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Census of Agriculture, 2010

Ireland, 2010
Reference ID
IRL_2010_CA_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS
Producer(s)
Central Statistics Office (CSO)
Collections
Agricultural Censuses
Metadata
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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

    IRL_2010_CA_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS

    Title

    Census of Agriculture, 2010

    Country
    Name Country code
    Ireland IRL
    Study type

    Agricultural Census [ag/census]

    Series Information

    Ireland participated in all WCA rounds. Agricultural censuses were conducted annually between 1847 and 1953, and every five years from 1960 to 1980. The 1985 Census of Agriculture (CA) was cancelled on budgetary grounds and the next censuses were undertaken in 1991 and 2000. This metadata review refers to the last CA, carried out in 2010.

    Abstract

    The Farm Structure Survey (FSS) collects data on the structure of agricultural holdings and is carried out by the Agriculture Division of the Central Statistics Office (CSO) of Ireland. The FSS held in 2010 was a full Census of Agriculture and took place in June 2010. In Ireland, the first Census of Agriculture was conducted in 1847 and annually thereafter until 1953. Censuses of Agriculture were then conducted every five years between 1960 and 1980, and every ten years or so after that. A Farm Structure Survey (FSS) is carried out on a smaller sample approximately every three years to measure changes in farm structure between Censuses.

    Kind of Data

    Census/enumeration data [cen]

    Unit of Analysis

    Households

    Scope

    Notes

    The census scope covered agricultural activities (crop and livestock production).

    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary
    Agriculture & Rural Development FAO
    Land (policy, resource management) FAO
    Labor FAO
    Livestock FAO

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    National coverage

    Universe

    The statistical unit is the agricultural holding, defined as a single unit, both technically and economically, which has a single management and which undertakes the following agricultural activities within the economic territory of the EU (either as its primary or secondary activity): (i) growing of non-perennial crops; (ii) growing of perennial crops; (iii) plant propagation; (iv) animal production; (v) mixed farming; or (vi) support activities to agriculture and post-harvest crop activities.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name
    Central Statistics Office (CSO)
    Producers
    Name Role
    Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Technical assistance

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    a. Frame
    The Farm Register (FR) held by the CSO was used as a census frame. The FR contains all farms, including all identified specialized, farms and is updated from registers maintained by the DAFM.

    b. Complete and/or sample enumeration method(s)
    The CA was based on a complete enumeration. The SAPM was a sample survey.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    An eight-page A4-sized questionnaire was issued to all holdings in the week prior to 1 June 2010, accompanied by an information booklet with detailed notes on each section of the questionnaire. A separate two-page A4-sized questionnaire was also issued to all specialist pig producers ("Pig questionnaire"). The SAPM was issued in late September 2010. This took the form of a four-page A4 questionnaire, also accompanied by an information leaflet.

    Questionnaire:

    1. Land Parcels & Use of Commonage
    2. Utilisation of Land on 1 June 2010
    3. Analysis of Area Farmed
    4. Selected Crops and Horticulture on 1 June 2010
    5. Other Horticultural Items
    6. Organic Farming
    7. Energy Crops
    8. Renewable Energy Production
    9. Livestock and Poultry Held on 1 June 2010
    10. Holder, Spouse and Farm Workforce Details
    11. Casual Workers, Agricultural Contractors and Farm Relief Services
    12. Management and Training
    13. Rural Development Measures
    14. Measuring Response Burden

    Pig questionnaire:

    1. Landscape
    2. Crop Rotation & Soil Conservation (Tillage Farms)
    3. Grazing Land
    4. Manure Storage & Movement
    5. Slurry & Manure Application
    6. Livestock Housing

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2010-06 2010-09
    Time Method

    Reference periods:
    · agricultural marketing year 2009/2010 (from 1 November 2009 to 31 October 2010), for information on land use, agricultural production methods, other gainful activities, etc.;
    · the 12 months preceding 1 June 2010, for labour force characteristics;
    · a three-year period (between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2010), for rural development measures.

    Data Collection Notes

    The CA was conducted entirely by post (mail-out/mail-back). Each census questionnaire issued included a pre-addressed freepost reply envelope. The CA 2010 was the first census to use a combination of administrative records and completed paper questionnaires. Information on cattle numbers and the area under cereals and certain crops were obtained from administrative records.

    Data processing

    Data Editing
    1. DATA PROCESSING AND ARCHIVING
      OCR scanning captured the respondent's reply to every question on the form. Where the OCR software could not clearly identify a character, the questionnaire was `held' for review by a member of staff. Once this verification process was completed, the data on the questionnaire were written to a flat file for importing into the CSO's database. Data entry, verification and editing were carried out by the census processing staff in the CSO (temporary staff and more experienced supervisory staff). SAS Enterprise Guide was used to perform the sample selection for the SAPM, which was a stratified random sampling using the Neymann allocation.

    2. CENSUS DATA QUALITY
      Necessary steps were taken to ensure full coverage of the census population. Wherever possible, census data were also compared with other sources, including administrative registers

    Data appraisal

    Data Appraisal

    Preliminary results from the CA 2010 were published in February 2012. A special report on agricultural labour input was published in October 2012. A final detailed publication of the CA results was released in December 2012.The census results are available on the CSO website

    Data Access

    Confidentiality
    Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? Confidentiality declaration text
    yes See https://www.cso.ie/en/aboutus/lgdp/dataprotectionprivacytransparency/
    Access conditions

    See https://www.cso.ie/en/accessibility/accessibilitystatement/

    CONTACT:

    Central Statistics Office,
    Business Statistics,
    Agriculture Register Section

    Address: Skehard Road, Cork T12 XOOE, Ireland

    Telephone:
    (+353) 1 4535000 (Cork Office);
    (+353) 1 4984000 (Ardee Road Office)
    (+353) 1 8951300 (Swords Office)

    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 Email URL
    Central Statistics Office [email protected] / [email protected] http://www.cso.ie/en/index.html

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_IRL_2010_CA_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_FAO

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

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    IRL_2010_CA_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_v01

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