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[FR1] National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) (France)
1.2. Contact organisation unit
For SSP : Sous-direction des synthèse statistiques et des revenus, Bureau des statistiques sur les productions et les comptabilités agricoles. For Insee : Département des synthèses sectorielles, division Industrie et Agriculture.
1.3. Contact name
Restricted from publication
1.4. Contact person function
Restricted from publication
1.5. Contact mail address
For SSP : 3 Rue Barbet de Jouy 75349 PARIS 07 SP France Insee : Direction générale - 88, avenue Verdier 92541 Montrouge Cedex
1.6. Contact email address
Restricted from publication
1.7. Contact phone number
Restricted from publication
1.8. Contact fax number
Restricted from publication
2.1. Metadata last certified
22 September 2026
2.2. Metadata last posted
22 September 2026
2.3. Metadata last update
22 September 2026
3.1. Data description
The Economic Accounts for Agriculture (EAA) provide an overview of the agricultural activities in a systematic and comparable way to serve as basis for analyses, forecasts and political measures. The methodology is laid down in Annex I of the Regulation (EC) 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council. The EAA methodological manual provides further details and clarifications (website).
3.2. Classification system
The EAA are a satellite account of the European System of Accounts (ESA), therefore EAA constitute an integral part of the ESA. As such, they are compiled based on NACE Rev. 2, the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community. The list of activities, which defines the agricultural industry corresponds, in principle, to Division 01 of that classification: Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities. However, some differences exist that are detailed in Annex I of Regulation (EC) 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
3.3. Coverage - sector
The sector covers all units involved in agricultural production, even if some of those units have other more important economic activities even if the purpose of these activities is not commercial. However, kitchen gardens (producing for own-consumption only) are not included. The list of agricultural activities covered by EAA corresponds to the seven groups of Division 01 of NACE Rev 2 activities (01.1 to 01.7), with the following caveats/differences:
inclusion of the production of wine and olive oil (exclusively using grapes and olives grown by the same holding),
exclusion of certain activities which, in NACE Rev. 2, are considered as agricultural services (e.g. the operation of irrigation systems - only agricultural contract work is taken into account here).
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions
The EAA are a satellite account of the ESA providing complementary information and concepts adapted to the particular nature of the agricultural industry.
The EAA are shown as a sequence of inter-related accounts. As the EAA are based on the industry concept, the sequence of accounts is limited to the first accounts of the current accounts:
the production account (its balancing item: value added)
the generation-of-income account (its balancing item: operating surplus).
Nevertheless EAA contains other accounts (of the ESA) at least partly:
the entrepreneurial income account (one of the current accounts) and
the capital account (one of the accumulation accounts).
The EAA provide a wide range of indicators on the economic activities of the agricultural sector: these include output, intermediate consumption, gross and net value added, gross fixed capital formation (GFCF), both at current prices and at reference year prices, as well as compensation of employees, other taxes and subsidies on production, net operating surplus or net mixed income, property income and net entrepreneurial income at current prices. (see for more details points 1.40-1.48 in Annex I of Regulation (EC) 138/2004.)
Three income indicators are defined in the EAA:
Index of the real income of factors in agriculture per annual work unit (indicator A).
Index of real net agricultural entrepreneurial income per unpaid annual work unit (indicator B).
Net entrepreneurial income of agriculture (indicator C).
See for more details chapter 5 in Annex I of Regulation (EC) 138/2004.
3.4.1. Components of the Production account : Output
Agricultural output is the total of the agricultural products and the goods and services produced in inseparable non-agricultural secondary activities during the accounting period. It is recorded as a resource in the production account and it is valued and recorded at the time it is generated, i.e. when produced and not when paid by the purchaser.
