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Norwegian Food Safety Authority – StatRes (discontinued), 2013

This statistics has been discontinued. Consult Norwegian Food Safety Authority.

Content

About the statistics

Definitions

Name and topic

Name: Norwegian Food Safety Authority – StatRes (discontinued)
Topic: Agriculture, forestry, hunting and fishing

Responsible division

Division for Primary Industry Statistics

Definitions of the main concepts and variables

Own production is defined as the sum of the costs of the input factors that the Norwegian Food Safety Authority uses to carry out activities and produce services. These are wage costs and the purchase of goods and services.

 

Any costs for the purchase of goods and services that replace the Norwegian Food Safety Authority’s own production of corresponding services are not included in own production. Such costs are instead classified as transfers .

 

Wage costs include all expenses incurred by the Norwegian Food Safety Authority in its role as employer, such as social security contributions and pension premiums. In principle, this corresponds to the expenses that are charged to items 01 to 29, sub-items 11-19 in the central government’s fiscal account. Amounts that correspond to posted wage reimbursements (ref. the income items 15-18 in the central government’s fiscal account) are deducted from the recognised wage expenses, while a mark-up for contributions to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund is added, ref. section 3.6.

 

Purchase of goods and services covers the value of goods and services used in the production. This mainly corresponds to items 01 and 21, sub-items 21-29 in the central government’s fiscal account. Purchases that are not utilised in the production are not included in the purchase of goods and services. The costs of such goods and services are instead included in transfer costs.

Estimated contributions to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund correspond to the amount that Statistics Norway enters in the basis for the wage costs to the units, where costs for pension premiums are not included in the accounts, ref. section 3.6.

 

Transfers mainly comprise amounts entered under items 60-89 in the central government’s fiscal account.

 

Investments cover procurements of fixed capital, such as machines, equipment and buildings. Sales of fixed assets are deducted. This mainly applies to items 30-49 in the central government’s fiscal account.

 

Total expenditure is the sum of own production, transfers and investments.

 

Input measured in contracted man-years adjusted for long-term leave :

Contracted man-years adjusted for long-term leave is defined as the sum of the number of full-time jobs and part-time jobs converted to full-time equivalents, excluding man-years lost due to doctor-certified absence and parental leave. See section 3.6. Estimation.

 

Activity and outcome indicators:

Implementation of EEA regulations : Establishing and executing regulations that are covered by the EEA agreement.

 

Share of EEA regulations implemented by deadline :

EU legislative acts are incorporated into the EEA agreement based on a decision by the EEA Committee. These decisions enter into force the day after they are determined. All legislative acts have a deadline for implementation in the countries’ national regulations, and the legislation must be implemented by the deadline specified in the actual legislation. The number of legislative acts that are implemented by the deadline stipulated in the legislation is used as in indicator.

 

Supervision: A physical control (inspection or audit) of a company or consignment. For 2011 these figures also include control of documentation, production log and registrations.

 

Number of supervisions: The figures presented in the statistics only cover selected areas, and do not include the total figure for supervisions. The number of supervisions for the processing of food and drink does not include the activity related to abattoirs and the slaughtering of animals for 2009 and 2010. For 2011 figures these activities are included in the processing of food and drink figures.

 

Processing/food production: The activity related to additional steps in the production process, e.g. transport, storage, packaging and further processing of a product.

 

Drinking water/waterworks: The number of waterworks is presented.

 

Tonnes of controlled slaughters: The controlled volume of slaughtered animals in tonnes. This includes livestock such as horses, cows, bulls, calves, sheep, pigs, goats, hens, chickens, turkeys and other poultry. Where the generic term &“poultry´´ is used, this refers to the sum of hens, chickens, turkeys and other poultry.

 

Export/import: The Norwegian Food Safety Authority ensures that import consignments are accompanied by a satisfactory import certificate and that all other importation provisions are complied with. The Norwegian Food Safety Authority also performs the checks and examinations that are required by countries receiving export consignments from Norway. An export/import certificate documents the standard of health or hygiene status as required by the regulations of the import country .

 

Surveillance and control programme : The number of tests carried out based on sampling from a batch (food article and plants) or population (land animals and fish). The purpose is to monitor and map the situation, and obtain knowledge on the status of fish health, animal health, plant health and food safety. There are variations in programmes and analyses based on the situation in the different countries. Consequently, there can also be variations in the findings from year to year.

