Farm Business Survey, 2022-2023: Special Licence Access

<p>The <span style="font-style: italic;">Farm Business Survey</span> (FBS) is conducted annually to collect business information from about 2,100 farms in England and Wales. The survey provides information on the financial position and physical and economic performance of farm businesses, to inform policy decisions on matters affecting farm businesses and to enable analysis of the impacts of policy options. It is intended to serve the needs of farmers, farming and land management interest groups, government (both national and European), government partners, and researchers. </p><p>The primary objective of survey results is to contrast the performance or other business characteristics of different groupings of farm, such as between regions or other geographical or environmental designations, farm types, farm size, age or education of farmer, etc. Up to and including the 2001/02 survey, FBS estimates were based on matching the sample between two adjacent years and farm weights. Farm weights were still calculated to present a matched sample however. From the 2002/03 survey onwards, matching between adjacent years was dropped altogether, and weights are now calculated for the full sample. </p><p>The typology used to determine the FBS farm type classification has been revised from 2009 onwards. The FBS typology is now based on standard outputs expressed in euros, with a minimum threshold of 25,000 euro (irrespective of the SLR) for FBS eligibility. Between 2009 and 2011, FBS farm type classification was based on 2007 standard output (SO) coefficients. From 2012, the farm type classification was based on 2010 SO coefficients, and from 2017 the FBS farm type classification was based on 2013 SO coefficients. The coefficients have been revised again for 2023/24 and are based on 2017 coefficients. The change in typology has had an effect on the distribution of farms by farm type and income averages. Further information regarding the change in typology is available on the GOV.UK <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/farm-business-survey-technical-notes-and-guidance#fbs-documents">FBS documents</a> web page.</p><p>
The <i>Farm Business Survey</i> is available from UKDS under Special Licence access conditions. See the' Access data' section for further details on how to apply for access to the data.<br>
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<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Latest edition information</span></p><p>For the second edition (April 2025), the data and documentation were replaced. The updated version of the FBS 2022-2023 uses the revised 2017 Standard Output coefficients and therefore farm typology and business size will be different to the previous version. The 2017 coefficients used here are those used for the 2023-2024 data (see SN 9360).</p>

农场商业调查（Farm Business Survey，FBS）每年在英格兰与威尔士开展，面向约2100家农场收集经营相关信息。该调查可提供农场经营主体的财务状况、实物产出与经济绩效等数据，用于为影响农场经营的政策制定提供决策依据，并支持对各类政策选项的影响进行分析。其服务对象涵盖农户、农业与土地管理利益团体、政府（含国家及欧盟层面）、政府合作方以及研究人员。

调查结果的核心目标是对比不同分组农场的经营绩效及其他商业特征，例如不同区域、其他地理或环境区划、农场类型、农场规模、农场主年龄或受教育程度等。在2001/02年度及更早的调查中，FBS的估算值基于相邻两年的样本匹配与农场权重计算，但当时仍需通过权重来呈现匹配后的样本。自2002/03年度调查起，完全取消了相邻年度样本匹配流程，权重现在直接基于全样本进行计算。

2009年起，用于确定FBS农场类型分类的分类体系完成修订。现行FBS分类体系以欧元计价的标准产出为依据，FBS准入门槛为最低25000欧元（不受SLR限制）。2009年至2011年间，FBS农场类型分类基于2007年标准产出（Standard Output，SO）系数；2012年起，分类依据调整为2010年标准产出系数；2017年起，分类依据改为2013年标准产出系数。2023/24年度再次修订了系数，以2017年系数为基准。分类体系的变更对不同农场类型的分布及收入均值产生了影响。有关分类体系变更的更多详情，可访问GOV.UK网站上的《FBS文件》页面，链接为https://www.gov.uk/guidance/farm-business-survey-technical-notes-and-guidance#fbs-documents。

农场商业调查可通过英国数据服务中心（UK Data Service，UKDS）获取，但需遵守特殊许可访问条款。如需了解申请数据访问的详细流程，请参阅“获取数据”板块。

**最新版本信息**
2025年4月发布的第二版中，数据与文档已完成更新。2022-2023年度FBS的更新版本采用了修订后的2017年标准产出系数，因此农场分类体系与经营规模划分将与此前版本有所不同。本次使用的2017年标准产出系数与2023-2024年度数据所采用的系数一致（详见SN 9360）。