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Annex 2. Survey of Agricultural Census
Table A2.1: Methodology of Agriculture Census in COMCEC Countries
Most Recent Year of
Agricultural Census
Frame
Integration with
Population
Census?
Full Census v.s.
Sampling
Sampling
Method
Coverage
(Geography,
Commodity)
Afghanistan 2002 Livestock Census n.a.
2013/ 2014 round n.a
Albania
1998 Census Coded lists of agricultural
holdings in the country.
No Full Census None Entire Country
2012 Census
Farm Register; Crop
Register, Vineyard Register,
Livestocks Register
established.
No Full Census None Entire Country
Algeria
2001 report available,
New census is under
preparation
Complete list of all holdings
prepared before census Yes Full Census None Entire Country
Azerbaijan
2005 report is available.
New census planned in
2015
State Records and Registers
of all categories of farms are
taken and updated.
No
Both
Census and
Sample Surveys
Institutional farms
by complete
enumeration. Private
farms, family farms
and homesteads. by
sampling method.
Entire Country
except Occupied
Lands.
Bahrain 2010
List and Area frame via
remote sensing by satellites. Yes Full Census None Entire Country
Bangladesh
2005 Census List of Enumeration Areas No Sample Survey Stratified cluster
sampling
Entire Country.
2008 Census
List Frame.
List of Enumeration Areas
No
. Both
Census and
Sample Surveys
The full-count of
households both in
rural and urban
areas. More detailed
sample survey Entire Country.
Benin
1993 report available
List of Villages and Holdings No Sample Survey
Two stage sampling
Primary sampling
unit: villages,
secondary sampling
unit holdings
Entire Country.
2011-12 Census n.a.
Brunei n.a.
Burkina Faso
1993 List frame No Sampling
Two stage sampling
Primary sampling
unit: villages,
secondary sampling
unit is holdings
Nomadic livestock
holdings and
agricultural
activities carried out
by experimental
farms and in peri-
urban areas were
excluded from the
survey
2010 List frame No
Both Census and
Sampling
Two phases, Phase 1
is census to establish
different frames
necessary for the
second phase.
Phase 2 consists of a
set of sample surveys
Entire country
(poultry producers
excluded)
Cameroon
1984 n.a
2010 n.a.
Chad 2011 Livestock Census
2010/2011
Comoros 2004
Updated list of all the
localities/villages of the
country from the 2003
Census of Population and
Dwellings
No Sample survey
Two stage sampling
Primary
sampling unit:
villages, secondary
sampling unit is
holdings
Entire country
2010 n.a.
Côte d'Ivoire
2001
The list from 1998
Population Census was
updated in Census 2001.
No Sample survey
Two stage sampling
The primary
sampling unit was
the Agricultural
Census District and
thesecondary
sampling unit was
the household.
The census covered
all the
Administrative
Regions of the
country
2014 Request for TCP formulation