{"doc_desc":{"title":"DEU_2010_CA_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS","idno":"DDI_DEU_2010_CA_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":"DEU_2010_CA_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_v01"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"DEU_2010_CA_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS","title":"Census of Agriculture, 2010","alt_title":"CA 2010"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Federal Statistical Office (FSO","affiliation":""}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"Lander","affiliation":"","role":"Technical assistance"}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Federal Statistical Office","affiliation":"","email":"agrarstruktur@destatis.de \/ carsten.schreiner@destatis.de","uri":"https:\/\/www.destatis.de\/EN\/Homepage.html"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Agricultural Census [ag\/census]","series_info":"Beginning with 1949, agricultural censuses have been carried out in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1960, 1971 and 1979. The 1991 census of agriculture (CA) was the first carried out in the unified Germany, followed by the CAs conducted in 1999 and 2010. The CA 2010 was conducted together with the SAPM."},"study_info":{"topics":[{"topic":"Agriculture & Rural Development","vocab":"FAO","uri":""},{"topic":"Forests & Forestry","vocab":"FAO","uri":""},{"topic":"Food (production, crisis)","vocab":"FAO","uri":""},{"topic":"Land (policy, resource management)","vocab":"FAO","uri":""},{"topic":"Labor","vocab":"FAO","uri":""},{"topic":"Livestock","vocab":"FAO","uri":""}],"abstract":"The Census of Agriculture\/SAPM statistics in Germany are decentralised. They were coordinated and technically and methodically prepared by the Federal Statistical Office with the participation of the statistical offices of the L\u00e4nder. This included preparation of the survey documents including pretests and instructions, implementing the delivery attributes in a questionnaire and combining them with the additional national survey variables, specification of the sample plan and the plausibility checks, development of approaches for adopting administrative data, and programming a processing and data editing program. This newly design program (AGRA 2010) encompasses the functions required for data processing and enables the necessary plausibility checks of individual material. A standardised processing program was also used for tabulation that tabulated the data and implemented the primary confidentiality. In addition, a program was developed for incorporation and national coordination of secondary confidentiality. The statistical offices of the L\u00e4nder were responsible for printing the survey documents and organizing data acquisition. They ascertained which holdings belonged to the field of survey according to uniform criteria based on the survey units listed in the register and updated in 2009\/2010. The statistical offices of the L\u00e4nder selected the sample holdings with an automated standard program for the representatively surveyed variables of the 2010 Census of Agriculture, whereby the sample plan was drawn up in cooperation with the Federal Statistical Office. The statistical offices of the L\u00e4nder checked the numbers of, completeness, and plausibility of the data of questionnaire responses. They were also responsible for the tabulation and drawing up the results at the NUTS 1 and lower levels.","coll_dates":[{"start":"2010-01","end":"2011-01","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Germany","abbreviation":"DEU"}],"geog_coverage":"National coverage","analysis_unit":"Households","universe":"The statistical unit was the agricultural holding, defined as \"a single unit, both technically and economically, which has a single management and which undertakes agricultural activities listed in Annex I to the European Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No. 1166\/2008 within the economic territory of the European Union, either as its primary or secondary activity\".","data_kind":"Census\/enumeration data [cen]","notes":"The scope covered land use and crop production, livestock , organic farming, and labour force."},"method":{"data_collection":{"time_method":"Reference periods:\n\u00b7\tthe last 12 months, for manure, renewable energy;\n\u00b7\tfrom March 2009 to February 2010, for labour force and mushrooms;\n\u00b7\tthe year 2009, for irrigation, animal grazing and other gainful activities;\n\u00b7\tyear 2010, for legal form, location, land use and crops, organic farming and types of land tenure;\n\u00b7\tthe three previous years (from 2008 to 2010), for crop rotation, rural development support, etc.; and\n\u00b7\tfrom June 2009 until May 2010 for intercropping.","sampling_procedure":"a. Frame\nThe statistical farm register served for preparation, execution and processing of the CA. An extensive survey to identify the population (SiP) was conducted in 2009. In addition to the results of the SIP, administrative data were used (such as trade association data) to update the statistical farm register. The frame of the CA 2010 was composed of approximately 300 000 holdings.\n\nb. Complete and\/or sample enumeration methods\nThe CA 2010 was conducted using complete enumeration. The SAPM was conducted as a sample survey.","coll_mode":"Mail Questionnaire [mail]","research_instrument":"The complete count covered variables on:\n\n\u2022 holding location,\n\u2022 legal form,\n\u2022 land use and crop production,\n\u2022 ownership and tenancy,\n\u2022 leased areas and rents (total individual plots of land leased),\n\u2022 irrigation,\n\u2022 livestock,\n\u2022 organic farming,\n\u2022 renewable energy installations,\n\u2022 other gainful activities,\n\u2022 socio-economic circumstances (full and part-time farming),\n\u2022 labour force,\n\u2022 farm succession,\n\u2022 agricultural vocational training,\n\u2022 determination of profit and turnover taxation,\n\u2022 receipt of subsidies promoting rural development\n\nAccording to the provisions of the Agricultural Statistics Law, selected variables were surveyed\nonly representatively, including:\n\n\u2022 newly leased areas in the past two years and areas with rent changes,\n\u2022 soil tillage methods, crop rotation, and erosion protection,\n\u2022 keeping places and keeping methods,\n\u2022 animal grazing, \n\u2022 mineral fertiliser\/storage facilities,\n\u2022 maintenance\/installation of landscape features.","coll_situation":"The respondents completed the questionnaires sent to them via post (mail-out\/mail-back and drop-off\/pick-up) by the statistical offices of the Lander or provided to them online on their own (Computer-assisted Self Interviewing, or CASI); alternatively, they gave the information to interviewers or survey offices by telephone (CATI), if these methods were used for the survey. In addition, the statistical offices of the Lander used data from administrative data sources as a source of census data and for validation purposes.","cleaning_operations":"a. DATA PROCESSING AND ARCHIVING\nThe processing programme AGRA 2010 was used for census data processing. This programme undertakes 727 mandatory error tests, 211 possible error tests and 11 automated corrections. Once the tabulated results are available, a manual control is carried out for factual and mathematical accuracy. This refers to the results within a table and to a comparison of tables. Then, the results are compiled for publication taking, data protection and confidentiality provisions into account.\n\nb. CENSUS DATA QUALITY\nThe AGRA 2010 processing programme was the main instrument for making edits of completeness and plausibility. After completion of the final CA results, the estimates were matched with those of previous surveys and administrative data. No significant or unexpected differences were noted."},"analysis_info":{"data_appraisal":"The FSO made the results of the CA 2010 available at the national and regional level (NUTS 1). Initial preliminary results of the CA 2010 were presented at a press conference in January 2011, and were also made available on the FSO website. In addition, the final results were published in the framework of the information activities of the FSO. At the national level, extensive results of the CA were published on the FSO website."}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"conf_dec":[{"txt":"See https:\/\/www.destatis.de\/EN\/Service\/Privacy-Policy\/_node.html;jsessionid=78B3CD1EEC847B57A44DE3B89673E2E4.internet8712","required":"yes","form_no":"","uri":""}],"conditions":"See also https:\/\/www.destatis.de\/EN\/Service\/Privacy-Policy\/_node.html;jsessionid=78B3CD1EEC847B57A44DE3B89673E2E4.internet8712\n\nCONTACT:\n\nFederal Statistical Office\nDivision G1 - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Germany\nAddress: Bonn Branch Office, Postfach 17 03 77, 53029 Bonn, Germany \n\nTelephone: (+49) 611 752405; (+49) 228 996438651","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"}