{"doc_desc":{"title":"JPN_2020_CAF_v01_M_v01_A_ESS","idno":"DDI_JPN_2020_CAF_v01_M_v01_A_ESS_FAO","producers":[{"name":"Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (\u8fb2\u6797\u6c34\u7523\u7701)","abbr":"","affiliation":"Government of Japan","role":"Metadata producer"},{"name":"Statistics Division","abbr":"ESS","affiliation":"Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations","role":"Metadata adapted for FAM"}]},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"JPN_2020_CAF_v01_M_v01_A_ESS","title":"Census of Agriculture and Forestry 2020","translated_title":"2020\u5e74\u8fb2\u6797\u696d\u30bb\u30f3\u30b5\u30b9"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Government of Japan, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (\u8fb2\u6797\u6c34\u7523\u7701)","affiliation":""}],"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (\u8fb2\u6797\u6c34\u7523\u7701)","affiliation":"Government of Japan","email":"","uri":""}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Agricultural Census [ag\/census]","series_info":"The first Census of Agriculture in Japan was conducted in 1929 and the second in 1950. Forestry data has been collected since the Census of Agriculture and Forestry 1960, and then, every ten years. Since 1995, the Census of Agriculture and Forestry has been conducted every five years."},"study_info":{"keywords":[{"keyword":"Structure of Agriculture","vocab":"","uri":""},{"keyword":"Land use","vocab":"","uri":""},{"keyword":"Crops","vocab":"","uri":""},{"keyword":"Livestock and Poultry","vocab":"","uri":""},{"keyword":"Labor in the Agricultural Sector","vocab":"","uri":""},{"keyword":"Forestry","vocab":"","uri":""}],"abstract":"The Census of Agriculture and Forestry aims to collect information on the structure and changes to the agriculture, forestry, and rural communities to provide statistics that are key for planning, formulation, and promotion of agricultural and forestry policies.","coll_dates":[{"start":"2019-12-15","end":"2020-02-28","cycle":"Enumeration of agriculture and forestry management entities"},{"start":"2019-12-15","end":"2020-06-30","cycle":"Enumeration of rural areas"}],"nation":[{"name":"Japan","abbreviation":"JPN"}],"geog_coverage":"The Census of Agriculture and Forestry 2020 covered the entire country, except for holdings in Okuma and Futaba Town in Fukushima Prefecture (evacuation order areas).","analysis_unit":"Agricultural holdings","universe":"The statistical unit for the Census of Agriculture and Forestry 2020 was the agriculture and forestry management entity (AFME), defined as the entity that produces agriculture or forestry products, or that is engaged in agriculture or forestry operations under consignment agreements.\n\nThe AFMEs were divided into: \n- Agriculture management entities (AMEs)\n- Forestry management entities (FME)\n\nAmong AMEs two types of entities were distinguished: individual management entities and organized management entities.\n\nThe following thresholds were established for the AFMEs:\n- Holdings in which the cultivated land under management is over 30 ares (0.3 ha)\n- Holdings above any of the following limits: \n\t1. Planted area for outdoor grown vegetables: 15 ares\n\t2. Cultivated area for greenhouse grown vegetables: 350 m2\n\t3. Cultivated area for fruit trees: 10 ares\n\t4. Cultivated area for outdoor green flowers: 10 ares \n\t5. Cultivated area for greenhouse grown flowers: 250 m2\n\t6. Number of milking cows: one head\n\t7. Number of fattening cattle: one head\n\t8. Number of pigs: 15 head\n\t9. Number of hens: 150 head\n\t10. Number of broiler chickens shipped each year: 1000 head\n\t11. Others: total sales of farm products equivalent to 500 000 yen or more during the one-year period up to the day before the survey period\n- Holdings operating under a consignment agreement\n- Holdings conducting forestry operations based on rights to carry out silviculture and deforesting (excluding acquisition for the sole purpose of deforesting standing trees and bamboo) for an area of forest land of 3 ha or more (hereinafter referred to as \"owned forest land\")\n- Consigned forestation or production of raw materials or production of raw materials through the purchase of standing trees. For the production of raw materials, the use of the term is limited to those who produced over 200 m3 of material within one year prior to the date of the survey","data_kind":"Census\/enumeration data [cen]","notes":"The census scope covered agricultural (crop and animal cultivation) and forestry activities.\n\nThe questionnaire for agriculture and forestry management entities collected information on:\n1. Overview of management entities\n2. Labor force inside the agricultural management\n3. Land\n4. Agricultural cultivation\n5. Agricultural product sales in the past year\n6. Agricultural labor you were entrusted with (undertook) in the past year\n7. Characteristic efforts of agricultural management\n8. Business related to agricultural production\n9. Forest land and forestry labor\n10. Material production\n11. Engagement in forest\n12. Prefecture specific section\n\nThe questionnaire for rural areas (rural communities) collected information on:\n1. Status of holding meetings and conducting local activities\n2. Preservation of local resources\n3. Presence\/absence of producer\u2019s union\n\nThe questionnaire for rural areas (municipalities) collected information on:\n1. Forest area\/forest and grass area\n2. Total land area"},"method":{"data_collection":{"time_method":"Reference day: \n- 1 February 2020, for inventory items such as livestock heads.\n\nReference period: \n- from 1 February 2019 to 31 January 2020, for farm workforce, land use, forestry items, etc.","sampling_procedure":"The frame for the Census of Agriculture and Forestry 2020 was based on the list of AFMEs, after correcting it with administrative information. This list contains the names and addresses of individuals and organizations that are possible AFMEs. The census was conducted as a complete enumeration of the holdings in the sampling frame meeting the threshold requirements.","coll_mode":["Computer Assisted Telephone Interview [cati]","Computer Assisted Web Interview [cawi]","Mail Questionnaire [mail]"],"research_instrument":"Three questionnaires were used for data collection of the Census of Agriculture and Forestry 2020:\n- Questionnaire for agriculture and forestry management entities (AFMEs) \n- Questionnaire for rural areas (municipalities)  \n- Questionnaire for rural areas (rural communities) \n\nCensus questionnaires covered 15 out of 23 essential items recommended in the WCA 2020.","sources":[{"name":"","origin":"","characteristics":""}],"coll_situation":"Approximately 141 000 enumerators and 10 000 supervisors were engaged in census operations for the collection of data from agricultural and forestry management entities (for holding-level data collection). Fifty-eight branch offices were in charge of conducting and inspecting the survey in rural areas (for community-level data collection).\n\nThe information from the AFMEs was collected via self-enumeration. Census questionnaires were dropped off at the respondents' addresses and collected by the enumerators or completed on-line. If enumerators had trouble visiting respondents (due to the outbreak of livestock infectious disease, etc), questionnaires were sent by mail.\n\nThe survey of rural areas in municipalities was conducted via self-enumeration using the mail-out\/mail-back method or on-line (via e-mail). The survey of rural areas in rural communities was conducted via Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews (CATI) other than via mail-out\/mail-back and on-line.\n\n**QUALITY ASSURANCE**\nStrategies to ensure data quality were: training of enumerators and municipalities, responses to inquiries, reminders to non-respondent, and outlier checks.","cleaning_operations":"The program for data validation and tabulation was developed and operated by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries."}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"conditions":"For additional information on data access and use, please contact the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.\nEmail: https:\/\/www.contactus.maff.go.jp\/j\/form\/kanbo\/koho\/160807.html\nWebsite: http:\/\/www.maff.go.jp\/e\/"}}},"schematype":"survey"}