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Table 1 Sample size ad relative importance of direct payments

From: Do CAP direct payments stabilise farm income? Empirical evidences from a constant sample of Italian farms

  

Sample size number

Importance of DP:

PSE

DP/FI

Mean

Mean

Types of farming (TF)c:

TF

   

 Specialist field crops

1

571

22.9 %

80.9 %

 Specialist horticulture

2

276

0.8 %

2.0 %

 Specialist permanent crops

3

715

8.3 % b

25.5 % a

 Specialist grazing livestock

4

492

16.3 % a

45.5 % b

 Specialist granivore

5

84

5.7 % b

18.6 % a

 Mixed cropping

6

161

13.6 % a

44.7 % b

 Mixed livestock and mixed crops-livestock

7

103

17.6 % a

60.6 %

Economic size (ESU)c:

 Small (Classes 1, 2, 3)

 

697

14.6 %

56.1 %

 Medium (Classes 4, 5, 6)

 

1595

12.9 %

37.5 % a

 Large (Classes 7, 8)

 

110

9.3 %

31.1 % a

PSE level:

 No DP

0

247

0.0 %

0.0 %

 Low

1st

540

2.0 %

6.5 %

 Low-medium

2nd

539

8.1 %

27.6 %

 Medium-high

3rd

537

16.4 %

55.6 %

 High

4th

539

32.4 %

100.4 %

Total sample

 

2402

13.2 %

42.6 %

  1. Mean values of PSE (DP/(REV + DP)) and DP/FI in the considered groups and the whole sample of farms
  2. Source: Own elaborations on a constant sample of the whole Italian FADN farms, years 2003–2012
  3. cDifferences between groups statistically significant at 5 % according to Scheffe’s test