Agricultural workforce in England at 1 June
Estimates of the size of the agricultural workforce in England broken down by employment type, including age and sex of the farm holder and financial & legal responsibility status.
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This publication gives the size of the agricultural workforce in England from the Survey of Agriculture and Horticulture run by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in June. These statistics include information on the number of farmers, managers and workers on farm split by full time and part time. Age and sex profiles of farm holders are also included.
The dataset includes a longer timeseries of the agricultural workforce along with age and sex profiles of farm holders for those years where the data was collected. Information on financial & legal responsibility status is also included.
Information about the uses and users of the June survey of agriculture and horticulture is available on gov.uk.
The next update will be announced on the statistics release calendar.
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Updates to this page
Published 29 September 2022Last updated 21 November 2024 + show all updates
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The dataset has been updated to include legal and financial responsibility status in the profiles.
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Update to latest report.
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Further analysis of the data has been carried out with sex and age information now added to the dataset.
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Added data up to June 2023 for England agricultural workforce.
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First published.