Improving Agricultural Statistics in the COMCEC Region
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Most Recent Year of
Agricultural Census
Frame
Integration with
Population
Census?
Full Census v.s.
Sampling
Sampling
Method
Coverage
(Geography,
Commodity)
Pakistan 2010
The following frames were
prepared:
A list of National Certainty
Holdings
A list of villages
A complete list of urban
blocks.
A list of households in
selected villages
A list of households in
sampled villages reporting
specified livestock
characteristics
No Sample survey
The entire country
was divided into
three distinct parts:
In rural settled areas
of NWFP, Punjab and
Sindh, a three stage
weighted and
stratified sample
design was applied.
In rural settled areas
of Balochistan, Azad
Jammu and Kashmir,
a single stage
weighted
sample was used
Entire Country
Palestine n.a.
Qatar
2001
The frame was designed
during the Preparatory Stage
of the census, lasting from
April to December
2001
No Full census None
The census covered
the entire country.
Hunting and game
breeding farms,
forestry
and fishery farms,
agricultural services,
livestock trading
estab. and walled
fields around water
wells, excluded
2013 round.
n.a.
Saudi Arabia
2010 round.
n.a.
Senegal
1999
The frame of the 1998-99
Agricultural Census was
identified during the Pre-
Census undertaken in 1997
Not Sample survey
A two-stage sampling
stratied at the first
stage. Primary
Sampling Units :
Enumeration
Districts Secondary
Sampling Units
:Agricultural
Holdings
Covered all
agricultural holdings
with the exclusion of
operating in urban
areas, not identified
during the 1997-98
Pre-Census. Some
settlements excluded
Agricultural Census
2013- TCP ongoing n.a.
Sierra-Leone 1985 and 2010 round n.a.
Somalia 2010 round. n.a.
Sudan
2013/2014
(TCP/SUD/3402) n.a.
Suriname 1981 and 2008 n.a.
Syria 2014 Planned
Tajikistan 2013 round n.a.
Togo
1996
Frame based on a complete
list of agricultural holdings
compiled in a pre-census
survey
No Sample survey
A two-stage sampling
design. Primary
sampling units:
enumeration areas
Secondary sampling
units: agricultural
holdings
Entire Country
2012
The enumeration areas (EA)
derived from the 2010
Population Census
No Sample survey
Two degrees Survey
Design The stratum
at first degree is
administrative
divisions ,Secondary
degree, stratification
by agric. activity prac
Entire Country
Tunisia
2004
For large holdings a
complete list was available.
Aerial photos and military
maps were used to identify
rural segments constituting
the sampling frame for
medium and small holdings
No
A combination of
sampling and full
census was
adopted:
Complete
enumerationof
large holdings
and sample
enumerationfor
medium and
small holdings.
A stratified cluster
sampling
design was used
Entire Country
2014- 2015 round
Planned