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Taking advantage of the information provided by the 2012 Agricultural Census and the 2014 ENA, the objective of this study is to combine the information from both sources to make inferences, at the small area level, about the production levels and net incomes of small and medium family farming. The small and medium family farming segment is defined here, for reasons of statistical compatibility, as consisting of natural persons running agricultural units whose cultivated agricultural area is less than or equal to 50 hectares. The joint use of these two sources of information allows, through the use of small area estimation (SAE) methodologies, to gain statistical precision at levels of spatial disaggregation that are not available in the ENA. At the same time, the use of the ENA —and the subsequent inference made in Cenagro— makes it possible to construct a first typology for small and medium family farming in Peru.