Statistikk innhold
Statistics on
Sample survey of agriculture and forestry
The statistics give information about labour input, investments, maintenace, energy consumption and the use and storage of fertilizers in agriculture.
Selected figures from these statistics
- Investment in farm buildings and machinery and implements for agriculture and horticultureDownload table as ...Investment in farm buildings and machinery and implements for agriculture and horticulture
2016 2021 Number of agricultural holdings 39 600 38 100 Per cent of agricultural holdings with investment in farm buidlings 17 14 Average sum of investments in buildings (NOK) 582 000 989 000 Per cent of agricultural holdings with investment in machinery and implements 32 31 Average sum of investments in machines and implements (NOK) 217 000 276 000 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Investment in farm buildings.Download table as ...Investment in farm buildings.
Investment, total (NOK 1000) Investment per holding with investment (NOK) 2008 2011 2014 2016 2021 2008 2011 2014 2016 2021 The whole country 3 384 000 3 794 000 3 279 000 4 043 000 5 271 000 496 000 555 000 606 000 582 000 989 000 Eastern Norway 1 287 000 1 443 000 1 144 000 1 468 000 2 247 000 446 000 469 000 524 000 532 000 971 000 Agder and Rogaland 698 000 812 000 625 000 860 000 1 064 000 543 000 720 000 690 000 699 000 1 038 000 Western Norway 458 000 668 000 526 000 644 000 776 000 425 000 574 000 493 000 466 000 903 000 Trøndelag 673 000 498 000 699 000 778 000 806 000 641 000 574 000 828 000 739 000 1 115 000 Northern Norway 267 000 373 000 286 000 293 000 378 000 504 000 623 000 694 000 558 000 932 000 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Investment in machinery and implements for agriculture and horticultureDownload table as ...Investment in machinery and implements for agriculture and horticulture
Investment, total (NOK 1 000) Investment per holding with investment (NOK) 2008 2011 2014 2016 2021 2008 2011 2014 2016 2021 The whole country 2 767 000 3 107 000 2 508 000 2 796 000 3 206 000 185 000 218 000 193 000 217 000 276 000 Eastern Norway 1 256 000 1 489 000 1 186 000 1 369 000 1 574 000 195 000 249 000 204 000 240 000 303 000 Agder and Rogaland 398 000 420 000 325 000 342 000 400 000 183 000 200 000 200 000 192 000 249 000 Western Norway 416 000 455 000 431 000 427 000 445 000 153 000 164 000 168 000 171 400 188 000 Trøndelag 455 000 456 000 400 000 416 000 579 000 201 000 215 000 211 000 218 000 341 000 Northern Norway 242 000 288 000 167 000 242 000 207 000 184 000 230 000 153 000 233 000 277 000 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Consumption of electricity in agriculture. Excl. Greenhouses.Download table as ...Consumption of electricity in agriculture. Excl. Greenhouses.
Holdings, total Holdings with reported consumption Consumption, total (1000 kWh) Value, total (1000 NOK) Consumption per holding with reported consumption (1000 kWh) 2015 42 000 41 500 979 800 728 600 24 2017 39 600 36 000 1 296 700 1 039 100 36 2021 38 100 32 600 1 315 200 1 398 300 40 2021 Eastern Norway 15 700 13 400 549 300 617 900 41 Agder and Rogaland 5 700 5 000 245 400 286 000 49 Western Norway 8 100 7 000 193 300 199 700 28 Trøndelag 5 500 4 800 222 400 197 200 46 Northern Norway 2 900 2 400 104 800 97 500 44 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Consumption of diesel in agriculture. Excl. Greenhouses.Download table as ...Consumption of diesel in agriculture. Excl. Greenhouses.
Holdings, total Holdings with reported consumption Consumption, total (1 000 litres) Value, total (NOK 1 000) Consumption per holding with reported consumption (litres) 2015 42 000 38 500 126 100 1 056 100 3 300 2017 39 600 37 300 134 100 1 111 400 3 600 2021 38 100 34 200 145 100 1 576 400 4 200 2021 Eastern Norway 15 700 14 300 69 600 734 900 4 900 Agder and Rogaland 5 700 5 000 19 400 212 800 3 900 Western Norway 8 100 7 500 21 000 243 500 2 800 Trøndelag 5 500 5 000 24 200 256 900 4 900 Northern Norway 2 900 2 500 10 900 128 300 4 400 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ...
About the statistics
The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 11 February 2026.
Agricultural holding: All agricultural area operated by the same holder belongs to the same holding regardless of whether it includes several land numbers, title numbers and lease numbers.
Holder: The person(s) who is responsible for farming it.
Agricultural area in use: Comprises all owned and rented agricultural area in use at the holding, including fields that lie fallow a year. Agricultural areas include cultivated and surface-cultivated land, and other fertilized pastures.
Supplementary industry: An activity that uses the land, buildings or machinery belonging to the holding.
