Registered beekeepers

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

beekeepers

Licence

CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0

Method

Beekeepers registered 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. This series does know its breakdown, and that is why its reason differs from that of its sibling series: its figure is the number of beekeepers, and each one contributes exactly one by definition of the quantity. It still does not evaluate the dominance rule, for a reason that comes from the universe: a population has a single barrier (ADR 0027), and the sibling register series publish totals whose breakdown the source does not provide, so the shared barrier is the one all of them can sustain. On this series the rule would change nothing even if it were evaluated: with each unit contributing one, no cell that passes the minimum can have a dominant unit. This lapses together with the exception of its sibling series, 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 11,583 beekeepers for 2023 and the article publishes 3,649 beekeepers. This series takes the first one, because it comes from the agency that runs the register, and cites the second without reconciling them. The series counts registered beekeepers and not active ones, a figure no agency publishes.

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. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 1.0.0 · 8 September 2026. First published version of the record.