Definition
Main Occupation:
The job or type of work performed by the employed person, or used to be performed by the unemployed. The occupation refers to the activity in which the employed works more than half of work hours or the most frequent job during the last three months before reference data. For the purposes of the agricultural census, the main occupation was divided into agricultural and non-agricultural.
Universe
The frame of the Agricultural Census 2010 includes a complete record of holdings by households and collaborative institutions. The frame was prepared by listing all holders through visiting every household, using maps to reach all addresses
Source of information
agricultural holder or his representative
Imputation
The data from the questionnaires were edited in the field during the enumeration process by supervisors in each governorate.
Derivation
Crops were coded according to the Indicative Crop Classification (ICC) for 2010. This classification was developed based on the Central Product Classification (CPC) (UN, 2004a). ICC provides only a broad-level structure for the classification of crops. Taking account of national conditions in the Palestine, some crops not included in ICC are identified separately or crops were identified in more detail than given in ICC.
