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Annex 6. Self Assessment Questionnaire
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICAL SYSTEMS
Standard Self Assessment Questionnaire for COMCEC Countries
Country Name:
Objective of the Survey
The Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation of the Organization of the Islamic
Cooperation (COMCEC) is the main multilateral economic and commercial cooperation platform of the Islamic
world. COMCEC serves as a central forum to address the common development problems of the member
countries and provide solutions to them. By collecting information on relevant metadata on national
agricultural statistical systems, the present survey is aimed at supporting efforts of member countries to
improve quality and coverage of data. The results of this survey will be useful in designing cooperation
programmes and constitute an advocacy tool for national statistical offices.
Guidelines for Completing the Questionnaire
The present questionnaire would ideally be completed by a small working group composed of the Head of the
National Statistics Office and the Head of the Agricultural Statistics Office.
For the purpose of the present survey the term ‘agricultural statistics’ is defined to include statistics in the
following areas including derived statistics/indicators:
- Area and production of crops
- Livestock number and production
- Trade in agricultural, livestock, fishery, forestry and food products
- Fisheries statistics
- Forestry (including non-wood products) statistics
- Production and consumption of food
- Agricultural inputs (machinery, seed, feed, fertilizers and pesticides) and cost of production
- Agricultural / Trade prices
- Labor force participating in agricultural activities
- National account statistics relating to agriculture
- Rural development
- Rural income