In the compilation of the EAA, output is progressively broken down in quantity terms (see point 2.037 of Regulation (EC) 138/2004). Output is valued at the basic price. The basic price is the price receivable by the producers from the purchaser for a unit of a good or service produced, minus any tax (i.e. taxes on products) payable on that unit plus any subsidy (i.e. subsidies on products) receivable on that unit. The basic price excludes any transport charges invoiced separately by the producer. It also excludes holding gains and losses on financial and non-financial assets. The valuation of output at the basic price makes it necessary to distinguish between taxes (other than VAT) on products and subsidies on products, on the one hand, and other taxes and subsidies on production, on the other.
The components of output in the production account are detailed in ANNEX II of the Regulation (EC) 138/2004. The other categories are wider, defined by the countries according to their special characteristics. The table below covers the list of products included under ‘other’ categories.
List of 'Other products'
Items (français)
Items
Other cereals except wheat and spelt, rye and meslin, barley, oats and summer cereals mixture, grain maize, rice
sorgho, triticale
sorghum, triticale
Other oleaginous products except Rape and turnip rape seed, Sunflower, Soya
Lin oléagineux
Oilseed flax
Other industrial crops: others than Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits (including seeds), Protein crops (including seeds), Raw tobacco, Sugarbeet, Fibre plants, Hops
chicorée, lavande, lavandin, canne à sucre, plantes à parfum, pavot médicinal
Abricots, Agrumes, Amandes, Cassis, Cerises, Châtaignes, Figues, Fraises, Framboises, Groseilles, Kiwis, Melons, Noisettes, Noix, Olives pour la bouche, Olives à huile, Prunes, Raisins pour le fruit
Other crop products: Others: not elsewhere classified
none
none
Other animals Other than cattle, pigs, equines, sheep and goats, poultry
lapins, des cailles, des pigeons, des
gibiers, les escargots et les grenouilles, ainsi que des animaux de compagnie
rabbits, quails, pigeons,game, snails and frogs, pets
Other animal products: others than milk, eggs, raw wool, silkworm cocoons
miel
honey
Processing of agricultural products:
Items
Items
Other animal products other than milk
none
none
Other inseparable non-agricultural secondary activities (goods and services) Other than Processing of agricultural products
agritourisme
agritourism
3.4.2. Components of the Production account : Intermediate consumption
Intermediate consumption represents the value of all goods and services used as inputs in the production process, excluding fixed assets, the consumption of which is recorded as fixed capital consumption.
The inputs used for intermediate consumption should be valued at the purchaser prices for similar goods and services applicable at the time of their insertion in the production process. The purchaser price includes taxes less subsidies on products (but excludes deductible taxes like VAT on the products). It also includes any transport charges paid separately by the purchaser to take delivery at the required time and place.
The components of intermediate consumption in the production account are detailed in ANNEX II of the Regulation (EC) 138/2004. The other categories are wider, defined by the countries according to their special characteristics. The table below only covers the list of products included under ‘other’ categories.
List of 'Other products'
Items
Items
Energy; lubricants other than electricity, gas, other fuels and propellants
none
none
Other goods and services other than listed under 2.108 in the Reg.
fournitures stockables, le petit matériel, les frais divers de gestion, l’assurance, les autres honoraires, la fabrication de boissons et des bouteilles en verre, la consommation d’eau (irrigation et hors irrigation)
stockable supplies, small equipment, miscellaneous management costs, insurance, other fees, beverage and glass bottle manufacturing, water consumption (irrigation and non-irrigation)
3.4.3. Components of the Generation of income account
In the generation of income account, the distributive transactions relate to other taxes on production, other subsidies on production and the compensation of employees.
The components of the generation of income account are detailed in ANNEX II of the Regulation (EC) 138/2004.
3.4.4. Components of the Entrepreneurial income account
The entrepreneurial income account records certain types of property income (mainly land rents, interest and property income attributed to insurance policy holders).
The components of the entrepreneurial income account are detailed in ANNEX II of the Regulation (EC) 138/2004.
3.4.5. Elements of the Capital account
In addition to gross fixed capital formation (GFCF), the capital account records distributive transactions corresponding to aid for investment and other capital transfers.
The elements of the capital account are detailed in ANNEX II of the Regulation (EC) 138/2004.
