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. Topics normally covered in an AC are:
- the size of the farms;
- the type of crops;
- the number and type of livestock;
- the labour force involved in the farm work.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations are currently organising the ninth round of the World Agricultural Census (2010). These have been taken 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 AC since the 1970 round. Additionnally, Eurostat has also carried out intermediate surveys every 2/3 years. These surveys, known as the "Farm Structure Survey (FSS)", have made it possible to assess and monitor European agriculture.
The 2010 AC 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. 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
- Agriculture, see:
- Structure of agricultural holdings
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)
Other information
- 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
- 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
See also
- Agriculture and the environment
- All farm structure articles by country
- Farm structure
- Farm structure evolution