1 Agricultural Statistics Liaison Group October 12 th 2011 CSO: Update on Census of Agriculture 2010 & CSO outputs (Hilda McCarthy)

2 2 Today’s Agenda 2. Agree Agenda & Agree Minutes of previous meeting 3. CSO: Update on CSO outputs and Census progress (CSO will summarise progress on Census of Agriculture 2010 as well as recent and forthcoming data releases –Hilda McCarthy) 4. DAFF: Overview of Annual Review & Outlook (DAFF will discuss the Annual Review & Outlook publication and the importance of timely data for this - Colm O’Cribín) 5. Teagasc: National Farm Survey (An overview of the National Farm Survey - Brian Moran) 6. EPA: Measuring non-natural agricultural waste (Data requirements for non-natural agricultural waste - Jane Brogan) 7. Group Discussion 8. AOB & Close

3 Overview Census of Agriculture (COA) 2010 –summary of returns Working with Administrative Data General issues arising in COA 2010 COA a lot done, more to do! Lessons learned Agriculture Accounts, Production & Prices update

4 COA 2010-Summary of Returns COA Response Rate - 90% returned (of 153,903 issued) Survey Agricultural Production Methods -66% returned (of 39,974) Response Codes % Active87.3 Duplicates2.7 Land Let1.6 Land Sold0.4 Retired3.0 Deceased1.5 Other3.5

COA 2010-Working with Admin data Admin Data Used  Corporate Client System (CCS),  Single Payment Scheme (SPS),  Animal Identification & Movement (AIM) 25 questions eliminated from COA Questionnaire Admin Data Transmission 2010/2011 Herd Numbers (non-unique, multiple) Verifying non-active returns (retired, sold, deceased etc.) 5

6 COA 2010 –general issues arising Section 2 (Area Farmed) & Section 3 (Analysis of Area Farmed) - totals not matching Fragmentation of Land- use of the term ‘parcel’ Blank cells (Units of area, commonage, labour variables) Rural Addresses Late returns and sheep data Categories not available in admin data  Heifers in calf  Bovine animals intended for slaughter Revisions

7 Inter-censal Revisions Revisions completed  Cattle ( )  Pigs (Dec 2007-Dec 2009)  Cereals ( )  Area, Yield & Production Series ( ) Revisions to be completed  Sheep

8 COA a lot done, more to do! Complete the merge of COA survey & admin data Assign admin data to inactive returns where appropriate Impute for item non-response Preliminary release of COA 2010 data (Dec 2011) Labour data (analysis & imputation based on main file) SAPM (analysis & imputation based on main file) National Methodological Report Transmissions to Eurostat (Feb‘12 –Dec‘12) Main COA 2010 release (2012, Q3/4)

9 COA 2010 –Dissemination Already available on  Cattle, Cereals (March 4 th 2011)  Pigs (Sept 15 th 2011) Preliminary Release (December 2011, at county level)  No. of holdings, Livestock (Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Poultry),Crops,  On-line pdf & hard-copy Main Release (2012, at DED level)  All COA 2010 variables  Web-based using interactive maps

10 Lessons learned Administrative Data – powerful resource Need for unique identifier/single farm register On-line data collection Further potential of admin data (eg. Dec Sheep Census & geo- cordinates)

11 Non-Census work June & December surveys Pig Survey Monthly Milk Statistics Area, Yield & Production of Crops Revisions to previously published data Preparations for FSS 2013 Assist Teagasc with NFS Sampling Frame Coordinate revision (by DAFF) of N & P balances ( ) Customer queries

12 Agriculture Division 2010 Three areas within Agriculture Division (2010) Agriculture Accounts/Production(Andrew Murray) Agriculture Prices/Data (Susan O’Connor/Fiona O’Callaghan) Agriculture Register/Census (Hilda McCarthy/Fiona O’Callaghan)

13 Agriculture Division 2011 Two areas within Agriculture Division (2011) Agriculture Accounts/Production/Prices (Andrew Murray) Agriculture Register/Census/Data (Hilda McCarthy/Fiona O’Callaghan/Susan O’Connor)

14 Thank you Any Questions?