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SUMMARY
Most countries collected data through an interview of agricultural
holders by census enumerators. In cases when the agricultural
holders were not able to provide data on areas, mostly in
Africa, objective measurements on sampling bases were undertaken.
The enumeration by mail was rarely used, while no country
reported use of modern methods, such as interview by telephone
or enumeration by use of hand-held computers.
Information is provided in this Chapter on use of sampling
in agricultural censuses. Although the word “census”
implies complete enumeration, the FAO Programme accepts the
possibility to undertake a sample census in countries where
the resources are lacking. Thus in 20 out of 80 countries
shown in this report sampling was used instead of complete
enumeration. In three of these countries (Albania, Colombia
and Fiji) the area sampling frame method was used, demonstrating
the applicability of this method for agricultural census purposes.
Other 8 countries used sampling as a supplement to the complete
enumeration in various ways.
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