Census of Agriculture 2010 Summary & Current Position Fiona O’Callaghan 24 th April 2012

Extensive use made of administrative records DAFM’s Corporate Client System used in conjunction with existing CSO Register to produce a comprehensive Register of Agricultural holdings AIM and SFP used to eliminate 25 questions from the COA questionnaire

Key Numbers in 2010 Number of Farm Holdings139,800 Utilised Agricultural Area (hectares)4,569,400 Average size of holding (hectares)32.7 Cattle6,606,600 Sheep5,079,000 Pigs1,518,300 Poultry11,025,400 Crops (hectares)273,900

Since Preliminary Results Imputation of Eurostat microfile  Crops, horticulture, grassland, organics, etc.  Workforce details, time spent on farmwork etc. Preparation of National Methodological Report Ongoing work on Data Visualisation

Revisions resulting out of COA2010 Farm Structure Survey 2005, 2007, 2009  Aggregate level only  Number of farms, UAA, livestock etc. No timeline on this yet as priority is to publish COA Final results and prepare for FSS 2013

Future work Analysis of SAPM results COA 2010 Final Results – last quarter of 2012 Considering the publication of a module on Labour earlier than this