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Census of Agriculture, 2006-2010

Burkina Faso, 2007 - 2010
Reference ID
BFA_2006-2010_CA_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS
Producer(s)
The Department of Statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries (MAWRF)
Collections
Agricultural Censuses
Metadata
Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
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Nov 13, 2020
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  • Study Description
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  • Identification
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Survey instrument
  • Data collection
  • Data processing
  • Data appraisal
  • Data Access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production
  • Identification

    Survey ID number

    BFA_2006-2010_CA_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS

    Title

    Census of Agriculture, 2006-2010

    Country
    Name Country code
    Burkina Faso BFA
    Study type

    Agricultural Census [ag/census]

    Series Information

    The Census of Agriculture (CA) 2006-2010 of Burkina Faso was the first CA ever undertaken in the country.

    Abstract

    The General Census of Agriculture( i.e Recensement Général de l’Agriculture (RGA) is a nationwide operation planned to be organised every ten (10) years according to FAO recommendations. It is in this sense that Burkina Faso has undertaken the organisation of its first Census of Agriculture (CA 2006-2010) following the first RGA 2006-2010 following the first Agricultural Statistics ( i.e Enquête Nationale de Statistiques Agricoles (ENSA) of 1993. The main objective of the CA is to produce indicators of the structure, typology of the households in order to enable policy makers to formulate policies for development in the agricultural sector and to assess their effects on the living conditions of the population. Its implementation has taken into account the activity of arboriculture, which until now has been characterised by a lack of knowledge of the fruit potential and the inexistence of proven methodologies for annual production estimates in Burkina Faso. This is a hindrance to the development of the fruit sector.

    Kind of Data

    Census/enumeration data [cen]

    Unit of Analysis

    Households

    Scope

    Notes

    The scope of the study covered the following areas:

    · Personal identification details
    · Socio-demographic structure and household capital stock
    · Agricultural and non-agricultural sources of income for household members
    · Equipment and infrastructure acquired
    · Nutritional monitoring and anthropometric measurements (children under five years of age)
    · Household agricultural income
    · Inventory and characterisation of the plots of land in the household
    · Estimation of crop stocks and harvest forecasts
    · Input use, labour and production constraints
    · Characteristics of the livestock of the household
    · Census of tree plots
    · Use of inputs, labour and production and marketing constraints
    · Socio-economic characteristics of the fishing industry operators
    · Inventory of sites, organisations and collective facilities
    · Census of farmers on irrigated crop production sites
    · Surface area, production and marketing
    · Farmers' equipment, use of inputs, employment and labour, production constraints

    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary
    Agriculture & Rural Development FAO
    Food (production, crisis) FAO
    Forests & Forestry FAO
    Livestock FAO
    Keywords
    Crop production Livestock production Aquaculture Fisheries Forestry

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    National coverage

    Universe

    The statistical units were:

    · The agricultural holding: defined as "all land that is used wholly or partially for agricultural production under one technical or operational unit by one person alone or with others, regardless of the title, legal form, size or location"; the CA covered holdings in both the household sector ("agricultural households") and in the non-household sector

    · The fishing (capture fisheries) and aquaculture holding

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    The Department of Statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries (MAWRF) Government of Burkina Faso
    Producers
    Name Role
    National Institute of Statistics and Demography Technical support
    European Union Technical support
    Food and Agriculture Organization Technical support
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Role
    Government of Burkina Faso Funding
    Danish Government Funding
    European Union Funding
    World Bank Funding

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    i. Methodological modality for conducting the census
    The CA 2006-2010 used the modular approach. Six supplementary/thematic modules followed the collection of the agriculture module in the PHC 2006 (which served as a frame for holdings in the household sector).

    ii. Frame
    The country linked the PHC with the CA by including an agriculture module in the PHC conducted in December 2006. Based on that agriculture module, a list of agricultural households was established. This information served as a source of sampling frames for the supplementary/thematic modules. For the non-household sector, the list of agricultural holdings, as well as of fishing (capture fisheries) and aquaculture holdings, was built using the administrative registries held by regional offices of the MAWRF and the listing of such holdings (along with data collection for key frame items) conducted between February and May 2007.

