About CA 2024
The 2024 Census of Agriculture (CA 2024) was the fourth Census for the Republic of Mauritius and the previous censuses were carried out in 1930, 1940 and 2014.
Statistics Mauritius conducted the CA 2024 from July to November 2024.
Legal Framework
The CA 2024 was conducted under the provisions of the Statistics Act 2000 amended in 2011 and 2017.
The Statistics Act provides for an obligation on:
(i) the selected farmers to furnish the required information according to the approved questionnaires; and
(ii) Statistics Mauritius and its employees (including temporary ones) to treat in strict confidence all individual particulars obtained during the census.
All the questionnaires used for the three Phases of the Census were approved by the Statistics Board.
The notice of the taking of the Census was published under Section 13 of the Statistics Act in the Government Gazette as General Notice No. 67 of 2024 on 29 June 2024.
Field staff
A field force of around 325 officers was mobilised for data collection.
Data capture and processing
The Business questionnaire (CA1) was conducted by sending questionnaires by post to agricultural businesses. The Farm questionnaire (CA2) and Household questionnaire (CA3) were administered by face-to-face interviews using tablets (CAPI - Computer Assisted Personal Interview). The tables were compiled in-house using the software STATA and Excel.
Budget
The budget allocated for the CA 2024 was Rs. 13 million.
Questionnaires
The CA 2024 was conducted in three phases and the questionnaire for each phase are as follows:
a) Phase 1 – CA1 (Business Questionnaire);
b)Phase 2 – CA2 (Farm Questionnaire);
c) Phase 3 – CA3 (Household Questionnaire);
Instruction manuals
CA2– Instructions for fieldwork
CA3– Instructions for fieldwork
CAPI manuals
CA2-CAPI Tablet User Guide
CA3-CAPI Tablet User Guide
Publications
Economic and social indicator – Main Results 
