Experiences and Challenges: Review on China’s Agricultural Censuses Xu ZhiQuan Department of Rural Surveys, National Bureau of Statistics

Experiences and Challenges: Review on China’s

Agricultural Censuses

Xu ZhiQuanDepartment of Rural Surveys, National Bureau of Statistics



1. Introduction --1.1 Agriculture still has been playing an

important role in economic activities although China has achieved rapid development in recent 30 years.

--1.2 we built agriculture statistical system through integrating conventional sampling surveys with periodic censuses.



1. Introduction

--1.3 Agricultural census system was built in 1995: it was conducted decennially and in the year ending as 6.

--1.4 The Second Agricultural Census are taking



1. Introduction--1.5 China’s two censuses are a process of

unceasing exploration and innovation by continuous studying and using the advanced international experience according to its own national conditions.

--1.6 The structure of this article



2. Main Experiences of Agricultural Census

2.1 Regulations on National Agricultural Census

--In 2006, State Council promulgated Regulations on Agricultural Census

--7 chapters and 42 items

--Regulations on Agricultural Census provides legal basis for all census activities



2. Main Experiences of Agricultural Census2.2 Agriculture and rural development as the

basic contents of census --Indicators of agricultural census --Indicators of rural development --Indicators related to farmers --The Census covered the rural areas as the scope,

and including agricultural production operations in urban areas




2.3 Various Census Forms: -- households form, -- farm land form, -- village form, -- township form and unit form --Different collection methods




2.4 Census is organized and coordinated directly by the government

– Leading Group of Agricultural Census – Agricultural Census Office




2.5 Depending on 7 million large number of enumerators and supervisors to fulfill the data collection

– The requirements of recruiting enumerators and supervisors

– Qualified training for enumerators and supervisors




2.6 By the OCR technique to accomplishing work

of data processing with a quick speed

– Comparing with manual entry, the apparent

superiority of OCR is fast speed

– The second apparent superiority of OCR is

high quality


Agricultural Censuses I. Based on the experiences of the first Agricultur

al Census

1、Maintain the coverage and contents of Agriculture + Rural Development + Rural Residents

2、 Stick to the basic organization model of Government leadership + Public participation

3 Main means of data procession: OCR 4、 Enhance census data dissemination 5、 Enhance census data exploitation 6、 Enhance the match between census and routin

e surveys




2.7 Three aspects for post-enumeration survey (PES), comprehensively grasping census quality.

PES on door-to-door interview PES on farm lands

PES on data processing




2.8 Comprehensive development and application on census results

Issue of census data Development of census results Inviting domestic and international

experts to participate in the development of census achievements



3. Challenges of Agricultural Census

3.1 The census contents issues A great number of census indicators The systematical and integrated issues



3. Challenges of Agricultural Census

3.2 A large scale of enumerators caused issues on recruitment , trainings


Agricultural Censuses 3. Challenges of Agricultural Census3.3 The coordination issues with the Population

Census. Population Census conducted in the year

ending as 0, and Agricultural Census conducted in the year ending as 6.

It caused issues



4. Contemplation and Suggestions

4.1 The census contents issues




4.2 Total enumerators should be cut down

Reducing total sum Improving training Relieve tense contradictions on human

resources effectively




4.3 Coordinating relations with Population Census for improving efficiency and reducing costs



5. Conclusion

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Experiences and Challenges: Review on China’s Agricultural Censuses Xu ZhiQuan Department of Rural Surveys, National Bureau of Statistics