Continuous harvesting refers to crops which are harvested continuously throughout the season, such as carrots radishes, sweet potatoes, etc., or crops which are standing in the field more than a year, like sugar cane. Under predefined thresholds, in physical terms or in value, very small holdings may be excluded from the census. Crops cultivated simultaneously refers to the practice of cultivating two or more different crops simultaneously on the same field or plot. If crops grown simultaneously are temporary and permanent crops together, they are called crops grown in association. Data coding refers to the operation where original information from the questionnaire, as recorded by enumerators, is replaced by a numeric code required for processing.
Frame is the universe, or a list, of all units or elements for which data are to be collected.
Hired manager is a civil or juridical person who takes technical and administrative responsibility to manage a holding on a holder's behalf. A hired manager who shares economic and financial responsibilities, in addition to managing the holding, should be considered a holder or a joint holder. Holder is a civil or juridical person who makes major decisions regarding resource use and exercises management control over the agricultural operation. Household concept is based on the arrangements made by persons, individually or in groups, for providing themselves with food or other essentials for living. Households usually occupy the whole, part of, or more than one housing unit but they may also be found living in camps, boarding houses or hotels or as administrative personnel in institutions, or they may be homeless.