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Integration of Census and Surveys: Concepts related to Agricultural Holding

Mukesh Kumar Srivastava

FAO Statistics Division

Roundtable, Samoa, March 2009

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Integration

Why? What do we mean by integration? How? Technical issues

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Why?

Cost-effective: Saves resources - financial and physical

Avoids duplication in data collection efforts and inconsistent data

Increases scope of analysis of data: multi-dimensional analysis (cross-sectoral)

Possibilities of “One-stop-shop for data users” Greater use of data for policy making

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Integration?

Does not mean all data be collected in the same survey.

It means: All efforts of data collection are well coordinated and are based on compatible and consistent concepts and statistical infrastructure in a manner that it minimizes the user need of ad hoc data collection and makes it possible to pool data from various sources

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Integration: How?

Sharing of cartographic material Integrated planning of all agricultural

surveys: Survey calendar Integrated sampling design for surveys Different agencies could implement surveys

of their choice with a common framework of survey plan.

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Issues to consider

National Plan for data collection: Who will collect what data and when?

Adoption of concepts, definition and classifications which are consistent with in the country and internationally

cross-sectoral linkages and pooling e.g pooling of data from enterprise survey and household based surveys to get complete information on agricultural holdings.

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Cocepts: Agriculture holding

“An agricultural holding is an economic unit of agricultural production under single management comprising all livestock kept and all land used wholly or partly for agricultural production purposes, without regard to title, legal form, or size. Single management may be exercised by an individual or household, jointly by two or more individuals or households, by a clan or tribe, or by a juridical person such as a corporation, cooperative or government agency. The holding's land may consist of one or more parcels, located in one or more separate areas or in one or more territorial or administrative divisions, providing the parcels share the same production means, such as labour, farm buildings, machinery or draught animals.”

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Concepts:Aqucaculture Holding

Agriculture: Land and Livestock Aquaculture:

– Plants and animals– inland, marine

Important to keep a conceptual seperation between “agricultural holdings engaged in aquaculture” and purely “aquaculture holdings”

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Concepts:Household

Household: concept well defined in population census– dwelling unit, kitchen, living usually under same

roof– Household may mange a holding or one or more

households mange a holding– one household may have more than one holding

and one holding may be managed by several households.

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Integration with in agriculture:Approach for WCA 2010

Agricultural census/survey programme consists of: Census of Agriculture: provides basic structural data and

sampling frames. Census to be done in modules:– core census module (complete enumeration):16 data items– census supplementary module(s) (sample enumeration):

12 themes with 87 data items Thematic agricultural surveys: cover various ongoing and

in-depth surveys to be undertaken after the agricultural census, using the agricultural census as a frame.

Community level data: 32 data items

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An integrated agricultural census/survey programme

CENSUS

CORE

MODULE

POPULATION CENSUS

CENSUS SUPPLEMENTARY MODULES

THEMATIC AGRICULTURAL SURVEYS

Household food security

Aquaculture

Farm labour

Agricultural practices

Land

Livestock

Irrigation

Crops

Themes

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WCA 2010: A flexible approach

The modular approach provides a high degree of flexibility “mix-and match”

For some countries the traditional single questionnaire, single round census will still be the preferred option

For other countries a full agricultural census/survey programme will need to be developed

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Census of Agriculture: items recommended (16) for core module

identification/location of holding

legal status of holding sex of holder age of holder household size main purpose of

production area of holding according

to land use types total area of holding land tenure types

presence of irrigation presence of temporary

crops by type presence of permanent

crops by type and whether in compact plantation

number of animals by livestock type

presence of aquaculture presence of forest trees

and other wooded land other economic activities

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Agricultural census: recommended items for sample enumeration

Land (7) Water (7) Crops (14) Livestock (11) Agricultural practices (6) Agricultural services (7) Demography (7)

Farm labour (7) Household food security (6) Aquaculture (5) Forestry (4) Management of the holding

(6)

87 proposed items under 12 main headings

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THANK YOU

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WCA 2010: Livestock Data Items

Theme 04 – Livestock (Reference group: holdings with livestock)For the holding 0401 Type of livestock production system (see paragraphs 11.153–11.155). 0402+ Use of veterinary services (see paragraphs 11.156–11.157).For each livestock type 0411 Number of animals: age, sex and breed (see paragraphs 11.158–11.160). 0412 Number of animals according to purpose (see paragraphs 11.161–11.162). 0413+ Number of milking animals according to milk status (see paragraph 11.163).

0414+ Number of animals born (see paragraph 11.166). 0415+ Number of animals acquired (see paragraph 11.167). 0416+ Number of animals slaughtered (see paragraph 11.168). 0417+ Number of animals disposed of (see paragraph 11.169). 0418+ Number of animals died from natural causes (see paragraph 11.170). 0419+ Types of feed (see paragraphs 11.171–11.172). Value of livestock production (paragraphs ).

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Community Level Data

Data for communities as a whole: not the holdings

Interfacing data from various sources for enhanced scope of analysis– Data with community as a statistical unit– Aggregate data from other surveys.

Decentralized planning Spatial representation (GIS) for greater use