Economic Accounts for Agriculture - Preliminary Results
Agricultural Labour Input | Contents |
Data on Agricultural Labour Input (ALI) have formed an integral part of the calculation of the three income indicators derived from agricultural production. ALI is calculated in compliance with standardised methodology of the European Union. The agricultural labour is measured in Annual Work Units (AWU). The number of hours comprising an AWU should correspond to the number of hours actually worked in a full-time job within agriculture (1 AWU = 1800 hours). Therefore it does not include public holiday, paid annual holidays, sick-leave, breaks for meals, etc. Data on agricultural labour input should be classified according to salaried, non-salaried and total ALI (which sum up both two previous categories).
Salaried labour refers to those persons who, by agreement, work for another residential unit (public or private) and who receive in exchange a remuneration in cash or in kind (recorded as compensation of employees in the EAA). Non-salaried labour refers to persons whose work is paid through the income generated by agricultural activity. They are mostly sole-owners or joint-owners of unincorporated enterprises.
The principal objective of calculating agricultural labour input statistics is to provide a systematic and comparable overview of the volume of labour in the agricultural industry and to monitor the trends in agricultural income.
 | 2004 | 2005)1 |
| Total ALI (1000 AWU) | 144,7 | 138,0 |
| Salaried ALI (1000 AWU) | 113,4 | 108,2 |
| Non-salaried ALI (1000 AWU) | 31,3 | 29,8 |
Agriculture Income Indicators
Measurement of agricultural income and its trends is one of the main goals set up by Economic Accounts for Agriculture, the most important indicator for that purpose is Indicator A.
Indicator A: Index of the real income of factors in agriculture, per annual work unit
This indicator corresponds to the real (deflated) net value added at factor cost of agriculture per total annual work unit. Net value added at factor cost is calculated by subtracting intermediate consumption, depreciation and other production taxes from the value of agricultural output at basic prices (i.e. including subsidies on products and excluding taxes on products), and adding the value of other production subsidies. Indicator A is obtained by deflating this net value with the implicit price index of gross domestic product at market prices and dividing by the volume of total labour in agriculture.
| 2004 | 2005 |
| Factor income, million CZK | 31 882,5 | 31 230,3 |
| Net entrepreneurial income, million CZK | 8 555,9 | 7 639,9 |
Income from agricultural activity per full-time labour equivalent (1 AWU), as it is measured by income Indicator A, increased by 0,05 % in 2005. The deflator (the implicit price index of GDP at market prices), estimated for the year 2005 was 102,7 %.