Conducting the Farm Management Survey in England and Wales : An Aspect of National Statistical Surveys in A Modern State

1936ネン ノウギョウ ケイエイ チョウサ ノ セイリツ カテイ エイコク ニオケル ゼンコク トウケイ チョウサ ジッシ ノ イチソクメン

ヤマモト, チアキ

Yamamoto, Chiaki

The Economic Society of Osaka University

オオサカ　ダイガク　ケイザイ　ガッカイ

農業助言事業

統計調査史

農業統計

Farm Management Survey

Agricultural Advisory Services

history of statistical research

agricultural statistics

The Farm Management Survey in 1936 is the first national survey aiming at measuring capital and labour inputs as well as revenue of farms in England and Wales, by which it was made possible to reveal the efficiency of English agriculture. The machinery of the survey consisted of Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Oxford, and advisory economists who were attached to twelve provincial advisory centres set up at agricultural departments of local universities and agricultural colleges. When a national survey was first proposed by the Ministry of Agriculture in 1930, no headway was made due to antagonism between the Provinces and Oxford. Shaping administrative machinery for national surveys is one thing, but if it actually works is quite another. It took time to reconcile the national uniformity insisted by Oxford and the academic identity of advisory economists as independent scientific researchers.