Statistics on Returned Farmers and Fishermen and Migrators to Rural Regions

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To provide basic data needed when making policy on returned farmers and returned-to-rural area people by identifying their respective sizes

Persons who migrate to Eup & Myeon regions after living in Dong regions for 1 year or more

Survey unit: Households (households of returned farmers and fishermen and migrators to rural regions) and individuals (returned farmers and fishermen and migrators to rural regions)

Dec. 7, 2012: Produced statistics on returned farmers for 2011 by using administrative data (Approval No. 10176)
March 28, 2013: Statistics on returned farmers and migrators to rural regions for 2012 (jointly produced by the Statistics Korea and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs) (Approval No. 92008)
July 21, 2015: Changed definitions of returned farmers and migrators to rural regions after enacting the Act on the Promotion and Support for Return to Agricultural and Fishing Villages and Rural Communities (Jan. 2015) and its enforcement decree (July 2015)
June 30, 2016: A joint compilation and publication of statistics (KOSTAT, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries) by following changed definitions and using administrative data (Approval No. 93002)
2019: Started compiling statistics on migrators to mountain villages
2019: Followed the Standard Classification of Fisheries when classifying the industry of returned fishermen

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