Update on Agriculture Census 2010 & Industry Insights
Stay informed with the latest update on the Census of Agriculture 2010 presented by Hilda McCarthy. Learn about the progress, upcoming data releases, and valuable insights from the Agricultural Statistics Liaison Group meeting held on October 12th, 2011.
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Agricultural Statistics Liaison Group October 12th 2011 CSO: Update on Census of Agriculture 2010 & CSO outputs (Hilda McCarthy) 1
Todays Agenda 2. Agree Agenda & Agree Minutes of previous meeting 3. CSO: Update on CSO outputs and Census progress (CSO will summarise progress on Census of Agriculture 2010 as well as recent and forthcoming data releases Hilda McCarthy) 4. DAFF: Overview of Annual Review & Outlook (DAFF will discuss the Annual Review & Outlook publication and the importance of timely data for this - Colm O Crib n) 5. Teagasc: National Farm Survey (An overview of the National Farm Survey - Brian Moran) 6. EPA: Measuring non-natural agricultural waste (Data requirements for non-natural agricultural waste - Jane Brogan) 7. Group Discussion 8. AOB & Close 2 2
Overview Census of Agriculture (COA) 2010 summary of returns Working with Administrative Data General issues arising in COA 2010 COA 2010- a lot done, more to do! Lessons learned Agriculture Accounts, Production & Prices update 3
COA 2010-Summary of Returns COA Response Rate - 90% returned (of 153,903 issued) Response Codes % Active 87.3 Duplicates 2.7 Land Let 1.6 Land Sold 0.4 Retired 3.0 Deceased 1.5 Other 3.5 Survey Agricultural Production Methods -66% returned (of 39,974) 4
COA 2010-Working with Admin data Admin Data Used Corporate Client System (CCS), Single Payment Scheme (SPS), Animal Identification & Movement (AIM) 25 questions eliminated from COA Questionnaire Admin Data Transmission 2010/2011 Herd Numbers (non-unique, multiple) Verifying non-active returns (retired, sold, deceased etc.) 5
COA 2010 general issues arising Section 2 (Area Farmed) & Section 3 (Analysis of Area Farmed) - totals not matching Fragmentation of Land- use of the term parcel Blank cells (Units of area, commonage, labour variables) Rural Addresses Late returns and sheep data Categories not available in admin data Heifers in calf Bovine animals intended for slaughter Revisions 6
Inter-censal Revisions Revisions completed Cattle (2005-2009) Pigs (Dec 2007-Dec 2009) Cereals (2008-2009) Area, Yield & Production Series (2008 -2009) Revisions to be completed Sheep 7
COA 2010- a lot done, more to do! Complete the merge of COA survey & admin data Assign admin data to inactive returns where appropriate Impute for item non-response Preliminary release of COA 2010 data (Dec 2011) Labour data (analysis & imputation based on main file) SAPM (analysis & imputation based on main file) National Methodological Report Transmissions to Eurostat (Feb 12 Dec 12) Main COA 2010 release (2012, Q3/4) 8
COA 2010 Dissemination Already available on www.cso.ie Cattle, Cereals (March 4th 2011) Pigs (Sept 15th 2011) Preliminary Release (December 2011, at county level) No. of holdings, Livestock (Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Poultry),Crops, On-line pdf & hard-copy Main Release (2012, at DED level) All COA 2010 variables Web-based using interactive maps 9
Lessons learned Administrative Data powerful resource Need for unique identifier/single farm register On-line data collection Further potential of admin data (eg. Dec Sheep Census & geo- cordinates) 10
Non-Census work June & December surveys Pig Survey Monthly Milk Statistics Area, Yield & Production of Crops Revisions to previously published data Preparations for FSS 2013 Assist Teagasc with NFS Sampling Frame Coordinate revision (by DAFF) of N & P balances (1985-2009) Customer queries 11
Agriculture Division 2010 Three areas within Agriculture Division (2010) Agriculture Accounts/Production(Andrew Murray) Agriculture Prices/Data (Susan O Connor/Fiona O Callaghan) Agriculture Register/Census (Hilda McCarthy/Fiona O Callaghan) 12
Agriculture Division 2011 Two areas within Agriculture Division (2011) Agriculture Accounts/Production/Prices (Andrew Murray) Agriculture Register/Census/Data (Hilda McCarthy/Fiona O Callaghan/Susan O Connor) 13
Thank you Any Questions? http://www.cso.ie 14
