Agricultural Census 2014
Armenia, 2014
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Agricultural Census 2014
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Armenia | ARM |
Agricultural Census [ag/census]
The 2014 AC is the first Agricultural Census conducted in Armenia. The Agricultural Census will be conducted once in every 10 years in compliance with international rule and standards.
The purpose of conducting an Agricultural Census (AC) in the Republic of Armenia is to obtain information about the structure of agriculture in the country, establish an integral survey system of statistical data on agriculture, create a statistical register for rural households, and ensure comparability with international statistical data.
The data collected during the census will be used to create systems of monitoring indices for poverty monitoring, food security monitoring, agricultural programming and relevant policy development, maintenance of gender-based statistics, improvement of the quality of the current statistics, delivery of more comprehensive information to consumers etc. The data will also enable improvement of the current statistics in the sphere of agriculture, establish a complete system on statistical information about agriculture, create statistical registers for entities engaged in agriculture, develop the sampling tools for statistics and ensure their compliance with the current standards and criteria, identify trends in changes of agricultural infrastructures and specify a more detailed composition and structure of agriculture as an entrepreneurship.
Census/enumeration data [cen]
Agricultural holdings
Scope
The scope of the 2014 Agricultural Census include:
- Lands of Household
- Sown Area of Agricultural Crops
- Areas of Perennial Plantings
- Sources and Methods of Irrigation
- Means of Plant Protection and Fertilizers
- Livestock and Poultry
- Pisciculture
- Agriculture Buildings and Facilities
- Labour Force
- Use and Processing of Agricultural Products
- Agritourism
- Loans and Subsidies
- Agricultural Cooperation
- On-Farm Record Keeping
Coverage
National Coverage
Universe includes individual (rural) households, individual agricultural holdings of urban population, individual holdings of members of horticultural associations, communities, all agricultural holdings with legal status, private entrepreneurs, and, collective holdings (penitentiary institutions, military units, social care institutions for the elderly and disabled, educational institutions, and scientific experimantal units).
The Agricultural Census has also considered the units which implemented the following types of agricultural activities (irrespective of whether the agricultural activities were their major or secondary type of activity):
- Cultivation of agricultural crops (grain crops and leguminous crops, technical crops, potato, vegetable crops, melon crops, forage crops, fruit and berries, grapes).
- Cultivation of flowers, mushroom, saplings, seedlings, etc.
- Livestock and poultry breeding.
- Production of plant cultivation and cattle-breeding products.
- Activities related to maintaining the agricultural lands in favourable agricultural and environmental conditions, etc.
The Agricultural Census did not consider the units which have only the following:
- Stables, areas designated for horse riding,
- Slaughter- houses or points of animal sale.
The units engaged only in the following activities were not considered either:
- Hunting and forestry.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| National Statistical Service | Republic of Armenia |
Sampling
The Agricultural Census (AC), 2014 was carried out by conducting a full enumeration of the Census Units. However, only 10% of the total is shared through the microdata file.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2014-10-11 | 2014-10-31 |
As of October 10, 2014:
• agricultural lands
• areas of perennial plantings
• number of livestock and poultry
• availability of buildings/facilities for keeping the livestock and poultry and storing the agricultural production
• availability of own operational agricultural machinery/equipment
Period of 01.08.2013 - 31.07.2014:
• sown areas of agricultural crops
• actually irrigated areas of perennial plantings
• sources and methods of irrigation
• means of plant protection and fertilizers
• fish farming
• utilization of agricultural machinery/equipment
• utilization of horses or other draft animals for agricultural activities
Period of 11.10.2013 - 10.10.2014:
• availability of buildings/facilities for keeping the agricultural machinery and equipment
• gender and age of labour force, engagement in the holding's agricultural activities, level of education
• participation of the head and other members of the holding in agricultural training courses
• involvement of the holding members (workers) in the holding's agricultural activities
• utilization and processing of agricultural production
• sale of processed production
• delivery of agritourism services by the holding
• sources of loans and subsidies received for agricultural purposes
• membership in an agricultural cooperative
• maintaining on-farm record keeping on production of agricultural produce and incurred costs
Access policy
Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia
Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia
https://www.armstat.am/en/?nid=15
Data Access
| Name | URL |
|---|---|
| Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia | https://www.armstat.am/en/?nid=15 |
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes | The authorized body of the 2014 Agricultural Census (AC), will ensure the confidentiality of initial (individual) data in line with sub-paragraph 3, paragraph 1, Article 6 of the law of the Republic of Armenia on Agricultural Census. Only summary data are processed and published. |
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download
Example: Armenia National Statistical Service. Armenia - Agricultural Census (AC) 2014. Ref. ARM_2014_AC_v01_M_v01_A_OCS. Dataset downloaded from [url] on [date].
Metadata production
DDI_ARM_2014_AC_v01_M_v01_A_OCS
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Office of Chief Statistician | Food and Agriculture Organization | Metadata Producer |
2019-10-04
Metadata version
Version 01 (October 2019). This version is identical to FAO Version (ARM_2014_AC_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS) except for the following fields that were edited by the World Bank: DDI ID, Study ID, DDI Version Description, Questionnaires, Locations of Data Collection and Citation Requirement.