THA_2003_AgC_v01_M
Agricultural Census 2003
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Thailand | THA |
Agricultural Census [ag/census]
The National Statistical Office conducted the First Agricultural Census in 1950, the Second in 1963, the Third in 1978 and the Fourth in 1993. To obtain timely statistics of agricultural structure data for policy-making, monitoring and evaluation of the agricultural development projects and in accordance with the recommendations of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Fifth Agricultural Census was thus conducted in 2003.
The National Statistical Office conducted the Fifth Agricultural Census in 2003 in order to collect the data on structure of agriculture obtained from the agricultural holdings throughout the country.
The objectives of the Agricultural Census were as follows:
Census/enumeration data [cen]
The 2003 Thailand Agricultural Census covered the following topics:
National
The census covered the whole country: all holdings cultivating crops, rearing livestock and culturing fresh waters, were covered.
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National Statistical Office (NSO) | Ministry of Information and Communication Technology of Thailand |
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Government of Thailand | Funding |
A Stratified Two - Stage Sampling was adopted for the advanced report. Regions were constituted strata. The primary and secondary sampling units were enumeration districts and holdings respectively.
Stratification
Group of provinces in each region were constituted strata. There were altogether 4 strata, i.e., Central, North, Northeast and South .
Selection of Primary Sampling Unit
A number of sample enumeration districts were selected systematically in each stratum with a sampling fraction of 1 in 5. The total number of sample enumeration districts was 4,581 from 22,950
Selection of Secondary Sampling Unit
Holdings were ultimate sampling units. Data of every holdings enumerated with the long form in every sample enumeration district were proceeded. Then these sample holdings were selected systematically with a sampling fraction of 1 in 5.
The overall sampling fraction was 1 in 100 .
The Agricultural Census data was collected using a questionnaire that consists of 15 sections.
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2003-05-13 | 2003-06-10 |
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National Statistical Office | Ministry of Information and Communication Technology of Thailand |
The face to face interview was the method of date collection for the 2003 Agricultural Census. The field work was carried out during May 13 to June 10, 2003. Around 2,500 enumerators were recruited from village health volunteers and 5,000 supervisors were recruited from local officer of Department of Agricultural Extension. The enumerators were sent out to interview all heads of household using listing form to find out agricultural holders. Approximately 5.8 million agricultural holders were interviewed for detailed information using enumeration form subsequently.
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
Example:
National Statistical Office of Thailand. Thailand Agricultural Census 2003. Ref. THA_2003_AgC_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [source] on [date].
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
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National Statistical Office (NSO) | Ministry of Information and Communication Technology of Thailand | services@nso.go.th | http://web.nso.go.th/ |
DDI_THA_2003_AgC_v01_M_WB
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World Bank, Development Data Group | The World Bank | Preparation of the metadata |
2014-04-02
Version 01 (April 2014).