9.0 Endnotes
- For the purposes of this report, the word "farm" represents all agricultural operations as per the Census of Agriculture:
Agricultural operation
A farm, ranch or other agricultural operation producing agricultural products for sale. Also includes: feedlots, greenhouses, mushroom houses and nurseries; farms producing Christmas trees, fur, game, sod, maple syrup or fruit and berries; beekeeping and poultry hatchery operations; operations with alternative livestock (bison, deer, elk, llamas, alpacas, wild boars, etc.) or alternative poultry (ostriches, emus, etc.), when the animal or derived products are intended for sale; backyard gardens if agricultural products are intended for sale; operations involved in boarding horses, riding stables and stables for housing and/or training horses even if no agriculture products are sold. Sales in the past 12 months not required but there must be the intention to sell.
NOTE: For the Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest Territories only, the definition also includes operations involved in the following: herding wild animals (such as caribou and muskox), breeding sled dogs, horse outfitting and rigging, and harvesting indigenous plants and berries.
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/ca-ra2006/gloss-eng.htm
- Response burden reduction in this report also includes the need to reduce red tape as identified by the Government of Canada's (GoC) Red Tape Reduction Commission.
http://www.reduceredtape.gc.ca/why-pourquoi/grow-croitre01-eng.asp#toc2 (accessed June 4, 2012).
- The key federal users consulted were Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Environment Canada, Health Canada and the following AAFC portfolio partners: the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), the Canadian Grain Commission, the Canadian Dairy Commission, Farm Credit Canada and the Farm Products Council of Canada. The key provincial users consulted were the stakeholders from the provincial and territorial agriculture ministries and statistics agencies. The key industry stakeholders represented producer organizations and industry clients of the Agriculture Division.
- For the purposes of CEAG planning, the short term is defined as the next five years; medium term is defined as the next five to ten years; and the long term is any timeframe longer than ten years with further precision indicated where possible.
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, 2007, A System of Integrated Agricultural Censuses and Surveys, Volume 1, World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2010, Rome.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/a0135e/A0135E04.htm#ch1 (accessed June 4, 2012).
- PM Announces Red Tape Reduction Commission.http://pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?id=3894 (accessed June 4, 2012).
- Specifically, the Corporate Business Architecture (CBA) initiative.
- Derek Burleton and Dina Cover, 2011, Unprecedented Volatility A Hallmark of Agriculture's New Age, TD Economics, p. 4.
http://www.td.com/document/PDF/economics/special/dc1111_agriculture.pdf (accessed June 4, 2012).
- Ministerial Declaration: "Action Plan on Food Price Volatility and Agriculture," Meeting of the G20 Agriculture Ministers, (Paris), June 22-23, 2011. p. 2.
http://un-foodsecurity.org/sites/default/files/110623_G20_AgMinisters
_Action_Plan_Agriculture_Food_Price_Volatility.pdf (accessed June 4, 2012).
- Canada's response to Action Two of the "Action Plan on Food Price Volatility and Agriculture" states that the data on crops produced eight times per crop year meet the AMIS requirements. It also states that the data collected on the major classes of livestock are sufficient. It further cites Statistics Canada's remote sensing Crop Condition Assessment Program (CCAP) data meet the requirements to estimate yield models and production of some crops in Canada. Accountability for G20 Food Security Commitments, AAFC correspondence, September 2011.
- FAO, op.cit., p. 60.
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 2011, An Overview of the Canadian Agriculture and Agri-food System, Ottawa, Ontario.
http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC‑AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1295963199087&lang=eng (accessed June 4, 2012).
- Statistics Act, section 20 : A census of agriculture of Canada shall be taken by Statistics Canada
- (a) in the year 1971 and in every tenth year thereafter; and
- (b) in the year 1976 and in every tenth year thereafter, unless the Governor in Council otherwise directs in respect of any such year. 1970-71-72, c. 15, s. 19.
http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/S-19/FullText.html (accessed June 4, 2012).
- Statistics Act, section 22: Without limiting the duties of Statistics Canada under Section 3 or affecting any of its powers or duties in respect of any specific statistics that may otherwise be authorized or required under this Act, the Chief Statistician shall, under the direction of the Minister, collect, compile, analyze, abstract and publish statistics in relation to all or any of the following matters in Canada:
- (a) population;
- (b) agriculture;
- (c) health and welfare;
- (d) law enforcement, the administration of justice and corrections;
…; and - (u) any other matters prescribed by the Minister or by the Governor in Council. 1970-71-72, c. 15, s. 21; 1976-77, c. 54, s. 74.
http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/S-19/FullText.html (accessed June 4, 2012).
- Early censuses included questions on population and agriculture together. Starting in 1896, a separate CEAG was conducted in Manitoba, and in Alberta and Saskatchewan beginning in 1906. The CEAG has been conducted every five years in the Prairie provinces since 1906.
- The Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (C_FARE), 2007, Improving Information About America's Farms and Ranches: A Review of the Census of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
http://www.cfare.org/publications/20070307cfare_census_review_Full_Report.pdf,
(accessed June 4, 2012).
- The Survey of Household Spending shows that in 2009 the broadband connection for internet use in rural Canada was 28% compared with 50% for population centres of 500,000 and over. Statistics Canada, 2010, Survey of Household Spending, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario.
- The Regulations (EC) No 1166/2008 and No 1200/2009 regulate the content and conduct of the European agricultural surveys and census.
- Statistical Clearing House, Australian Bureau of Statistics, http://www.nss.gov.au/nss/home.nsf/pages/About+SCH (accessed June 4, 2012).
- The Farm Register will be migrated to the Business Register (BR) in 2012.
- FAO, op.cit. p. 18.
- Ibid.
- Don Royce, 2011, Preliminary Report on Methodology Options for the 2016 Census, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/strat/index-eng.cfm (accessed June 4, 2012).
- The FAO recommendations for conducting a CEAG state that a CEAG should be conducted more frequently than every ten years. The recommendations suggest that a CEAG be conducted based on complete enumeration for the core content required by policy makers. Further data not considered essential for policy making are to be collected from a sample of the population either concurrently with the CEAG or post-censally. The FAO recommendations are based on the internationally recognized need to reduce collection and processing costs for agriculture censuses as well as to provide for the increasing amount of information sought from the CEAG.
Source: World Bank and FAO, 2010, The Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics, Report Number 56719-GLB, Washington D.C.
http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/ess/documents/meetings_and_workshops/
seminar_on_global_strategy_22_06_2009/global_strategy_document_20090622.pdf (accessed June 4, 2012).
- FAO, op.cit.
- World Bank and FAO, op.cit.
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