3.5. Statistical unit
The statistical unit is the local kind of activity unit.
In order to provide more detailed information and 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 technical-economic kind. This means that, institutional units are broken-down into smaller and more homogeneous units with regard to the kind of production (local kind-of-activity units/local KAUs) (ESA 2010, 2.147).
The local KAU is defined as the part of a KAU which corresponds to a local unit. The institutional unit's information system is capable of indicating or calculating for each local KAU at least the value of output, intermediate consumption, compensation of employees, the operating surplus and employment and gross fixed capital formation (ESA 2010, 2.148).
The agricultural holding is the local KAU most appropriate to the agricultural industry. However, the variety of agricultural activities that can be performed on agricultural holdings makes them a special type of local KAU. The strict application of the ESA rule to units and their group should in fact result in a division of the agricultural holding into several separate local KAUs in cases where several activities of the NACE Rev. 2 four-digit class are performed on the same holding and the information required according to the explanations above is available. The adoption of the agricultural holding as the local KAU of the agricultural industry in the national accounts (NA) and EAA is based on a statistical approach.
The speciality and the aim of EAA is to cover all agricultural activity carried out by an agricultural holding or any other local KAU not having agriculture as its main activity.
The use of the local KAU as the basic unit for the agricultural industry entails recording non-agricultural secondary activities where they cannot be distinguished from the main agricultural activity (inseparable non-agricultural secondary activities of local agricultural KAUs). The selection criterion for inseparable non-agricultural secondary activities is rather the type of activity than the nature of the product. For example, agro-tourism services provided by a farm are only included if they cannot be separated from its agricultural activities.
3.6. Statistical population
The agricultural industry includes all local KAUs at local level which perform the economic activities, as principal or secondary activity corresponds to Division 01 in NACE Rev. 2 (cf. 1.60 to 1.66 of EAA Reg.)
3.7. Reference area
The entire territory of the country.
3.8. Coverage - Time
For data at national level : (time series with base period = 2020) : years 1959-2024 for production and intermediate consumption, 1980-2024 for other indicators For data at regional level (time series with base period = 2020) : years 2010-2024
3.9. Base period
Accounts for year n are calculated of the base period is year n-1. Data are derived by chain linking at prices of year 2015 (and at any other reference year prices).
EAA data at current prices and at prices for the preceding year are given in millions of units of national currency.
Agricultural labour input data are given in thousand annual work units (AWU).
2023 calendar year.
6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements
EU legislation:
Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 December 2003 on the economic accounts for agriculture in the Community as amended by Commission delegated Regulation (EU) No 2019/280 of 3 December 2018. Transmission of data for the regional EAA (REAA) at NUTS 2 level became obligatory in September 2023. Before September 2023, Eurostat collected REAA data on a voluntary basis.
National regulation:
Decree No. 2001-863 of 14 September 2001 on the National Agricultural Accounts Commission states that the National Agricultural Accounts Committee, which operates under the National Economic Committee, is responsible for analysing and disseminating economic accounts that describe the situation of agriculture and farmers within the national and international economy. It examines any matter referred to it by the Minister for the Economy or the Minister for Agriculture.
6.1.1. Responsible institution for compilation of EAA
Insee and SSP
6.1.2. Responsible institution for compilation of Agricultural Income Index
Insee and SSP
6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing
Many data sources used for the compilation of the EAA and REAA are freely accessible to anyone online. Data for intermediary consumptions is based on FADN data, produced by SSP and accessible for Insee and SSP. Other specific data sources that are not freely accessible online are requested by email or phone and sent by email to Insee, SSP, or the regional offices of the Ministry of agriculture.
7.1. Confidentiality - policy
Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society. The European Statistics Code of Practice provides conditions that have to be respected by statistical offices in regard to statistical confidentiality (Principle 5).
7.2.2. Comments on the amount of data affected by embargo
Not applicable.
