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Farms. By size of the total surface Catalonia
2016 2013 2009 2007 2005 2003 1999 1997 1995
Total 57,543 59,098 60,839 55,096 57,503 60,436 67,238 68,944 71,091
No land 842 1,408 1,519 647 604 755 1,060 329 370
With land 56,701 57,690 59,320 54,449 56,899 59,681 66,178 68,615 70,721
Less than 1 ha 1,378 1,421 1,551 1,378 1,711 2,213 3,302 1,478 1,903
From 1 to < 2 ha 6,158 7,884 7,415 5,648 6,802 6,784 8,064 6,756 7,558
From 2 to < 5 ha 13,762 13,700 13,512 12,472 12,390 13,811 14,674 15,777 15,761
From 5 to < 10 ha 9,630 9,708 10,856 8,997 9,308 9,756 12,411 14,425 14,333
From 10 to < 20 ha 9,951 9,733 9,889 10,122 11,190 11,416 11,178 11,911 12,942
From 20 to < 50 ha 9,273 8,404 9,666 8,867 8,715 9,266 9,929 11,116 11,812
From 50 to < 100 ha 3,527 3,936 3,684 3,927 3,844 3,344 3,573 4,589 3,899
From 100 to < 200 ha 1,899 1,856 1,779 1,665 1,650 1,830 1,757 1,542 1,468
200 and above ha 1,124 1,047 968 1,372 1,289 1,262 1,290 1,020 1,046
Source: Idescat, based on data from the Survey on Farm Structure of INE.
Note: The 1999 data has been adapted to the population researched in the Agricultural Census 2009 in order to assist with comparability.

Last update: February 28, 2018.

EXPAGR

These statistics have a specific section with all the information available: Statistics on Farm Structure (EXPAGR).

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Farm
Technical-economic unit from which agricultural products are obtained under the responsibility of one titular agent. Characterised by the use of a single set of means of production (labour, machinery, etc.). Includes exclusively forestry operations and prohibited hunting zones. Depending on the surface area, these can be with land or without land.
Farm, with land
Of a surface area equal to or greater than 0.1 ha, on one or several sites whether adjacent or not. In the 2009 Census, the minimums are: 1ha of UAA, or 0.2 ha of horticulture or flowers in the open air or irrigated orchards or greenhouses, or 0.1 ha of greenhouse horticulture or flowers, or 0.5 ha of tobacco, hops or cotton.
Farm, without land
Of a surface area of less than 0.1 ha and having a certain quantity of animals. In the 2009 Census, the minimums are: to have an LU or TSP (Total standard production) equal to or more than 0.75 ESUs.

Methodological aspects

Agricultural statistics are generated within the framework of the EU programme on surveys on farm structure conducted by all EU members in order have up-to-date, comparable information on the member states, with the purpose of being used a basic tool for designing the Common Agricultural Policy. This programme establishes that an Agricultural Census shall be performed every ten years and sample-based surveys in the intervening years. For the cycle that starts with the Agricultural census 2009, two triennial surveys are established.

In these censuses, which are exhaustive, all the existing farms are researched, which from 2009, must comply with certain minimum criteria, while in the Surveys on Farm Structure the population studied complies with some less broad minimum criteria and the data is selected by sampling.

The introduction of these methodological changes with respect to previous editions means that the data is not directly comparable.

What is more, the census questionnaire also includes an additional sheet through which information of interest to the Catalan agricultural sector can be gathered.

Between 1989 and 2007, these statistical operations were conducted by Idescat with the support of the Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Fishing, Food and the Environment.

In 2009, the INE became the responsible body for the Agricultural census for Spain as a whole and in Catalonia it works in collaboration with Idescat and the Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Fishing, Food and the Environment, in accordance with the corresponding collaboration agreements.

The Survey on Farm Structure shows the biennial data series for intercensal periods up to 2007. The series will be triennial from 2013 onwards. From 2013 onwards, the thematic sections will include a section on Rural Development and another on Standard Production, which substitutes the processing of economic data on operations which was based on the gross margin until 2007.

Furthermore, in conjunction with DARP, Idescat has generated a variety of informative documents setting out the main results of the Agricultural Census and the Survey on Farm Structure, prior to 2009. The document devoted to the Agricultural Census contains a compilation of the main variables and compares them with the corresponding previous censuses, pointing out and commenting on the basic factors in their evolution in the intervening period.

The documents devoted to Survey on Farm Structure provide data on the main variables in this survey and compare them with the universe of reference of the corresponding Agricultural Census.

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 "..".