Apicultura LabColonies and holdings
Declared hives
Hives that beekeepers declare to the national beekeeping register, by region, as of the annual cut-off published by the agency that runs the register.
Data in the API Entry in the catalogue
| Period | Area | Figure | Status | Lineage |
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- Version
- 1.3.0
- In force since
- 8 September 2026
- Reference period
- declarations accumulated up to September of the year
- Frequency
- annual
- Geographic coverage
- national; by region
- Unit
- hives
- Licence
- CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0
Method
Hives declared by region, as the bulletin prints them.
Confidentiality
Threshold per beekeeper, using the programme's parameters, with one declared exception. A cell is not published when fewer beekeepers than the minimum report to it. The dominance rule is not evaluated for this series, and the indicator sheet says why instead of treating it as met. The source publishes each cell's total and how many beekeepers reported it, but not how much each one reported. The dominance rule asks whether a single contributor holds the share of the total the programme sets, and that question needs the breakdown: without it the rule cannot be evaluated, and splitting the total evenly or assuming a distribution would invent the very figure that decides whether the cell is published. This indicator is declared not to apply the rule, and it keeps the half of the barrier that can still be evaluated, the minimum number of units. This lapses on the day the source publishes how the quantity is distributed among those who report it.
Limitations
The series starts in 2023 and no earlier. The bulletin edition covering 2020 prints the regional tables with regions as columns, and this instance's reader stops and says so instead of returning a cell holding several regions' figures; that period is captured and not ingested. The bulletin of the agency that runs the register and another agency's sector article publish the same cut-off with different figures, and both say they draw on the sector's administrative register. In the editions captured on 2026-09-02, the bulletin publishes 1,533,405 hives for 2023 and the article publishes 457,455 hives. This series takes the first one, because it comes from the agency that runs the register, and cites the second without reconciling them. The count depends on beekeepers filing their declaration, so it measures declarations and not a census of hives.
Revision policy
The whole series is recalculated when the agency publishes a new edition, and the previous version is kept as an erratum with its reason.
Sources cited
- Boletín Apícola del SAG (Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero (SAG)) Primary source of the figure
- Artículos y estudios apícolas de ODEPA (Biblioteca Digital) (Oficina de Estudios y Políticas Agrarias (ODEPA)) Publishes a different figure for the same period
Versions of the sheet
- 1.3.0 · 27 September 2026. The record now notes what the series measures, so that the laboratory can check it only adds together series that measure the same thing. No figure changes.
- 1.2.0 · 26 September 2026. The record's prose was reviewed against the rule that admits no hand-written counts: any count is now derived from the series declaration, left out where it only accompanied the explanation, or given the date and the reference copy of the observation it comes from. Statements about which years have cells carry the date of this version. No figure changes.
- 1.1.0 · 26 September 2026. The record now also publishes in English its formula, its method, its propagation rule, its reference period, its frequency, its coverage, its first period and its revision policy, which up to this version were published only in Spanish. It also declares how many decimal places the figure is published with. No stored figure changes: the one published in the API, in the bulletin and in the download is the stored figure rounded to that precision.
- 1.0.0 · 8 September 2026. First published version of the record.