1. Scottish Government Statistics Scottish Government statistics Agriculture Statistics Conference 2016 Neil White

2. Scottish Government Statistics A recap of feedback…

3. Scottish Government Statistics Overview What was the plan? How did we do? What extra work appeared? What’s the future for agriculture statistics? Group discussion/feedback

4. Scottish Government Statistics Ag. Statistics plan: 2013-14 to 2015-16. Meet compliance and…

5. Scottish Government Statistics Progress – how did we do? Cattle Tracing Scheme SAPM & GHG New typology Referendum (2014) Data Vis. + Twitter @SGRESAS Land Reform/Ag Holdings Cereal estimates SGAI & DAS & online (Brian Pack) New FBI, EGM + contract FSS 2013 & 2016 Reduced data burden Business level stats FAS review Net margins Electronic data capture

6. Scottish Government Statistics Additional work/developments Budget pressures, fewer people – FTE now 14 (was ~17). Brought some surveys in-house (fruit, seed potatoes, slaughter). TIFF – overhaul of processes and data Cereal Production Survey – in-house for 2015 New Organic Farming in Scotland publication Land reform – surveys, data collection and analysis Weather Aid analysis in 2013 Added cattle breed to June census 2015 Data sharing (FBI/JHI) and RPID/RESAS overarching.

7. Scottish Government Statistics The future of agriculture statistics UK referendum on EU membership (23/6/16) UK has Presidency of European Council in 2017 - Agriculture statistics framework regulations FSS 2016, FSS 2020(?) and new Standard Outputs Eurostat’s Annual Work Plan – 2020 New - Areas of Natural Constraint Additional Land Reform work New - Topic papers covering agriculture, supply chain and food & drink. Electronic data capture. AGS and RPS integration. New - Open data & data science, including software testing for ‘R’ GSS – desire to get data “out there” much quicker; presents challenges Will budgets be squeezed again…? Will need to collaborate more across various projects

8. Scottish Government Statistics Options for discussion Each table please take 10 minutes to discuss. Please feedback one or two key points or thoughts. Papers are on the table but you don’t need to stick to what’s on the list! Thanks.