Agricultural Census, 2010

A census is another term for a complete statistical observation. This means that the observation includes all units of the observed population, which is studied by statistical methods. Therefore, censuses are important and extensive statistical surveys and are carried out over longer intervals. All this also applies to the census of agriculture. Agricultural census is carried out every ten years, and it is important primarily because the comparison of data from several censuses gives insight into the structural changes of Slovenian agriculture in the last ten years and between the decades. The last agricultural census was carried out by the Statistical Office of Slovenia in 2010. Since this census was conducted on the basis of uniform methodology of the European Union, the findings may be compared with the results of the agricultural holdings in other Member States of the European Union. This gives special value to census results. Data users in the area of agriculture cannot wait to receive these data, also because only in this extensive survey every ten years sufficiently detailed data are collected to show the results at lower territorial levels, for example at the level of regions and municipalities.