CHN_2006_AC_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS
DDI_CHN_2006_AC_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_FAO
Office of Chief Statistician
Census team, Statistics Division
Nesstar Publisher
CHN_2006_AC_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_v01
Agricultural Census, 2006
AC 2006
CHN_2006_AC_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS
National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
Agricultural Census Office
Nesstar Publisher
National Bureau of Statistics of China
Agricultural Census [ag/census]
The Agricultural Census (AC) 2006, to which the metadata review and data presented here refer, is the second agricultural census to be undertaken in China after the AC 1996.
Crop production
Animal production
Agricultural services
Forestry activities
Fishery activities
Rural infrastructure
Basic social services
Agriculture & Rural Development
Forests & Forestry
Food (production, crisis)
Livestock
China
National coverage
Households
The statistical unit of the AC 2006 was the agricultural holding, defined as the household or the entity in the non-household sector engaged in crop farming, animal husbandry, forestry, fishery and agricultural services on agricultural land, and that meet one of the criteria specified as a threshold (see section 7 below). The agricultural holdings were classified as: (a) household agricultural holdings or (b) non-household agricultural holdings, as identified by surveying the following entities and households within the territory of the People's Republic of China: (i) rural households;' (ii) urban agricultural households;2 and (iii) non-household agricultural holdings (agricultural establishments).
Census/enumeration data [cen]
The scope of the Second National Agricultural Census includes crop farming, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery/aquaculture and agricultural service.
The reference time of the census is 24:00 December 31, 2006. All year-end items such as "the area of arable land at the end of 2006" and "Ownership of dwelling at the end of 2006" take the data at the reference time of the census. The reference period of the census is January 1 to December 31, 2006. All yearly items such as "actual amount of time spent on agricultural production of the household in 2006" and the "sown area in 2006" take the yearly data of reference period of the census.
Face-to-face [f2f]
The interviews were conducted face-to-face during visits to the household, enterprise and establishment and the information was collected in paper forms (using the PAPI method). The questionnaires for the non-household agricultural holding were filled in by self-enumeration.
Scanning (OCR) was used for census data capture. Census results were disseminated and are accessible online.
See http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/
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