Statistics Estonia

Enterprise and Agricultural Statistics Department

Tatari 51, 10134 Tallinn, Estonia

Number of laying hens and their eggs.

NUTS 2

Agricultural holdings, as defined in EU Regulation (EC) No 1166/2008.

Eggs for consumption are fresh eggs of fowls of the species Gallus Gallus, which are intended for human consumption (i.e. not intended for incubation) and are in shell.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

No comment.

Agricultural holding with laying hens

All agricultural holdings having laying hens

All agricultural holdings having laying hens have been taken into account (together with all produced eggs). This includes data on large (at least 500 poultry heads) poultry farms collected via statistical survey and small (less than 500 poultry heads) poultry farms calculated using a model using 2017 data. Data on agricultural small units (a unit which is smaller than an agricultural holding, i.e. units with less than 10 poultry heads) are not included according to the instructions in the relevant manual.

All agricultural holdings having laying hens have been taken into account (together with all produced eggs). This includes data on large (at least 500 poultry heads) poultry farms collected via statistical survey and small (less than 500 poultry heads) poultry farms calculated using a model using 2017 data. Data on agricultural small units (a unit which is smaller than an agricultural holding, i.e. units with less than 10 poultry heads) are not included according to the instructions in the relevant manual.

Estonia as a whole

Data are available from 2013

Data are available from 2013

The latest data are from 2018

No comment.

No other unit.

31 December of the reference year

No comment.

Official Statistics Act

"Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)"

"Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)"

"Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)"

"Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)"

"Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)"

"Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)"

No information provided.

"Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)"

No information provided.

The number of laying hens and the number of eggs are published in the statistical database (below link). The number of laying hens' eggs is included in the total number of eggs.

"Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)"

No information provided.

Metadata for statistical activity "Livestock farming and meat production" are available at https://www.stat.ee/esms-metadata?code=21203

No information provided.

"Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)"

"Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)"

Data on poultry and eggs are used for Economic Accounts for Agriculture and by the Ministry of Rural Affairs.

Data on poultry and eggs are used for Economic Accounts for Agriculture and by the Ministry of Rural Affairs.

"Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)"

Data are complete.

Data are collected from all agricultural holdings with at least 500 poultry heads (21 units in 2018). In 2018, the number of laying hens of agicultural holdings with at least 500 poultry heads accounted for 91% of the total number of laying hens. For smaller holdings, an estimation has been used. The estimation is based on 2017 data.

"Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)"

"Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)"

"Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)"

"Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)"

No information provided.

Data are comparable over time.

Data are comparable from 2013. Data on laying hens differs from Farm Structure Survey data due to different definition used.

"Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)"

No information provided.

"Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)"

"Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)"

Data (both the number of laying hens and the number of their eggs) are collected from all agricultural holdings with at least 500 poultry heads through statistical survey. For smaller holdings, model estimation has been used. The estimation is based on 2017 data.

Data (both the number of laying hens and the number of their eggs) are collected from all agricultural holdings with at least 500 poultry heads through statistical survey. In 2018, the number of these units was 21.

Data (both the number of laying hens and the number of their eggs) are collected from all agricultural holdings with at least 500 poultry heads through statistical survey. For smaller holdings, model estimation has been used. The estimation is based on 2017 data.

Annual

"Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)"

"Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)"

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Data (both the number of laying hens and the number of their eggs) are collected from all agricultural holdings with at least 500 poultry heads through statistical survey (21 units in 2018). For smaller holdings, model estimation has been used. The estimation is based on 2017 annual livestock data (average production data) collected via statistical survey, which for the year 2017 included data on both small (less than 500 poultry heads) and large (at least 500 poultry heads) poultry farms. The estimation of the number of small agricultural holdings is based on the annually updated statistical register of agricultural holdings (farm register).

Not applicable.

No comment.