8.1. Release calendar
EAA and REAA are presented twice a year to stakeholders of the French Agriculture at a formal meeting called Commission des comptes de l'agriculture de la nation (CCAN) :
EAA N are presented at the CCAN in December N,
EAA and REAA N, N-1 and N-2 are presented at the CCAN in July N+1.
EAA and REAA data are released both in the form of excel datasets and analysis reports after each CCAN. The date of each CCAN is publicly available in the minutes of the previous CCAN about 5 months in advance.
8.2. Release calendar access
Not applicable
8.3. Release policy - user access
As the EAA and REAA are macro-economic estimates with no individual data, all the results made available are available for all users.
Data is disseminated twice a year (see above).
10.1. Dissemination format - News release
There are two regular press releases, one for the dissemination of the first estimates account in December, one for the dissemination of the provisional account in July.
SSP : there is no database except the above-mentioned excel files. Insee : there is no database except the above-mentioned excel files.
10.3.1. Data tables - consultations
Not applicable.
10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access
Not applicable.
10.5. Dissemination format - other
Insee: the agricultural accounts are also disseminated in the series on agriculture of the national accounts of France on INSEE website.
10.5.1. Metadata - consultations
Not applicable.
10.6. Documentation on methodology
Report on the transition to EAA and REAA base 2020 (Rapport sur le passage des comptes de l’agriculture en base 2020) (second file to be downloaded). The EAA accounts methods are documented in the Insee GNI inventory, which is transmitted to Eurostat. The scope differences between the EAA and the agricultural activity in the National Accounts are also documented in the GNI inventory.
10.6.1. Metadata completeness - rate
The quality indicator for metadata completeness: 1.000
[The indicator shows the ratio of metadata replies provided by country per metadata required.]
10.6.2. Further methodological guidelines available at national level
SSP: regarding the REAA, the estimations are computed by regional services of the Ministry of agriculture in each region. SSP provides excel templates to fill in with the REAA indicators, as well as methodological guidelines on how to estimate each indicator. Those methodological guidelines are being rewritten in 2025, and the work will continue in 2026. SSP also provides data that can be used for estimation by regional services (crops and animal statistics, price indexes, FADN data...). An annual meeting with all regional correspondants takes place in Paris once a year to discuss methodological questions about the REAA. In addition to those annual in-person meetings, virtual meetings with some or all of the regional correspondants happen every time it is needed. For each version of the REAA, SSP checks the data estimated by the regional offices and if necessary gets back to the regional office to ask for explanation or correction, in order to prevent errors. For most indicators, an estimation directly at national level is made by Insee and the sum of regional estimations is compared to the national estimation, which is a very useful safeguard. Insee: a concertation meeting is organized at each account between Insee and SSP. The INSEE is in the process of drafting procedure sheets for each account version, over the period 2025-2026 (internal document).
11.2. Quality management - assessment
Nothing relevant
12.1. Relevance - User Needs
The users of the EAA and REAA are government bodies, both at national and regional level, and stakeholders of the French agriculture (farmers unions or other entities representing farms like chambers of agriculture, employees unions, researchers...). They use the data to assess the overall economic situation of the agriculture in France or in one region. There is no specific information about unmet needs of users. The media are also users of the EAA (e.g., Les Echos).
12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction
Twice a year, the views and opinions of the users can be expressed at the Commission des comptes de l'agriculture de la nation (CCAN, see 8.1). However, there has been no particular insatisfaction expressed in recent years.
12.3. Completeness
Overall, content requirements in regulations and guidelines are met. However, for some REAA or EAA indicators, the lack of data makes it difficult to compute estimations that have sufficient precision. In those cases, hypothesis have to be made. This is the case for instance for data on wine prices, which is not always available depending on the region and the type of wine. Another example is the estimation of the growth of animals, which for some animals (for instance poultries), is difficult because of the lack of data sources.
12.3.1. Data completeness - rate
The quality indicator for data completeness shows the following for the reference year 2023 in the detailed EAA: 0.996 (the following item is missing: AM206011 Feedingstuffs supplied by other agricultural holdings).
