Census of Agriculture 1993

The 1993 Sample Census of Agriculture covered 272 townships, out of a total of 319, in the 7 States and 7 Divisions of the Union of Myanmar; geographically, the entire country was covered except for a few remote areas with little agricultural activity and a few sparsely populated areas where security was lacking. All agricultural holdings, operated both by households and non-households were covered. Data on Holders and Land Use shown below exclude data on 593 "special holdings" with an area of 95 597 Ha.

In the preparatory stage of the census 3,105,304 agricultural holdings were listed to define the census frame.

The country is administratively organized into three levels: Union, State/Division and Township. The sample design used was a stratified two-stage sampling, in which the first stage sampling unit was the Enumeration Area (EA) within the township, and the second stage sampling unit was the agricultural holding within the EA. Every township was divided into a number of EAs: all EAs within a township were first grouped into four strata homogeneous on the basis of irrigation, crops, access, and cropping intensity. At the first stage, samples of EAs were drawn from each stratum with probability proportional to the expected number of holdings. At the second stage, samples of holdings were selected, by means of a systematic random sampling, from those EAs selected at the first stage. A sample of 250,000 holdings, representing almost 8% of the total number of listed holdings, was selected, corresponding to about 18,000 holdings for each State/Division, or to 900 holdings for each township.