Economic Accounts for Agriculture

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. 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.

	2001	2002
Total ALI (1000 AWU)	152,0	142,6
Salaried ALI (1000 AWU)	119,1	111,8
Non-salaried ALI (1000 AWU)	32,9	30,8