Differentiation of farm types in Spainprocedure and results
- Riveiro Valiño, Jose Antonio
- Díaz Varela, Emilio Rafael
- Marey Pérez, Manuel
- Álvarez López, Carlos José
Publisher: Asociación Española de Ingeniería de Proyectos (AEIPRO)
ISBN: 978-84-614-0185-7
Year of publication: 2010
Pages: 130-139
Congress: Asociación española de ingenieria de proyectos. AEIPRO.International Congress on Project Engineering (13. 2009. null)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
In this paper, a methodology for the classification of farms into different, representative farm types is presented. This methodology improves a combinatorial method developed in our previous research that was limited to the region of Galicia, Spain. Agricultural census microdata was used as the only source of information, particularly the 1999 census (the latest census available). The combinatorial method was improved by extending its scope to the entire Spanish country and by integrating Principal Component Analysis. The improved procedure and the results for a reference land use type are presented. Applying such a methodology to various censuses would provide, in addition to a static picture for each year, an analysis of the temporal evolution of agricultural production structures.