BTN_2009_RNR_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS
DDI_BTN_2009_RNR_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_FAO
Office of Chief Statistician
Census team, Statistics Division
Nesstar Publisher
BTN_2009_RNR_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_v01
Renewable Natural Resources, 2009
RNR 2009
BTN_2009_RNR_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS
Department of Agriculture
Department of Livestock
Department of Forests and Park Services
Nesstar Publisher
Danish Agency for International Development
Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation
International Food Policy Research Institute
Royal Government of Bhutan
Ministry of Agriculture and Forests
Agricultural Census [ag/census]
The Renewable Natural Resources (RNR) Census 2009, to which the metadata review and data presented here refer, is the second census of its kind to be conducted in the Kingdom of Bhutan, after the RNR Census 2000.
Community Driven Development
Infrastructure
Access to Finance
Agriculture & Rural Development
Food (production, crisis)
Livestock
Forests & Forestry
Bhutan
National coverage
Households
The statistical unit was the farm household, defined as a person or group of persons operating as one economic unit and engaged in agricultural production.
Census/enumeration data [cen]
The scope of the RNR census 2009 covered agriculture (including forestry), livestock, income and food security.
From January to December 2008, for utilization of land, land tenure, irrigation, use of fertilizers, agriculture machinery and equipment, labour, main source of income, forestry, etc.
The RNR Census 2009 aimed for complete enumeration of all households in the country engaged in RNR activities and production. However, of the 61,578 households listed as having engaged in the RNR activities only 57,412 households could be captured and 4,166 (6.77 percent) households turned out to be absentees. The absentees were those households whom the enumerators either failed to established contact with or found nobody representing them for enumeration even after three visits. The reasons for the absentees were to do with people on migration, involved in distant located offfarm activities, and away on pilgrimage and business. The census frame was built on the basis of the list of households provided by the Geog (subdistricts) RNR Extension Centers (structures of the MoAF).
Face-to-face [f2f]
Data collection was done by means of face-to-face interviews using paper forms, that is, the PAPI method. The enumerators visited the households; however, in a few cases, because of the scattered nature of settlements and the distances between them, the respondents (farmers) had to be gathered at appropriate locations to be interviewed.
93.23 percent
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