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Survey Outline

Overview

Survey Name

  • Statistics on Returned Farmers and Fishermen, and Migrators to Rural Regions

Survey Type

  • Analytic statistics

Type of Statistics

  • General statistics (Approval No. 930002) (June 21, 2012)

Purpose

  • To provide basic data needed when making policy on returned farmers and returned-to-rural area people by identifying their respective sizes

Periodicity

  • Annual

Target Population

  • Persons who migrate to Eup & Myeon regions after living in Dong regions for 1 year or more

Survey Unit and Target Population Size

  • Survey unit: Households (households of returned farmers and fishermen and migrators to rural regions) and individuals (returned farmers and fishermen and migrators to rural regions)

Survey Reference Period and Date

  • Returned farmers and fishermen and migrators to rural regions: Annual (Nov. 1)
  • Additional survey: Quinquennial

History

  • Dec. 7, 2012: Produced statistics on returned farmers for 2011 by using administrative data (Approval No. 10176)
  • March 28, 2013: Statistics on returned farmers and migrators to rural regions for 2012 (jointly produced by the Statistics Korea and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs) (Approval No. 92008)
  • July 21, 2015: Changed definitions of returned farmers and migrators to rural regions after enacting the Act on the Promotion and Support for Return to Agricultural and Fishing Villages and Rural Communities (Jan. 2015) and its enforcement decree (July 2015)
  • June 30, 2016: A joint compilation and publication of statistics (KOSTAT, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries) by following changed definitions and using administrative data (Approval No. 93002)
  • 2019: Started compiling statistics on migrators to mountain villages
  • 2019: Followed the Standard Classification of Fisheries when classifying the industry of returned fishermen

Data Provision

Method of Publication and URL

  • Web portal of Statistics Korea (https://kostat.go.kr), KOSIS (https://kosis.kr) upload

Publication Frequency

  • Annual
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