: Censimentoagricoltura 2010;
- Portugal: Recenseamento agricola 2009;
- United Kingdom: June survey of agriculture and horticulture
- Norway: Landbrukstelling 2010
Further Eurostat information
Publications
Main tables
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Methodology / Metadata
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Other information
- Regulation 1200/2009 of 30 November 2009 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1166/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on farm structure surveys and the survey on agricultural production methods, as regards livestock unit coefficients and definitions of the characteristics
- Regulation 1166/2008 of 19 November 2008 on farm structure surveys and the survey on agricultural production methods and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 571/88
See also
- Farm structure
- All farm structure articles by country
- Farm structure evolution
- Agriculture and the environment