Fishery Household Economy Survey

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To provide basic data for establishing fishery policies and improving fishery management by grasping trends in fishery household economy and status of fishery management in accordance with economic and social changes

Households which meet one of the following conditions
- Those who did fishing vessel fishery, fishery without gear, diving fishery without gear, other fishery, or culture fishery for the purpose of selling their products for at least one month of the previous year
- Those whose annual sales of the products that they caught or cultured by themselves were at least 1.2 million KRW in the previous year

Feb. 1963: The first survey was conducted by the Ministry of Fisheries with an aim to understand the economic conditions of fishing villages.
Dec. 1963: Transferred the survey to the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperative (suspended in 1971)
1972: Recompiled by the Ministry of Fisheries
May 1974: Approved as general statistics
April 1978: Transferred the survey to the Statistics Office of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
1983~2008: Sample revision (six times)
Sep. 1996: Transferred the survey to the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
July 1998: Transferred the survey to the Statistics Korea following the revision of the Government Organization Act
Dec. 1999: Changed from general statistics to designated statistics
Jan. 2011: Improved a questionnaire and survey methodology in line with the plan to improve the Farm and Fishery Household Economy Statistics
Jan. 2013: The 7th sample revision

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

Statistics Korea