Georgia
FAO began providing support to the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) in 2018, to improve the scope of the country’s ongoing annual Georgian Survey of Agricultural Holdings (GSAH) through the application of the AGRIS methodology and the introduction of two rotating modules.
Over the years, relevant variables from the rotating economy module – such as quantity and value of inputs used, labour on holdings, and agricultural income and expenditure – were added to the GSAH, providing data for the computation of major economic aggregates such as productivity and profitability and the SDG indicators 2.3.1 and 2.3.2.
The rotating module Production Methods and Environment was introduced in 2021, enabling the collection of data required for the computation of SDG indicator 2.4.1 (land area under productive and sustainable agriculture). In 2022 the rotating module on Machinery, Equipment and Assets was implemented providing the necessary data to calculate the SDG indictors 5.a.1(a) and 5.a.1(b).
FAO’s technical support to the country includes capacity development activities on the optimization of sample design, development and revision of questionnaires to improve efficiency and accommodate more modules and improvements to the tabulation programme.
The programme also provides support in the dissemination of survey results, including training on data cleaning, processing and tabulation, as well as on survey cataloguing and in particular on microdata anonymization.
News
Georgia Holds Workshop to Advance National Data Dissemination Agenda, Presenting Key Results from the GSAH 2022
23/01/2024
Major Milestone: 50x2030 Supports Georgia’s Efforts to Advance Sustainable Agriculture and Produce Key SDG Indicator
15/03/2023
Start date: 2018
Status: Ongoing
Objective: Improvement of the annual agricultural survey to produce more and better data for policy makers
- Data collection and release on a regular basis, according to an official dissemination calendar.
- Introduction of the Production Methods and Environment (PME) module.
- Introduction of the Machinery, Equipment and Assets (MEA) module.
- Production of data and calculation of SDGs indicators 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.4.1, 5.a.1(a) and 5.a.1(b).
Geostat released data from the GSAH 2020 dataset, as required for monitoring SDG indicators 2.3.1 and 2.3.2, disaggregated by sex of agricultural holders. The indicators were first published on the Geostat website in December of 2021, with updates scheduled to be released every three years. The GSAH 2021 and PME 2021 data sets were used to calculate 2.4.1 while the GSAH 2022 and the MEA 2022 module enabled the calculation of 5.a.1(a) and 5.a.1(b). The SDG indicators were released in 2022 and 2023 respectively and are published on the Geostat website.