Farm structure survey

The Farm structure survey is carried out in compliance with Regulation CEE  n.571/88 and other specific Council Directives. In 2005 the survey was carried out by a strong collaboration with local administrations (Regions and Autonomous Regions and Provinces).

Local administrations were in charge of data collection and data entry in agreement with the 3^rd Memorandum of Understanding among Istat, Mipaf and Regions and with methods established by Istat. Data collection was carried out from October 2005 to June 2006 using a random sample of 56,542 farms. The majority of these farms – 54,911 – were selected among the 2,150,000 farms coming from the Agricultural Census 2000.