Rural development specialists working with agricultural statistics confront the tension between collecting data for the purposes of measuring farm sector performance versus that of assessing farm household well-being. While it is recognized that the activities of the farm enterprise and farm...

This paper assesses the recent changes in rural employment in the OECD countries, highlighting the growing role of employment in services and, in some cases, manufacturing activity. In many, but not all, rural areas the secular decline in agricultural employment has been more than...