Table 2: Distribution of Land Owned in...

Table 2:

Distribution of Land Owned in Canton Golfito, La Cuesta District, 1963 (in hectares)

Total land	Number of farms	Percentage of farms	Area	Mean area	Percentage of area
0.01–0.99	27	2.2	23.08	0.85	<0.1
1–1.99	42	3.5	64.42	1.53	0.1
2–2.99	74	6.2	183.29	2.36	0.3
3–3.99	58	4.8	216.69	3.74	0.4
4–4.99	39	3.2	176.18	4.52	0.3
5–9.99	185	15.3	1,395.03	7.54	2.5
10–19.99	254	21.0	3,854.54	15.18	7.0
20–49.99	357	29.6	11,702.50	32.78	21.2
50–99.99	114	9.4	7,899.97	69.30	14.3
100–199.99	27	2.2	3,679.33	136.27	6.7
200–499.99	21	1.7	6,863.31	326.82	12.4
500–999.99	5	0.4	3,274.33	654.87	5.9
1,000-2,499.99	21	0.2	2,352.42	1,176.21	4.3
2,500+	2	0.2	13,566.81	6,783.41	24.6
Total	1,207	100.0	55,251.91	45.78^a	—
Median area:	17.43^a
Gini index:	70.69

Total land	Number of farms	Percentage of farms	Area	Mean area	Percentage of area
0.01–0.99	27	2.2	23.08	0.85	<0.1
1–1.99	42	3.5	64.42	1.53	0.1
2–2.99	74	6.2	183.29	2.36	0.3
3–3.99	58	4.8	216.69	3.74	0.4
4–4.99	39	3.2	176.18	4.52	0.3
5–9.99	185	15.3	1,395.03	7.54	2.5
10–19.99	254	21.0	3,854.54	15.18	7.0
20–49.99	357	29.6	11,702.50	32.78	21.2
50–99.99	114	9.4	7,899.97	69.30	14.3
100–199.99	27	2.2	3,679.33	136.27	6.7
200–499.99	21	1.7	6,863.31	326.82	12.4
500–999.99	5	0.4	3,274.33	654.87	5.9
1,000-2,499.99	21	0.2	2,352.42	1,176.21	4.3
2,500+	2	0.2	13,566.81	6,783.41	24.6
Total	1,207	100.0	55,251.91	45.78^a	—
Median area:	17.43^a
Gini index:	70.69

Source: Dirección General de Estadística y Censos, Agricultural Census of Costa Rica, official census tapes. See note to table 1.

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