Utilisation of agricultural area
1. Contact
Responsible agency
Unit
Contact person
Position
Email (agency)
Phone
2. Statistical presentation
Data description
Data on the utilisation of agricultural area are showing breakdown thereof by the aim of land use (thousand hectares).
Statistical concepts and definitions
Statistical unit
Economically active agricultural holding.
Statistical population
Economically active agricultural holdings.
3. Institutional mandate
Legal acts and other agreements
N/A
4. Accessibility and clarity
On-line database
5. Comparability
Comparability - geographical
Eurostat (statistical office of the European Union) is responsible for publishing high-quality Europe-wide statistics and indicators that enable comparisons between countries and regions. Statistics is available in the Eurostat database, in section Agriculture / Agricultural production.
Length of comparable time series
Since 1990.
6. Coherence
Coherence- cross domain
N/A
7. Statistical processing (data source etc.)
Source data
Data on utilisation of agricultural area are obtained with the help of sample survey according to the CSB statistical report form 2-ls "Crop production".
Data collection
Sample has been formed as stratified simple random sampling. Holdings are stratified by their location (NUTS 3), type of farming and economic size.
Year | Sample size |
| 2023 | 3 404 |
| 2022 | 3 544 |
| 2021 | 3 477 |
| 2020 | 3 469 |
| 2019 | 3 486 |
| 2018 | 3 507 |
2017 | 3 575 |
2016 | 3 763 |
2015 | 4 043 |
2014 | 3 863 |
2013 | 3 712 |
2012 | 5 188 |
2011 | 5 166 |
2010 | 5 173 |
2009 | 5 137 |
2008 | 5 982 |
Data compilation
Extrapolation of the data on the surveyed holdings to all agricultural holdings is based on the number of similar holdings represented by sampled holdings as well as actual response rate in each of the survey territories.