Summary information

Study title

Agricultural Census of Scotland, 1986; Parish Frequency Counts

Creator

University of Edinburgh, Centre for Applications Software and Technology
Scottish Office, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries

Study number / PID

2354 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-2354-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

These data record crops, livestock and agricultural manpower in Scotland by means of an annual census conducted in June.
Main Topics:
Variables
Total area of land, land tenure, total crops, grassland, grazing, woodland; crops and fallow; seasonal land use; hay and silage stocks; farmers and workers; livestock; vegetables, orchards, small fruit, hardy nursery stock, bulbs and flowers.
Parish Frequency Counts (SN:2340, 2350 -2354)
These files contain counts of holdings by farm type and size for parishes.

Methodology

Data collection period

Not available

Country

Scotland

Time dimension

Repeated cross-sectional study
annual

Analysis unit

Farms
National
Livestock
Agriculture
Agricultural manpower

Universe

Agricultural crops, livestock and labour in Scotland

Sampling procedure

No sampling (total universe)

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Postal survey

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1988

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

Related publications

Not available