Statistical presentation

Data description

The statistics provide an annual overview of the number of owners and land area distributed by the owners’ nationality/country of residence, types of ownership, age, gender, and size of land area.

An ownership refers to persons or companies that hold rights to a specific real property unit (BFE_NR). A specific real property unit (BFE) consists of one or more parcels of land with the same BFE_NR and is registered in the Danish Geodata Agency’s cadastral register, the Cadastre (Matriklen).

For individuals with Danish citizenship or residence within the Danish Realm, the owners’ nationality is used, whereas for other individuals, the country of residence “determines citizenship.”

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 area support scheme. 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_NR. 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

2020-25

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 statisticsare 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.