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1.1. Contact organisation | CSB (Centrālā statistikas Pārvalde (Central Statistical Bureau)) |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Transport and Tourism Statistics Section |
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1.5. Contact mail address | 1 Lāčplēša street, Rīga, LV1301 |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 17/01/2023 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 17/01/2023 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 17/01/2023 |
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3.1. Data description | |||
Maritime transport data refer to gross weight of goods (in tonnes), passenger movements (in number of passengers) as well as for vessel traffic (in number of vessels and in gross tonnage of vessels). |
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3.2. Classification system | |||
The following classifications are applicable: Maritime Coastal area: the nomenclature is based on the Geonomenclature (the country nomenclature for the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States, originally drawn up by the Council Regulation (EEC) N°1736/75) in force in the year to which the data refer (RAMON: https://showvoc.op.europa.eu/#/datasets/ESTAT_Geonomenclature_2021_%28GEONOM_2021%29/data). Ports: the codes used are the official UN/LOCODEs, when they exist. If a port does not have an official UN/LOCODE a provisional (numeric) code is attributed to the port. As soon as an official UN/LOCODE is attributed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) to the port at the request of the competent national authority, the provisional (numeric) code is replaced by the final official one. In exceptional cases (see for example one-port transport or special aggregation for minor ports) permanent numeric codes are attributed to special locations or activities. The code list of UN/LOCODE is available by country through the following link: http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/service/location.html. According to the relevant directive, Eurostat draws up a list of ports, coded and classified according to countries and maritime coastal areas. The list of ports is included in implementing legal acts and as such is published in the Official Journal of the European Union (the "official" list). The most recent list of ports published in the Official Journal is found in Commission Decision (EU) 2018/1007 Nationality of registration of vessels: the nomenclature used is the Geo-nomenclature (the country nomenclature for the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States, originally drawn up by the Council Regulation (EEC) N°1736/75) in force in the year to which the data refer (RAMON: https://showvoc.op.europa.eu/#/datasets/ESTAT_Geonomenclature_2021_%28GEONOM_2021%29/data). The type of ship classification is harmonised with an internationally agreed International Classification of Ship by Type (ICST). The type of cargo classification, available in Directive 2009/42/EC, has been established in conformity with the United Nation ECE Recommendation N°21. |
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3.3. Coverage - sector | |||
Data are provided on ports handling more than one million tonnes of goods or recording more than 200 000 passenger movements annually. Data on other ports are provided in summary data. |
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3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | |||
Main concepts used in this domain are the following and for more information on the concepts and methodology, please consult the Reference Manual on Maritime Transport Statistics.
Port -A place having facilities for merchant ships to moor and to load and/or unload cargo or to disembark and/or embark passengers to or from vessels, usually directly to a pier.
Bunkers and stores supplied to vessels shall be excluded from the scope. Seagoing vessel -Floating marine structure with one or more surface displacement hulls. In the context of the Directive, sea-going vessels are vessels other than those which navigate exclusively in inland waters or in waters within, or closely adjacent to, sheltered waters or areas where port regulations apply. Swap bodies are excluded. Although without internal volume flats used in maritime transport should be considered to be a special type of container and therefore are included here. For a fuller description, reference should be made to ISO 668 and 1496.The related term "container cargo" refers to containers, with or without cargo, which are lifted on or off the vessels which carry them by sea. Ro-Ro unit- This means wheeled equipment for carrying cargo, such as a truck, trailer or semi-trailer, which can be driven or towed onto a vessel. Port or ships' trailers are included in this definition. Classifications should follow United Nations ECE Recommendation No 21 'Codes for types of cargo, packages and packaging materials'. Live animals on the hoof are included. Vehicles being transported as cargo as opposed to a means of transport for freight are recorded in the separate headings of the Ro-Ro cargo classification, when they are rolled on or rolled off a vessel on their own wheels.
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3.5. Statistical unit | |||
The data used in the domain are collected at port level. |
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3.6. Statistical population | |||
Detailed data are provided for ports handling more than one million tonnes of goods or recording more than 200 000 passenger movements annually (Main ports). The other ports are required to provide summary data. However, detailed data may be included also for minor ports on a voluntary basis. |
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3.7. Reference area | |||
Operating ports on national territory. |
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3.8. Coverage - Time | |||
Data on goods and passengers are covered from 2004 onwards. |
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3.9. Base period | |||
Not applicable. |
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The units used depend on the variables collected within each data set and are: gross weight of goods expressed in thousands of tonnes; number of passengers in thousands, number of vessels.
TEUs: Twenty feet equivalent units, expressed in units or in thousands depending on the table. TEU calculation coefficients: |
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Quarters for datasets A1, A2, C1, C2, D1, F1 and F2. |
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6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | |||
National Level:
European Level:
The dissemination is based on the terms of Commission Decision 2001/423/EC on arrangements for publication or dissemination of the statistical data collected pursuant to Council Directive 95/64/EC on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea. |
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6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |||
Not applicable. |
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
National level:
European level: (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. |
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
Article 4 of Commission Decision 2001/423/EC mention that: "the highest level of detail in which data may be published or disseminated is the level of port to and from maritime coastal area. The Commission may however publish at more aggregate level if the quality and/or completeness of information are not appropriate in such detail." |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
Annual data in Statistics Database is published 170 days after the reference year. Annual data in publication “Transport in Latvia” is published 230 days after the reference year. |
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
Dissemination format and Release calendar Data release calendar |
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8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
Main results of maritime transport statistics are available free of charge to all users. More detailed data can be obtained with subscription. At the release data maritime transport statistics is available to all users at the same time. Official statistics (Statistics Database) are available on the website at 13.00 on the date announced in the release calendar. |
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Quarterly maritime transport statistics are published within 10 months after the reference period and annual maritime transport statistics within 16 months after the reference period. |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
The statistics on maritime transport which are collected within the framework of Directive 2009/42/EC are not disseminated in News releases. |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
Publication “Transport in Latvia, 2022” includes chapter “Maritime transport”. The publication is available on CSB website Publication "Transport in Latvia 2022" |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
TRK090 Cargoes loaded and unloaded at Latvia's ports by country (per cent of total cargo turnover) |
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10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
Not available. |
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
If statistical data are not available in publications or in the CSB online data base, data users should send CSB an information request by e-mail info@csp.gov.lv. |
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
Not applicable |
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11.1. Quality assurance | |||
Maritime transport statistics are compiled by the competent national statistics authority. Data are collected and compiled in line with Directive 2009/42/EC and with the Code of Practice applicable to all processes for collecting and compiling European statistics. Microdata and aggregated data are validated 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 | |||
There are no serious issues with data quality. Testing and comparing microdata exclude errors. In case of any issues detected, the data providers are contacted to provide explanations or/and revise the data accordingly. In order to improve data quality aggregated data collected in line with Directive 2009/42/EC are compared with data collected using other source of information and different methodology. Detected discrepancies are eliminated. |
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
The basic users of maritime transport statistics are International data users: Eurostat, United Nation, International Transport Forum. National data users: Ministry of Transport, Bank of Latvia, Public administrations, Students, Mass media. |
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12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | |||
Not applicable. |
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12.3. Completeness | |||
Maritime transport data collected within the scope of the legal acts are complete. |
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||
The overall accuracy is considered to be good. When data are compared with other sources, such as statistics compiled by stevedore companies, discrepancies are usually found to be resulting from differences in the methodology. However, some errors may occur in the statistics due to measurement errors. |
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13.2. Sampling error | |||