Standard output: The standard output (SO) for crop and livestock products is the regional average monetary value of the agricultural output at farm-gate price over a reference period of five years. The SO is excluded direct payments, value added tax and taxes on products.
All values in kroner (NOK) are exclusive of VAT.
Name: Sample survey of agriculture and forestry
Topic: Agriculture, forestry, hunting and fishing
Division for Housing, Property, Spatial and Agricultural Statistics
Country, region or county.
Annual
Data are delivered to Eurostat under the regulation regarding Integrated Farm Statistics.
Collected and revised data are stored securely by Statistics Norway in compliance with applicable legislation on data processing.
Statistics Norway can grant access to the source data (de-identified or anonymised microdata) on which the statistics are based, for researchers and public authorities for the purposes of preparing statistical results and analyses. Access can be granted upon application and subject to conditions. Refer to the details about this at Access to data from Statistics Norway.
The purpose of the Survey of Agriculture is to obtain relevant data not found in administrative data systems, and to obtain data for units not covered by administrative systems.
The Survey of Agriculture is designed to form a picture of the agriculture industry in Norway (the number of holdings and properties) through various questions. The questions vary from year to year (labour, liabilities, investments, fixed assets, fertilizers, rental of agricultural land, farm buildings, extended forest survey etc.).
Data from the survey are used by professional organizations, the Budget Committee for Agriculture, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, the Ministry of Environment, various research institutions such as the Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute and the Division for energy, environmental and transport statistics at Statistics Norway.
No external users have access to statistics before they are released at 8 a.m. on ssb.no after at least three months’ advance notice in the release calendar. This is one of the most important principles in Statistics Norway for ensuring the equal treatment of users.
Not relevant
The statistics are developed, produced and disseminated pursuant to Act no. 32 of 21 June 2019 relating to official statistics and Statistics Norway (the Statistics Act).
Not relevant
The population is based on active holdings from applications for Governmental grants and the administrative Farm Register of the Norwegian Agricultural Authority.
The majority of the data comes directly from respondents who fill out forms for the annual agricultural survey. The Agricultural Register provides information on the size of the agricultural and forest area, persons associated with the property/holding and what their association is with the property/holding.
Each year a sample is drawn for the Survey of Agriculture. The size of the sample varies between 5000 and 7000 active holdings, stratified by size and type of production in each county.
Letters are sent digitally to the holdings drawn for inclusion in the survey. The owner or holder of the property provides the data.
Editing is defined here as checking, examining and amending data. A number of controls and corrections are done to ensure consistency both on a single form and between forms and available register information.
The sample is stratified by location, size and farm type. A weight is calculted for each holding.
Not relevant
Employees of Statistics Norway have a duty of confidentiality.
Statistics Norway does not publish figures if there is a risk of the respondent’s contribution being identified. This means that, as a general rule, figures are not published if fewer than three units form the basis of a cell in a table or if the contribution of one or two respondents constitutes a very large part of the cell total.
Statistics Norway can make exceptions to the general rule if deemed necessary to meet the requirements of the EEA agreement, if the respondent is a public authority, if the respondent has consented to this, or when the information disclosed is openly accessible to the public.
More information can be found on Statistics Norway’s website under Methods in official statistics, in the ‘Confidentiality’ section.
To ensure confidentiality, the suppression method is used in these statistics.
The statistics are basically comparable back to the end of 1940th. However, for some variables there will be a break e.g. between 1998 and 1999. The reason for this is that the method used for estimating the number of holdings from 1990 to 1998 gradually led to too high figures. This was evidently shown by the results of the complete census of agriculture for 1999.
Figures for supplementary industries before 2010 are not directly comparable to more recent years. This is related to changes in the questionnaries.
In 2007, the questions related to supplementary industries was expanded. In addition to ticking off for relevant industry, the respondents were asked to fill in the corresponding gross income. This modification may have caused a somewhat higher item non-response.
Primary data are obtained from the forms filled out by the respondents. They may contain errors made by the individual respondents when he or she filled out the form. A number of errors are discovered and corrected by those who go through forms during the revision process at Statistics Norway.
A number of errors during the collection and processing of the data are unavoidable and include errors that occur during revision, data processing errors etc. Extensive work has been carried out to reduce these errors as much as possible.
Non-response in the survey is due to the failure of individual respondents to deliver questionnaires or that a property has been sold or is no longer farmed as an independent unit.
Variance: All sample surveys will be encumbered by a certain amount of uncertainty. Generally, the fewer the observations are, the more uncertain the results. Groups based on few observations will be particularly sensitive to extreme values, i.e. values that deviate considerably from the average. Such extreme values are consequently assigned a weight equal to 1, so that they only represent themselves in the material.
Bias: All types of holdings are included in the Survey of Agriculture sample. To provide a better representation in certain counties with few holdings a higher percentage of holdings are selected in these areas.
Frame errors: The quality of the register basis from which the sample is selected also has an impact on the quality of the final result.