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Head of bovine livestock. Provinces

Head of bovine livestock. Counties, areas and provinces Catalonia
Less than 12 months 12 to 24 months More than 24 months
Slaughter Others Male Female Male Female for milk Female others Total
2007 367,029 33,632 2,463 29,676 4,143 83,330 69,623 589,896
2006 412,125 25,566 7,509 27,022 3,459 81,708 69,564 626,953
2005 391,839 27,157 1,884 31,233 3,397 88,175 65,415 609,100
2004 402,778 25,974 5,157 33,847 3,723 87,371 76,637 635,487
2003 474,885 27,530 1,944 28,927 3,879 92,701 68,964 698,830
2002 446,830 29,414 3,932 37,040 4,323 100,983 69,776 692,298
2001 489,402 28,462 2,597 43,611 3,618 99,986 68,167 735,843
2000 450,993 38,872 3,672 39,843 4,501 97,504 81,029 716,414
Source:
2000-2003: Departament d'Agricultura, Ramaderia i Pesca. Direcció de Serveis.
2004: Departament d'Agricultura, Ramaderia i Pesca. Secretaria General.
2005-2007: Departament d'Agricultura, Alimentació i Acció Rural.

Last update: July 14, 2009.

Methodological note

Methodological aspects

The European Union states that member states must hold fixed quarterly statistics on the number of cattle, either through surveys or from quality, contrasted administrative sources.

Until 2011, the technique used by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and the Natural Environment (DAAM) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment (MAGRAMA) was a survey of farm owners, but from this year on, it has been agreed that this will be replaced by the use of administrative records, specifically the General Register of Individual Animal Identification (RIIA) and the General Register of Cattle Movement (REMO). This decision is taken jointly throughout the state after finding that the statistical information they provide is of a quality and reliability equal or superior to the surveys. This change in methodology represents significant progress in administrative simplification, cost reduction and significant improvement in the quality of results.

It must be remembered, however, that this methodological improvement causes a break in the time series data, which is larger the more the data is broken down. Therefore, the results for 2011 and earlier that are broken down by categories of animals cannot be compared with those of later years, since the changes observed are due to methodological change and not real differences.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".