Chapter 17 Agriculture
Detailed information on the collection of data on agriculture from the UNECE survey is available in the agriculture section of the UNECE 2020 Census Round dashboard
406.
406. The CES Recommendations included a chapter on agriculture, that includes a discussion of the relation between population and housing census and agricultural census (paras. 587-592) and notes that countries may collect information on agriculture in the population census (para. 585), for instance to facilitate the preparation of the frame of agricultural holdings in the household sector, to be used in a subsequent agricultural census.
407.
407. Two non-core alternative topics on agriculture were presented. With the first topic, at the household level, information is collected on whether any member of the household is engaged in own-account agricultural production activities at their place of usual residence or elsewhere. This information can be restricted to limited items or may include a more comprehensive agricultural module. With the second topic, at the individual person level, information is collected to identify persons involved in agricultural activities during a long period, such as a year (most of these information items are already included in population and housing census for a short reference period, such as a week before the census).
408.
408. The UNECE survey included a question to ask whether countries collected in the population census information on agricultural activity, at the household level or at the individual level. The results are presented in Table 74. Less than a third of the responding countries (14 out of 47) collected information on migration, at the household level in 10 countries and at the individual level in 6 countries (in Albania and the United States it was collected at both levels). Only two countries with register-based census collected information on agriculture, at individual level (Lithuania and Sweden), against about one third of the countries with field enumeration or combined census.
Table 74
Agriculture
Agriculture
|
Total
(out of 47 countries) |
Type of census
|
|||
|
Field enumeration (16 countries)
|
Combined
(17 countries) |
Register-based
(14 countries) |
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|
Information collected
|
14
|
6
|
6
|
2
|
|
…at the household level only
|
8
|
4
|
4
|
0
|
|
…at the individual level only
|
4
|
0
|
2
|
2
|
|
…at household and individual level
|
2
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
|
Information not collected
|
33
|
10
|
11
|
12
|