Description of EU Price Monitoring statistics
Compiler: Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) since 1 January 2015. The Information Centre of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Tike previously compiled the reports.
Homepage: http://stat.luke.fi/en/eu-price-monitoring
Main topic: Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery
Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): No
European Statistical System (ESS): No
Description
The EU price monitoring reports contain information on the prices of pork, sold-on piglets, beef, grain, milk products, broiler meat and eggs weekly. The price monitoring for fruit and vegetables gathers daily information on the sales prices and quantities of certain fruits and vegetables imported from third countries. The information reported for different products is collected at different stages of the supply chain.
Content
The price monitoring for pork describes the average price for pig carcasses in certain SEUROP quality classes and the price paid by the slaughterhouse to piglet producers for a 20-kilo sold-on piglet. The price monitoring for beef describes the average price for beef carcasses by class of animals (bull, heifer, cow) in certain EUROP quality and fat classes. The price monitoring for grain describes the weekly market prices for basic grain at which industry and companies exporting grain trade in grain. The price monitoring for milk products gathers information on the prices and quantities in kilograms for certain milk products. The weekly price monitoring for broiler meat gathers information from slaughter plants slaughtering broiler chickens. The weekly price monitoring for eggs gathers information from those packing stations for eggs that sell more than one million kilos of (fresh, whole) eggs in class A per year. The price monitoring for fruit and vegetables gathers information on the sales prices and quantities of certain fruits and vegetables imported from third countries.
Categories
The information is given at national level.
Data collection and sources
The information is collected weekly from slaughterhouses, dairies, packing stations for eggs and buyers of grain as well as daily from importers of fruit and vegetables.
Update frequency
The reports are prepared daily, weekly or monthly, depending on the product.
Preparation and publication schedule
The information for the previous week is published on the following Wednesday. The information on milk products is not published for reasons of data protection. The daily report on fruit and vegetables is prepared for administrative use only and is not published.
Time series
Information is available from 1995 onwards.
Keywords
Bovine animal, pig, carcass, beef, pork, bull, heifer, cow, broiler chicken, egg, quality class, piglet, grain, turnip, rape, price, quotation, price monitoring, Finland, EU countries
Contact details
Name: Lauri Juntti
Telephone: +358 295 326 788