Statistical presentation

Data description

The statistics show number of owners and area distributed by nationality of the owners type of ownership, age gender and size of area.

An ownership describes persons or enterprises possessing a given specific property (in Danish abbreviated into BFE). A given specific property (BFE) includes one or more plots of land having the same BFE number and is registered by the cadastre authorities.

Agricultural land here is defined as land where agricultural activity is carried out in the form of growing crops, and which is included in the EU’s agricultural support system of crop subsidies.

Ownership of Danish agricultural land thus refers to a private person, an enterprise or another group of owners who possess fully or partially over a given specific property located in Denmark, which is used for the cultivation of crops covered by EU’s agricultural support system of crop subsidies from the register of the Ministry of Agriculture. The same property might have more than one owner, and an owner can own several properties. This means that there usually are more ownerships than owners and properties.

Classification system

The statistics use the classification on Regions, provinces and municipalities.

Sector coverage

Agriculture

Statistical concepts and definitions

Ownership of Danish agricultural land: Ownership of Danish agricultural land refers to a private individual or an enterprise having full or partial control over a given real estate property located in Denmark, which is used for the cultivation of crops covered by the EU's agricultural support. The same property can have multiple owners, and an owner can control multiple properties, which means there can be more ownerships than owners and properties.

Statistical unit

The unit is an ownership understood as a person or an enterprise owning a property or parts of a property with an unique BFE number. A person or enterprise might own more the one property or parts of properties. Thereby there will be more ownerships the owners.

Statistical population

All owners of agricultural land in Denmark.

Reference area

Denmark

Time coverage

2020-22

Base period

Not relevant for these statistics.

Unit of measure

The fields registered in IACS (Integrated Agricultural Control System) are merged with the land plots from the cadastre authorities, the owner list, The Civil Registration System, The Central Business Register and address registers whereby the nationalities of the owners can be determined. The owners can be both private persons and enterprises.

Reference period

December 31st for the year in question.

Frequency of dissemination

Yearly

Legal acts and other agreements

The Act on Statistics Denmark, section 6. The register based unemployment statistics is not covered by any EU regulation.

Cost and burden

These statistics are based on administrative data. There is thus no direct response burden in relation to compiling these statistics.

Comment

Other information can be obtained by contacting Statistics Denmark.