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OVERVIEW OF AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS IN LITHUANIA Legislative and institutional settings
Aušra Jablonskienė Head of Agriculture and Environment Statistics Division
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INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK
Statistics Lithuania is responsible for collection of all the statistical information on agriculture and its responsibilities are laid down in the Law of National Statistics.
Regulation No223/2009 of the European Council on the Community Statistics
Data are collected by conducting complete enumeration and applying sample methods. The prepared information is used by state, municipal and scientific institutions to shape agricultural policies, providing aid to agricultural producers in line with the EU principles
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LEGAL BASIS FOR AGRICULTURE STATISTICS national legal acts
Law on Statistics of the Republic of Lithuania
Law on Agriculture and Rural Development of the Republic of Lithuania
Work Programme of Official Statistics
Order of the Director General of Statistics Lithuania on the approval of a questionnaire
questionnair of each survey must be approved.
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LEGAL BASIS FOR AGRICULTURE STATISTICS legal acts of the European Union
Council Regulations, Commission Regulations, Regulations of the European Parliament and of the Council, Commission Decisions on the: crop products statistics; livestock, meat and eggs statistics; milk and dairy products statistics; Farm Structure Surveys in 2010 (on the Agricultural Census), 2013, 2016; land use and cover statistics; agricultural accounts and prices; agri-environmental statistics
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LEGAL BASIS FOR AGRICULTURE STATISTICS Agreements
Gentlemen's Agreements on the: current statistics on fruit and vegetables; crop production supply balance sheets; early estimates on Crop Production; EU agricultural price indices
Agreements on the:
supply balance sheets of meat; supply balance sheets of milk; figures on poultry meat production;
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DIVISION OF LABOUR Crop products statistics
Statistics Lithuania Crop area, harvest and average
yields. Crop production supply
balance sheets.
The Ministry of Agriculture Early estimates on Crop
Production Agricultural and non-agricultural
ethanol statistics Wine statistics Olive and other oil statistics Agricultural seeds statistics Compound feed statistics Sugar statistics (reserves,
production, realization, purchase, sugar balance sheet)
Organic farming
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DIVISION OF LABOUR Livestock, meat and eggs statistics
Statistics Lithuania Number of livestock and
poultry Livestock production,
productivity Livestock and poultry slaughter Supply balance sheets of
livestock products Structure and use of poultry
hatcheries Number of chicks and foreign
trade
The Ministry of Agriculture Slaughter forecast Raw milk statistics (purchase,
sale, production of milk products, prices, etc.)
Poultry slaughter, reserves of poultry meat and eggs
Production of livestock meat and meat products, trade, reserves, prices.
Amount of animals products for non human use
Organic farming
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CALCULATION OF THE SUPPLY BALANCE SHEET
Statistics Lithuania is responsible for calculation of the supply balance sheet which comprise: Cereals, legumes, potatoes, rice, fruit, vegetables; Sugar beat, treacle, honey; Olives, oil plant seeds, vegetable oil, oil cakes, grape wine; Total meat: beef and veal meat, pig meat, sheep and goat meat, poultry
meat, rabbit meat, variety meat and fat; Milk and dairy products; Eggs and egg products; Animal and vegetable fats.
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FARM STRUCTURE SURVEYS AND AGRICULTURAL CENSUSES
Statistics Lithuania is responsible for Farm Structure Surveys and Agricultural Census: Farm Structure Survey
before 2010 – every two years
after 2010 – every three years Agricultural Censuses
every ten years.
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DIVISION OF LABOUR Economic Accounts for Agriculture
Statistics Lithuania Calculations on agriculture output,
intermediate consumption, added value, production volume indices
Estimation of the results of Agricultural activity (first and second estimations)
Statistics Lithuania provides data on EAA to Eurostat.
Statistics Lithuania is responsible for the compilation of the Agricultural Income Index
The Ministry of Agriculture The final figures for the EAA are
produced (in Sept y t+1 ) by the Agrarian Institute of Economics (part of the Ministry of Agriculture) and they are submitted to Statistics Lithuania
The Agrarian Institute of Economics is also responsible for calculation Unit values for agricultural products, EAA in prices n-1, and in prices 2000
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DIVISION OF LABOUR Purchases of agricultural products
Statistics Lithuania prices indices of goods purchased
for production agricultural products
purchase of agricultural products (livestock and poultry, flax, seeds of essential oil plants, honey), average prices and its indices
agricultural Price Indices (API) which comprise: the index of producer prices of
agricultural products the index of purchase prices of
means of agricultural production
basic biological asset formation in agriculture
The Ministry of Agriculture purchase of potatoes, fruit,
berries, vegetables, mushrooms (amount and prices)
Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN)
production and financial indicators of agricultural companies and enterprises
agricultural land prices and rents prices of agro technical services
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DIVISION OF LABOUR Agri-environmental statistics
Statistics Lithuania statistics on pesticides
amount of pesticides placed on market (by active substances and chemical classes)
use of pesticides in agriculture (by crops)
statistics on waste in agriculture, forestry and fishery
The Ministry of Agriculture amount of plant protection
products from non European Union member states
production, trade and prices of mineral fertilizers
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AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SURVEY
Frequency Surveys Private farms and households
Agricultural companies and enterprises
2003 (2010)
Agricultural Census Complete survey Complete survey
Every 2 (3) years
Farm Structure Survey Sample survey Complete survey
Yearly Crop area, harvest and average yields Sample survey Complete survey
Yearly,
Quarterly
Number of livestock and poultry, production and productivity
Sample survey
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Complete survey
Complete survey
Yearly Purchase of crop and animal production, average purchase prices for agricultural production
Complete survey Complete survey
Quarterly Input price statistics survey – Sample survey
Quarterly Results of economical-financial activity in agricultural companies and enterprises
– Complete survey
Quarterly Results of economical-financial activity in enterprises providing agricultural services for agriculture
– Complete survey
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SURVEYS INVOLVING FARMERS’ AND FAMILY FARMS
Crop statistics survey Sample size – about 7000 farmers’ and family farms
Livestock statistics survey Sample size – about 7000 farmers’ and family farms
Farm Structure Survey Sample size – about 50 000 farmers’ and family farms
Agricultural Census Complete survey – all farmers’ and family farms
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USE OF ADMINISTRATIVE DATA SOURCES
Administrative data are used for various calculations The Ministry of Agriculture provides data from:
the Cadastre Register Agricultural and Rural Business Register (Register of Agricultural
Holdings) Livestock Register Crop Register for subsidies Economic Indicators on the Activities of agricultural partnerships
and enterprises. Organic farming register
The Institute of Agrarian Economics is responsible for the FADN data collection
Register of Population Register of Addresses
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