{"doc_desc":{"title":"HTI_2008-2009_GAC_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS","idno":"DDI_HTI_2008-2009_GAC_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_FAO","producers":[{"name":"Office of Chief Statistician","abbreviation":"OCS","affiliation":"Food and Agriculture organization","role":"Adoption of metadata for FAM"},{"name":"Census team, Statistics Division","abbreviation":"ESS","affiliation":"Food and Agriculture organization","role":"Metadata producer"}],"version_statement":{"version":"HTI_2008-2009_GAC_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_v01"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"HTI_2008-2009_GAC_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS","title":"General Agricultural Census, 2008-2009","alt_title":"GAC 2008-2009"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development (MARNDR)","affiliation":""}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"Central Bureau of Agricultural Census","affiliation":"","role":"Technical assistance"},{"name":"National Orientation Committee","affiliation":"","role":"Technical assistance"},{"name":"Technical Support and Steering Committee","affiliation":"","role":"Technical assistance"},{"name":"National Coordination of Food Security","affiliation":"","role":"Technical assistance"},{"name":"National Centre for Geospatial Information","affiliation":"","role":"Technical assistance"},{"name":"Food and Agriculture Organization","affiliation":"","role":"Technical assistance"}],"funding_agencies":[{"name":"European Union","abbreviation":"EU","role":"Funding"}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development","affiliation":"","email":" contact@agriculture.gouv.ht ","uri":"http:\/\/www.agriculture.gouv.ht\/view\/01\/?-Recensement-General-de-1,36-"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Agricultural Census [ag\/census]","series_info":"The General Agricultural Census (GAC) 2008\/2009 is the first agricultural census to be carried out in Haiti. Earlier structural data on agriculture were provided through population censuses (PCs), which were conducted in 1950, 1971 and 1982, and included a section with agriculture-related items."},"study_info":{"topics":[{"topic":"Agriculture & Rural Development","vocab":"FAO","uri":""},{"topic":"Land (policy, resource management)","vocab":"FAO","uri":""},{"topic":"Livestock","vocab":"FAO","uri":""}],"abstract":"The Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development (MARNDR) had decided to strengthen its capacities to produce and generate information and statistics on the agricultural sector and the rural world. Thus, the MARNDR had requested the technical support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the financial support of the European Union (EU) to carry out the General Census of Agriculture Project in Haiti:\n\n- conduct the general census on agriculture;\n- contribute to the establishment of a Permanent System of Agricultural Statistics;\n- strengthen the structures and the agricultural and food information system and set up a agricultural and rural geographical information system ;\n- making information available to decision-makers and private and public users to shed light on and stimulate actions for sustainable rural development and the fight against poverty and food insecurity.\n\nThe General Census of Agriculture is a statistical operation covering the whole of the countries, i.e. all departments. It enables the collection, processing and dissemination of structural data on the\nagricultural sector at the different levels of the administrative division of the country, thanks to a census exhaustive list of all farms in the country (1,018,951 farms).","coll_dates":[{"start":"2009-03-11","end":"2009-11","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Haiti","abbreviation":"HTI"}],"geog_coverage":"National coverage","analysis_unit":"Households","universe":"The statistical unit is the agricultural holding, defined as an economic unit of agricultural production subject to a single management, comprising all livestock therein and all land used wholly or partly for agricultural production, regardless of the title of ownership, legal status or size. A community survey was undertaken jointly with the GAC.","data_kind":"Census\/enumeration data [cen]","notes":"The scope of the study includes:\n\nIdentification\nUrban pressure and fragmentation\nMain crops in the 2009-2010 crop year\nDeveloped areas\nPerfume, aromatic, medicinal and condiment plants\nLand information\nBreeding capacities\nLivestock in collective structures\nFertilisation and crop protection\nFarm equipment\nDiversification\nLabour on the farm"},"method":{"data_collection":{"time_method":"The agricultural year (from 1 March 2008 to 28 February 2009), for other items.","sampling_procedure":"i. Methodological modality for conducting the census\nThe classical approach was used in the GAC. A community survey was conducted along with the GAC.\n\nii.  Frame\nThe census frame was the cartography prepared in the pre-census phase.\n\niii. Complete and\/or sample enumeration method\nThe AC was conducted using complete enumeration.","coll_mode":"Face-to-face [f2f]","cleaning_operations":"1. DATA PROCESSING AND ARCHIVING\nData were manually entered and coded. Once the questionnaires were keypunched, a consistence checking programme was used. \n\n2. CENSUS DATA QUALITY\nIntensive field supervision was applied to ensure quality during the field operations. Manual editing and checks for inconsistencies were performed at central level. Many inconsistencies were solved through telephone communications.","research_instrument":"Two questionnaires were used: \n\n(i) to collect the GAC information at holding level \n(ii) for the community survey \n\nThe GAC questionnaire included all 16 core items recommended in the WCA 2010, namely;\n\n0001 Identification and location of agricultural holding\n0002+ Legal status of agricultural holder\n0003 Sex of agricultural holder\n0004 Age of agricultural holder\n0005 Household size\n0006 Main purpose of production of the holding\n0007 Area of holding according to land use types\n0008 Total area of holding\n0009 Land tenure types on the holding\n0010 Presence of irrigation on the holding\n0011 Types of temporary crops on the holding\n0012 Types of permanent crops on the holding and whether in compact plantation\n0013 Number of animals on the holding for each livestock type\n0014 Presence of aquaculture on the holding\n0015+ Presence of forest and other wooded land on the holding\n0016 Other economic production activities of the holding's enterprise"}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"conf_dec":[{"txt":"See http:\/\/www.agriculture.gouv.ht\/view\/01\/?-Recensement-General-de-l,36-","required":"yes","form_no":"","uri":""}],"conditions":"CONTACT:\n\nMinistry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development (MARNDR) \nAddress: Route Nationale No. 1, Damien, Port-au-Prince, Haiti - P.O. Box 1441 \nTelephone: (+509) 29432851","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"}