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1.1. Contact organisation | National Statistical Institute (STATEC) |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Short-term Statistics, Transport and Tourism Unit |
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1.5. Contact mail address | 13 Rue Erasme 1468 Luxembourg |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 6 July 2023 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 6 July 2023 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 6 July 2023 |
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3.1. Data description | |||
Road freight data transmission consists of three datasets with quarterly periodicity:
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3.2. Classification system | |||
Statistics on carriage of goods by road apply the following statistical classifications:
The optional variable type of cargo follows the Classification of Cargo Types of UNECE (United Nations, Economic Commission for Europe - codes for types of cargo, packages and packaging materials, Recommendation 21 adopted by the Working Party on Facilitation of International Trade Procedures, Geneva, March 1986). |
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3.3. Coverage - sector | |||
Road Freight Transport vehicles registrered in the reporting member state. |
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3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | |||
The main concepts used in Road freight statistics are the following, more details can be found in the Road freight transport methodology manual :
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3.5. Statistical unit | |||
The reporting unit for road freight transport statistics is the goods road transport vehicle or the local unit (a site of a company, as identified in the national business register). |
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3.6. Statistical population | |||
As the total number of statistical units (most commonly vehicles) is very large, sample surveys are carried out to collect information. For the time being, this is a census of the vehicles but surveyed only for one reference week. Every quarter 7 weeks are selected. Every week of reference 1/28th of the registered vehicles are surveyed. |
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3.7. Reference area | |||
The data provided are goods vehicles registered in the declaring country uniquely. |
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3.8. Coverage - Time | |||
Data are available since 1999 on the EUROSTAT website. |
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3.9. Base period | |||
Not applicable. |
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Data are collected in tonnes, tonne-kilometres, vehicle-kilometres and in number of journeys (journey data) or in number of basic transport operations (BTO (goods related data)). |
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The road data are collected on a quarterly basis and are reported to Eurostat five months after the end of the reference period. |
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6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | |||
European level: |
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6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |||
National level :
From Eurostat :
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
National level:
European level:
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
There is no special treatment. Microdata are already anonymized. |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
The transmission of the data shall take place within 5 months of the end of each quarterly period of observation. |
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
There is no official national release calendar. |
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8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
As soon as the data for the 4 quarters of a year are validated, the annual statistics are published on our web portal. It is planned to publish the quarterly results in a near future. |
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Annual dissemination. |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
Currently there are only regular annual releases of tables on our web portal about road freight transport statistics. |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
There is no other publication other than tables on our website. (see 10.3). |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
Not applicable. |
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
Not applicable. |
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
National characteristics of surveys, conducted in the reporting countries in 2017, were published in Methodologies used in surveys of road freight transport in Member States, EFTA and Candidate Countries. This latter publication also contains data on response rates, vehicle registers' quality, sampling rates and statistical errors in surveys carried out in 2016. |
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
There is an internal document about the methodology on road freight transport statistics methodology. |
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11.1. Quality assurance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The quality assurance of the road freight transport statistics data is based on the following principles:
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11.2. Quality management - assessment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Precision calculations following Commission Regulation (EC) 642/2004.
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
Results are needed by Eurostat according to the European Regulation. There is no further information available of the relevance of this indicator for users, nevertheless, the results are regularly published and commented by media and professional stakeholders. |
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12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | |||
Not available for this specific indicator, but the user satisfaction for Statec's products is very high according to a user's survey. |
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12.3. Completeness | |||
Eurostat's requirements in terms of time series are fulfilled. Small goods vehicles (with loading capacity below 3.5 tonnes) are not covered. |
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||
Road freight data come from sample surveys. The overall sampling error of the estimates is less than 5% standard percentage error. |
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13.2. Sampling error | |||
Not available. |
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13.3. Non-sampling error | |||
Not available. |
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14.1. Timeliness | |||
Data are normally updated once per quarter. If new annual data (all four quarters of a calendar year) have become available, the annual datasets are also updated together with the quarterly datasets. |
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14.2. Punctuality | |||
Road freight data are transmitted to Eurostat within 5 months after the end of the reference period, as specified in the Regulation (EU) 70//2012. |
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | |||
The definitions applied are the same as fixed in Regulation (EU) No 70/2012. |
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15.2. Comparability - over time | |||
The definitions applied are the same as fixed in Regulation (EU) No 70/2012. |
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | |||
No comparison are performed since the nature of the road freight market differs considerable from that of other transport modes. |
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15.4. Coherence - internal | |||
Not applicable. |
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It represents for NSI +- 4 000 hours /year. The burden for the enterprises is estimated to +- 4 000 hours /year. |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
There is no official national revision policy. But Statec takes into account late data arrivals and data corrections. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
Not applicable. |
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18.1. Source data | |||
Sampling register used for the survey Name of register:
Name of organisation who maintains the register:
Frequency of update:
Frequency of access to draw the samples:
Arrangements for accessing the register:
Information obtained from the register:
Procedure for reminders:
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18.2. Frequency of data collection | |||
The survey is carried out throughout the entire year. |
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18.3. Data collection | |||
Sampling methodology
Statistical unit:
Types of units excluded:
Time unit:
Time unit of quarter 1 of 2022 included in the survey:
Stratification:
Recording of weight of goods:
Recording of journey data sent to Eurostat:
Estimation of maximum permissible laden weight:
Calculation of weighting factors:
Additional (optional) variables collected compared to the legal requirements:
Environmental impact-related variables:
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18.4. Data validation | |||
From Eurostat :
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18.5. Data compilation | |||
Data compilation is automatized internally. |
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18.6. Adjustment | |||
Road freight data are not seasonally adjusted. |
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None. |
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