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1 Farm Household Income: Towards Better Informed Policies (OECD, October 2004) SS Economics of Food Markets Kevin Lynch 23 rd October 2007 Trinity College, Dublin

2 Why is information needed? Wanted: A new household model of rural and farm families. New classification : business/ household characteristics not commodity Two household farm problem Policy evaluation in times of reform Variety of households (panel data)

3 What information is available? No comprehensive or consistent measure of rural household incomes Micro/macro problems, international & intertemporal comparisons FADN: data on size, composition & costs Tax reciepts: different provisions Household Surveys: not enough farms

4 Obstacles to collecting this information Administrative: costs (speed of revision), privacy, burden on participants Technical: representation, wealth, panel composition Political: non-compliance, vested interests

5 How can these be overcome? Accountability of public funds Counting costs from programme budgets Cost: IT, multiple use, wider scope and applications – private sector? Best practice: IT, standardised estimators

6 How would such information help policy makers? To assess the nature, cause and extent of income problems. Farm/non-farm income Measurable targets for policy New policy design for specific problems Policy evaluation Better national models Replacing incomplete irrelevant data

7 Summary and Outlook Reliable data needed to measure policy effectiveness Survey costs<policy costs Technical problems are relatively minor Co-operation between agents and countries is essential


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