Gridded FADN Standard Results for the EU (2008–2020): a multi-resolution, disclosure-controlled dataset

A gridded, disclosure-controlled release of Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) Standard Results (SE) variables for the European Union, 2008-2020 (every second year). FADN is the EU's harmonised farm-level bookkeeping survey and the main source of micro-economic data on European agriculture. Because FADN records are commercially and personally sensitive, they are normally released only at coarse administrative levels (NUTS 2 or national). This dataset makes the full set of FADN Standard Results available spatially, as a multi-resolution grid that maximises resolution wherever confidentiality allows. The grid is built with a multi-resolution statistical-disclosure-control approach following Skøien et al. (2025), A flexible approach for statistical disclosure control in geospatial data, Journal of Geographical Systems 27:341-367 (the Eurostat/JRC "MRG" method used for the Farm Structure Survey), adapted here for FADN's probabilistic farm-to-location assignment and survey weights. Because each FADN sample farm is only known to lie in a region, it is spread over possible locations with allocation weights that sum to one per farm, so a cell can hold fractions of farms. Farms are counted by these allocation weights: every grid cell, and every released value (counting only the farms that report that variable), rests on at least 15 sample farms by this weighted count. Values are also protected against domination by one or two individual holdings; values that fail either test are suppressed. Cell polygons are clipped to the coastline. The coordinate reference system is ETRS89-LAEA (EPSG:3035); nested grid resolutions are 1, 5, 10, 20, 40, 80, 160, 320 km. Each year has its own grid geometry, so cells do not necessarily align across years. Files per year: FADN_grid_<year>.gpkg (GeoPackage, one column per variable), FADN_grid_<year>.csv (same values as a table with cell coordinates) and metadata_<year>.csv (per-variable aggregation type and suppression counts). Additional files: se_variable_dictionary.csv describes every variable; metadata_all.csv and qc_summary.csv summarise all years; sample_farms_per_cell.csv gives, for every cell and year, the number of FADN sample farms in the cell as the sum of their allocation weights (with the number of actual observations strictly greater, as allocation weights are bound between 0 and 1). Full methodology and the reproducible R pipeline that produced this release: https://github.com/tkrisztin/LAMASUS-FADN-MRG-Release This is a derived research product applying a published disclosure-control method to FADN data; it is not an official Eurostat or European Commission product. Produced within the LAMASUS (LAnd use and MAnagement modelling for SUStainable governance) project, funded by the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, grant agreement No 101060423.