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Head of bovine livestock. Provinces

Head of bovine livestock. Counties, areas and provinces 2005
Less than 12 months 12 to 24 months More than 24 months
Slaughter Others Male Female Male Female for milk Female others Total
Alt Camp 881 17 0 0 0 0 0 898
Alt Empordà 21,112 2,348 15 2,274 121 8,761 1,955 36,586
Alt Penedès 4,311 64 0 74 6 248 98 4,801
Alt Urgell 6,536 2,533 55 3,005 293 10,094 4,918 27,434
Alta Ribagorça 1,505 152 10 379 74 0 2,281 4,401
Anoia 2,496 73 0 74 11 145 311 3,110
Bages 23,260 490 4 465 83 780 2,176 27,258
Baix Camp 1,005 104 45 169 0 0 0 1,323
Baix Ebre 2,081 229 90 127 196 296 671 3,690
Baix Empordà 5,452 996 2 925 42 4,362 345 12,124
Baix Llobregat 1,118 133 0 153 2 433 22 1,861
Baix Penedès 341 24 11 42 0 0 0 418
Barcelonès 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Berguedà 12,603 1,002 15 1,011 206 1,729 5,992 22,558
Cerdanya 2,276 1,485 29 1,754 210 4,876 4,921 15,551
Conca de Barberà 2,905 204 90 338 0 13 33 3,583
Garraf 519 3 0 3 1 0 10 536
Garrigues 17,202 103 62 187 11 456 42 18,063
Garrotxa 9,511 1,480 22 1,639 174 4,191 4,113 21,130
Gironès 7,708 1,459 6 1,406 78 6,254 918 17,829
Maresme 3,547 246 1 280 14 1,121 83 5,292
Montsià 1,392 201 78 85 196 429 706 3,087
Noguera 35,143 953 266 1,231 85 3,619 1,397 42,694
Osona 40,237 4,367 28 4,807 439 14,889 9,459 74,226
Pallars Jussà 5,048 288 49 583 89 568 2,775 9,400
Pallars Sobirà 1,560 579 15 1,052 174 1,105 4,923 9,408
Pla d'Urgell 12,965 792 122 838 77 3,241 307 18,342
Pla de l'Estany 8,971 777 3 813 54 2,997 960 14,575
Priorat 884 8 0 0 0 0 0 892
Ribera d'Ebre 355 0 0 0 0 0 0 355
Ripollès 2,759 1,251 82 1,449 272 1,187 7,308 14,308
Segarra 10,126 28 51 124 9 51 283 10,672
Segrià 81,278 1,274 525 1,698 112 5,101 1,018 91,006
Selva 5,201 1,067 6 1,019 64 4,118 807 12,282
Solsonès 6,998 290 57 691 119 199 3,842 12,196
Tarragonès 558 72 34 127 1 125 0 917
Terra Alta 696 59 25 42 49 74 167 1,112
Urgell 14,606 39 80 140 2 169 85 15,121
Val d'Aran 136 36 1 77 15 0 490 755
Vallès Occidental 4,888 65 0 63 11 106 258 5,391
Vallès Oriental 31,669 1,866 5 2,089 107 6,438 1,741 43,915
Catalonia 391,839 27,157 1,884 31,233 3,397 88,175 65,415 609,100
Metropolità 46,052 2,377 6 2,662 141 8,346 2,212 61,796
Comarques Gironines 60,714 9,378 136 9,525 805 31,870 16,406 128,834
Camp de Tarragona 6,574 429 180 676 1 138 33 8,031
Terres de l'Ebre 4,524 489 193 254 441 799 1,544 8,244
Ponent 171,320 3,189 1,106 4,218 296 12,637 3,132 195,898
Comarques Centrals 85,594 6,222 104 7,048 858 17,742 21,780 139,348
Alt Pirineu i Aran 17,061 5,073 159 6,850 855 16,643 20,308 66,949
Barcelona 124,749 8,261 53 8,925 866 25,729 19,776 188,359
Girona 61,532 10,273 155 10,377 888 34,963 18,190 136,378
Lleida 194,462 7,706 1,302 11,003 1,201 26,545 25,877 268,096
Tarragona 11,098 918 374 930 442 937 1,579 16,278
Source: Departament d'Agricultura, Alimentació i Acció Rural.

Last update: June 18, 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 "..".