IRL_2010_CA_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS DDI_IRL_2010_CA_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_FAO Office of Chief Statistician Census team, Statistics Division Nesstar Publisher IRL_2010_CA_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_v01 Census of Agriculture, 2010 CA 2010 IRL_2010_CA_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS Central Statistics Office (CSO) Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Nesstar Publisher Central Statistics Office Agricultural Census [ag/census] Ireland participated in all WCA rounds. Agricultural censuses were conducted annually between 1847 and 1953, and every five years from 1960 to 1980. The 1985 Census of Agriculture (CA) was cancelled on budgetary grounds and the next censuses were undertaken in 1991 and 2000. This metadata review refers to the last CA, carried out in 2010. Agriculture & Rural Development Land (policy, resource management) Labor Livestock The Farm Structure Survey (FSS) collects data on the structure of agricultural holdings and is carried out by the Agriculture Division of the Central Statistics Office (CSO) of Ireland. The FSS held in 2010 was a full Census of Agriculture and took place in June 2010. In Ireland, the first Census of Agriculture was conducted in 1847 and annually thereafter until 1953. Censuses of Agriculture were then conducted every five years between 1960 and 1980, and every ten years or so after that. A Farm Structure Survey (FSS) is carried out on a smaller sample approximately every three years to measure changes in farm structure between Censuses. Ireland National coverage Households The statistical unit is the agricultural holding, defined as a single unit, both technically and economically, which has a single management and which undertakes the following agricultural activities within the economic territory of the EU (either as its primary or secondary activity): (i) growing of non-perennial crops; (ii) growing of perennial crops; (iii) plant propagation; (iv) animal production; (v) mixed farming; or (vi) support activities to agriculture and post-harvest crop activities. Census/enumeration data [cen] The census scope covered agricultural activities (crop and livestock production). Mail Questionnaire [mail] The CA was conducted entirely by post (mail-out/mail-back). Each census questionnaire issued included a pre-addressed freepost reply envelope. The CA 2010 was the first census to use a combination of administrative records and completed paper questionnaires. Information on cattle numbers and the area under cereals and certain crops were obtained from administrative records. Preliminary results from the CA 2010 were published in February 2012. A special report on agricultural labour input was published in October 2012. A final detailed publication of the CA results was released in December 2012.The census results are available on the CSO website See https://www.cso.ie/en/aboutus/lgdp/dataprotectionprivacytransparency/ 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