Collecting statistics on agricultural population and employment
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The dearth of information on rural and agricultural populations and employment was well recognized in the FAO Progra:nme for the 1980 World Census of Agriculture (WCA) where countries were urged to develop this segment of statistics by utilizing the agricultural and population censuses both as means to compile data and as a framework for implementing more frequent surveys within an integrated statistical system. In Resolution No. 14/75 on the Programme for the 1980 WCA, the Eighteenth Session of the FAQ Conference held in Novem• ber 1975, besides urging member nations to carry out their national census of agriculture, requested FAO to ''promote, in consultation with the United Nations and other interested international organizations, the fullest possible compatibility between the results of the agricultural and population censuses, particularly with respect to agricultural population''.
This Guide is intended to assist countries in the planning and execution of programmes for the collection of agricultural population and employment statistics which are a major component of the statistics needed for agrarian reform and rural development. It supplements the general guidelines contained in the Programme for the 1980 WCA and presents a comprehen• sive framework of almost all the relevant statistical components characterizing agricultural population and employment and other related fields such as small-scale and part-time farming, locality or community statistics, under•employment, farm typology, the role of women in agriculture, etc.