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Abstract: Much of the required information for the agricultural sector, such as crop production, livestock inventories and basic social and economic data, is obtained through periodic national, multipurpose agricultural data collection programmes called current agricultural surveys. This paper is part of FAO Statistical Development Series.
Lead authoring unit/office: Statistics Division (ESS)
Abstract: While the scope and content of the sixth World Food Survey are broadly similar to its processor, the publication incorporates certain new features. First, China and those countries formerly known as Asian centrally planned economies, which were previously excluded in the traditional estimates. This publication is part of FAO Statistical Development Series.
Lead authoring unit/office: Statistics Division (ESS)
Abstract: This revised handbook provides a broader framework to bring together various kinds of databases relating to food and agriculture in an integrated system. The concepts and accounting structure of the system are based on the revised System of National Accounts. This publication is part of FAO Statistical Development Series.
Lead authoring unit/office: Statistics Division (ESS)
Abstract: This publication is a revised and updated edition of Taking Agricultural Censuses (FAO, 1978). It complements the Programme for the World Census of Agriculture 2000 and provides practical information on the steps involved in actually conducting an agricultural census. It is part of FAO Statistical Development Series.
Lead authoring unit/office: Statistics Division (ESS)
Abstract: The Programme for the World Census of Agriculture 2000 is intended to assist countries by providing definitions, concepts, standards and guidelines for censuses in the decade 1996-2005 in order to generate a data base of internationally comparable figures. It is part of FAO Statistical Development Series.
Lead authoring unit/office: Statistics Division (ESS)
Abstract: This first issue of the publication presents data not only from the recent surveys but also, in a number of cases, from some undertaken as far back as the 1970's in order to provide some perspective of the changes over time.
Lead authoring unit/office: Statistics Division (ESS)
Abstract: This publication on livestock statistics is intended to assist statisticians in their work. Emphasis is placed on the need to conceptualise data sources within a framework of a national information system which requires standardised concepts. It is part of FAO Statistical Development Series.
Lead authoring unit/office: Statistics Division (ESS)
Abstract: This publication is a review of methodological aspects of the national agricultural censuses conducted within the framework of the Programme for the 1980 World Census of Agriculture of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. It is part of FAO Statistical Development Series.
Lead authoring unit/office: Statistics Division (ESS)
Abstract: This supplement provides specific recommendations for countries in Africa for carrying out agricultural censuses. It is part of the Programme for the 1990 World Census of Agriculture. This publication is part of FAO Statistical Development Series.
Lead authoring unit/office: Statistics Division (ESS)
Abstract: This publication, which is part of FAO Statistical Development Series, provides, in an internationally comparible form, a summary of the data describing the main characteristics of agricultural structures, such as the number and area of holdings, land tenure, agricultural holders and land use.
Lead authoring unit/office: Statistics Division (ESS)
