Declared hives

How to read this figure

Method

Hives declared by region, as the bulletin prints them.

Limitations

There is a figure only for the years covered by an edition of the bulletin. SAG does not publish it every year, and a year without an edition has no figure, which is not the same as zero. For 2023, the SAG bulletin publishes 1,533,405 hives and the ODEPA article on the season publishes 457,455 hives; both say they draw on the beekeeping register. The series follows SAG, which runs the register, and cites ODEPA without reconciling the figures. The gap probably separates current declarations from declarations filed during the year, which neither publication clarifies. The series counts what beekeepers declare and is not a census of hives.

Confidentiality

A cell is published only if at least as many beekeepers as the minimum set by the observatory's confidentiality policy report to it. SAG publishes each cell's total and how many beekeepers report it, but not how much each one reports. Without that breakdown there is no way to tell whether a single beekeeper accounts for the cell, so the dominance rule is not evaluated and the minimum number of beekeepers applies.

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.