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Head of bovine livestock. Provinces

Head of bovine livestock. Provinces 2019
Less than 12 months 12 to 24 months More than 24 months
Slaughter Others Male Female Male Female for milk Female others Total
Barcelona 85,711 6,384 6,166 11,832 1,404 20,909 26,894 159,300
Girona 63,036 6,594 3,048 13,000 1,208 26,218 28,595 141,699
Lleida 230,832 7,728 12,701 16,538 1,635 26,804 27,272 323,510
Tarragona 10,280 85 532 553 257 1 1,292 13,000
Total 389,860 20,790 22,447 41,923 4,504 73,931 84,054 637,509
Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food.

Last update: July 3, 2020.

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 "..".