 

Number of surveillance and control programmes with positive results in relation to the total number of tests : A positive test is where a substance that is being tested for, e.g. pathogenic matter, is shown to be present.

  • For food stuff, the figure relates to the number of samples with findings above the limit.
  • For animal health/fish health, the matter is classified as either present or not present. For land animals, the figure relates to the number of livestock with a positive result. For fish health, it is the number of locations infected by fish disease that is specified.
  • For plants, it is the number of holdings with positive results that is specified.

 

Related indicators:

Food articles: Food articles are defined as foodstuffs and beverages (including drinking water) and all other goods that are defined as consumable by humans, excluding medicines.

For information on the different diseases where the number of cases is presented, see:

www.vetinst.no

www.bioforsk.no

www.fhi.no

Standard classifications

Not relevant

Administrative information

Regional level

National

Frequency and timeliness

Annual

International reporting

Not relevant

Microdata

Collected data is stored by the Division for primary industry statistics, and is only used for statistical purposes.

Background

Background and purpose

These statistics for the Norwegian Food Safety Authority are part of StatRes. StatRes is a system for collecting data and publishing statistics on central government. StatRes is developed upon commission, and is mainly financed by the Ministry of Government Administration, Reform and Church affairs. The first StatRes publication was published in autumn 2011.The aim of StatRes is to develop and disseminate statistics and indicators of a high quality on input, activities, services, production and results for public activity. Public activity in this case is limited to the central government. StatRes plays a central role in the development of statistics on the public sector, and represents a framework for further developing the statistics relating to central government. The first publication of Norwegian Food Safety Authority &– StatRes was published in December 2011.

Users and applications

StatRes’ target group is users of statistics with some knowledge of and interest in central government activities, who require information on resource use, activities, services and outcomes of central government activities. Such users could be the general public, the media, politicians, pupils and students. StatRes also aims to provide the authorities with information that supplements other information used in the governing of central government activities.

Coherence with other statistics

Not relevant

Legal authority

The Statistics Act of 16 June 1989, §§ 2-2 (obligation to provide information) and 3-2 (administrative data-processing systems)

EEA reference

Not relevant

Production

Population

These statistics cover the Norwegian Food Safety Authority.

Data sources and sampling

The various indicators are taken from different sources:

Input measured in NOK:
The accounting figures for the Norwegian Food Safety Authority are based on data reported to the Norwegian Government Agency for Financial Management (SSØ) in connection with the preparation of the state accounts (Report no. 3 to the Storting).

 

Employment measured in contracted man-years:
Statistics Norway’s register-based employment statistics are based on individual register data from several registers. Information relating to employees and contracted working hours per week is collected from NAV’s Register of Employers and Employees, the End of the Year Certificate Register and wage registers in Statistics Norway. The Central Register of Establishments and Enterprises provides data on industries and sectors for enterprises and underlying establishments. The State Central Register of Government Employees, NAV’s register of recipients of parental benefits and doctor-certified absence are also used. The base data for the register-based employment statistics in Statistics Norway is documented here http://www.ssb.no/emner/06/90/notat_201008/notat_201008.pdf .

 

Other indicators:

Statistics Norway retrieves data from the Norwegian Food Safety Authority’s annual report. The figures here relate to the number of supervisions within supervision and specialist areas such as land animals, fish, plants, food stuffs, drinking water and import/export. They also relate to the Norwegian Food Safety Authority’s figures on the surveillance and control programme within the aforementioned areas.

The statistics are based on a total count.

Collection of data, editing and estimations

Input measured in NOK:
Data from the Norwegian Government Agency for Financial Management is sent electronically to Statistics Norway.

Employment measured in contracted man-years:
Data collection takes place through extracts from several registers (see section 3.2 Data sources).

Other indicators :
The data is retrieved from the Norwegian Food Safety Authority’s sources (see section 3.2), and transmitted electronically to Statistics Norway.

 

Input measured in NOK:
The accounting figures are checked against the central government’s fiscal account. Wage costs are compared with contracted man-years and Statistics Norway’s wage statistics. In addition, tests on reasonableness and controls at macro level are performed.

