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Head of bovine livestock. Provinces

Head of bovine livestock. Counties, areas and provinces 2001
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 584 112 35 94 1 19 21 866
Alt Empordà 23,231 1,863 28 2,036 122 9,410 2,605 39,295
Alt Penedès 4,816 69 11 98 6 231 46 5,277
Alt Urgell 7,692 1,831 100 3,254 217 8,114 3,254 24,462
Alta Ribagorça 1,352 74 44 385 81 0 2,048 3,984
Anoia 2,779 102 5 125 17 242 412 3,682
Bages 21,104 636 101 824 70 1,212 1,542 25,489
Baix Camp 2,559 397 203 388 4 47 18 3,616
Baix Ebre 2,196 582 378 427 180 485 755 5,003
Baix Empordà 6,735 901 37 922 49 4,635 737 14,016
Baix Llobregat 1,329 103 4 117 4 340 62 1,959
Baix Penedès 754 117 50 110 0 7 10 1,048
Barcelonès 203 53 2 66 3 193 32 552
Berguedà 11,272 1,453 54 1,749 218 2,767 5,760 23,273
Cerdanya 3,145 1,468 105 1,837 228 6,150 4,948 17,881
Conca de Barberà 2,029 147 126 144 3 60 71 2,580
Garraf 4,161 3 4 28 1 0 16 4,213
Garrigues 28,228 151 3 935 23 661 70 30,071
Garrotxa 10,272 1,659 42 1,472 214 5,528 5,452 24,639
Gironès 8,902 1,357 40 1,333 82 6,981 1,508 20,203
Maresme 5,785 313 18 382 25 1,344 307 8,174
Montsià 934 324 300 222 175 383 644 2,982
Noguera 48,258 845 12 2,789 77 3,775 686 56,442
Osona 37,988 4,926 190 5,792 494 16,513 9,938 75,841
Pallars Jussà 6,352 147 44 739 102 296 2,480 10,160
Pallars Sobirà 1,384 368 128 1,032 198 1,045 4,265 8,420
Pla d'Urgell 20,594 711 9 1,714 37 3,449 82 26,596
Pla de l'Estany 9,506 717 23 722 59 3,355 1,237 15,619
Priorat 947 137 72 136 3 12 13 1,320
Ribera d'Ebre 537 115 41 110 1 13 11 828
Ripollès 2,263 2,009 45 1,547 382 3,405 11,149 20,800
Segarra 14,767 4 2 572 14 11 88 15,458
Segrià 117,606 1,345 21 5,999 142 6,302 914 132,329
Selva 6,338 928 25 949 66 4,572 1,299 14,177
Solsonès 10,254 154 51 898 130 77 3,204 14,768
Tarragonès 551 46 53 58 3 113 12 836
Terra Alta 447 28 15 16 1 26 34 567
Urgell 22,558 66 3 873 21 270 70 23,861
Val d'Aran 123 26 16 85 27 0 467 744
Vallès Occidental 5,587 208 24 249 16 635 282 7,001
Vallès Oriental 33,280 1,967 133 2,383 122 7,308 1,618 46,811
Catalonia 489,402 28,462 2,597 43,611 3,618 99,986 68,167 735,843
Metropolità 55,161 2,716 196 3,323 177 10,051 2,363 73,987
Comarques Gironines 67,247 9,434 240 8,981 974 37,886 23,987 148,749
Camp de Tarragona 7,424 956 539 930 14 258 145 10,266
Terres de l'Ebre 4,114 1,049 734 775 357 907 1,444 9,380
Ponent 252,011 3,122 50 12,882 314 14,468 1,910 284,757
Comarques Centrals 83,397 7,271 401 9,388 929 20,811 20,856 143,053
Alt Pirineu i Aran 20,048 3,914 437 7,332 853 15,605 17,462 65,651
Barcelona 128,503 9,809 540 11,726 960 30,693 19,607 201,838
Girona 68,508 10,531 274 9,940 1,086 42,191 26,801 159,331
Lleida 280,852 6,117 508 20,240 1,201 25,936 20,169 355,023
Tarragona 11,539 2,005 1,275 1,705 371 1,166 1,590 19,651
Source: Departament d'Agricultura, Ramaderia i Pesca. Direcció de Serveis.

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 "..".