SUR_2008_AC_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS
DDI_SUR_2008_AC_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_FAO
Office of Chief Statistician
Census team, Statistics Division
Nesstar Publisher
SUR_2008_AC_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_v01
Agricultural Census, 2008
AC 2008
SUR_2008_AC_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS
Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries (MAAHF)
Division of Agricultural Statistics
Food and Agriculture Organization
Nesstar Publisher
Government of the Netherlands
Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries
Agricultural Census [ag/census]
The first Agricultural Census (AC) in Suriname was undertaken in 1953. The second and the third ones were taken in 1959 and 1969. The fourth AC was held in 1981. The fifth AC to which the metadata review and data presented here refer, was carried out in 2008.
Agriculture & Rural Development
Food (production, crisis)
Land (policy, resource management)
Labor
Water
Access to Finance
Suriname
National coverage
Households
The statistical unit was the agricultural holding, defined as a technical and economic production unit consisting of one or more land parcels, including non-productive land, independent of titles to the land, which is located in one or several places and wholly or partly used or intended for agriculture (crops, animal husbandry) and aquaculture under the responsibility of one person (physical or legal) or responsibility jointly with others. The types of holdings distinguished in the census were: (i) holdings in the household sector (family business, including partnership between two or more households); and (ii) holdings in the non-household sector (company, government, institution/organization, other).
Census/enumeration data [cen]
Reference periods: calendar year 2008 (from 1 January to 31 December 2008), for farm labour, land use, land tenure, irrigation, fertilizers, pesticides, aquaculture, machinery and equipment, etc.
Face-to-face [f2f]
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