Economic accounts for agriculture
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Kontakt
Contact organisation: Statistics Estonia
Contact organisation unit: Economic and Environmental Statistics Department
Contact name: Pille Veidenberg
Contact person function: Agricultural and Technology Statistics Service Team, Leading Analyst
Contact mail address: Tatari 51, 10134 Tallinn, Estonia
Contact email address: pille.veidenberg@stat.ee
Contact phone number: 372 5887 2904
Metadata last certified 30/09/2025
Metadata last update 30/09/2025
Purpose
The aim of the statistical activity is to provide input for the monitoring and evaluation of the EU's common agricultural policy (CAP). Economic accounts for agriculture are a basic tool for analysing the economic situation of a country's agriculture, and more specifically agricultural income, which are also used as the basis for calculating subsidies. Economic accounts for agriculture also make a valuable contribution to the calculation of the national accounts, incl. quarterly and regional accounts. The results of the economic accounts for agriculture are among the indicators of the Agriculture and Fisheries Strategy.
Type of activity
Multisource process
Statistical presentation
Data description (S.3.1)
Agricultural output, intermediate consumption, gross and net value added, and fixed capital consumption at basic prices of the corresponding and previous year;
compensation of employees, other taxes and subsidies on production, factor income, operating surplus, rents, interests paid and received, entrepreneurial income at prices of the corresponding year;
unit values for agricultural products at producer and basic prices;
gross fixed capital formation, salaried and non-salaried labour force in annual work units.
Data are published in basic prices of the corresponding and previous year, which allows a separate estimation of changes due to both volume and price.
compensation of employees, other taxes and subsidies on production, factor income, operating surplus, rents, interests paid and received, entrepreneurial income at prices of the corresponding year;
unit values for agricultural products at producer and basic prices;
gross fixed capital formation, salaried and non-salaried labour force in annual work units.
Data are published in basic prices of the corresponding and previous year, which allows a separate estimation of changes due to both volume and price.
Classification system (S.3.2)
No classifications are used in the collection, processing or publication of data in this statistical activity.
Sector coverage (S.3.3)
Agriculture
Statistical concepts and definitions (S.3.4)
Annual work unit (AWU) – national or regional average annual working time of adult full-time farm workers employed throughout 12 months (a calendar year) for 1,800 hours, i.e. 225 working days, each day 8 hours
Basic price – the price obtained from the buyer for a unit of goods or services (producer price) less taxes on products plus subsidies for the production or sale of the product
Entrepreneurial income – operating surplus less paid rent and interest plus interest received
Factor income – net value added less other production charges plus other subsidies on production
Fixed capital consumption – the foreseeable wear and tear of fixed capital goods during the accounting period represent a charge which is implicit so long as the item is not replaced by a new acquisition. The consumption of fixed capital is not calculated for stocks and unfinished products, non-produced assets (land, underground deposits and patented assets) and animals providing agricultural production.
Gross fixed capital formation – acquisitions less disposals of fixed assets
Gross value added – the output of agricultural industry less total intermediate consumption
Intermediate consumption – the value of all goods and services used as inputs in the production process, excluding fixed assets whose consumption is recorded as fixed capital consumption
Net value added – gross value added less fixed capital consumption
Operating surplus – factor income less compensation of employees
Output – sales, processing by producers, own final consumption, used for payments in kind, own-account produced fixed capital goods, change in stocks and intra-unit consumption. Within the industry, non-marketable intra-unit consumed products (such as animal feeding stuffs produced in crop production) are included in agricultural output.
Output of agricultural industry – the sum of the agricultural goods and services produced by agricultural units and inseparable non-agricultural goods and services produced by agricultural units
Producer price – price received from the purchaser for a unit of goods or services.
Basic price – the price obtained from the buyer for a unit of goods or services (producer price) less taxes on products plus subsidies for the production or sale of the product
Entrepreneurial income – operating surplus less paid rent and interest plus interest received
Factor income – net value added less other production charges plus other subsidies on production
Fixed capital consumption – the foreseeable wear and tear of fixed capital goods during the accounting period represent a charge which is implicit so long as the item is not replaced by a new acquisition. The consumption of fixed capital is not calculated for stocks and unfinished products, non-produced assets (land, underground deposits and patented assets) and animals providing agricultural production.
Gross fixed capital formation – acquisitions less disposals of fixed assets
Gross value added – the output of agricultural industry less total intermediate consumption
Intermediate consumption – the value of all goods and services used as inputs in the production process, excluding fixed assets whose consumption is recorded as fixed capital consumption
Net value added – gross value added less fixed capital consumption
Operating surplus – factor income less compensation of employees
Output – sales, processing by producers, own final consumption, used for payments in kind, own-account produced fixed capital goods, change in stocks and intra-unit consumption. Within the industry, non-marketable intra-unit consumed products (such as animal feeding stuffs produced in crop production) are included in agricultural output.
Output of agricultural industry – the sum of the agricultural goods and services produced by agricultural units and inseparable non-agricultural goods and services produced by agricultural units
Producer price – price received from the purchaser for a unit of goods or services.
Statistical unit (S.3.5)
Agricultural holding;
agricultural small unit;
agricultural service enterprise
agricultural small unit;
agricultural service enterprise
Statistical population (S.3.6)
Economic accounts for agriculture cover all agricultural holdings and agricultural small units, as well as units whose principal economic activity is agricultural service activities.
Reference area (S.3.7)
Estonia as a whole
Time coverage (S.3.8)
1995–…
Base period (S.3.9)
Not applicable
Reference period
Year
Institutional mandate
Legal acts and other agreements (S.6.1)
Official Statistics Act;
Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the council of 5 December 2003 on the economic accounts for agriculture in the Community (Text with EEA relevance).
Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the council of 5 December 2003 on the economic accounts for agriculture in the Community (Text with EEA relevance).
Data sharing (S.6.2)
None