Off-Farm Work By Census-Farm Operators: An Overview of Structure and Mobility Patterns
| dc.creator | Swidinsky, Michael | |
| dc.creator | Howard, Wayne H. | |
| dc.creator | Weersink, Alfons | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T13:53:40Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T04:00:42Z | |
| dc.description | The purpose of this paper is to provide descriptive statistics on off-farm labour supply and farm/off-farm labour reallocation for Canadian farmers using cross-sectional data and cross-sectional panel data, respectively, obtained from the Canadian Census of Agriculture. This report is part of a larger study on the off-farm labour supply and labour mobility of farm operators (Swidinsky, 1997). The data indicates that a growing proportion of operators worked off-farm between 1971 and 1991. As well, operators who work off-farm have allocated greater amounts of time to the off-farm labour market. The share of census-farm operators reporting 97-228 days of off-farm work has risen from 11 percent to 15 percent, while the share working more than 228 days off-farm has increased from 13 percent to 16 percent of all operators from 1971 to 1991. There is also some mobility between the status of full-time and part-time farming, but a high proportion of both types of operators exit farming over a five-year period. Less than 15 percent of operators farming full-time change to part-time, while approximately 20 percent of operators farming full-time change to part-time. In contrast, approximately 25 percent of full-time operators exit farming, while 35 percent of part-time operators exit farming over a typical five-year period. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.28030 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/28030/files/wp000038.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/28030 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/543444 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/28030 | |
| dc.title | Off-Farm Work By Census-Farm Operators: An Overview of Structure and Mobility Patterns | |
| dc.type | Text |