Not applicable for maritime transport data collection. |
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13.3. Non-sampling error | |||
Measurement errors Some measuring errors may occur as a result of codification errors by port authorities and shipping agents. Use of the so-called “unknown codes” instead of specific codes for type of cargo, type of goods, partner port, type of vessel is also a factor which will reduce the accuracy of the maritime statistics. There may also be typos and the use of incorrect codes, especially of partner ports, which determine some of the errors. |
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14.1. Timeliness | |||
Quarterly data should be transmitted by Member States to Eurostat within five months of the end of the period of observation; annual data within eight months. The Commission (Eurostat) shall disseminate appropriate statistical data with a periodicity comparable to that of the results transmitted (Directive 2009/42/EC). |
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14.2. Punctuality | |||
All datasets are transmitted to Eurostat within the deadlines set in Directive 2009/42/EC
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | |||
No geographical comparability problems. The survey on maritime transport has been adapted to EU requirements since 2004, so that the data are fully comparable with the data of the members of the European Statistical System. |
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15.2. Comparability - over time | |||
Comparable time series are available from 2004. There were no breaks in time series, so all-time points are comparable. Maritime transport data time series exist from 1990, but there is other information source and methodology. This time series exist parallel to data time series collected in line with Directive 2009/42/EC. |
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | |||
The data are consistent. |
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15.4. Coherence - internal | |||
As from 2004 all datasets collected and provided to Eurostat are consistent. |
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Cost and burden are not systematically collected. |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
Data are not revised. Revisions may be made as more complete information becomes available or as a result of quality checks. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
The policy described in 17.1 is fully implemented. |
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18.1. Source data | |||
From main ports (handling more than one million tonnes of goods or recording more than 200 000 passenger movements annually) the necessary data is obtained using monthly questionnaire in excel format fulfilled by ports authorities. The Port Authority fills in the questionnaire with the help of a special program. This program exports the port’s database records of port ship visits and cargo manifests in the questionnaire. This questionnaire is used to prepare datasets A1, A2, A3, B1, C1, E1, F1, F2. From small ports the necessary data is obtained using other monthly questionnaire fulfilled by ports authorities. The data source for this questionnaire is information from stevedore companies. This questionnaire is used to prepare dataset A3 for small ports and for dataset D1. |
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18.2. Frequency of data collection | |||
The monthly questionnaires are used. The data processing program prepares monthly summaries from the monthly questionnaire data. Quarterly summaries are prepared from monthly summaries, but annual summaries are prepared from quarterly summaries. |
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18.3. Data collection | |||
The data for the purpose of the Directive 2009/42/EC are collected by monthly questionnaires received from ports authorities. Maritime statistics are based on the ship manifest and cargo declaration database data of ports authorities that are aggregated afterwards. |
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18.4. Data validation | |||
After receiving the excel file from ports authorities, it is manually checked whether all the required records are filled. Missing data is being filled. The excel file is then exported to a data processing program, where it is checked again that all records are filled in and that the codes correspond to the classifications. In addition, after preparing the summaries, the data are compared with the data of stevedoring companies, where possible: liquid cargo, bulk cargo, general cargo, except containers and ro-ro cargo, number of ro-ro units, number of containers. In case of large differences, the reason for the differences is specified and, if necessary, the data is corrected. |
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18.5. Data compilation | |||
After various plausibility checks, the monthly questionnaires received from ports authorities are compiled into monthly summary datasets A1, A2, B1, C1, E1, F1 and F2 data. Quarterly summaries are prepared from monthly summaries, but annual summaries are prepared from quarterly summaries. The summaries are drawn up in accordance with Directive 2009/42/EC and in accordance with paragraph 24.4 of the Official Statistics Programme for 2021–2023 for national needs. |
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18.6. Adjustment | |||
Maritime transport data are not seasonally adjusted. |
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Maritime transport data are collected, compiled and published in full accordance with the requirements of the Directive 2009/42/EC and in accordance with paragraph 24.4 of the Official Statistics Programme. Latvia has two types of maritime transport statistics. One of statistics is compiled by using information from stevedoring companies, while the other is compiled in accordance with the provisions of the Directive, using the port authorities' database of incoming/ outgoing ships as a source of information. For national purposes, mainly only data collected from stevedoring companies are used. Data compiled in accordance with the requirements of the Directive 2009/42/EC used as additional more detailed data in maritime transports data analysis. |
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