Informatienet 2002 in zicht : Totstandkoming en kwaliteit van de steekproef land- en tuinbouwbedrijven van het Bedrijven-Informatienet

The EU Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) requires the Netherlands to yearly send bookkeeping data of 1,500 farms to Brussels. This task is carried out by LEI and CEI. The data sent to Brussels mainly involve technical and financial economic information. For national policy purposes additional data are collected, such as pesticide use, manure production, nature management, non-farm income and rural development. This report explains the background of the farm sample for the year 2002. The report mainly focuses on the Dutch contribution to the European Farm Accountancy Data Network. All phases from the determination of the selection plan, the recruitment of farms to the quality control of the final sample are described in this report.