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Food Industries, Business Statistics
Henrik Bolding Pedersen
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Accounts Statistics for Agriculture

The statistics are comparable back to 2008, where data have been calculated on the basis of Standard Output.

The statistics are partly comparable with data from SEGES (Danish agricultural advisory service), which compiles economic key figures for different types of farming. A coordination of the concepts is conducted.

Comparability - geographical

The data collected are submitted to EU's Directorate General for Agriculture (DG Agri) and are used in EU's information network for Agricultural Book-Keeping, The data of each country are compiled by DG Agri, thereby producing an overall statistic covering the EU as a whole and statistics for each individual country on the basis of common concepts, definitions and homogeneous rules for selection and weighting. The statistics are available at: FADN public database . Description of definitions and variables at: European commision.

Comparability over time

A comparable time series, going back to 2008 based on standard output, SO. Time series for agriculture, horticulture and organic farming going back to 1990, 1995 and 1996 respectively, but finishing by 2009, with typology based on standard gross margin, SGM.

Coherence - cross domain

SEGES collects accounts data for the purpose of providing advice to farmers. The accounts statistics calculated by Statistics Denmark and SEGES are weighted in accordance to achieve the same main results. However there will be differences in the statistics. SEGES does not publish any direct representative statistics on Danish agriculture, but publishes statistical tables on typical farms.

The data collected are submitted to EU's Directorate General for Agriculture (DG Agri) and are used in EU's information network for Agricultural Book-Keeping, The data of each country are compiled by DG Agri, thereby producing an overall statistic covering the EU as a whole and statistics for each individual country on the basis of common concepts, definitions and homogeneous rules for selection and weighting. The statistics are available at: FADN public database . Description of definitions and variables at: European commission.

Coherence - internal

Preliminary and final figures are estimated.