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Results from the June 2017 Scottish Agricultural Census

Statistics on farming in Scotland.

Final Results of the June 2017 Agricultural Census together with June results for the years 2007 to 2016 for comparison

	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	Percentage change between 2016 & 2017
Occupiers
- full time	12,180	11,341	11,612	11,354	11,570	11,431	11,272	11,382	11,203	10,699	11,116	3.9%
- half time or more	5,963	5,862	6,049	6,121	5,962	6,187	6,002	6,027	5,932	5,745	5,926	3.2%
- less than half time	23,071	22,142	22,780	23,476	23,017	23,339	22,354	21,576	20,834	20,270	20,728	2.3%
Total working occupiers	41,214	39,345	40,441	40,951	40,549	40,957	39,628	38,985	37,969	36,714	37,770	2.9%
- Occupiers not working on the holding	:	:	:	:	2,709	2,252	4,640	6,713	7,697	8,758	10,350	18.2%
Holdings with a working occupier	27,178	25,886	26,639	27,842	27,506	27,581	26,878	26,289	25,674	24,736	25,536	3.2%
Total agricultural workforce ⁽¹⁾	67,152	64,513	66,639	67,670	67,797	68,428	67,378	66,299	65,358	63,473	67,039	5.6%

(1) This figure includes regular full time and part time staff, and casual and seasonal staff from table 8a as well as total working occupiers

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