Census of Agriculture 2010

Summary & Current Position

Fiona O’Callaghan24th April 2012

• Extensive use made of administrative records

• DAFM’s Corporate Client System used in conjunction with existing CSO Register to produce a comprehensive Register of Agricultural holdings

• AIM and SFP used to eliminate 25 questions from the COA questionnaire

Key Numbers in 2010

Number of Farm Holdings 139,800

Utilised Agricultural Area (hectares) 4,569,400

Average size of holding (hectares) 32.7

Cattle 6,606,600

Sheep 5,079,000

Pigs 1,518,300

Poultry 11,025,400

Crops (hectares) 273,900

Since Preliminary Results

• Imputation of Eurostat microfile

Crops, horticulture, grassland, organics, etc. Workforce details, time spent on farmwork etc.

• Preparation of National Methodological Report

• Ongoing work on Data Visualisation

Revisions resulting out of COA2010

• Farm Structure Survey 2005, 2007, 2009

Aggregate level onlyNumber of farms, UAA, livestock etc.

• No timeline on this yet as priority is to publish COA Final results and prepare for FSS 2013

Future work

• Analysis of SAPM results • COA 2010 Final Results – last quarter of 2012

• Considering the publication of a module on Labour earlier than this