Regional Training Course on Agricultural Cost of Production Statistics
23-27 April 2018 | Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Objectives
The overall objective of this training is to strengthen the technical capacity of statistical producers (statistical offices and other institutions) to apply relevant international comparable methods and standards in the compilation of agricultural cost of production statistics by:
• Increasing understanding of various types of costs related to agricultural operations and how these concepts can be integrated in agricultural and rural statistics data collection programmes;
• Applying estimation methods for all types of agricultural costs of production adapted to the characteristics of the basic data, country capacities and objectives;
• Offering guidance on international principles and standards with respect to cost of agricultural production statistics to ensure comparability; and
• Equipping participants with the knowledge and techniques to design data collection schemes for farm level data related to costs, farm structures etc. to meet the needs of various users.
| Reference Materials | |
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Module 1: Uses and Benefits of Costs of Production Statistics | |
| Session 1.1: Different uses and users of AgCoP statistics and country specific scenarios/case studies | |
Module 2: Key concepts of Agricultural Costs of Production | |
| Session 2.1: Dimensions of production costs, analytical units, indicators, statistical tables, quality control and measurement | |
Module 3: Data collection Mechanisms：A review of survey approaches | |
| Session 3.1: General considerations for data collection | |
| Session 3.2: Data collection vehicles: Towards an integrated survey strategy | |
| Session 3.3: Survey Design Considerations: Review of Basics of Sampling Methods: Probability Sampling, Sample Selection and Sample Design and Estimation | |
| Session 3.4: Survey Design Considerations: Systematic Sampling Objectives of Multistage Sampling and Illustrative Designs | |
| Session 3.5:Objectives and Use of Stratification in Sample Design | |
Module 4: Determination of cash, labour and land costs | |
| Session 4.2：Estimating the costs of paid and unpaid labour | |
| Session 4.3: Land tenure types and associated cost estimation methods | |
Module 5: | |
| Session 5.1: Different types of capital goods in agriculture and the estimation of capital cost | |
| Session 5.2: Determining the cost and revenues from agricultural production | |
| Session 5.3：Allocating pre-productive costs in multi-year enterprises | |
Module 6: Data Collection Tools for Agricultural Costs of Production | |
| Session 6.1: Key Principles of Questionnaire Design | |
| Session 6.4： Data Dissemination Principles | |
Country Report | |
| Bangladesh | |
| Cambodia | |
| Lao PDR | |
| Papua New Guinea | |
| Thailand | |
| Viet Nam | |