CONTENTS
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• INTRODUCTION
  • Foreword
  • Summary of contents
  • Table of contents
  • Abbreviations

PART ONE: WORLD PROGRAMME FOR THE CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE 2010

• CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION
  • What is a census of agriculture? (1.1)
  • Background to the world programme for the census of agriculture (1.2 – 1.7)
  • The census of agriculture in an integrated agricultural statistics system (1.8 – 1.14)
  • Outline of WCA 2010 (1.15 – 1.23)
  • Changes from earlier agricultural census programmes (1.24 – 1.29)
  • Data items and questionnaires (1.30 – 1.32)

• CHAPTER 2 - IMPORTANCE OF THE CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE
  • Introduction (2.1 – 2.4)
  • Monitoring the Millennium Development Goals (2.5 – 2.14)
    • What are the Millennium Development Goals? (2.5 – 2.6)
    • MDG indicators (2.7 – 2.14)
  • Poverty monitoring and analysis (2.15 – 2.20)
  • Food security monitoring and analysis (2.21 – 2.26)
  • Measuring the role of women in agriculture (2.27 – 2.31)
  • Agricultural planning and policy-making (2.32 – 2.34)
  • Improving current agricultural statistics (2.35 – 2.40)
  • Providing baseline data for monitoring agricultural development projects (2.41 – 2.42)
  • Providing data for the private sector (2.43)

• CHAPTER 3 - METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS
  • Timing of the census of agriculture (3.1 – 3.2)
  • Objectives of the census of agriculture (3.3 – 3.5)
  • Scope and coverage of the census of agriculture (3.6 – 3.15)
  • Content of the census of agriculture (3.16 – 3.21)
  • Statistical unit (3.22 – 3.35)
  • Agricultural holder (3.36 – 3.41)
  • Sub-holding and sub-holder (3.42 – 3.52)
  • Agricultural census frame (3.53 – 3.63)
  • Complete and sample enumeration methods (3.64 – 3.71)
  • Agricultural census reference period (3.72 – 3.74)
  • Field organization of census core and supplementary modules (3.75 – 3.76)
  • Steps in developing an agricultural census (3.77)

• CHAPTER 4 - LIST OF ITEMS FOR THE CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE
  • Introduction (4.1 – 4.3)
  • Items recommended for the core module
  • Items for consideration for the supplementary modules

• CHAPTER 5 - COMMUNITY-LEVEL DATA
  • Introduction (5.1 – 5.7)
  • Defining a community (5.8 – 5.11)
  • Community-level items (5.12 – 5.15)
  • Concepts and definitions for community-level items (5.16 – 5.27)
  • Methodological considerations (5.28 – 5.33)

• CHAPTER 6 - RELATIONSHIP OF THE CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE TO THE POPULATION CENSUS AND OTHER CENSUSES
  • Relationship with the population census (6.1 – 6.35)
    • Introduction (6.1 – 6.2)
    • Options for coordinating the agricultural and population censuses (6.3 – 6.4)
    • Statistical units in the agricultural and population censuses (6.5 – 6.7)
    • Use of common concepts, definitions and classifications (6.8)
    • Sharing field materials (6.9 – 6.10)
    • Using the population census as a household frame for the agricultural census (6.11 – 6.13)
    • Existing agriculture-related data in the population census (6.14 – 6.17)
    • Collecting additional agriculture-related data in the population census (6.18 – 6.27)
    • Linking data from the agricultural and population censuses (6.28 – 6.30)
    • Conducting the two censuses as a joint field operation (6.31 – 6.35)
  • Relationship with the housing census (6.36)
  • Relationship with economic censuses (6.37 – 6.42)
  • Summary (6.43 – 6.44)

• CHAPTER 7 - COMBINING THE CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE WITH THE AQUACULTURAL CENSUS
  • Introduction (7.1 – 7.6)
  • Scope of the aquacultural census (7.7 – 7.8)
  • Statistical unit for the aquacultural census (7.9 – 7.11)
  • Basic approach for the aquacultural census (7.12 – 7.14)
  • Methodology for a census of agriculture and aquaculture (7.15 – 7.24)
    • Core module (7.16 – 7.20)
    • Supplementary modules (7.21 – 7.24)

• CHAPTER 8 - COLLECTING ADDITIONAL AGRICULTURAL DATA FOR HOUSEHOLDS THAT ARE NOT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS
  • Introduction (8.1 – 8.3)
  • Use of a population census or survey to meet additional data needs (8.4 – 8.8)
  • Scope of a wider census of agriculture (8.9 – 8.12)
  • Analysing household data for agricultural holdings and non-production households (8.13 – 8.15)
  • Methodology and items for a wider census of agriculture (8.16 – 8.21)
    • Core module (8.17 – 8.18)
    • Supplementary modules (8.19 – 8.21)
  • Frame for a wider census of agriculture (8.22)

