Abstract

Quality of agricultural censuses: How to assess and improve quality leveraging new technologies?

Naman Keita
Retired FAO Principal Officer
Senior Agricultural Statistics Consultant
Rome, Italy/Bamako Mali
Naman.Keita21@gmail.com

DOUMBIA Seydou
Statistician Engineer
Division of Agricultural Statistics
National Institute of Statistics
Seydou.doumbia79@gmail.com
Bamako, Mali

ABSTRACT
Implementing a good quality Agricultural Census in a context of growing demand for more complex and inter-linked data raises particular challenges that can be addressed to a large extent by intensive use of new technologies and appropriate methodologies.
Assessing census data quality is an important step in improving towards its improvement. However, benchmarks for comparing and rating agriculture census quality are rare and not always standardized
This paper will discuss the challenges and opportunities for assessing and improving agricultural census data quality using new technologies and possible benchmarks for rating census data quality.