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1.1. Contact organisation | Hungarian Central Statistical Office (HCSO) |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Sectoral Statistics Department |
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1.5. Contact mail address | H-1525 Budapest, P.O.B. 51. Hungary |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 20/02/2024 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 20/02/2024 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 20/02/2024 |
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3.1. Data description | |||
Mandatory data collection at EU level is based on legal act, the Regulation EU 2018 / 643 and covers goods and passengers.
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3.2. Classification system | |||
Goods transported by rail are classified according to the 20 divisions of goods following the 'Standard Goods Classification for Transport Statistics 2007’ with effect from reference year 2008. The codes of regions used in the region-to-region statistics are indicated in Regulation (EC) 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council. |
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3.3. Coverage - sector | |||
Railway undertakings providing transport of passengers or goods. |
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3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | |||
The main concepts used in rail domain are:
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3.5. Statistical unit | |||
Statistical units for rail transport statistics are all railway stations. |
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3.6. Statistical population | |||
Data on passenger and freight transport are collected from the railway undertakings operating at national territory within thresholds mentioned in the rail regulation. |
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3.7. Reference area | |||
Operational railway network on national territory. |
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3.8. Coverage - Time | |||
Data on passengers and goods are covered from 2004 onwards. |
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3.9. Base period | |||
Not applicable. |
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The volume and performance of rail freight traffic are measured in tonnes (mass) and tonne-kilometres. Passenger transport by rail is measured in the number of passengers and in passenger-kilometres. Information on the number of train kilometres is also available. |
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The tables consist mostly of annual data. There are some tables providing quarterly and quinquennial (every five years) data.
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6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | |||
National level: |
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6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |||
Not applicable |
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
National level: |
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
The most of performance is due to some major companies in Hungary therefore if confidential flags are not applied then in that case the companies can become identifiable. |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
Rail transport statistics is published quarterly 60 days (about two months) after the reference quarter within the quarterly publication of the statistical performances. |
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
The dissemination calendar (in xls format) is publicly available on the website of HCSO.
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8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
Rail transport statistics is published quarterly 60 days (about two months) after the reference quarter within the quarterly publication of the statistical performances. This is free of charge to all users. |
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Rail transport statistics is published quarterly 60 days (about two months) after the reference quarter within the quarterly publication of the statistical performances. Annual publication of the statistical performances is published about 9 months after the reference year. |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
Rail transport statistics is published quarterly 60 days (about two months) after the reference quarter within the quarterly publication of the statistical performances. |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
Publication of rail transport statistics is done through the website of HCSO. |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
Not applicable to rail transport statistics. |
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
Not applicable. |
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
A Standard-documentation with Meta information (Definitions, comments, methods, quality) on Rail Transport Statistics is available at national level. |
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
Quality report is made annually in Hungarian language for internal use. |
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11.1. Quality assurance | |||
Railway transport data are checked before being entered into the database and disseminated to the public; the validation rules are intended to assure: |
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11.2. Quality management - assessment | |||
Year to year comparability of indicators is assured and assessed. |
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
The basic users of rail statistics are: Railway data users are mostly interested in: Rail statistics are mostly used for: |
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12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | |||
Not available |
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12.3. Completeness | |||
Railway data collected within the scope of the legal acts are complete. Data based on the voluntary questionnaires (Common Questionnaire and REGWeb questionnaires) are very often incomplete and not very up to date. |
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||
Warning email letters will be sent (before deadline)and warning phone calls will be conducted to the data providers (after the deadline) in order to increase the response rate. |
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13.2. Sampling error | |||
Not applicable |
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13.3. Non-sampling error | |||
Not applicable |
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14.1. Timeliness | |||
Eurostat receives the quarterly data three months and annual data 5-12 months after the end of the refernce period. After reception, the data are validated and (if there are no errors or inconsistencies to be clarified with the data providers) uploaded to Eurostat's dissemination tables. |
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14.2. Punctuality | |||
Dissemination of the data depends on the punctuality of data provider. |
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | |||
There could be problems of comparability for rail transport data collection. Comparisons of the data regarding freight declared by partner reporting destination country (so-called mirror checks) by Eurostat allow further the detection of possible inconsistencies. Sameness of the data depend (in regards of countries) on the punctuality of data providers. |
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15.2. Comparability - over time | |||
Data for the current period are compared to the same period of the previous year per data provider and we try to filter out the data providers that make an magnitude error. |
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | |||
not applicable |
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15.4. Coherence - internal | |||
The quarterly and annual data collections shall be consistent with each other. For a total of four quarters, the data must match with the annual aggregated data. After the consultation quarterly data are considered to be final which sometimes requires modification by quarter. |
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Cost and burden for supplying data by data providers is acceptable. |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
The Data Revision Policy of the HCSO can be found on its homepage. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
Type of revision is routine revision. Planned date of revision is 60 days (about two months) after the reference period. Revision of quarterly data is common practice due to incoming of annual data. |
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18.1. Source data | |||
The rail license list is sent by Ministry for Innovation and Technology.The data on traffic are mostly collected from the infrastructure managers or/ and from the railway undertakings. |
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18.2. Frequency of data collection | |||
quarterly for performance data, annual for detailed data and infrastructure |
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18.3. Data collection | |||
Rail statistics are in most cases based on the commercial data of railway undertakings that are, in addition to their original use, aggregated and published for statistical purposes after being structured to meet the needs of the legislation. |
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18.4. Data validation | |||
Essential consistency check is applied to the datasets. |
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18.5. Data compilation | |||
European aggregates are compiled by Eurostat. |
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18.6. Adjustment | |||
Rail data are not seasonally adjusted. |
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