Type of indicator

Sectoral

Indicator C23

Age structure of farm managers

Definition

The indicator shows the total number of managers in different age categories. 

It consists of 3 sub-indicators:

  1. total number of farm managers
  2. number of managers by age groups and the share of the total
  3. ratio between young farm managers and elderly farm managers. 

 

The age classes represented are: 

a) managers who are younger than 35 years, managers between 35 and 54 years, managers of 55 years and over a

b) managers who are younger than 40 years, managers 

between 40 and 64 years, managers of 65 years and over

 

The manager of the holding is the natural person responsible for the normal daily financial and production routines of running the holding concerned. The holder is the natural person, group of natural persons or legal person on whose account and in whose name the holding is operated and who is legally and economically responsible for the holding, i.e. who takes the economic risks of the holding. The manager and the holder can be the same person.

 

Unit of measurement
  1. total number of farm managers
  2. number and share of total farm managers
  3. ratio of young managers to elderly 

Data source

Eurostat – Farm Structure Survey (FSS)

References/location of the data

FSS 2013 and before:

National data: [ef_kvage]

Regional data on special request to Eurostat

FSS 2016 and after:

National and regional data: [ef_m_farmang] 

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

For FSS-2013 and before data at regional level (NUTS 1 or 2) on the age of farm managers are not available in the Eurostat public database and need to be requested from Eurostat.