Table 1: Distribution of Land Owned in...

Table 1:

Distribution of Land Owned in Canton Golfito, La Cuesta District, 1955 (in hectares)

Land owned	Number of farms	Percentage of farms	Area	Mean area	Percentage of area
2–2.99	6	3.2	12.76	2.13	<0.1
3–3.99	1	0.5	3.59	3.59	<0.1
4–4.99	3	1.6	12.05	4.02	<0.1
5–9.99	12	6.5	77.88	6.49	0.4
10–19.99	6	3.2	83.76	13.96	0.4
20–49.99	27	14.6	821.80	30.44	4.0
50–99.99	80	43.2	5,371.08	67.14	26.3
100–199.99	28	15.1	3,683.46	131.55	18.1
200–499.99	18	9.7	5,587.64	310.42	27.4
500–999.99	2	1.1	1,243.59	621.80	6.1
1,000–2,499.99	2	1.1	3,489.12	1,744.56	17.1
Total	185	100.0	20,386.72	110.20^a	100.0
Median area:	61.67^a
Gini index:	55.17

Land owned	Number of farms	Percentage of farms	Area	Mean area	Percentage of area
2–2.99	6	3.2	12.76	2.13	<0.1
3–3.99	1	0.5	3.59	3.59	<0.1
4–4.99	3	1.6	12.05	4.02	<0.1
5–9.99	12	6.5	77.88	6.49	0.4
10–19.99	6	3.2	83.76	13.96	0.4
20–49.99	27	14.6	821.80	30.44	4.0
50–99.99	80	43.2	5,371.08	67.14	26.3
100–199.99	28	15.1	3,683.46	131.55	18.1
200–499.99	18	9.7	5,587.64	310.42	27.4
500–999.99	2	1.1	1,243.59	621.80	6.1
1,000–2,499.99	2	1.1	3,489.12	1,744.56	17.1
Total	185	100.0	20,386.72	110.20^a	100.0
Median area:	61.67^a
Gini index:	55.17

Source: Archivos Nacionales de Costa Rica, Agricultural Census of Costa Rica, calculations from reconstruction of official census files.

Note: Before the canton of Coto Brus was created in 1965, this territory formed the La Cuesta district in the canton of Golfito.

Mean and median figures are based on individual farm sizes, not the grouped sizes reported in this table.