Comparability
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These statistics are comparable from 2005 onwards whereas there is a break in the comparability between 2004 and 2005. Apart from an increment for small farms the statistics are comparable with the accounts statistics for agriculture.
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.
Comparability over time
Statistics on agricultural investments at current and constant prices date back to 1947 and is available in Statistisk Årbog 1961. The figures were based on accounts results from about 7.000 agricultural farms.
Figures from 1975 onwards are available in the statbank.
The figures are perfectly comparable from 2005 onwards. Till 2004 the statistics did not include horticultural and mink farms. Inclusion of these farms has increased the level with about 5 per cent.
Coherence - cross domain
The statistics on agricultural investments are comparable with the accounts statistics for agriculture, apart from an increment for small farms of 1,7 percent not included in the accounts statistics. Small farms have less than 25.000 euro in standard output.
Coherence - internal
No inconsistencies occur as all results are calculated from the same sample and and with use of one extrapolation factor only for each farm.