Summary information

Study title

Labour and Machinery on Large Arable Farms, 1978-1980

Creator

Walford, N. S., Wye College, School of Rural Economics and Related Studies

Study number / PID

1872 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-1872-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between land, labour and machinery on large arable farms with a view to modelling these relationships. These computer models were used to examine the effects of changing the levels and performance of these resources. The study also aimed to describe the levels of labour and machinery use on such farms.
A later study by the same Principal Investigator uses a subset of part of these data - 'Large-scale Commercial Farming in South East England, 1941, 1978, 1981 and 1998-1999', held at the UK Data Archive under SN:4154.
Main Topics:

Variables
Size of farm and enterprises; details of farm labour force (workers, wages, overtime, manual work by farmer, etc.); inventory of farm machinery; rates of work for farming operations; schedule and timing of normal sequence of operations carried out on each major crop.

Agriculture and rural industryLabour and employment

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICSAGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENTAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONAGRICULTURAL WORKERSANIMAL HUSBANDRYCOSTSCROPSFARMSLIVESTOCKSOILSWAGESHOURS OF WORK

Data collection period

01/02/1978 - 01/01/1980

Country

England

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Institutions/organisations

farms

Subnational

Farms

Universe

Arable farms over 300 hectares in size

Sampling procedure

One-stage stratified or systematic random sample

according to the distribution of large farms in the four South Eastern Counties (South East England); a simple random sample was used for East Anglia.

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1983

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.

Walford, N. (1981) The development and significance of alternative strategies in agricultural labour and machinery use [Research report], : University of Sussex.
Walford, N. (1979) Labour and machinery use on the larger, mainly arable farms, [Discussion paper].: Wye College Farm Business Unit.
Walford, N. (1983) 'The future size of farms: : modelling the effect of change in labour and machinery', Journal of Agricultural Economics, 319-338