Off Farm Work By Census Farm Operators

Author : Michael Swidinsky
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Off-farm Work by Census-farm Operators written by Michael Swidinsky and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this paper is to provide descriptive statistics on off-farm labour supply and farm/off-farm labour reallocation for Canadian farmers using cross-sectional data and cross-sectional panel data, respectively, obtained from the Canadian Census of Agriculture. This report is part of a larger study on the off-farm labour supply and labour mobility of farm operators (Swidinsky, 1997). The data indicates that a growing proportion of operators worked off-farm between 1971 and 1991. As well, operators who work off-farm have allocated greater amounts of time to the off-farm labour market. The share of census-farm operators reporting 97-228 days of off-farm work has risen from 11 percent to 15%, while the share working more than 228 days off-farm has increased from 13% to 16% of all operators from 1971 to 1991. There is also some mobility between the status of full-time and part-time farming, but a high proportion of both types of operators exit farming over a five-year period. Less than 15% of operators farming full-time change to part-time, while approximately 20% of operators farming part-time change to full-time. In contrast, approximately 25% of full-time operators exit farming, while 35% of part-time operators exit farming over a typical five-year period.