Survey Information "Discontinued"

Survey Name:

Earnings of Permanent Agricultural Workers

Business Area:

Register Section, Agriculture Division.

Survey Purpose:

To compile data on the gross earnings and number of hours worked of permanent agricultural workers

Legislative Basis:

Informal Agreement

Periodicity:

3-4 years Last survey was conducted in 2001

Target Population:

Farms employing 1 or more permanent agricultural workers

Sampling Frame:

The Agriculture Register , using data on employees returned in June survey. A temporary subset of this is created specifically for the survey.

Survey Size:

16,000

Principal Variables Collected:

No. of employees, gross weekly earnings, number of hours worked per week, type of agricultural work, status, benefits provided

Principal External Users:

Government, Agriculturalists

Contact Points

Business Area Specialists:

Fiona O'Callaghan

The business specialists above can be contacted by e-mail using their firstname.lastname@cso.ie