This technical report on Agricultural Master Sampling Frames: Lessons learned from international field experiments and case studies compiles results from a series of experiments carried out by the Global Strategy to improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS) in 2016 and 2017, in Brazil, Nepal and Rwanda.
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Case-Studies on the measurement of productivity and efficiency in agriculture
The present document presents two case-studies, to illustrate the process of compilation of productivity indicators: i) the calculation of labour productivity based on data collected at farm-level, that is based on a pilot survey in Zambia, and ii) the construction of aggregate and country-level information on agricultural productivity from aggregate time-series.
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Pilot tests of an international definition of urban – rural territories. Summary report
The Technical Report aims to develop an international definition of rural areas and indicators of rural development. This summary report pilot tests were analytical desktop assessments carried out in seven countries with the cooperation of the National Statistical Offices (Brazil, Colombia, Ethiopia, France, Malaysia, Pakistan and the United States of America).
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Field Test Report on Agri-environmental Indicators (AEIs): towards a Sustainable Agriculture
This technical report presents the results of a field test implemented in Costa Rica as part of the research activities planned within the frame of GSARS research line “SUST-3: Data collection methods for agri-environmental indicators”.
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Measuring inadequate employment in Kenya: field test report for Decent Work within an agricultural context in developing countries
This technical report presents different dimensions of employment and underemployment within agricultural households in three communities in Kenya.
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Final technical report on the development of Master Sampling Frames (MSF) for fishery and aquaculture statistics
This final technical report presents guidance for constructing a Master Sampling Frame (MSF) to use for surveys of fisheries or aquaculture.
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Grain Stocks Estimation through Secondary Data sources-The Case of Zambia
The overall goal of the study is to test the methodology and the approach developed by the Agriculture Market Information System (AMIS) project, which outlined the use of available data to estimate certain critical variables on food balance sheets, especially Carry-in Stocks (also called Carry-over stocks), and Production.
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Measuring Decent Work and Youth Employment in Agriculture. Methodological issues and gaps
The objective of this technical report is to serve as the foundation for developing a generalized cost-effective methodology to collect information on DW and youth employment in agriculture.
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Global Strategy to improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics. Methodology for definition and spatial delimitation of rural areas
This Technical Report aims to present the methodology implemented for the spatial delimitation and production of statistics of rural areas and the results obtained.
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Informe Final Encuesta Piloto de Combustibles de Madera-EPICOMAD. Incorporación del Módulo de Combustibles de Madera en Encuestas Existentes en Países en Desarrollo
This Working Paper describes the results of the Woodfuel Pilot Survey (EPICOMAD), which was implemented in Ecuador in November 2017 as part of the activities designed to test the Woodfuel Survey Module.
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Results of the Methodological Studies for Agricultural and Rural Statistics
The purpose of this compendium, developed by the Asian Development Bank, is to compare agricultural statistics generated from sample surveys to those from administrative records.
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Informe Final de la Prueba Cognitiva Realizada en Ecuador. Incorporación de un Módulo sobre Combustibles de Madera en Encuestas Existentes en Países en Desarrollo
This Working Paper describes the results of the cognitive test, which was implemented in Ecuador in September 2017, as part of the previous activities designed to test the Woodfuel Survey Module.