MKD_2007_CA_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS DDI_MKD_2007_CA_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_FAO Office of Chief Statistician Census team, Statistics Division Nesstar Publisher MKD_2007_CA_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_v01 Census of Agriculture, 2007 CA 2007 MKD_2007_CA_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS State Statistical Office Nesstar Publisher State Statistical Office Agricultural Census [ag/census] The country conducted the first Census of Agriculture (CA) in 2007. Agriculture & Rural Development Forests & Forestry Food (production, crisis) Land (policy, resource management) Livestock North Macedonia National coverage Households The statistical unit was the agricultural holding, defined as an economic unit of agricultural production that meets specific size requirements (see section 7 below). The CA 2007 covered the following types of holdings: (i) holdings in the household sector ("individual agricultural holdings" and households that own forest and/or fish ponds); and (ii) holdings in the non-household sector (business entities). Census/enumeration data [cen] The census scope covered agricultural activities (crop and livestock production). The census covered also all households that own forests' or fish ponds. Reference period: from 1 June 2006 to 31 May 2007, for area of arable land, irrigated area, machinery and equipment used, etc. The CA 2007 was organized according to the concept of complete coverage ("door to door"), which means that during the CA, all households on the territory of the Republic of North Macedonia were visited and recorded. The CA 2007 was conducted using complete enumeration. Face-to-face [f2f] Census data collection from holdings in the household sector was carried out by trained enumerators, using the PAPI method. Business entities were required to fill in the census questionnaires themselves and send them by post to the State Statistical Office (self-interviewing, mail-out/mail-back method). Data capture was done using manual data entry. The software used for data processing, analysis and tabulation was SAS. The PES was performed to check the quality of census data. Fifty EAs were selected for the PES and approximately 2 percent of the total number of individual agricultural holdings were interviewed. The final census results were published in three volumes (one for business entities and two for individual holdings) in December 2007. The publications include data on the national and regional level (according to the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, NUTS 1 and 3 level). The publications and other census results are available on the institution's website. See http://www.stat.gov.mk/ZaNas_en.aspx 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