{"doc_desc":{"title":"NIC_2011_NAC_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS","idno":"DDI_NIC_2007_NAC_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":"NIC_2007_NAC_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_v01"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"NIC_2007_NAC_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS","title":"National Agricultural Census, 2011","alt_title":"NAC 2011"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"National Institute of Development Information (INIDE)","affiliation":""}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry","affiliation":"","role":"Technical assistance"},{"name":"Food and Agriculture Organization","affiliation":"","role":"Technical assistance"}],"funding_agencies":[{"name":"Government of Canada","abbreviation":"","role":"Funding"},{"name":"Swiss Confederation","abbreviation":"","role":"Funding"},{"name":"Government of Norway","abbreviation":"","role":"Funding"},{"name":"Government of Brazil","abbreviation":"","role":"Funding"},{"name":"International Fund for Agricultural Development","abbreviation":"IFAD","role":"Funding"},{"name":"US Agency for International Development","abbreviation":"USAID","role":"Funding"}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Institute Nacional De Informacion de Desarrollo","affiliation":"","email":" webmaster@inide.gob.ni \/ irene.alvarez@inide.gob.ni","uri":" http:\/\/www.inide.gob.ni\/"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Agricultural Census [ag\/census]","series_info":"The first National Agricultural Census (AC) in Nicaragua was conducted in 1963. A second census was conducted in 1971.1 Almost 30 years later, Nicaragua carried out its third agricultural census, in 2001. The fourth AC, to which these metadata review and data refer, was conducted in 2011."},"study_info":{"topics":[{"topic":"Agriculture & Rural Development","vocab":"FAO","uri":""},{"topic":"Food (production, crisis)","vocab":"FAO","uri":""},{"topic":"Land (policy, resource management)","vocab":"FAO","uri":""},{"topic":"Financial Sector","vocab":"FAO","uri":""},{"topic":"Labor","vocab":"FAO","uri":""},{"topic":"Livestock","vocab":"FAO","uri":""}],"abstract":"The aim of the NAC is to provide the country with basic, reliable and meaningful information about the reality to strengthen their technical capacity to formulate plans, development programmes and instruments, studies and policy analysis that tend to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of driving one of the sectors that contribute most to the national economy and the welfare of the population.\n\nSpecific objectives:\n- To update the global information of the agricultural sector.\n- To facilitate the formulation of policies, programmes and projects in the sector.\n- To strengthen the technical and operational capacity of the sector's institutions.\n- To update the sample frameworks.\n- To contribute to improve the information system of the agricultural sector.","coll_dates":[{"start":"2011-05-15","end":"2011-06-16","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Nicaragua","abbreviation":"NIC"}],"geog_coverage":"National coverage","analysis_unit":"Households","universe":"The statistical unit was the agricultural holding, defined as land used wholly or partly for agricultural production, livestock or a combination of both, which are operated as an economic unit within a municipality, regardless of size, type of tenure, or legal status. Agricultural holdings can be an individual (natural person), a cooperative, family collective, an enterprise, an indigenous community and the public administration.","data_kind":"Census\/enumeration data [cen]","notes":"The scope of the study includes:\n\nFarms\nIndividual producers\nSize of the agricultural operations\nLand tenure and use\nArea sown\nAgricultural and livestock practices\nAccess to credit, assistance\nAgricultural training\nExistence of large and small livestock\nBeehives \nLabour in the agricultural sector\nMain activity of the Farm\nHolding of the plots\nAquaculture activity on the farms\nCharacteristic of the producer's household members \nFood security"},"method":{"data_collection":{"time_method":"Reference periods:\n\u00b7\tthe agricultural year (from 1 May 2010 to 30 April 2011), for cultivated area and main purpose of production, forestry, aquaculture, labour force, water sources and irrigated area, agricultural loans, etc.;\n\u00b7\tthe last 12 months (1 May 2010 to 31 May 2011) for average milk production.","sampling_procedure":"i. Methodological modality for conducting the census \nThe classical approach was used in the AC 2011.\n\nii. Frame\nAgriculture Record Segments (SEAs) from the AC 2001 were used, as well as the urban segments from the Population and Housing Census 2005 (CPV'05), which were households declaring to have a household member who performed some agricultural activity (as employer\/employee or self-employed). For the Caribbean Coast, where MAGFOR sectors were not delimited, mapping provided by the CPV'05 was used.\n\niii. Complete and\/or sample enumeration methods\nThe fourth AC in Nicaragua was carried out using complete enumeration.","coll_mode":"Face-to-face [f2f]","cleaning_operations":"1. DATA PROCESSING AND ARCHIVING\nCoding and editing were done after fieldwork to check for inconsistencies. Double data entry was performed to minimize errors at the data entry stage. This stage was followed by an automated data editing.\n\n2. CENSUS DATA QUALITY\nA PES was conducted 15 days after completion of field data collection (July 2011), to assess the coverage and content errors of census data.","research_instrument":"Two questionnaires were used in the AC:\n \n1. for holding-level data collection \n2. for the community survey\n\n\nThe AC 2011 questionnaire covered all 16 items recommended for the WCA 2010 round, 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 https:\/\/www.inide.gob.ni\/Home\/About","required":"yes","form_no":"","uri":""}],"conditions":"CONTACT:\n\nInstitute Nacional De Informacion de Desarrollo (INIDE) \nAddress: 43 Av Suroeste, Managua, Nicaragua\nTel: (+505) 26661 78 \/ 2662825","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"}