[The indicator shows the ratio of data provided per data required, excluding derogations]
13.1. Accuracy - overall
To describe accuracy, the country uses the quality and performance indicator called ‘data revision – average absolute size’ under point 17.2.1 of this document.
13.2. Sampling error
Not applicable.
13.2.1. Sampling error - indicators
Not applicable.
13.3. Non-sampling error
Not applicable.
13.3.1. Coverage error
Not applicable.
13.3.1.1. Over-coverage - rate
Not applicable.
13.3.1.2. Common units - proportion
Not applicable.
13.3.2. Measurement error
Not applicable.
13.3.3. Non response error
Not applicable.
13.3.3.1. Unit non-response - rate
Not applicable.
13.3.3.2. Item non-response - rate
Not applicable.
13.3.4. Processing error
Not applicable.
13.3.5. Model assumption error
Not applicable.
14.1. Timeliness
The reason for time lag is both the time necessary for the availability of data sources used to compute the indicators of the EAA and REAA, and the time necessary to compute our estimations based on those data sources, and make the best possible hypothesis when no data is available.
14.1.1. Time lag - first result
First results for the EAA of year N are published in December N. First results for the REAA of year N are published in July N+1.
Final results for year N are published in July N+3, both for the EAA and REAA.
14.1.2. Time lag - final result
Not applicable.
14.2. Punctuality
All the releases are made on scheduled release dates.
14.2.1. Punctuality - delivery and publication
The quality indicator of punctuality delivered and publication, shows the following for the reference year 2023:
[The indicator shows the time lag of data delivery to Eurostat and the deadline of the transmission.In case data delivered earlier the indicator shows negative value.]
First estimates: 4
Second estimates: -5
Detailed EAA: 0
15.1. Comparability - geographical
The results of EAA are comparable between regions and countries.
15.1.1. Asymmetry for mirror flow statistics - coefficient
Not applicable.
15.2. Comparability - over time
REAA : data for the years 2020-2024 are comparable. A work to estimate comparable data for years 2010-2019 is being undertaken, the results will be available soon.
EAA : data for the years 2020-2024 are comparable. A work to estimate comparable data for production and intermediate consumption for years 1959-2019 and for other indicators for years 1980-2019 as been undertaken, the results are available at this website and also at this website.
15.2.1. Length of comparable time series
REAA : see 15.2 above. EAA : see 15.2 above.
15.3. Coherence - cross domain
See details below
15.3.1. Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics
Not relevant, no subannual outputs
15.3.2. Coherence - National Accounts
The agricultural account deviates from the national account in the following points:
the non-separable non-agricultural activities of agricultural holdings are part of the scope of the agricultural account but not of the national account;
establishments producing certified seed are not part of the specific account, although they are covered by the national account.
15.4. Coherence - internal
For some indicators, there are a few inconsistencies, most of them being very small, between the sum of regional estimates and the national estimates. Insee and SSP are working together to achieve full consistency in the coming years.
EAA/REAA: the main cost is labour. For Insee, 3 agents work full-time on compiling agricultural accounts. In the ministry of agriculture, 2 agents word full time on compiling agricultural accounts at national level, and 1 agent works part-time on regional accounts in each region.
17.1. Data revision - policy
Revision policy aimed at ensuring the transparency of disseminated data. Chapter 8 of the EAA manual provides guidelines for a harmonised revision policy for EAA, including the ALI data.
17.2. Data revision - practice
The main revisions between the different versions of the account are:
consideration of SAA (annual agricultural statistics from the SSP) data from the provisional account taking into account the FADN (farm accountancy data network) data from the semi-final account
update of indices (IPPAP, IPAMPA...), production data, employment, subsidies, bank data with each version
17.2.1. Data revision - average size
Average of absolute revision is the average of absolute revisions for the years referring between the current quality (2023) and the 5-years' earlier.
