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and type of agriculture which is used to prepare frame for the annual
agricultural survey. In the cartographic work of population and housing
census, households are listed and the list is used as frame for the 2018/19
annual agricultural survey. The same information which will help to build frame
will also be collected during listing of population and housing census.
The main objective of AgSS is to measure the area and production of crops
and the production of livestock at the regional and zone levels. The AgSS is
also used to study different characteristics of the agricultural households, such
as the use of irrigation and other agricultural inputs.
A new sample for the annual agricultural survey is selected in 2018 based
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on the cartographic frame prepared for the 4 population and housing census.
This survey provided up-to-date data as we used the new updated frame. The
enumerators also used electronic map for delineating and listing. This
technological improvement saves time and improves quality.
The measure of size for the selection of EAs is based on the number
households in the updated frame for each rural EA. Given that a very high
percent of rural households are involved in agriculture, the total number of
households was used as the measure of size for the rural EAs. The sampling
frame includes new zones that were split from the zones in the previous frame.
The previous AgSSonly included 66 zones; 10 zones in the Afar and Somali
Regions with nomadic population were excluded. CSA covered all zones in the
new frame for the AgSS, to cover all the crop area and livestock in Ethiopia.
The CSA has a frame of large commercial farms, which are covered in a
special survey. This sector may be especially important for particular crops.
This separate frame is important to ensure that the total crop and livestock
production is covered since the large commercial farms are excluded from the
AgSS,
Getting reliable estimate for rare crops is a challenge in AgSS. Collecting
information on the types of crops grown in each EA in the core module during
population and housing census may help to develop a special frame for rare
crops. The other two issues which is recommended to be covered in the core
module are information related to irrigated crop area and livestock data on
pastoral areas.
Technological advances save time and improve quality. The Enumeration
Area map in the previous census was paper based. Identifying boundaries
using paper based maps was difficult. There was also a problem in storage and
identification of the maps for conducting sample surveys. The electronic EA
maps prepared which are loaded on each tablet computer helps to guide the
enumerator during delineation. . These electronic EA maps are also simple to
access and print for other sample surveys.

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