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 Agricultural holdings with cattle (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Agricultural holdings with cattle (No.) by Geographic localization (NUTS - 2001) and Classes of livestock units; Decennial
Regularity Decennial
Source Statistics Portugal, Agriculture census - historical series
First available period 1989
Last available period 2009
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (NUTS - 2001)
  • Classes of livestock units
Concepts
  • 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.
  • LIVESTOCK UNIT:  Standard measurement unit that allows the aggregation of the various categories of livestock, namely species, gender and age, in order for them to be compared, and which is equivalent to one dairy cow.
  • CATTLE:  Domestic animals of the species "Bos taurus".
  • 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).
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 23/05/2011


information presented in 27/12/2024