Data builder

FBS data builder is a specialist interactive system for professionals and researchers. It allows direct interrogation of Farm Business Survey (FBS) data to construct user defined tables.

User Guide - Contents

For a quick introduction on how to get tables out of FBS data builder please see the Quick Guide.

1.0.0.0	User Guide 1. Data Availability and FBS data builder approach.
1.1.0.0	Sample: Assembly, Size, Errors
1.2.0.0	Coverage
1.2.1.0	Classification of Farms: Standard Output (SO) & Farm Sizes
1.2.2.0	Sample: Assembly, Size, Errors
1.3.0.0	Representation and Coverage
1.3.1.0	Sample: Assembly, Size, Errors
1.3.2.0	Reason for Size Threshold
1.2.1.0	Classification of Farms: Standard Output (SO) & Farm Sizes
1.4.0.0	Cost Centres in FBS Farm Accounts
1.4.1.0	Methodology for the Allocation and Apportionment of Costs

2.0.0.0	User Guide 2. FBS data builder examples
2.1.0.0	Request Data Menu
2.2.0.0	Average farm income
2.2.1.0	Geographical distribution of farms
2.3.0.0	How tenure varies for different sizes of farm
2.4.0.0	Relation between type of farm and farmers age
2.5.0.0	Relation between farm type and farm size

3.0.0.0	User Guide 3. How to specify a table
3.1.0.0	Row and Column Variables
3.2.0.0	Cell Variables
3.3.0.0	Statistics
3.4.0.0	Disclosure prevention rules
3.4.1.0	Confidentiality policy
3.4.2.0	ONS Code of practice
3.4.3.0	Reliability Rules
3.4.3.1	FADN
3.4.3.2	Report of the task force on disclosure
3.5.0.0	Table Format
1.3.0.0	Representation and Coverage
3.1.0.0	Row and Column Variables
3.2.0.0	Cell Variables
3.5.1.0	Numeric and qualitative variables
3.5.1.1	Size Groups
3.6.0.0	Technical list of variables

In England, the Farm Business Survey is conducted on behalf of, and financed by, the Department for Environment, Food and Affairs, and in Wales, by the Welsh Government. Data collected in it are Crown Copyright. You may re-use this information free of charge under the terms of the Open Government Licence v.3