Food Grain Consumption Survey

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To provide basic data required for the establishment of agricultural policies, such as to plan for grain supply, improve dietary life, establish production goals and carry out research on food problems

Household: General households excluding foreign resident's household, and collective households (dormitory, jail, barracks, etc.)
Establishment: Food and beverage manufacturers using rice as a main ingredient

Household: 1,540 households (640 farm households, 900 non-farm households)
Establishments: Around 2,864 establishments such as food and beverage manufacturers

November 1st of a previous year ~ October 31st of a current year (food grain year)

1962: The first survey by the Grain Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry on the basis of the results of the 1960 Population Census
1969~1993: Carried out 8 times of redesigning samples
1997: Redesigned samples using data from the 1995 Population and Housing Census and Agricultural Census
July 1998: Changed production organizations (Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry → National Statistical Office)
2008: Redesigned samples using data from th-e 2005 Population and Housing Census and Agricultural Census
Nov. 2011: Included rice consumption of establishments by approving changes in the food grain consumption survey
2018~2019: Expanded the sample size to a total of 1,540 households (640 farm households and 900 non-farm households) according to the sample revision of the Farm Household Economy Survey, and the Household Income and Expenditure Survey

News release, Statistics Korea webpage (https://kostat.go.kr), KOSIS (https://kosis.kr), online publications

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