FIRST RELEASE		CROATIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS 10000 ZAGREB, ILICA 3, PHONE: +385 1 4806-111, P.O.B. 80, CROATIA ISSN 1334-0565
YEAR: XLV.	ZAGREB, 1 APRIL, 2008		NUMBER: 1.1.10.
				OBLIGED TO NOTIFY DATA SOURCE

NUMBER OF LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY, Situation as on 1 December, 2007

The number of cattle decreased by 3%, the number of pigs 9% and the number of sheep by 5%. The number of horses increased by 2%, while the number of poultry remained at the same level as compared to 2006.

1.   NUMBER OF LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY

'000 heads

	Total	Legal entities	Private family farms,	Indices 2007. 2006.
				Total	Legal entities	Private family farms
Cattle − total	467	95	372	97	105	95
Young cattle under 1 year old	145	54	91	99	100	97
Cattle between 1 and 2 years old	64	26	38	99	109	95
Cows and heifers	256	15	241	95	118	94
Other cattle	2	0	2	81	108	80
Pigs − total	1 348	428	920	91	99	87
Piglets under 20 kg	362	107	255	91	101	88
Pigs over 20 kg	804	288	516	90	99	86
Sows, mated sows, gilts and     mated gilts	177	33	144	92	93	92
Boars	5	0	5	92	100	91
Sheep − total	646	14	632	95	102	95
Lambs and young sheep under     1 year old	115	3	112	96	114	95
Ewes for breeding	499	10	489	95	97	95
Other sheep	32	1	31	90	139	89
Poultry − total	10 053	3 971	6 082	100	110	94

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

Source and collecting methods

Data on number of livestock were collected separately for legal entities and for private family farms. These surveys serve for collecting data on the number and weight of livestock and poultry, bee-hives, balance of cattle, pigs, sheep and poultry; production of cow, sheep and goat milk, wool, eggs and honey.

Coverage and comparability

Reporting units for legal entities are classified according to the National Classification of Activities, 2002 version, in section A (Agriculture, hunting and forestry), classes 01.21 – 01.24, 01.30, as well as other units classified somewhere else, but engaged in the production of livestock, poultry and bees.

Coverage for legal entities is selective (with 10 and more persons employed), and reporting units are taken over from the Register of Business Entities and Register of the Financial Agency.

Reporting units for the Survey on the Number of Cattle are private family farms engaged in production of livestock, poultry, rabbits and bees. The sample of the Survey on the Number of Cattle of 15 January 2005 was carried out on the basis of the data taken over from the Agricultural Census of 1 June 2003.

Definitions

Cows are female bovine animals, which have already calved.

Heifers are selected female bovine animals that have not calved yet.

Sows are female breeding animals that have farrowed for at least once.

Mated sows are female breeding animals that have already farrowed and are expected to farrow again.

Gilts are selected young female breeding animals that have not farrowed yet.

Mated gilts are young female breeding animals that are expected to farrow for the first time.

Boars are male breeding animals.

Ewes for breeding are female breeding animals that have already lambed as well as those that are expected to lamb for the first time.

Poultry includes broilers, hens, turkeys, geese, ducks and other poultry.

Abbreviations

'000      thousand

kg         kilogram

Symbols

0      value not zero but less than 0.5 of the unit of measure used