I’ve taken all 137k (€1.9bn) of CAP payments from 2009 and placed them into a pivot table. (Data thanks to farmsubsidy.org) Here are the stats:
I’ve added in both county population counts and county size by square kilometre. Here is a graphic of county distribution:
Would anyone like to run analyses of per head distribution, or maybe per sq kilometre distribution?
Update: Reader Anne has come back with the requested analysis! Cheers Anne!
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I’ve taken your data and added the number of farmers in each county according to the 2006 census. From that the average payment on a per county basis can be quickly calculated. I plotted the result on a map which I’ve posted on my blog – if you want a higher-res PDF just let me know. The map is here: http://www.geographic.ie/maps/cap-payments-per-farmer/