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Roundtable on World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2020

Bangkok, Thailand19-23 September 2016

Ms Pattama AmornsirisomboonDirector of Social Statistics BureauNational Statistical OfficeThailandpattama.a@nso.go.th

Socio-demographic characteristics and Intra-household distribution of managerial decisions on the holding in 2013 Agricultural Census in ThailandTechnical Session 10:Census Themes 8 and 10

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Outline

• Background

• Methodology

• Demographic and Social Characteristics

• Intra-household distribution of managerial

decisions and ownership on the holding

• Census Instrument and Report

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Background

• Agricultural data collection and managementThe main agencies responsible for agricultural

statistics are the National Statistical Office (NSO) and the Office of Agricultural Economics (OAE).

NSO conducts the agricultural census and Surveying in Agricultural changing (inter-census) to collect fundamental data on the structure of national agriculture.

OAE conducts the agricultural survey, e.g. Crop Production Survey, Livestock Production Survey, Cost of Production Survey.

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Background (cont.)

NSO under the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) has conduct the agricultural census every 10 years in accordance with the recommendation of the FAO

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Background (cont.)

•The Operation of Agricultural Census

Collection of basic information on

fundamental structure of agriculture which was

obtained from all agricultural holding throughout

the country

By interviewing every agricultural holding in

the whole kingdom performs as snapshot of information on agricultural sector at the census date

Frame

National Statistical Office

Census Intercensal Survey

Major livestock/Production/Price Survey

Ministry of Agriculture

decentralized system

Agriculture Surveys

National Agriculture Statistical System

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Census Sub-committee

Questionnaireand

Instruction

Mapping and

Enumeration

area listing

Public Relation

DataProcessing

Census Administration Committee

NSO Director General

Census Committee

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Census Organization

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Methodology Used : Traditional approach • Scope of Agricultural Census

1. Cultivating crops 2. Rearing livestock 3. Culturing in fresh water4. Sea salt farmExclude

1. Agricultural activity for education, experiment, competition, sports, and leisure

2. Agricultural services

2013 Agricultural Census In Thailand

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Methodology (cont.)

• Census Date : Reference date on 1 May 2013

• Coverage : Covered all of agricultural holdings in

both municipal area and non-municipal area in the

whole kingdom By using “Closed segment Concept”

• Closed segment concept means : data collection

within the province, the agricultural holder who

operated agricultural activities only within their

current province will be listed and enumerated

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Methodology (cont.)

• Enumeration Area (EA)• The Total of EA : 129,048 EA (PHC2010)• EA of Agriculture : 87,434 EA

• Data collection in May 1 – 31, 2013 • Enumerators• Village agricultural volunteer 15,411 persons

• Supervisors• District agricultural extension officer 3,081

persons• National Statistical office’s officer 2,604 persons

5 Enumerators/ Supervisors

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The Post – Enumeration Survey of The 2013 Agricultural Census

The PES was conducted for all households of the selected enumeration areas throughout the country. The Stratified Single-Stage Sampling was applied to this PES. There were four stratums referring to four regions – Central, North, Northeast and South and provinces in each region were represented as sub-stratum.

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Objectives of PES To estimate the coverage error in the census in terms of agricultural holders and area of holding

To evaluate content error by studying differences in responses on selected characteristics of agricultural holders in the census and PES such as- Agricultural activity engagement : growing rice, planting para rubber, planting permanent crops etc.

- Size of area of holding (in Rai) - Livestock - Sea salt Farming - Fresh Water Culture

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Demographic and Social Characteristics Current Census Items (AC 2013)

For Holder : No. of Household Member , Age, Sex,

Marital Status, Work Status, Level of Educational Attainment, Membership of Agricultural Activity Groups

For Household Member : Relation with the holder, Age, Sex, Marital

Status, Work Status

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Demographic and Social Characteristics (cont.)

Next Census (AC 2023)

Holder & Household Member: The same items

... (Age , Sex, Relation with the holder, Marital

Status, Work Status, Level of Educational

Attainment, Membership of Agricultural Activity

Groups)

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Intra-household distribution of managerial decisions and ownership on the holding

Management : The current census (AC 2013) item refer to management is “Section1 Q1.4 : Legal status of holder on 1 May 2013

1. A household, 2. Two or more individuals/ households, 3. Company/ partnership, 4. Government agency, 5. Others (specify)......”

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Intra-household distribution of managerial decisions and ownership on the holding (cont.)

Ownership : The current census (AC 2013)

item refer to ownership is “Section2 :

Holding area by land use and tenure and

document of owner….

B. Land tenure (Owner land, Non-owner land)”

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Intra-household distribution of managerial decisions and ownership on the holding (cont.)

• Next Census (AC 2023)

• For each household : who (Holder or

household members) was deciding/

managing for each activity of holding

(Crops, Livestock, Fresh water cultures)

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Census Instrument and Report

• Instrument : Tablet PC

• Report : English and Thai

• GIS

• Website (www.nso.go.th)

• Data Warehouse

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