What can agricultural censuses tell us about rural population ageing in developing countries?
2000
L. Stloukal
Rural population ageing in developing countries remains inadequately documented and poorly understood. This paper focuses on censuses of agriculture, which so far have been insufficiently explored as possible data sources for the examination of rural population ageing in developing countries. Although agricultural censuses are primarily designed to describe agricultural holdings and thus can cover only a part of the rural/agricultural population - i.e. holders, members of their households, and agricultural workers employed on holdings - they could be a powerful tool for analysis since they provide an opportunity to link the information on the techno-economic characteristics of agricultural holdings with the demographic attributes of persons attached to them.Paper reviews and assesses the relevant information contained in agricultural censuses taken between 1985 and 1996, by reviewing the main methodological aspects of agricultural censusesproviding examples of subject matters relevant to population ageing that can be studied with the evidence from agricultural censuses, to provide food for thought through highlighting issues that appear to be important for agriculture and rural development in poorer countries
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