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Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 6 Comparison of the distributions of the farms in the considered sub-sample and in the whole FADN sample within geographical areas and altimetry zones

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

  Sub-sample Whole sample (2012) Similaritya
N. of farms % N. of farms %  
Geographical areas:     90 %
 Center 343 14 % 2098 19 %  
 Islands 171 7 % 1172 10 %  
 South 626 26 % 2903 26 %  
 Northwest 763 32 % 2423 22 %  
 Northest 499 21 % 2593 23 %  
 Whole country 2402 100 % 11,189 100 %  
Altimetry zones:      98 %
 Hilly 1130 47 % 5072 45 %  
 Mountain 478 20 % 2326 21 %  
 Plan 794 33 % 3791 34 %  
 Whole country 2402 100 % 11,189 100 %  
  1. Source: own elaboration on Italian FADN data
  2. aFinger and Kreinin (1979) similarity index. 100 % means  complete similarity
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