Agricultural area and livestock (discontinued), 31 July 2012, preliminary figures

County. Municipality.

Annual.

Not relevant

Primary data is stored at Statistics Norway.

The purpose is to chart the extent of area use and livestock keeping at the municipal level. Information from this register has been used since 1984.

The statistics are used by the Norwegian Institute for Land Inventory (NIJOS), Norwegian Agricultural Economic Research Institute (NILF), public enterprises at the municipal and county level, the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Environment, in research and by agricultural organizations.

Not relevant

Statistics Act §§2-1, 3-2.

Not relevant

The population covers everyone who applies for agricultural production subsidies as of 31 July. Those who do not have the right to production subsidies or do not apply for other reasons are not covered by the statistics.

The administrative record of everyone who applies for an agricultural production subsidy from the Norwegian Agricultural Authority is the compilation basis of the statistics. The register contains information on area use and the number of livestock on holdings.

The Agricultural Authority in the municipality shall ensure that the applications are in compliance with production subsidy regulations. Five per cent of the applications are also selected for special control. The control shall cover all reports submitted by the applicant on physical censuses of animals and measuring of areas. A number of machine controls are also carried out in the material. Statistics Norway also runs some machine controls upon receipt of the data material.

Figures are not presented if there is a risk of identifying any unit.

Since 1984 the statistics on area use and livestock keeping are based on applications for production subsidies.