    iii. Complete and/or sample enumeration method(s)
    Key census frame items were collected on a complete enumeration basis through the PHC agriculture module and the listing operation
    of holdings in the non-household sector (see above). The supplementary and thematic modules were applied using sample enumeration.

    iv. Sample design
    A stratified two-stage sample design was used for the supplementary and thematic modules.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    To cover the different modules of the three phases of the census project, ten questionnaires were developed. The CA questionnaires covered 14 of the 16 core items' recommended for the WCA 2010 round. The questionnaires were:

    i. Inventory of market gardening sites
    ii. Inventory of fishing sites
    iii. Inventory of rice-growing sites
    iv. Irrigated plains and lowlands amenities
    v. Inventory of the pastoral areas that have been brought in
    vi. Inventory of market gardening sites
    vii. Inventory of pastoral areas
    viii. Census of modern farms
    ix. Modern operations
    x. Agricultural module RGPH (recto)

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    2007-01 2007-05 Phase I
    2007-12 2008-12 Phase II
    2007-01 2010-12 Phase III
    Time Method

    · 12 months preceding the census date, for food security, stock variation of livestock, etc.
    · three months preceding the census date, for sources of income and expenditures
    · the preceding month, for information related to the activities undertaken by household members
    · the agricultural year (from January to December 2008), for agricultural production

    Data Collection Notes

    In the census project, data collection was conducted in several phases:
    · Phase I: data collection sought to establish the CA frame and to obtain the basic data on holdings:
    (i) for households engaged in own-account agricultural production, data were collected through the agriculture module
    (ii) for holdings in the non-household sector (including big farms, capture fisheries and aquaculture holdings), through the listing of these holdings and the data collection on key frame items.

    · Phase II: data collection related to supplementary/thematic modules.

    · Phase III: this consisted in setting up the permanent system for agricultural surveys (adjusting the sample for less costly annual surveys) and disseminating the CA results.

    Data processing

    Data Editing

    (a) DATA ENTRY
    Manual data entry, edits and imputation were all accomplished using the CSPro software. When imputation was required to replace
    inconsistent or missing data, data from a similar farm was used for imputation (nearest-neighbour method). The SPSS software was used for analysis and tabulation.

    (b) CENSUS DATA QUALITY
    During training, clear instructions for data collection were provided to the interviewers and supervisors through training workshops and instruction manuals. The supervisors were in charge of quality control of the completed questionnaires during fieldwork.

    Data appraisal

    Data Appraisal

    The CA results were published in 24 printed reports (also available on CD): five reports from Phase I and six from Phase II; in addition, 13 detailed thematic reports were developed and disseminated. The census data are available on the CountrySTAT-Burkina website, the National Institute of Statistics and Demography website and upon request.

    Data Access

    Confidentiality
    Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? Confidentiality declaration text
    yes See https://www.agriculture.gov.bf/accueil
    Access conditions

    CONTACT:
    Ministere de l'Agriculture et des Amenagements Hydro-agricoles
    Direction Generale des Etudes et des Statistiques Sectorielles
    Direction des Statistiques Sectorielles

    Address: 03 BP 7010 - Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso

    Telephone: (+226) 25499918 / 25306803

    E-mail: [email protected] ; sevy [email protected]

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name URL
    Ministere de l'Agriculture et des Amenagements Hydro-agricoles http://www.agriculture.bf
    National Institute of Statistics and Demography http://www.insd.bf/n/
    CountrySTAT-Burkina Faso http://www.countrystat.org/home.aspx?c=BFA

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_BFA_2006-2010_CA_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_FAO

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Office of Chief Statistician Food and Agriculture Organization Adoption of the the metadata for FAM
    Census Team, Statistics Division Food and Agriculture Organization Metadata producer

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    BFA_2006-2010_CA_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_v01

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