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1.1. Contact organisation | Statistics Finland |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Economic Statistics |
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1.5. Contact mail address | Hannu Maliniemi FIN-00022 Statistics Finland |
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2.1. Data description | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Main characteristics
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2.2. Classification system | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The EAA is an integral part of the European system of accounts and therefore for their compilation the Eurostat's general classification of economic activities, NACE Rev. 2, is used.
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2.3. Coverage - sector | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
EAA cover the Agricultural sector. Country specific part: In FI the EAA accounts include the agriculture production except for the so-called kitchen garden production (as the EAA manual says) |
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2.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
One of the principal objectives of the EAA is to measure agricultural income and changes therein.
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2.5. Statistical unit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In order to analyse flows generated by the production process and the use of goods and services, it is necessary to select units which emphasise relationships of a technico-economic kind. This requirement means that as a rule institutional units must be partitioned into smaller and more homogeneous units with regard to the kind of production. Local kind-of-activity units (local KAUs) are intended to meet this requirement as a first but practically-oriented operational approach Country specific part: The local KAUs in Finland represent agriculture sector and the information of units are based on the FSS information (farm register) and on the tax register of farm businesses. |
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2.6. Statistical population | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The agricultural holding, which is the unit currently used for statistical studies of agriculture (censuses, surveys of the structure of agricultural holdings), is the local KAU most appropriate to the agricultural industry.In addition to agricultural holdings, the agricultural industry comprises units made up of groups of producers (e.g. cooperatives) which produce wine and olive oil and specialised units which provide machines, material and labour for the performance of contract work.
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2.7. Reference area | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2.8. Coverage - Time | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The EAA information has been produced and has been disseminated annual since the year 1975. REAA series has been disseminated from the year 1995 to the year 2012 |
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2.9. Base period | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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3.1. Source data | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall summary
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3.2. Frequency of data collection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The information has been described in annex 3.1 and 3.3 |
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3.3. Data collection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Census
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3.4. Data validation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Obiously some adjustments have been done, e.g. the intermediate consumption have been evaluated in the limited company of agriculture |
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4.1. Quality assurance | ||||||||||||||
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4.2. Quality management - assessment | ||||||||||||||
Development since the last quality report
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5.1. Relevance - User Needs | ||||||||||
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5.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | ||||||||||
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5.3. Completeness | ||||||||||
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6.1. Accuracy - overall | ||||||||||
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6.2. Sampling error | ||||||||||
A considerable part of the source information of EAA is based on the sampling inquiries produced by Natural recearch information center Finland. From all the aforementioned sampling inquiries include a quality caption in to the methodology report of the statistics. E.g. the standard error of the estimators and the other parameters of the sample research has been described as well as other main information of the statistics on this paper. For example the statistical standard error of the crop statistics varies between 1-2%. |
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6.2.1. Sampling error - indicators | ||||||||||
Standard error is the most used indicator what we are using in Finland when we are describing the random variation of an estimator of the source statistics of EAA. |
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6.3. Non-sampling error | ||||||||||
In Finland agriculture output and price statistics are mostly based on the informatio which is obtained from the buyers of products. Nearly all of the agriculture products are coming through these companies onto the market. All the before-mentioned companies are obliged to report the outputs bought by it and prices to the Natural resource information centre. We get the information about the value of the production (quantity x price) which is based on the total data of production. Only a minor number of the production comes to the market via other way than mentioned before (for example the own consumption of the farmer family) The information concerning production costs is gained from the Statistics on the finances of agricultural and forestry enterprises produced by Statistics Finland. The problem of the statistics in question is the fact that its frame population includes only the called family farms. However, the number of farms owned by limited companieshas increased during the last few years in Finland so they still stay on the under cavariage of the statistics. Thus the production costs of company-type premises have to be estimated for the present. In the near future we hope the situation will change and we will get an improvement to this matter; we try to take the group in question also to the frame population of the statistics. |
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6.3.1. Coverage error | ||||||||||
Coverage error of EAA means that we don't have accuracy information for some product produced or some items of intermediate consumption (as said on the 5.3.2). Overall, output has been covered good level, but we have some caverage problems with intermediate costs. GFCF as well as the consumption of fixed capital and FISIM have been covered together within NA, and the quality is good. |
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6.3.1.1. Over-coverage - rate | ||||||||||
We have not identified a problem in the over-coverage |
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6.3.1.2. Common units - proportion | ||||||||||
6.3.2. Measurement error | ||||||||||
6.3.3. Non response error | ||||||||||
6.3.3.1. Unit non-response - rate | ||||||||||
6.3.3.2. Item non-response - rate | ||||||||||
6.3.4. Processing error | ||||||||||
The sas based production system has beed decreased the possibilities for processin errors |
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6.3.4.1. Imputation - rate | ||||||||||
6.3.5. Model assumption error | ||||||||||
6.4. Seasonal adjustment | ||||||||||
Because of annual statistic and annual data we don't use any seasonal adjustment method. |
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6.5. Data revision - policy | ||||||||||
We publish the revisions from the EAA accounts as we get new information about the operating volumes of an output as well as inputs and their worth. |
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6.6. Data revision - practice | ||||||||||
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7.1. Timeliness | ||||||||
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7.2. Punctuality | ||||||||
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8.1. Comparability - geographical | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
To be assessed by Eurostat |
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8.1.1. Asymmetry for mirror flow statistics - coefficient | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8.2. Comparability - over time | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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8.4. Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In Finland we are producing monthly and quarterly NA information from the branch of the agriculture. Sub annual information is based on the considerably smaller information which we will have available when we draw up annual accounts. |
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8.5. Coherence - National Accounts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Use of EAA-data in NA calculations
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The quality of the information which is used as sources of information has been carefully estimated. The result of the analysis of sources of information a problems are usually gone away. |
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9.1. Dissemination format - News release | ||||||||||||
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9.2. Dissemination format - Publications | ||||||||||||
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9.3. Dissemination format - online database | ||||||||||||
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9.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | ||||||||||||
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9.5. Dissemination format - other | ||||||||||||
9.6. Documentation on methodology | ||||||||||||
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9.7. Quality management - documentation | ||||||||||||
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11.1. Confidentiality - policy | ||||||
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11.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | ||||||
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Annex Finland |