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 Sheep livestock (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Sheep livestock (No.) by Geographic localization (Agrarian region) and Classes of livestock units; Irregular
Regularity Irregular
Source Statistics Portugal, Base agricultural statistics
First available period 1989
Last available period 2019
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (Agrarian region)
  • Classes of livestock units
Concepts
  • SHEEP:  Domestic animals of the species "Ovis aries".
  • ANIMAL LIVESTOCK:  Animals owned by an agricultural holding and those bred under contract by the holding.
  • AGRICULTURAL HOLDING:  Technical-economic unit that uses common production factors such as labour, machinery, facilities, land, among others, fulfilling the following four conditions: 1) yield agricultural products or maintain, in good agricultural and environmental conditions, the lands that are no longer used for productive purposes; 2) reach or exceed a certain size (in area or number of animals); 3) be subject to a single management; 4) be located in a well-defined and identifiable area.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • LIVESTOCK UNIT:  Livestock measure relating herds, converted into livestock units (LU), by species and age, using a conversion table in which one adult bovine animal corresponds to 1 livestock unit.
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 31/03/2021


information presented in 17/7/2024