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About the Census of Agriculture
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7.0 What is the Agriculture-population linkage database, and why is
it important?
7.1 What is the Agriculture-population linkage, and why is it important?
7.2 Why are Agriculture–Population data
not available below the provincial level?
7.3 What is the definition of farm household,
farm census family and farm economic family as used in the Agriculture–Population
linkage?
7.4 What does “total income” include?
7.5 Why is net farm income not reported by some incorporated farm
operations?
7.6 What tables were incorporated farms excluded from?
7.7 What is an incorporated farm operation?
7.8 How do you define “immigrant”?
7.9 How do you define rural and urban populations?
7.10 How do you define farm and non-farm populations?
7.11 What kinds of programs are included under
the level-of-schooling category “Postsecondary, non-university”?
7.12 What happens when a person is involved in more than one unpaid
activity at the same time?
7.13 What is included in “agricultural occupations”?
7.1 What is the Agriculture–Population
linkage and why is it important?
The Agriculture–Population linkage database matches farm operators
(as reported on the Census of Agriculture) with the information they
provided on the Census of Population long-form questionnaire. The data
from this source provide a wealth of information about farmers, their
families and their households that we would not have from just the Census
of Agriculture questionnaire. Variables such as marital status, level
of schooling, occupation, total household income, unpaid work, country
of birth, and religion can be analysed for the farm population. It also
allows certain characteristics of the farm population to be compared
with the general population.
7.2 Why are Agriculture–Population data
not available below the provincial level?
The figures for Agriculture–Population data are derived from
a 20% sample from the Census of Population, adjusted to represent the
entire population.
We use a 20% sample because the Census of Population only asks 1 in every
5 households to fill out the long questionnaire form, the source of all
the socio-economic data. Because the farm population can be very small
below
the provincial level, and taking into consideration the 20% sample size,
the numbers are often too small to be reliably accurate.
7.3 What is the definition of farm household,
farm census family and farm economic family as used in the Agriculture–Population
linkage?
A household refers to a person or group of persons who occupy the same
dwelling. A farm household must have at least one farm operator, that
is, a person responsible for making management decisions in operating
a farm or agricultural operation.
The farm family is divided into two general categories: farm census
families and farm economic families. In order to be a farm family, at
least one household member must be a farm operator.
The census family concept requires that family members be a male or
female spouse, a male or female common-law partner, a male or female
lone parent, or a child with a parent present. By contrast, an economic
family requires only that family members be related to each other by
blood, marriage, common law or adoption. The concept of economic family
may, therefore, refer to a larger group of persons than a census family.
For example, a widowed mother living with her married son and daughter-in-law
would be treated as a non-family person under the definition of a census
family. She would, however, be counted as a member of an economic family
along with her son and daughter-in-law.
Click on /english/census2001/dict/famint.htm for more detailed information on the components of economic and census
family.
7.4 What does “total income” include?
Total income refers to the total income from all sources, including
employment income, income from government programs, pension income,
investment income and any other money income. Total income is broken
into three categories: net farm income, other employment income, other
sources of income.
Net farm income includes:
- gross receipts from farm sales minus depreciation and cost of operation.
Gross receipts include cash advances received in 2000, dividends
from co-operatives, rebates and farm-support payments to farmers from
federal,
provincial and regional agricultural programs (e.g., milk subsidies
and marketing board payments) and gross insurance proceeds such
as payments from the Net Income Stabilization Account (NISA). The
value of income “in
kind,” such as agricultural products produced and consumed
on the farm, is excluded.
Other employment income includes:
- non-farm self-employment income, wages and salaries.
Other sources
of income includes:
- government transfer payments, investment income and all other income.
Incorporated farm operations are likely to report wages
and salaries or dividend earnings from the farm corporation as “other employment
income” or “other sources of income.”
Some data tables from the Agriculture–Population release
include the major source of household income, which refers
to the component
that constitutes the largest proportion of household income.
Click on /english/census2001/dict/pop028.htm for more detailed information about the components of income.
7.5 Why is net farm income not reported by some incorporated farm operations?
The tables that provide data about net farm income are accompanied
with a footnote to users to be aware that individuals on incorporated
farms may not report net farm income on their Census of Population form.
They are more likely to report wages and salaries or dividend earnings
from the farm corporation as “other employment income” or “other sources of income.”
7.6 What tables were incorporated farms excluded from?
Incorporated farms are excluded from the data tables that deal with
families because they are legal entities and are not counted as families.
They are excluded in the following tables:
Table 9
Census families and economic families on unincorporated farms by size
if family, 2001
Table 10
Census families (on unincorporated farms) total income by selected income
variables, 2001
Table 11
Economic families’ (on unincorporated farms) total income by selected
income variables, 2001.
7.7 What is an incorporated farm operation?
An incorporated farm operation exists as a legal entity separate from
the farm operator. Only the corporation itself is liable in the case
of a lawsuit. Succession of the farm operation can also be easier for
incorporated farms, because it is owned by shareholders.
7.8 How do you define “immigrant”?
Landed immigrants are people who have been permitted by immigration
authorities to live in Canada permanently; some will have lived
in Canada for a number of years, while others have arrived recently.
Immigrant farm operators may have arrived in Canada at any time,
but
were operating a farm in 2001.
7.9 How do you define rural and urban populations?
The urban population refers to everyone in an area with a population
of at least 1,000 and no fewer than 400 persons per square kilometre.
The rural population includes everyone living outside centres with a
population of 1,000 or more. The building blocks for classifying geographic
space as “rural” include all those people living in the
rural fringes of census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and census agglomerations
(CAs), as well as people living in rural areas outside CMAs and CAs.
See definitions in Census Dictionary: /english/census2001/dict/index.htm
7.10 How do you define farm and non-farm populations?
Farm population includes all members of a farm operator’s household,
living on a farm in a rural or urban area. Non-farm population refers
to everyone outside the farm population.
7.11 What kinds of programs are included
under the level-of-schooling category “Postsecondary, non-university”?
The “Postsecondary, non-university” includes completed
postsecondary education resulting in a trade certificate or diploma,
or a college certificate or diploma.
7.12 What happens when a person is involved in more than one unpaid
activity at the same time?
The person should report the time spent on each activity in the appropriate
question. For example, someone who spent one hour preparing a meal
while looking after his or her children should report one hour of housework
and one hour of child care. It does not matter that these activities
took place at the same time.
7.13 What is included in “agricultural occupations”?
Agricultural occupations are based on the 2001 National Occupation
Classifications. Primary agricultural occupation includes farmer, farm
manager, greenhouse operator, maple syrup producer, farm worker etc.
Primary non-agricultural occupation is everything else, such as teacher,
truck driver, firefighter, auto mechanic, etc.
For more information on the NOC-S-2001, see the National Occupational
Classification for Statistics, 2001, Statistics Canada Catalogue no.
12-583-XPE.
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