FIRST RELEASE		CROATIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS 10000 ZAGREB, ILICA 3, PHONE: +385 1 4806-111, P.O.B. 80, CROATIA ISSN 1334-0565
YEAR: XLVI.	ZAGREB, 31 MARCH, 2009		NUMBER: 1.1.10.
				OBLIGED TO NOTIFY DATA SOURCE

NUMBER OF LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY, situation as on 1 December, 2008

As compared to 2007, the number of cattle decreased by 3%, the number of pigs by 18%, the number of sheep by 3% and the number of goats by 9%, while the number of poultry remained at the same level as in the previous year.

1.   NUMBER OF LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY

'000 heads

	1. XII. 2007.	1. XII. 2008.	Indices 2008. 2007.
Cattle – total	467	454	97
Young cattle under 1 year old	145	141	97
Calves for slaughter	19	18	90
Other,  female	50	49	99
Other,  male	76	74	97
Cattle between 1 and 2 years old	64	62	97
Female,  for  breeding	28	26	92
Female,  for  slaughter	5	5	107
Male	31	31	100
Cattle of 2 years and over	258	251	97
Heifers,  for  breeding	21	22	107
Heifers,  for  slaughter	1	1	81
Cows – total	234	226	96
Dairy cows	225	213	94
Other cows	9	13	140
Other (bulls, bullocks)	2	2	145
Pigs − total	1 348	1 104	82
Piglets under 20 kg	362	285	79
Pigs from 20  to 50 kg	381	283	74
Fattening pigs	422	374	89
50 to 80 kg	198	165	84
80 to 110 kg	126	123	97
Over 110 kg	98	86	87
Breeding pigs	183	162	89
Gilts	17	19	112
Mated  gilts	11	9	85
Sows	112	96	86
Mated sows	37	33	88
Boars	6	5	87
Sheep − total	646	643	100
Lambs and young sheep under 1 year old	115	104	90
Lambed and first time mated sheep	499	506	102
Milk	243	246	101
Other	256	260	102
Other sheep (rams, sterile sheep)	32	33	102
Goats – total	92	84	91
Poultry – total	10 053	10 015	100

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

Source and collecting methods

Data on number of livestock were collected separately for legal entities and parts thereof and for private family farms. These surveys serve for collecting data on the number and weight of livestock and poultry, balance of cattle, pigs, sheep, goats and poultry; balance of eggs, balance of milk produced on private family farms;  production of cows’, sheep and goats’ milk, wool and eggs.

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 and 01.30 as well as other units classified somewhere else, but engaged in the production of livestock and poultry.

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

Reporting units for the Survey on the Number of Cattle are private family farms as well, engaged in the production of livestock and poultry. The sample of the Survey on the Number of Cattle of 1 December 2008 was made, as in the previous year, 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

kg         kilogram

'000      thousand

Symbols

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