Greece: A Guide to Official Statistics of Agriculture, Population, and Food Supply

PART I -- This is an annotated list of official publications of the Greek Government containing agricultural statistics which may be found in the library of the U. S. Department of Agriculture or in the Library of Congress. The kind of statistics to be found in each publication is indicated, e.g., statistics of population, land utilization, area, production, yield, consumption, import, export, and prices of agricultural products, index numbers and meteorological data. Forestry statistics have been included only when found in publications of a general character. PART II -- In Part II the methods of collecting and analyzing the statistics of Greece are presented as far as possible from existing sources of information, and tables showing the more important data have been included both for the most recent and for earlier censuses. Changes in methods and definitions of units have been related to changes in the data. The data have been used as a basis for estimating the possible effects of differences in methods of collecting and analyzing the statistics, and for suggesting possible methods of reducing the existing data to a comparable basis and of collecting future statistics that will he comparable. In similar studies of other countries it is planned to make comparisons with the statistics of the United States, Switzerland, Greece, and still other countries. In each case, the results will be related to the methods employed by the country in collecting the data for the 1930 World Census of Agriculture. Part II. also contains a supplementary bibliography at the beginning of each section giving references to official sources of general population statistics; references to important secondary sources of information, statistical or otherwise and references to discussions of methods of collecting and analyzing statistics.