Indicator A
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
Mean absolute revision (5 reference years)
1st estimate
EAA
1st estimate
EAA
1st estimate
EAA
1st estimate
EAA
1st estimate
EAA
France
91.73
93.61
92.36
95.06
116.33
115.80
124.50
111.46
86.51
84.84
3.97
17.2.2. Years where retropolations are carried out and (if they are not yet available) when they will be available
Not applicable.
17.2.3. Details of retropolation method used : items for which estimations are made and assumptions on which these estimations are based
Data are collected for each account version, depending on availability and need for updates.
18.2.1. Time of the year where the updates of the EAA are carried out
Not applicable.
18.2.2. Years covered by each of these updates (i.e. update in September of year n for the years n-1, n-2, n-3 )
Not applicable.
18.3. Data collection
A lot of data sources and surveys are used (crop statistics, animal statistics, FADN data, IFS data, prices index...), it would be hard to describe all of them. A few specific examples below: For the SEMAE (The interprofession of seeds and seedlings) administrative data source : we send a email with a data table to ask the production of seeds (in tons), the value of this production (in M€), and the sales of seeds in France (in tons and in M€) for each agricultural plant species, For the banking administrative data source (crédit agricole) : we send a email to ask the amont of credit for farming enterprises, amount of interests paid during the year and apparent rate of interests during the year.
18.4. Data validation
Comparison with previous years, consistency with similar productions and the international context. Dialogue between the statistics department of the Ministry of Agriculture (SSP) and Insee.
18.5. Data compilation
For data not yet available, imputation by rolling over the previous data, at the annual level or at the monthly level for monthly indices.
18.5.1. Imputation - rate
Not applicable.
18.5.2. Calculation procedures
Please see the Calculation procedure for 1st estimates, 2nd estimates and full set of EAA in Annex 2 Methods for valuing EAA items.
18.5.3.1. Components of the Production account : Output
Components of the Production account are calculated in evolution, in price and quantity, according to SSP sources or others.
18.5.3.2. Components of the Production account : Intermediate consumption
Components of the Intermediate Consumption are also calculated in evolution, in price and quantity, according to different sources (indices IPPAP, IPAMPA, bank data...)
18.5.3.3. Components of the Generation of income account
Gross value added is calculated as the difference between the production at the basic price and intermediate consumptions. Gross value added at the cost of factors is calculated as adding operating subsidies and removing taxes on production to gross value added. We also include employment charges and salary and financial charges to determine the gross result of the agricultural branch.
18.5.3.4. Components of the Entrepreneurial income account
We take into account the quantity of self employment.
18.5.3.5. Elements of the Capital account
We calculate the CFC (consumption of fixed capital) and the GFCF (gross fixed capital formation) except for the first estimates.
The rate of non-deductible VAT is obtained from the ministry of finance
18.5.6. Calculation of compensation of VAT
Not relevant, there is no under-compensation or over-compensation calculated.
18.6. Adjustment
No seasonal adjustment, annual statistics.
18.6.1. Seasonal adjustment
Not applicable.
18.6.2. Components of the Production account : Output
The adjustments are decided in dialogue with the SSP. There is no predefined statistical procedure for the arbitrations.
18.6.3. Components of the Production account : Intermediate consumption
The adjustments are decided in dialogue with the SSP. There is no predefined statistical procedure for the arbitrations.
18.6.4. Components of the Generation of income account
The adjustments are decided in dialogue with the SSP. There is no predefined statistical procedure for the arbitrations.
18.6.5. Components of the Entrepreneurial income account
The adjustments are decided in dialogue with the SSP. There is no predefined statistical procedure for the arbitrations.
18.6.6. Elements of the Capital account
The adjustments are decided in dialogue with the SSP. There is no predefined statistical procedure for the arbitrations.
The Economic Accounts for Agriculture (EAA) provide an overview of the agricultural activities in a systematic and comparable way to serve as basis for analyses, forecasts and political measures. The methodology is laid down in Annex I of the Regulation (EC) 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council. The EAA methodological manual provides further details and clarifications (website).
22 September 2026
The EAA are a satellite account of the ESA providing complementary information and concepts adapted to the particular nature of the agricultural industry.
