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Food Industries, Business StatisticsHenrik Bolding Pedersen
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The statistics is relevant because it compares the statistics on the primary industries to the statistics on non-agricultural accounts. In addition it is also input to the national accounts.
User Needs
The users are the Danish authorities, including particularly the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, researchers and national and international students, organizations in agriculture, fishery and aquaculture and enterprises broadly related to the sectors, e.g. credit grantors.
The data collected for the agricultural statistics are used as basis for projections in the section concerning short-term statistics in the publication, Economics in Agriculture from the Institute of Food and Resource Economics, Copenhagen University. Data from the fishery statistics are used in the forecasting model for the publication, Economics in Fishery, which is also published by the Institute of Food and Resource Economics, Copenhagen University.
Data are submitted to EUs information network for Agricultural Book-Keeping (French RICA, English FADN) and for the fishery and aquaculture statistics to EU DG Mare. The data is used as basis for decision-making in agriculture and fishery at national as well as EU level.
User Satisfaction
The user satisfaction of the statistics is good. Especially that the statistics is produced so it is possible to compare the primary industries with the non-agricultural private sectors.
The user satisfaction on the 3 accounts statistics on agriculture, fishery and aquaculture is also good.
Data completeness rate
The accounts on agriculture are delivered to FADN in respect of (EU) 220/2015, while accounts on fishery and aquaculture are delivered to EU DG Mare in respect of (EU) 1004/2017.