Projects
Farm structure
Eurostat has co-financed activities to modernise the production of agricultural statistics. These grants aimed to prepare countries for the integrated farm statistics (IFS) 2020 data collection.
Topics included:
- updating information systems and developing methodology to determine the geolocation of farms
- developing statistical questionnaires and adapting interview methods
- using administrative data sources to update statistical farm registers
- improving methodology, sample design, data processing and validation systems
Economic accounts for agriculture
The economic accounts for agriculture (EAA) provide complementary information and concepts that are adapted to the nature of the agricultural industry.
The study on the modernisation of EAA analyses the possibility of further developing the EAA to provide a robust estimate of the economic value of the public goods that are produced by farmers, such as biodiversity or landscape.
Agricultural production
Eurostat co-financed some country pilot studies to investigate establishing a statistical system for the crop balance data for main cereals and oilseeds according to common EU methodology.
Use of administrative data sources
In May 2012, a task force was set up to consider possibilities to better adapt and use administrative data sources.
The work of this task force was supported by 3 waves of grants, launched in 2013, 2014 and 2015 for studies on linking IACS and other administrative registers and statistics.