Universe includes individual (rural) households, individual agricultural holdings of urban population, individual holdings of members of horticultural associations, communities, all agricultural holdings with legal status, private entrepreneurs, and, collective holdings (penitentiary institutions, military units, social care institutions for the elderly and disabled, educational institutions, and scientific experimantal units).
The Agricultural Census has also considered the units which implemented the following types of agricultural activities (irrespective of whether the agricultural activities were their major or secondary type of activity):
- Cultivation of agricultural crops (grain crops and leguminous crops, technical crops, potato, vegetable crops, melon crops, forage crops, fruit and berries, grapes).
- Cultivation of flowers, mushroom, saplings, seedlings, etc.
- Livestock and poultry breeding.
- Production of plant cultivation and cattle-breeding products.
- Activities related to maintaining the agricultural lands in favourable agricultural and environmental conditions, etc.
The Agricultural Census did not consider the units which have only the following:
- Stables, areas designated for horse riding,
- Slaughter- houses or points of animal sale.
The units engaged only in the following activities were not considered either:
