State Statistical Office

Department for environmental statistics, energy and transport

"Dame Gruev" 4, 1000 Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia

Data: on passengers, goods and mail carried by domestic and foreign aircraft in regular and charter flights.

Flight stage data (dataset A1) cover passengers on board,  freight and mail on board in tonnes,  passengers seats available,  commercial air flights (passengers + all-freight and mail), passenger commercial air flights, all-freight and mail commercial air flights.

Flight stage data (dataset B1) cover passengers on board, freight and mail on board in tonnes.

Airport data (dataset C1) cover passengers carried, transit passengers,transfer passengers, freight and mail loaded/unloaded, total commercial aircraft movements, total aircrafts movements.

The data are available at monthly, quarterly and annual level.

National clasiffication of activities Nace Rev.2.
ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) airport coded as listed in ICAO document 7910.
The geographical classification for country codes (ISO 3166) is applied for dissemination purposes.

Sector-H Transportation and storage, class-51.10 Passenger air transport and class -51.21 Freight air transport, according to Nace Rev. 2.
Air transport

• Dataset A: This dataset contains periodic flight stage data registered for airport-to-airport routes, and broken down by arrivals/departures, scheduled/non-scheduled, passenger service/all-freight and mail service, airline information and aircraft type. The values provided concern passengers on board, freight and mail on board, commercial air flights as well as passenger seats available.
• Dataset B: This dataset contains periodic on flight origin/destination data registered for airport-to-airport routes, and broken down by arrivals/departures, scheduled/non scheduled, passenger service/all-freight and mail service and airline information. The values provided concern passengers carried and freight and mail loaded or unloaded.
• Dataset C: This dataset contains periodic airport data registered for declaring airports, and broken down by airline information. The values provided concern total passengers carried, total direct transit passengers, total transfer (indirect transit) passengers (optional variable), total freight and mail loaded or unloaded, total commercial aircraft movements and total aircraft movements.

Definitions applied:

Flight - is an operation carried out by an aircraft to transport passengers, goods and mail from one point to another.
Flight, commercial air transport - the operation of aircraft on one or more stages on a scheduled or non-scheduled basis, which is available to the public for remuneration and for hire. Technical stops are not counted in the number of stages.
Domestic flight - a flight stage flown between points within the domestic boundaries of a country by an airline registered in that country.
International flight is a flight with starting destination on the territory of one country, and the destination of landing is in other country.
Flight lines are distances from starting destination to the final destination, an airport to airport distance.
Passengers in air transport are considered those people who bought a ticket in order to be transported to a certain destination. The number of passengers does not include those persons who bought a ticket but did not use it. The crew  is not included in the number of passengers, also.
Freight implies the transport of all goods according to shipment documents expressed in tonnes, excluding the mail. Also considered as freight is the paid passenger luggage included in the shipment document and the store of fuel and lubricants.
Mail is considered as the transport of all postage shipments, packages and newspapers received by the representatives of the post office department of the aircraft company to be delivered to the postal entity after the flight has ended.
Community airport - A defined area on land subject to the provisions of the treaty, which is intended to be used either wholly or in part for the arrival, departure and surface movement of aircraft and open for commercial air services.

Every business entity clasified in the Section H –Transportation and storage, class-51.10 Passenger air transport and class-51.21 Freight air transport, according to Nace Rev. 2.

Four categories of Community airports are defined by the Regulation (EC) N°1358/2003:

• Category "0": Airports with less than 15 000 passenger units per year are considered as having only "occasional commercial traffic" without obligation to report.
• Category "1": Airports with between 15 000 and 150 000 passenger units per year shall transmit only aggregated airport data (Data set C).
• Category "2": Airports with more than 150 000 passenger units and less than 1 500 000 passenger units per year shall transmit flight stage data, on flight origin destination data as well as aggregated airport data (Data sets A, B and C).
• Category "3": Airports with at least 1 500 000 passenger units per year shall transmit flight stage data, on flight origin destination data as well as aggregated airport data (Data sets A, B and C).

Airports under category ‘0’ are not included in the statistics provided to Eurostat.

Republic of North Macedonia

Air transport statistics are collected for national purposes as from 1965. The data according to the Regulation are provided to Eurostat since 2010 for dataset C1, and from 01.2015 all three datasets A1, B1 and C1 are delivered to Eurostat.

Not applicable.

The units used depend on the variables collected within each data set and are: number of passengers, kilogrammes (for freight and mail), aircraft movements and passenger seats available.

According to the legal act the weight of freight and mail is transmitted in tonnes without decimal places.

Reference period is the calendar year 2022.

NATIONAL LEGISLATION

Law on State Statistics ("Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia" No. 54/1997, 21/2007, 51/2011, 104/2013, 42/2014, 192/2015, 27/16, 83/18, 220/18 and "Official Gazette of the Republic of North Macedonia" No. 31/20) (https://www.stat.gov.mk/ZakonZaStatistika_en.aspx)
Programme of Statistical Surveys 2018-2022 ("Official Gazette of RM" No. 22/18, 224/18 and "Official Gazette of the Republic of North Macedonia" No. 18/20 and 300/20.) (https://www.stat.gov.mk/ZaNas_en.aspx?id=8)

European level: until 2002, the data were provided to Eurostat on a voluntary basis; since 2002 data provision is based on an EP and Council framework legal act and on several implementing Commission Regulations:

• Regulation (EC) No 437/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 February 2003 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of passengers, freight and mail by air.
• Commission Regulation (EC) No 1358/2003 of 31/07/2003.
• Commission Regulation No 546/2005 of 8 April 2005.
• Commission Regulation No 158/2007 of 16 February 2007.

Not applicable.

National level:

1. The protection of individual data is regulated by the Law on State Statistics (https://www.stat.gov.mk/ZakonZaStatistika_en.aspx).
2. The basic principles and activities undertaken to ensure data confidentiality are described in the Policy on Statistical Confidentiality
(https://www.stat.gov.mk/pdf/PolicyOnStatisticalConfidentiality.pdf).

European level:

• Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.

The data provided to Eurostat in the data sets A1, B1 and C1 contain no confidential information.

Pursuant to Article 38 of the Law on State Statistics (https://www.stat.gov.mk/ZakonZaStatistika_en.aspx) and the Policy on Statistical Confidentiality (https://www.stat.gov.mk/pdf/PolicyOnStatisticalConfidentiality.pdf), individual data are not published. However, if access is granted to microdata from the relevant survey, then the methods used to prevent data disclosure should be specified.

The date of data publication is determined in the Advance Release Calendar, which is updated quarterly.

https://www.stat.gov.mk/Kalendar_en.aspx 

All users have equal access to statistics at the same time: this means that the publication dates are announced in advance and no user has access to official statistics before they are published. Statistical data are first published in the "News Releases" edition on the website of the State Statistical Office at 12:00.

 Monthly.

In accordance with the Dissemination Strategy (http://www.stat.gov.mk/Dokumenti/strategii/StrategijaDiseminacija2014-2016en.pdf), news releases are published (indicate the periodicity: monthly, quarterly) and they are available on the website of the SSO in the section: "News Releases".

Statistical Yearbook  https://www.stat.gov.mk/PrikaziPublikacija_1_en.aspx?rbr=845

Until 2015 Statistical review: "Transport and other services" was prepared https://www.stat.gov.mk/PrikaziPoslednaPublikacija_en.aspx?id=15. Since then, the data are disseminated in MakStat database only.

MAKStat - database available on web-page on SSO.

http://makstat.stat.gov.mk/PXWeb/pxweb/en/MakStat/MakStat__Transport__PrevezeniPatniciStoki

The use of microdata by external users is possible only for research purposes and is done in accordance with the Law on State Statistics (Article 41, Article 42 and Article 43). Access to anonymised microdata is defined by an internal procedure of the State Statistical Office "Access to anonymised microdata for scientific research purposes" (https://www.stat.gov.mk/ZaNas_en.aspx?id=22). 

At the request of users, data are also prepared in a form according to their needs. 

Methodological explanations are published on the web-page ofSSO.
https://www.stat.gov.mk/MetodoloskiObjasSoop_en.aspx?id=72&rbrObl=24
Methodological explanations which are part of publications "Transport and other services,2015".
https://www.stat.gov.mk/PrikaziPoslednaPublikacija_en.aspx?id=15
Glossary for TransportStatistics,
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/Annexes/avia_if_esms_an1.pdf

The number of airports available in the questionnaires is prefilled/cross-checked with the data available from Regulation (EC) 437/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of passengers, freight and mail by air as well as the subsequent implementing Commission Regulations 1358/2003, 546/2005 and 158/2007.

The quality of the processes and products in the State Statistical Office is ensured by adhering to the European Statistics Code of Practice (https://www.stat.gov.mk/ZaNas_en.aspx?id=2) and the Quality Assurance Framework within the European Statistical System (ESS Quality Assurance Framework – https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/64157/4392716/ESS-QAF-V2.0-final.pdf). The quality criteria are also determined in the Law on State Statistics in Article 4b and Article 4c (https://www.stat.gov.mk/ZakonZaStatistika_en.aspx).

The State Statistical Office carries out statistical activities in accordance with the Statistical Business Process Model, which is based on the international model - Generic Statistical Business Process Model (GSBPM). The application of this model and international standards in statistical production ensures a high level of accuracy and comparability of data.

Data for the airports are used by the Government, local self government as well as the business community.
Business entities and other users use airport data as indicators for creating their business policies.
External users use indicators for airports for monitoring and analyzing situation and movements in the area of infrastructure and transport in the country.

Starting from 2009, the State Statistical Office conducts a User Satisfaction Survey every three years.

In relation with indicators that are foreseen in accordance with Regulation (EC) No.437/2003 of the European Parliament, SSO provides around 100% of them.

The survey methodology and the data collection method ensure good coverage and accuracy of the data. 

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

All the statistics required by the provisions of the Regulation 437/2003 are transmitted to Eurostat 4 months after the reference quarter.

Т+60 days.

The data are published on the day announced in the Advance Release Calendar.

The data are produced at national level. Comparability is provided internationally.

Since 1965 there is no break in the time series.
The number of reference periods in the time series is - 684.

Data are coherent between different parts of transport statistics.
Coherence with other areas is not ensured.

Internal coherence of data is ensured, the data is controlled and analyzed in the productionprocess.

Administrative data sources are used.

Data revision is made in accordance with the Statistical Data Revision Policy of the SSO: https://www.stat.gov.mk/ZaNas_en.aspx?id=25. 

Not applicable.

This statistical survey is with total coverage. Statistical questionnaire ""Monthly report on airports""(TRANS.A.1) is fill in by business entities classified in the Section H – Transportation and Storage,class-51.10 Passenger air transport and class-51.21 Freight air transport, according to NKD Rev. 2.Updating of the sample is performed annually.

Monthly.

Data from the survey are collected based on total coverage by the method of self - fullfiling of thestatistical questionnaire "Monthly report on airports" (TRANS.A.1).

Enterprises fill the data instatistical questionnaires for the current month and submit them to SSO no later than the 15th ofthe following month.

Verification of data is done in accordance with the defined control criteria. Verification of the datais performed before and after entering.

For the deviations the respondents are contacted.Verification is perfoming and on the produced indexes prior to their publication.

Editing: The received data from the businesses, after their verification and eventual correction inconsultation with the reporting units, are entered on an electronic medium through the applicationthat has embedded on-line controls.
Processing: Output data are defined in application.

Data adjustment is not ensured.

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