Farm Business Survey, 2005-2006: Special Licence Access

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Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Farm Business Survey (FBS) is conducted annually to collect business information from c.2,400 farms in England and Wales. The FBS provides information on the financial position and physical and economic performance of farm businesses, to inform policy decisions on matters affecting farm businesses and to enable analysis of impacts of policy options. It is intended to serve the needs of farmers, farming and land management interest groups, government (both national and European), government partners, and researchers. The primary objective of survey results is to contrast the performance or other business characteristics of different groupings of farm, such as between regions or other geographical or environmental designations, farm types, farm size, age or education of farmer etc. Up to and including the 2001/02 survey, FBS estimates were based on matching of the sample between two adjacent years. Farm weights were still calculated to present a matched sample however. From the 2002/03 survey onwards, matching between adjacent years was dropped altogether, and weights are now calculated for the full sample. The typology used to determine the FBS farm type classification was revised for 2009 onwards. The FBS typology is now based on standard outputs expressed in euros, with a minimum threshold of 25,000 euro (irrespective of the SLR) for FBS eligibility. Between 2009 and 2011, FBS farm type classification has been based on 2007 standard output (SO) coefficients. From 2012 to 2016, FBS farm type classification was based on 2010 SO coefficients, and from 2017 the FBS farm type classifications are based on 2013 SO coefficients. The change in typology has had an effect on the distribution of farms by farm type and income averages. Further information regarding the change in typology is available from the 'FBS Documents' section on the gov.uk Farm Business Survey – technical notes and guidance webpage. The Farm Business Survey is available under Special Licence access conditions. For further details on how to apply for access to the data, see the Access section below.

For the third edition of the study (May 2008), a new version of the Access database was deposited. The depositor notes that definitions and values of certain calculated variables have been updated from the previous version, and users are therefore advised to download the new edition of the database, and destroy the previous version. The documentation remains unchanged. August 2008: the UKDA are currently awaiting deposit of section M data for survey years 2004/05 to 2006/07. Although a peripheral analysis of 'Section O' has been published on the Defra statistics website, Defra are not yet in a position to fully release these data. Sections P and R remain unpublished and are still not available for release.

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Variables cover general and physical farm characteristics, labour, crops (previous and current harvest year, set-aside, byproducts, forage and cultivations); miscellaneous receipts, livestock (dairy and beef cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry, miscellaneous livestock), variable and fixed costs, assets, investment, liabilities, income from diversified activities (integrated and semi-integrated into the farm business), farmer and spouse off-farm hours and incomes, and subsidies.

One-stage stratified or systematic random sample

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111054
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1007/s12351-018-0429-7
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=e8433fa045a3a16335e4b25836378553e4b99aef07eab5be698b8972f2d269b7
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Creator National Assembly for Wales; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2007
Rights <a href="https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/re-using-public-sector-information/uk-government-licensing-framework/crown-copyright/" target="_blank">© Crown copyright</a>. The use of these data is subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">UK Data Service End User Licence Agreement</a>. Additional restrictions may also apply.; <p>The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">End User Licence Agreement</a>.</p><p>Commercial use is not permitted.</p><p>Use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. Users must apply for access via a Special Licence application.</p><p>Additional conditions of use apply:</p><p>No publication of statistical tables, maps or any other documents, which show information relating to less than 5 farms in any cell, or of tables, maps or any other documents from which such information can be deduced.</p><p>Under the terms and conditions of use as specified in the End User Licence and the Special Licence Declaration, these data <b><u> must</u></b> be destroyed at the end of the access period. This includes all copies of the data; electronic copies, temporary copies, CDs, printed copies, back-ups, subsets of variables/cases and any derived data. Failure to comply with this requirement may result in future requests for access to data being denied.</p>
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Resource Type Numeric
Discipline Economics; Environmental Research; Geosciences; Land Use; Natural Sciences; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage England and Wales