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 Agricultural holding managers (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Agricultural holding managers (No.) by Geographic localization (NUTS - 2001), Sex and Age group; Decennial
Regularity Decennial
Source Statistics Portugal, Agriculture census - historical series
First available period 1989
Last available period 2009
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (NUTS - 2001)
  • Sex
  • Age group
Concepts
  • FARM MANAGER:  A person responsible for the current, daily management of an agricultural holding and who must have a regular job there. Daily management of the holding is understood to be making decisions every day on work to be done on the holding and operations without any great economic repercussions on the operation of the holding.
  • AGRICULTURAL HOLDING:  Technical-economic unit that uses common production factors such as labour, machinery, facilities, land, among others, fulfilling the following four conditions: 1) yield agricultural products or maintain, in good agricultural and environmental conditions, the lands that are no longer used for productive purposes; 2) reach or exceed a certain size (in area or number of animals); 3) be subject to a single management; 4) be located in a well-defined and identifiable area.
  • AGE GROUP:  The age interval in years to which a person belongs at the time of reference.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 23/05/2011


information presented in 26/12/2024