KSH (Központi Statisztikai Hivatal (Hungarian Central Statistical Office))

Sectoral Statistics Department, Agriculture Statistics Section

H-1024, Budapest, Keleti Károly u. 5-7.

Following the results of the Grant actions a new table with relevant questions was added to the existing questionnaire of annual agricultural statistical data collections in December.

The agricultural enterprises and private holdings with more than 350 hens are sending their data electronically.

The survey is carried out on-the-spot in the private holdings by surveyors conducting face-to-face interviews with the farmers.

Within the Grant 2014 several scenarios to get data on the number of laying hens and the production on eggs for human consumption were tested.

In particular the possibility to use administrative data sources (Information from the Poultry Product Board) as well as of information from the packing centres were verified and tested.

NACE rev2, NUTS 2016

Agricultural enterprises: NACE 01.47 - raising of poultry

Private holdings keeping laying hens.

The data collection is full scope for those which keep at least 350 laying hens. Since their share is below 70%, sample survey is carried out together with the normal December survey for those which are under this threshold. The repsonde rate is 98%, while there is no overcoverage, nor undercoverage. Imputation is not needed. 31 December data on the number of laying hens is calculated based on the available information.

Definition of eggs for consumption is in line with the EU methodology.

Definition of egg producer is in line with the EU methodology

Definition of laying hens is in line with the EU methodology.

Definition of ungraded eggs is in line with the EU methodology

No further comments.

1) The agricultural enterprises which are keeping laying hens and producing eggs for human consumption are observed fully. The enterprises are produced 81 percent of the total eggs for human consumption in 2018.

2) The key private holdings above a special threshold (here belongs the holdings with more than 350 laying hens) are observed fully. These 40 private holdings are producing only 4 percent of the total eggs for human consumption.

3) The private holdings are surveyed on a sample which represents app. 5.5 % of all private holdings in 2018. There can be private holdings above the threshold, and there can be small households below the threshold which can also keep some laying hens and produce eggs

All agricultural holdings with laying hens and producing eggs for consumption on the Member State territory.

No threshold applies
Assessing the representativeness of the population, it can be stated that observing farms with at least 5000 hens would not give satisfactory results, since they represent only 68.3 percent of the national number of laying hens. If we add those holdings which keep laying hens between 350 and 5000 heads, the share goes up to 69.9 percent out of the total number. The production of the agricultural holdings with at least 5000 heads is 83.7 percent out of the national production of eggs for human consumption. Adding the holdings with laying hens between 350 and 5000 heads, it results 85.1% out of the total production.

98%

The whole territory of the country.

Data on eggs have been collected in Hungary since 1970, however, it was not available by the given deadline in the required details. Comparable data in line with the Eurostat requirements are available from 2015.

2015

Base period in our point of view is not relevant, since the data does not contain indices.

No other comments.

No other unit of measure.

Reference date is 31 December.

In accordance with the results of the Grant actions the reference date on the number of laying hens should be a given day in November/December instead of 31 December.

Currently are livestock data collected on the reference date as of 1 December in private holdings.

Based on the information collected from the agricultural enterprises (as of 1 and 31 December) coefficients are calculated in order to estimate the stock of 31 December of the private holdings.

Providing data is compulsory according to the National Statitical Data Collection Programme and Act CLV of 2016 on Official Statistics.

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)

Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)

Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)

Survey results are published as national totals and by counties (NUTS 3).
Outputs of the annual sample survey on poultry are disseminated till 15 February. However, data on eggs for human consuption have not been published in Hungary yet. Publication is planned in the second half of 2019.

Publication is planned in the second half of 2019.

Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)

Publication is planned in the second half of 2019.

Publication of data togehther with the methodology is planned in the second half of 2019.

Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)

Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)

Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)

The Economic Accounts for Agriculture uses the collected data as an input to calculate the production and use the results for the items exports, imports, loss, stock, domestic utilisation and consumption per capita. 

Yes

Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)

According to the 2014 Grant report the data should be complete.

Number of laying hens:

Standard error: 3.3%

Eggs for consumption produced (million eggs):

Standard error:4.5%

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)

The data ara comparable geographically for the years between 2015 and 2018.

The data for the years before 2015 are not comparable with the data of 2015 and afterwards. All of the data are available for years between 2015 and 2018, and they can are comparable with each other.

Data on eggs are produced by the statistical office, the Poultry Product Board  (PPB) and the packing centres whose information is gathered in the system of nation-wide authority.

Despite the fact that the domain is the same, the reference periods, reporting units and purposes are diverse.

The data of the PPB are used for updating the list of the data suppliers and for cross-checkings.

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)

Data on eggs are collected every December by agricultural enterprises, key private holdings and private holdings with a combined survey method (electronically in case of agricultural enterprises and big private holdings and using electronic devices in case of small private holdings during the face to face interviews).

Processed results are transmitted to the Eurostat till 30 June. 

The sample of the survey is based on the Agricultural Census carried out in 2010 (AC 2010) and the Farm Structure Survey conducted in 2016 (FSS 2016).

From all agricultural survey districts in Hungary (approx. 14 000) 648 were chosen, where the holdings reaching the threshold are enumerated. 5.0 per cent of all private holdings, some 21.0 thousand private holdings are included in the sample. 

Not relevant.

Annual

Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)

Not applicable (for the 2018 metadata collection)

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The total livestock of private holdings is estimated by sample estimation of means by counties and strata, completed with the data of exhaustively surveyed key holdings.

The observation of those units which are above the 350 laying hens threshold is full scope. Sincs they keep only 70% of the total population, sample survey is carried out together with the regular December survey for those who are under this threshold. The response rate is 98%, there is no need for imputation. Overcoverage or undercoverage are not occured.

Data from agricultural enterprises are collected electronically. Face to face interview during the regular December agricultural survey is organised for those private holdings which are under the threshold of 350 hens and part of the sample.
The Agricultural Data Collection Department is responsible for organizing the work of enumerators. Since the data collection carried out electronically, the collected data can be checked almost simultaneously by the repsonsible colleagues of the HCSO. The built-in checkings not allows to send failured data and the questionnaires of the respondents can not be finished until the errors are not corrected or explanations should be made in case of so-called acceptable errors.

After the estimations, county-level data are compared to the figures of the previous period or the corresponding period of the previous year.