{"doc_desc":{"title":"FJI_1991_AC-W3_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS","idno":"DDI_FJI_1991_AC-W3_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_FAO","producers":[{"name":"Office of Chief Statistician","abbreviation":"OCS","affiliation":"Food and Agriculture Organization","role":"Adoption of the metadata for FAM"},{"name":"Development Economics Data Group","abbreviation":"DECDG","affiliation":"World Bank","role":"Generation of the DDI"}],"version_statement":{"version":"FJI_1991_AC-W3_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_v01"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"FJI_1991_AC-W3_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS","title":"Agricultural Census 1991","alt_title":"AC 1991"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Agricultural Planning and Statistics Division","affiliation":"Ministry of Primary Industries and Cooperatives"}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"UN Development Program","affiliation":"","role":"Technical assistance"},{"name":"Food and Agriculture Organization","affiliation":"","role":"Technical assistance"},{"name":"Australian International Development Assistance Bureau","affiliation":"","role":"Technical assistance"}],"funding_agencies":[{"name":"UN Development Program","abbreviation":"UNDP","role":"Financial assistance"},{"name":"Food and Agriculture Organization","abbreviation":"FAO","role":"Financial assistance"},{"name":"Australian International Development Assistance Bureau","abbreviation":"AIDAB","role":"Financial assistance"}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Helpdesk","affiliation":"Economic Planning & Statistics Division, Ministry of Primary Industries","email":"agrihelp@govnet.gov.fj","uri":"http:\/\/www.agriculture.org.fj "},{"name":"World Bank Microdata Library","affiliation":"World Bank","email":"microdata@worldbank.org","uri":""}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Agricultural Census [ag\/census]","series_info":"Fiji's first agricultural census was taken in 1968, the second in 1978 (both with technical assistance of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN and the UN Development Program), while the last one, to which present notes and data refer, was conducted in 1991."},"study_info":{"topics":[{"topic":"Agriculture & Rural Development","vocab":"FAO","uri":""},{"topic":"Land (policy, resource management)","vocab":"FAO","uri":""},{"topic":"Labor","vocab":"FAO","uri":""},{"topic":"Livestock","vocab":"FAO","uri":""}],"abstract":"Agriculture Census involves the collecting of key structural data by complete enumeration of all agricultural holdings using sampling frames. The Agriculture Census is a government activity, undertaken by the Ministry of Agriculture which will include the enumeration of all farming programmes by Village, Tikina and Province regarding land tenure, livestock and day to day activities by the household. The Census was organized and conducted under the responsibility of the Statistics Unit of the Agricultural Planning and Statistics Division of the Ministry of Primary Industries and Cooperatives. Financial and technical assistance was given by the UN Development Program, together with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN and by the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau (AIDAB). Field work was carried out by 72 enumerators and 20 supervisors; photo interpreters, data processing experts, and clerical staff should also be mentioned.\n\nObjectives of Agriculture Census are:\ni) To provide objective criteria for planners and decision makers regarding agricultural and rural development\nii) Re-strengthening the On-Going Agriculture Statistics program","coll_dates":[{"start":"1991-06-10","end":"1991-08-10","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Fiji","abbreviation":"FJI"}],"geog_coverage":"National coverage","analysis_unit":"Plots of lands","universe":"- All farms (reporting units) existing in Fiji on the census day were covered; the urban sector (cities and towns) and lands totally under forests or one hundred percent not suitable for agriculture, were excluded from the coverage\n\n- Data on Pigs and Chickens, shown below, exclude commercial farms","data_kind":"Census\/enumeration data [cen]","notes":"The scope of the study includes:\n\n\u00b7 Number and area of holdings classified by size of total area of holdings\n\u00b7 Area of holdings by tenure of land operated\n\u00b7 Legal status of the holder\n\u00b7 Holders by age\n\u00b7 Holders by sex\n\u00b7 Members of the holder's household, including holder, by sex\n\u00b7 Employment in agriculture\n\u00b7 Land use\n\u00b7 Temporary crops\n\u00b7 Permanent crops\n\u00b7 Livestock\n\u00b7 Machinery \/ equipment\n\u00b7 Fertilizers \/ pesticides"},"method":{"data_collection":{"sampling_procedure":"The Area Sampling Frame methodology was used. The Segment (SM) was the primary sampling unit. The complete list of SMs was used as frame.\n\nMethodology: \nA stratified two-stage sample survey was carried out. The 895 Enumeration Areas (EAs), 646 in rural and 249 in urban areas used for the 1986 Population Census. They were classified into 9 main strata and 21 sub-strata, according to importance, intensity and type of agriculture (land use). The EAs were divided into segments (SMs), i.e. pieces of land with physically defined boundaries of different sizes. 1220 SMs out of 14413 in rural sector, and 50 SMs out of 1933 in peri-urban areas, were systematically sampled all over the country; all farms (reporting units) in the sample SMs were investigated, following a weighted-segment method, by enumerators through direct interview.","coll_mode":"Face-to-face [f2f]"}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"conf_dec":[{"txt":"See https:\/\/microdata.pacificdata.org\/index.php\/terms-of-use","required":"yes","form_no":"","uri":""}],"conditions":"See https:\/\/microdata.pacificdata.org\/index.php\/terms-of-use\n\nMailing address: \nMinistry of Agriculture Fisheries and Forests, \nP.O. Box 358 Rodwell Road, \nSuva,\nFiji \n\nTel. 00679 311233\nFax 00679 302478.","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"}}},"schematype":"survey"}