Vanuatu Agriculture Census 2006-2008

The Agriculture Census 2007 was the third undertaken in Vanuatu for the purpose of compiling information on agriculture, forestry and fisheries resources. Data collected will be used to formulate plans, policies and programs for the development and improvement of these sectors. This census was conducted by the Vanuatu National Statistics Office (VNSO), a centralized organization mainly responsible for the collection and dissemination of important statistics in the country by means of censuses of population, agriculture, household income and expenditure surveys, business surveys, collection of imports and exports data, etc. However, owing to limited resources, the VNSO cannot accommodate requests for extra data needed by other government and private sectors: hence, these data may have to be collected independently.
Agricultural statistics in Vanuatu are produced in two ways: through census/ survey and through administrative records. The census/survey provides baseline or benchmark information for planners and policymakers while the data from administrative records are used to keep track of changes and development in specific aspects of agriculture.

Version 01: Cleaned, labelled and de-identified version of the Master file.

Households
•structure and characteristics of agricultural activities of households in Vanuatu

• number and distribution of household engaged in agriculture

•general characteristics of the household agricultural activities – type of agricultural activities; type of management;
number of households members mainly responsible for agricultural activities in the last twelve months.

Individuals
•Characteristics of members of the household engaged in agricultural activities - relation to head; age; sex;highest education; involvement and average hours worked per week in agricultural activities. number of hired workers and average hours worked per day per person

* Collection start: 2006
* Collection end: 2008