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)		Similarity^a
	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 %

Source: own elaboration on Italian FADN data
^aFinger and Kreinin (1979) similarity index. 100 % means complete similarity

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