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 Equidae livestock (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Equidae livestock (No.) by Geographic localization (NUTS - 2001) and Classes of livestock units; Irregular
Regularity Irregular
Source Statistics Portugal, Agricultural holding structure survey
First available period 1989
Last available period 2016
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (NUTS - 2001)
  • Classes of livestock units
Concepts
  • ANIMAL LIVESTOCK:  Animals owned by an agricultural holding and those bred under contract by the holding.
  • EQUIDAE:  Domestic animals of the genus Equus, commonly known as horses. This designation also includes other species, such as the donkey and the zebra and hybrids such as the mule or the hinny.
  • 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 28/11/2017


information presented in 17/7/2024