 

Employment measured in contracted man-years:
For the three most central registers that form the basis of Statistics Norway’s register-based employment statistics, the following controls and revisions are carried out: the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Service (NAV) conducts an annual control of its Register of Employers and Employees. Statistics Norway controls that enterprises with more than one establishment have separate numbers for each, and that the employees are registered on the establishment that employs them. Statistics Norway also controls NAV’s ARENA register, as well as other registers. Some types of errors are rectified in the actual data basis for Statistics Norway’s register-based employment statistics. The values for contracted man-years, excluding long-term leave, are further controlled against the wage costs included in the input measured in NOK, together with the data basis in Statistics Norway’s wage statistics from wage registers.

 

Other indicators :

Controls and revisions are carried out by the Norwegian Food Safety Authority. Statistics Norway performs tests of reasonableness and probability on the figures.

Input measured in NOK:

Statistics Norway calculates input measured in NOK as follows:

  • The sections of the central government’s fiscal account that correspond to the Norwegian Food Safety Authority are identified. The amounts are grouped and tallied based on items and sub-items in accordance with the Ministry of Finance’s circular 101 (R101). The figures are then allocated to the variables that are published in input measured in NOK. See section 4.1 for a further description of these variables.
  • Any amounts that the Norwegian Food Safety Authority has entered in sections other than 1115 and 1150 are identified, and are added to the figures in sections 1115 and 1150.
  • Recognised wage reimbursements are reclassified as wage reductions by deducting an amount that is equivalent to the recognised wage reimbursement from the wage expenses entered in the accounts.

 

Employment measured in contracted man-years excluding long-term leave:

Contracted man-years adjusted for long-term leave are calculated by Statistics Norway as the total number of full-time and part-time jobs converted to full-time equivalents excluding man-years lost due to doctor-certified sickness absence and parental leave. Man-years are estimated as a percentage share of an ordinary full-time job (37.5 hours per week). The calculations of man-years are based on the contracted man-years during the reference week, which is the third week of November in the relevant year, and this is assumed to be representative of the whole year. The estimated number of contracted man-years adjusted for long-term leave will not be identical to the actual number of man-years worked, since the statistics do not include overtime work, self-reported sickness absence, holidays and other deviations from contracted man-years apart from parental leave and doctor-certified sickness absence.

Confidentiality

The areas of responsibility in central government are characterised by a single unit/enterprise per area. It is difficult to shed light on this responsibility without revealing the actual government service. StatRes has divided the responsibilities into 5 main service divisions, making the presentation too broad-based to capture the diversity in the central government activities.

Statistics Norway has therefore considered the confidentiality concerns, and found that the two criteria for exception to the Statistics Act § 2-6 are fulfilled. The criteria are:

  1. The consideration of an appropriate structure of the statistics requires publications at a detailed level, including the risk of identification of a statistical unit without suppression.
  2. The publication with the risk of identification must not involve injuries (to physical persons or body corporates).

Consequently, confidentiality regarding central government enterprises is not taken into account in these statistics. However, consideration is given to confidentiality for activities, objects of supervision and employees.

Comparability over time and space

The time series for Norwegian Food Safety Authority - StatRes runs from 2009 to 2010, and these figures are comparable.

 

Accuracy and reliability

Sources of error and uncertainty

Input measured in NOK:
The Norwegian Food Safety Authority keeps accounts in accordance with the relevant rules, including stringent requirements for the control of the accounting. Additionally, the accounts are audited by the Office of the Auditor General. The probability of material errors in the data source in relation to these rules is therefore considered to be low.

 

Some errors may occur during processing in Statistics Norway. For example, the same percentage rate is used to calculate the contribution to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund for all activities that are subject to this correction, while the level of the actual pension obligation will differ for the various public activities and deviate from 15.0%. However, Statistics Norway believes that few activities will deviate from 15.0% to any significant degree.

 

Employment measured in contracted man-years:
The data quality concerning minor and sporadic employment will be poorer than for employees registered in NAV’s Register of Employers and Employees. For persons who are identified as employees on the basis of the End of the Year Certificate Register, the employment is not dated precisely.

 

Other indicators;

Number of supervisions, number of controlled consignments and document controls:

In 2009 and 2010, the Norwegian Food Safety Authority used a manual registration system, which may have resulted in varying data quality. The reason for this is that there can be different perceptions of what is defined as supervision and what is defined as a control.

Statistics Norway’s statistics on employment are calculated based on the contracted working hours in the third week of November (reference week), while the accounting figures cover the whole fiscal year. Any presentation of input measured in wage costs and input measured in employment may therefore have weaknesses.