A Study of Effective Utilization for Agricultural Household Survey

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The goal of the present study is to establish a base for advanced use of questionnaire information pertaining to agricultural statistics, following the amendment of the Statistics Act. It specifically takes up the Census of Agriculture as well as the Statistical Survey on Farm Management and Economy as examples of agricultural statistics. In more concrete terms, the study has the following three concrete objectives1) to understand the current situation of secondary use of agricultural statistics;2) to analyze methods for linking data of the Census of Agriculture and the Statistical Survey on Farm Management and Economy; and3) to examine methods for archiving agricultural statistics, including statistical data in the agricultural sector compiled by the private sector, as well as to collect and organize meta data. The study successfully established a base for advanced use of agricultural statistics, by analyzing specific ways to link the Census of Agriculture and the Statistical Survey on Farm Management and Economy, including a retrospective linking method on an annual basis from the 1970s as well as means of merging the two agricultural statistics. As for the Census of Agriculture, the study established panel data, utilizing the linking method on an annual basis, and thus analyzed the impacts of changes in agricultural management on the managerial structure and behavior.