Agricultural training of farm managers

The indicator provides information on the farm managers who have attained basic and full education levels in agriculture.

Only practical agricultural experience: experience acquired through practical work on an agricultural holding.
Basic agricultural training: any training courses completed at a general agricultural college and/or an institution specialising in certain subjects (including horticulture, viticulture, sylviculture, pisciculture, veterinary science, agricultural technology and associated subjects). A completed agricultural apprenticeship is regarded as basic training.
Full agricultural training: any training course continuing for the equivalent of at least two years full time training after the end of compulsory education and completed at an agricultural college, university or other institute of higher education in agriculture, horticulture, viticulture, sylviculture, pisciculture, veterinary science, agricultural technology or an associated subject.

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

Type of indicator	Sectoral
Indicator C24	Agricultural training of farm managers
Definition	The indicator provides information on the farm managers who have attained basic and full education levels in agriculture. It consists of 2 sub-indicators: share of total farm managers by level of agricultural training share of total farm managers by age and by level of agricultural training. The different categories of agricultural training are defined as follows: Only practical agricultural experience: experience acquired through practical work on an agricultural holding. Basic agricultural training: any training courses completed at a general agricultural college and/or an institution specialising in certain subjects (including horticulture, viticulture, sylviculture, pisciculture, veterinary science, agricultural technology and associated subjects). A completed agricultural apprenticeship is regarded as basic training. Full agricultural training: any training course continuing for the equivalent of at least two years full time training after the end of compulsory education and completed at an agricultural college, university or other institute of higher education in agriculture, horticulture, viticulture, sylviculture, pisciculture, veterinary science, agricultural technology or an associated subject. 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
Unit of measurement	1-2: share of total managers
Data source	Eurostat – Farm Structure Survey
References/location of the data	FSS 2013 and before: National data: [ef_mptrainman] Regional data: on special request to Eurostat FSS 2016: National and regional data: [ef_mp_training]
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 training of farm managers are not available in the Eurostat public database and need to be requested from Eurostat.