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1. Roundtable on
World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2020
Bangkok, Thailand
19-23 September 2016
Kyaw Nyein Aung
Director
Department of Agricultural Land Management
And Statistics,
Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Irrigation
kyawnyeinaungslrd@gmail.com
Myanmar Census of
Agriculture (2010)
Technical Session … 10
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Hla Myo Khaing
Staff Officer
Central Statistical Organization,
Ministry of National Planning and Finance
hlamyokhing2014@gmail.com

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Agricultural Census conducted in Myanmar:
1952, 1993, 2003 and 2010
Agricultural Census in Myanmar and FAO Collaboration
Settlement and Land records Department (SLRD) Under
the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MoAI) prepare
and implement the MCA 2010 Through the Technical
Cooperation Programme of FAO Myanmar
FAO project TCP/MYA/3301 provide technical ssistance,
training and capacity building in census methodologies,
sampling design, census instrument development, data
processing, analysis, report writing and dissemination

3. Census Core Module (carried out in February and March 2009 )
The CM carried out for listing of households and identification of
agricultural holdings.
CM was carried out for households in all villages/blocks in the
country. However, only 85 % of the villages in the country
was covered because of security problems in some areas
CM collect all households in the country took information of
household engaged in agricultural activities, livestock rising
and main source of income
CM identified agricultural holdings was :
small agricultural holdings,
large agricultural holdings,
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Methodology used in MCA 2010

4. Items Included in CM
Location
Holder’s age and sex
Family numbers age and sex
Crop production engagement
cropped area
type of crops
Numbers of Livestock
large, small, poultry
Main source of income
Aquaculture engagement
Use of labor, numbers and sex
agriculture
livestock
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5. Methodology used in MCA 2010
Supplementary Module (SM)
Base on the listing of households from CM, SM was
carried out and enumerators interviewed; .
All large household agricultural holdings
about 33 % of small agricultural holding
households.
All household agricultural holdings in the ward
All households with aquaculture holdings and
All non-household sectors involved in crop
production, keeping/breeding
livestock/poultry and aquaculture operations.
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6. Sampling Design used for small agricultural
holdings in SM
Divided in to two stasge
First stage
Selection of sample village at township
level using probability proportional to size
(pps)
Second Stage
Used systematic sampling in selecting small
agricultural holding. The sampling rate for
selecting the sample households with small
agricultural holdings was 1/3 or 33.33
percent.
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7. Reference period for SM
31 January 2010 to 1 February 2011
Enumeration period
February and March 2011
Questionnaire Used
MCA Form A – Questionnaire for crop cultivation
MCA Form B – Questionnaire for keeping/breeding
livestock/poultry
MCA Form C – Aquaculture holding questionnaire
MCA Form D – Household questionnaire
MCA Form E – Village tract/ward questionnaire
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8. MCA 2010
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Core Module
Agriculture Aquaculture Commercial
Agri HhNon Agri Hh
Agriculture
Livestock
Small
Urban
Large
SM
Complete
enumeration
Sampling
Complete
enumeration
6.3 million Hh
Form C
information
collection
Form A B
Form D
Complete
enumeration
Complete
Complete
5.4
million
5.4
million 12512 758
Sampling
33.33%

9. Household Information included in MCA 2010
Holding population (total number, name, relation to head, sex,
age, education attained, marital status, economic
activity and involvement in own holding).
Forestry-related activity (whether engaged or not and type of
activity).
Small-scale fishing activity (whether engaged or not, main
person responsible, main purpose, fishing location,
fishing gear and fishing boat).
Food accessibility.
Reference Period
Household population socio-demographic characteristics – as of
time of visit/day of enumeration/interview.
Household population economic characteristics – past twelve
months.
Other remaining sections – past twelve months.
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10. Agricultural Households’ Characteristics tabulated in
MCA 2010
Total Population/Members of Households with Agricultural Holdings
by Sex and age of the Household Members, by Region/State,
Total Population/Members of Households with Agricultural
Holdings, by Sex of the Household Head, by Region/State,
Total Populations/Members 10 years old and over of Households
with Agricultural Holdings that Worked anytime during the
past 12 months, by Sex
Economic Activity of the Household Members, by Region/State,
Total Populations/Members 10 years old and over of Households
with Agricultural Holdings that Worked on Own Agricultural
Holding by Sex
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11. Number of Households with Agricultural Holdings that
Engaged in any Forestry-Related Activities
Number of Households with Agricultural Holdings that
Engaged in Fishing Activity and Type of Fishing Gears,
Number of Households Engaged in Agricultural Holding that
Used Fishing Boat, by Type of boat,
Number of Households Engaged in Agricultural Holding that
Reported Basic Food Items Consumed, Frequency of
Eating and source of Specified Basic Food, by region/State
Number of Households Engaged in Agricultural Holding with
Difficulty in Accessing and taken to Solve Food
Inaccessibility the Specified Basic Food Items
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Demographics of Agricultural Holder
Agricultural Holders Number of persons National, Regional by Sex and
by age
Education level Educational status by sex National and regional by sex
Labour Status Employment status by sex, by
Industry classification, by
occupational classification
National and regional by sex
Household income Amount by sex National and regional by sex
Number of hired
workers on farm
holdings
Number of persons by sex National and regional by sex
Housing conditions Number of dwellings by type National and regional by sex
Items to be consider in MCA 2020

13. Major Challenges in MCA 2020
While SLRD took responsibility to carry out MCA
2010 the core group involved in MCA 1993 and
2003 were at the age of retired.
With the assistance of FAO in the area of sampling
design, questionniare perparation , analysis, report
preparation and dissemination SLRD carried out
activities.
The most valuable output was implementing the
“learning by doing” techniques across different
activities.
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14. THANK YOU
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