The EAA are shown as a sequence of inter-related accounts. As the EAA are based on the industry concept, the sequence of accounts is limited to the first accounts of the current accounts:
the production account (its balancing item: value added)
the generation-of-income account (its balancing item: operating surplus).
Nevertheless EAA contains other accounts (of the ESA) at least partly:
the entrepreneurial income account (one of the current accounts) and
the capital account (one of the accumulation accounts).
The EAA provide a wide range of indicators on the economic activities of the agricultural sector: these include output, intermediate consumption, gross and net value added, gross fixed capital formation (GFCF), both at current prices and at reference year prices, as well as compensation of employees, other taxes and subsidies on production, net operating surplus or net mixed income, property income and net entrepreneurial income at current prices. (see for more details points 1.40-1.48 in Annex I of Regulation (EC) 138/2004.)
Three income indicators are defined in the EAA:
Index of the real income of factors in agriculture per annual work unit (indicator A).
Index of real net agricultural entrepreneurial income per unpaid annual work unit (indicator B).
Net entrepreneurial income of agriculture (indicator C).
See for more details chapter 5 in Annex I of Regulation (EC) 138/2004.
The statistical unit is the local kind of activity unit.
In order to provide more detailed information and 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 technical-economic kind. This means that, institutional units are broken-down into smaller and more homogeneous units with regard to the kind of production (local kind-of-activity units/local KAUs) (ESA 2010, 2.147).
The local KAU is defined as the part of a KAU which corresponds to a local unit. The institutional unit's information system is capable of indicating or calculating for each local KAU at least the value of output, intermediate consumption, compensation of employees, the operating surplus and employment and gross fixed capital formation (ESA 2010, 2.148).
The agricultural holding is the local KAU most appropriate to the agricultural industry. However, the variety of agricultural activities that can be performed on agricultural holdings makes them a special type of local KAU. The strict application of the ESA rule to units and their group should in fact result in a division of the agricultural holding into several separate local KAUs in cases where several activities of the NACE Rev. 2 four-digit class are performed on the same holding and the information required according to the explanations above is available. The adoption of the agricultural holding as the local KAU of the agricultural industry in the national accounts (NA) and EAA is based on a statistical approach.
The speciality and the aim of EAA is to cover all agricultural activity carried out by an agricultural holding or any other local KAU not having agriculture as its main activity.
The use of the local KAU as the basic unit for the agricultural industry entails recording non-agricultural secondary activities where they cannot be distinguished from the main agricultural activity (inseparable non-agricultural secondary activities of local agricultural KAUs). The selection criterion for inseparable non-agricultural secondary activities is rather the type of activity than the nature of the product. For example, agro-tourism services provided by a farm are only included if they cannot be separated from its agricultural activities.
The agricultural industry includes all local KAUs at local level which perform the economic activities, as principal or secondary activity corresponds to Division 01 in NACE Rev. 2 (cf. 1.60 to 1.66 of EAA Reg.)
The entire territory of the country.
2023 calendar year.
To describe accuracy, the country uses the quality and performance indicator called ‘data revision – average absolute size’ under point 17.2.1 of this document.
EAA data at current prices and at prices for the preceding year are given in millions of units of national currency.
Agricultural labour input data are given in thousand annual work units (AWU).
For data not yet available, imputation by rolling over the previous data, at the annual level or at the monthly level for monthly indices.
The reason for time lag is both the time necessary for the availability of data sources used to compute the indicators of the EAA and REAA, and the time necessary to compute our estimations based on those data sources, and make the best possible hypothesis when no data is available.
The results of EAA are comparable between regions and countries.
REAA : data for the years 2020-2024 are comparable. A work to estimate comparable data for years 2010-2019 is being undertaken, the results will be available soon.
EAA : data for the years 2020-2024 are comparable. A work to estimate comparable data for production and intermediate consumption for years 1959-2019 and for other indicators for years 1980-2019 as been undertaken, the results are available at this website and also at this website.
