Type of indicator

Sectoral

Indicator C22

Farm labour force

Definition

The indicator shows the labour force directly employed by the agricultural holding and working regularly. 

The farm labour force of the holding includes all persons having completed their compulsory education (having reached school-leaving age) who carried out farm work on the holding during the 12 months ending on the reference day of the survey. All persons of retirement age who continue to work on the holding are included in the farm labour force.

Total and by sex for the different categories of farm labour force:

  • regular labour force:
  • family labour force (sole holders working in the farm + members of the sole holder’s family working in the farm)
  • non-family labour force
  • non-regular labour force (only AWU)

This indicator consists of 2 sub-indicators:

  1. total regular farm labour force, in persons
  2. total regular farm labour force, in AWU

 

Unit of measurement
  1. persons
  2. AWU

Data source

Eurostat – Farm Structure Survey (FSS)

References/location of the data

FSS 2013 and before:

For national data: [ef_olfaa] 

For regional data and labour force by sex: [ef_olfreg] 

FSS 2016:

For national, regional data and labour force by sex: [ef_lf_size]

Data collection level

EU, national (NUTS 0) and regional (NUTS 1 and 2)

Frequency

FSS: full census every 10 years, intermediate surveys 2/3 times in-between.

Delay

2-3 years

Comments/caveats

Due to the high share of part-time work in agriculture, labour input can be better assessed in terms of AWU than in terms of persons.