The document summarizes the 2013 Agricultural Census conducted in Thailand. It discusses the methodology used, including defining agricultural holdings, enumeration areas, and data collection from May 1-31, 2013. It also summarizes the demographic and social characteristics collected, as well as management and ownership attributes. The next agricultural census in 2023 aims to collect more detailed data on intra-household decision making for different agricultural activities.

1. Roundtable on
World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2020
Bangkok, Thailand
19-23 September 2016
Ms Pattama Amornsirisomboon
Director of Social Statistics Bureau
National Statistical Office
Thailand
pattama.a@nso.go.th
Socio-demographic characteristics and Intra-
household distribution of managerial
decisions on the holding in 2013 Agricultural
Census in Thailand
Technical Session 10:Census Themes 8 and 10
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2. Outline
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• Background
• Methodology
• Demographic and Social Characteristics
• Intra-household distribution of managerial
decisions and ownership on the holding
• Census Instrument and Report

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Background
• Agricultural data collection and management
The main agencies responsible for agricultural
statistics are the National Statistical Office (NSO)
and the Office of Agricultural Economics (OAE).
NSO conducts the agricultural census and
Surveying in Agricultural changing (inter-census) to
collect fundamental data on the structure of
national agriculture.
OAE conducts the agricultural survey, e.g. Crop
Production Survey, Livestock Production Survey,
Cost of Production Survey.

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Background (cont.)
NSO under the Ministry of Information and
Communication Technology (MICT) has conduct the
agricultural census every 10 years in accordance with
the recommendation of the FAO

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Background (cont.)
•The Operation of Agricultural Census
 Collection of basic information on fundamental
structure of agriculture which was obtained from
all agricultural holding throughout the country
 By interviewing every agricultural holding in
the whole kingdom
performs as snapshot of information
on agricultural sector at the census date

6. Frame
National Statistical Office
Census
Intercensal Survey
Major livestock/Production/Price Survey
Ministry of Agriculture
decentralized system
Agriculture Surveys
National Agriculture Statistical System
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7. Census Sub-committee
Questionnaire
and
Instruction
Mapping and
Enumeration area
listing
Public
Relation
Data
Processing
Census Administration
Committee
NSO Director General
Census Committee
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Census Organization

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Methodology Used : Traditional approach
• Scope of Agricultural Census
1. Cultivating crops
2. Rearing livestock
3. Culturing in fresh water
4. Sea salt farm
Exclude
1. Agricultural activity for education,
experiment, competition, sports, and leisure
2. Agricultural services
2013 Agricultural Census In Thailand

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Methodology (cont.)
• Census Date : Reference date on 1 May 2013
• Coverage : Covered all of agricultural holdings in
both municipal area and non-municipal area in the
whole kingdom By using “Closed segment Concept”
• Closed segment concept means : data collection
within the province, the agricultural holder who
operated agricultural activities only within their
current province will be listed and enumerated

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Methodology (cont.)
• Enumeration Area (EA)
• The Total of EA : 129,048 EA (PHC2010)
• EA of Agriculture : 87,434 EA
• Data collection in May 1 – 31, 2013
• Enumerators
• Village agricultural volunteer 15,411 persons
• Supervisors
• District agricultural extension officer 3,081
persons
• National Statistical office’s officer 2,604 persons
5 Enumerators/ Supervisors

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The Post – Enumeration Survey of The
2013 Agricultural Census
The PES was conducted for all households of the
selected enumeration areas throughout the country.
The Stratified Single-Stage Sampling was applied to
this PES. There were four stratums referring to four
regions – Central, North, Northeast and South and
provinces in each region were represented as sub-
stratum.

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Objectives of PES
 To estimate the coverage error in the census in terms
of agricultural holders and area of holding
To evaluate content error by studying differences in
responses on selected characteristics of agricultural
holders in the census and PES such as
- Agricultural activity engagement : growing rice, planting
para rubber, planting permanent crops etc.
- Size of area of holding (in Rai)
- Livestock
- Sea salt Farming
- Fresh Water Culture

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Demographic and Social Characteristics
 Current Census Items (AC 2013)
 For Holder :
No. of Household Member , Age, Sex, Marital
Status, Work Status, Level of Educational
Attainment, Membership of Agricultural Activity
Groups
 For Household Member :
Relation with the holder, Age, Sex, Marital
Status, Work Status

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Demographic and Social Characteristics (cont.)
Next Census (AC 2023)
 Holder & Household Member: The same items
... (Age , Sex, Relation with the holder, Marital
Status, Work Status, Level of Educational
Attainment, Membership of Agricultural Activity
Groups)

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Intra-household distribution of managerial
decisions and ownership on the holding
 Management : The current census (AC 2013)
item refer to management is “Section1 Q1.4 :
Legal status of holder on 1 May 2013
1. A household,
2. Two or more individuals/
households,
3. Company/ partnership,
4. Government agency,
5. Others (specify)......”

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Intra-household distribution of managerial
decisions and ownership on the holding (cont.)
 Ownership : The current census (AC 2013)
item refer to ownership is “Section2 :
Holding area by land use and tenure and
document of owner….
B. Land tenure (Owner land, Non-owner land)”

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Intra-household distribution of managerial
decisions and ownership on the holding (cont.)
• Next Census (AC 2023)
•For each household : who (Holder or
household members) was deciding/
managing for each activity of holding
(Crops, Livestock, Fresh water cultures)

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Census Instrument and Report
• Instrument : Tablet PC
• Report : English and Thai
• GIS
• Website (www.nso.go.th)
• Data Warehouse

19. THANK YOU
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