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Survey Outline

Overview

Survey Name

  • Farm Household Economy Survey

Survey Type

  • Survey statistics

Type of Statistics

  • Designated statistics (Approval No. 101042)

Purpose

  • To provide basic data for establishing agricultural policies, improving agricultural management and facilitating various kinds of researches by grasping trends in the status of farm management such as incomes, spending and assets of sample households

Frequency

  • Annual

Target Population

  • Households which meet one of the following conditions
    • Households cultivating agricultural area of 10a (1,000㎡) or larger themselves
    • Households whose annual sales of agricultural and livestock products that they produce themselves are 1.2 million KRW or higher and that keep on farming
    • Households whose appraised value of livestock that they raise is over 1.2 million KRW as of the survey period

Survey Unit and Target Population Size

  • 3,000 households

Survey Reference Period and Date

  • Survey reference period: Jan. 1 - Dec. 31

History

  • 1953: The first joint survey titled 'Current Status of Rural Areas' by the Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry and the Bank of Korea
  • 1954: The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry separately carried out the two surveys after dividing the 'Rural Area Survey' into the 'Farm Household Economy Survey' and the 'Agricultural Production Cost Survey'.
  • 1962: Designated as the government's official statistics under the Statistics Act
  • 1962~1998: Revised samples seven times
    • 1993: Selected 3,140 sample farming households in 314 enumeration districts in order to produce statistics by region and farming types
    • 1998: Seoul and 'Gwangyeoksi' were included in the survey areas and 2 categories of part-time farming separated by stratifying by type of farming
  • July 1, 1998: Transferred to the Statistics Korea following the revision of the Government Organization Act
  • 2003: Improved questionnaire and survey guidelines following the (8th) sample revision
  • 2008: Improved questionnaire and survey guidelines following the (9th) sample revision
  • 2009: Integrated into the Farm Household Economy Survey and the Agricultural and Livestock Production Cost Survey
  • 2011: Improved survey methodology and questionnaire
  • 2013: Sample revision (10th)
  • 2018: Improved questionnaire and survey guidelines following the (11th) sample revision, Separated Farm Household Economy Survey and the Agricultural and Livestock Production Cost Survey

Data Provision

Method of Publication and URL

  • Media (Press releases), KOSTAT website (https://kostat.go.kr), KOSIS (Korean Statistical Information Service) (https://kosis.kr), publication

Publication Frequency

  • Annual

Publication Title

  • Publication title: 20** Farm Household Economy Statistics
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