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Abstract: These Guidelines set out a methodology for the collection of data and information on various aspects of the fisheries and aquaculture sector, especially concerning small-scale operators.
Lead authoring unit/office: Statistics Division (ESS)
Abstract: This supplement to the Report on the 1990 World Census of Agriculture (WCA) presents the census results collected from the reports issued by the countries that conducted censuses during the 1986-1995 decade and made them available to FAO after mid-1997. It is part of FAO Statistical Development Series.
Lead authoring unit/office: Statistics Division (ESS)
Abstract: These guidelines aim to help those who design routine data collection programmes, focusing on the relationship between typical questions asked by policy-makers and managers, and the data required for providing reliable answers. This publication is part of FAO Fisheries Technical Paper Series.
Lead authoring unit/office: Fisheries Division (NFI)
Abstract: This publication, which is part of FAO Statistical Development Series, is the second volume of an introduction to establishing and conducting area and multiple frame probability sample survey programmes, emphasizing methods and practices applicable in developing countries.
Lead authoring unit/office: Statistics Division (ESS)
Abstract: This supplement, which is part of FAO Statistical Development Series, is intended to assist countries in improving their current surveys of aquaculture and to provide a framework for those countries planning to develop databases on aquaculture.
Lead authoring unit/office: Statistics Division (ESS)
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)