• CHAPTER 9 - PROGRAMME OF AGRICULTURAL SURVEYS
  • Introduction (9.1 – 9.8)
  • Inter-censal structural survey (9.9 – 9.11)
  • Crops (9.12 – 9.15)
  • Livestock (9.16 – 9.19)
  • Aquaculture (9.20 – 9.21)
  • Farm management and cost of production (9.22 – 9.23)
  • Time use (9.24 – 9.25

• CHAPTER 10 - SAMPLING FRAMES FOR AGRICULTURAL CENSUSES AND SURVEYS
  • What is a sampling frame? (10.1 – 10.11)
  • Sampling frames for census supplementary modules (10.12 – 10.15)
  • Sampling frames for the programme of agricultural surveys (10.16 – 10.27)
  • Special sampling frame situations for agricultural surveys (10.28 – 10.37)
  • Sampling frames for a sample-based agricultural census core module (10.38 – 10.41)

PART TWO: AGRICULTURAL CENSUS ITEMS – CONCEPTS, DEFINITIONS AND TABULATIONS

• CHAPTER 11 - CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS OF AGRICULTURAL CENSUS ITEMS
  • Introduction (11.1 – 11.3)
  • General core items (11.4 – 11.19)
  • Theme 01: Land (11.20 – 11.67)
    • Core items (11.20 – 11.52)
    • Supplementary items (11.53 – 11.67)
  • Theme 02: Irrigation and water management (11.68 – 11.90)
    • Core items (11.68 – 11.72)
    • Supplementary items (11.73 – 11.90)
  • Theme 03: Crops (11.91 – 11.147)
    • Core items (11.91 – 11.98)
    • Supplementary items (11.99 – 11.147)
  • Theme 04: Livestock (11.148 – 11.172)
    • Core items (11.148 – 11.152)
    • Supplementary items (11.153 – 11.172)
  • Theme 05: Agricultural practices (11.173 – 11.188)
    • Core items (11.173 – 11.175)
    • Supplementary items (11.176 – 11.188)
  • Theme 06: Agricultural services (11.189 – 11.205)
    • Supplementary items (11.189 – 11.205)
  • Theme 07: Demographic and social characteristics (11.206 – 11.225)
    • Core items (11.206 – 11.209)
    • Supplementary items (11.210 – 11.225)
  • Theme 08: Farm labour (11.226 – 11.268)
    • Basic concepts in labour statistics (11.226 – 11.233)
    • Supplementary items (11.234 – 11.268)
  • Theme 09: Household food security (11.269 – 11.291)
    • Basic household food security concepts (11.269 – 11.274)
    • Supplementary items (11.275 – 11.291)
  • Theme 10: Aquaculture (11.292 – 11.311)
    • Core items (11.292 – 11.296)
    • Supplementary items (11.297 – 11.311)
  • Theme 11: Forestry (11.312 – 11.319)
    • Core items (11.312 – 11.313)
    • Supplementary items (11.314 – 11.319)
  • Theme 12: Management of the holding (11.320 – 11.328)
    • Supplementary items (11.320 – 11.328)

• CHAPTER 12- AGRICULTURAL CENSUS TABULATION PROGRAMME
  • Introduction (12.1 – 12.6)
  • Part A: Core and supplementary modules (12.7 – 12.29)
    • Core items to be tabulated (12.7)
    • Main classification items (12.8 – 12.18)
    • Core module: cross-tabulations (12.19 – 12.24)
    • Supplementary modules: cross-tabulations (12.25 – 12.29)
  • Part B: Community-level data (12.30 – 12.37)
    • Summary characteristics of communities (12.32 – 12.33)
    • Community-level data as classification items for core and supplementary modules (12.34 – 12.37)
  • Part C: Census of agriculture and aquaculture (12.38 – 12.42)
    • Core module: cross-tabulations (12.38 – 12.41)
    • Supplementary modules: cross-tabulations (12.42)

 APPENDIXES

• APPENDIX 1 - THE AGRICULTURAL CENSUS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE SYSTEM OF NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
  
  
• APPENDIX 2 - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION OF ALL ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES (ISIC): SCOPE OF THE AGRICULTURAL CENSUS
  
  
• APPENDIX 3 - CLASSIFICATION OF CROPS
  
  
• APPENDIX 4 - ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CROPS WITH BOTANICAL NAME AND CROP CODE
  
  
• APPENDIX 5 - CLASSIFICATION OF LIVESTOCK
  
  
• APPENDIX 6 - CLASSIFICATION OF MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT

 GLOSSARY OF TERMS

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