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available.
The countries without a well-established census and survey programme
may find this modality as an important step towards the creation of a
system of integrated agricultural censuses and surveys. This modality is
proposed to provide tools for a system that ensures a continuous flow
of data instead of concentrating all resources on a single census
operation.
4) Using data available from administrative sources
In recent years, a growing number of statistical offices, particularly in
developed countries, are moving towards more use of data from
administrative sources in the statistical data production process. Making
greater use of administrative data is a way to reduce the burden on
respondents and generate more frequent data with reduced costs by not
collecting data that are already available through the administrative
process.
For example, an assessment made by Statistics Canada in 2012
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concluded that the AC remains relevant and necessary for the country .
However, in order to render the program more efficient, some changes
were needed, such as increasing the use of administrative data to
gradually replace survey data and increasing utilization of remote
sensing.
The WCA 2020 introduced the use of administrative registers as a source
of census data as an alternative census modality. This modality is relevant
for countries with well-developed administrative registers, suitable for
statistical purposes and requires the access of statistical agencies to
administrative data (individual records). When implementing this
modality, the census agency needs to decide which items will be collected
directly from available administrative data sources (and thus excluded
from the census questionnaire) and those to be obtained through census
enumeration.
5) Integrating the agricultural census and the population and
housing census
The integration of the AC and the PHC, as well as other censuses (such
as the economic census) constitutes another important aspect of the
integration of statistical operations in the NSS. The relationship between
the AC and the PHC, for instance, can take several forms - from
coordinating aspects of the two censuses to including key agricultural

The assessment used criteria such as relevance, accuracy, coherence, timeliness,
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interpretability, accessibility, respondent burden, cost and acceptability by user and
respondent community.
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