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1.1. Contact organisation | Statbel (Direction générale Statistique - Statistics Belgium) |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Directorate Territory Statistics - Transport Statistics |
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1.5. Contact mail address | North Gate - Boulevard du Roi Albert II, 16, 1000 Bruxelles |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 25/03/2021 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 25/03/2021 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 25/03/2021 |
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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 rail passenger and freight transport are collected directly from railway undertakings operating at national territory. |
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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:
European level:
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6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |||
Not applicable |
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
National level:
European level:
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
data are sent to Eurostat but are confidential and are not published |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
data are sent to Eurostat but are confidential and are not published |
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
data are sent to Eurostat but are confidential and are not published |
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8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
data are sent to Eurostat but are confidential and are not published |
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data are sent to Eurostat but are confidential and are not published |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
data are sent to Eurostat but are confidential and are not published |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
data are sent to Eurostat but are confidential and are not published |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
No online database available. |
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10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
data are sent to Eurostat but are confidential and are not published |
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
data are sent to Eurostat but are confidential and are not published |
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
data are sent to Eurostat but are confidential and are not published |
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
According to general rules, procedures and documentation of the NSI. |
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11.1. Quality assurance | |||
Before data are sent to Eurostat, data are validated according the NSI rules and procedures. |
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11.2. Quality management - assessment | |||
The figures regarding passenger and freight transport are not being published, due to confidentiality issu |
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
The figures regarding passenger and freight transport are not being published/disseminated, due to confidentiality issu |
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12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | |||
No surveys on users satisfaction or data needs. |
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12.3. Completeness | |||
The data collection on rail transport statistics follows the provisions of the Regulation 91/2003. All variables in all data sets are provided. The figures regarding passenger and freight transport are not being publised or disseminated, due to confidentiality issues. |
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||
Overall accuracy of the rail transport statistics data is good. The processing with several plausibilty checks as well as checks done before transmitting data to Eurostat provides a satisfactory accuracy of the data. |
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13.2. Sampling error | |||
Not applicable for rail transport data collection. |
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13.3. Non-sampling error | |||
Not applicable for rail transport data collection. |
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14.1. Timeliness | |||
All the statistics required by the provisions of the Regulation 2018/643 are transmitted to Eurostat 3 months after the reference quarter. The annual data is transmitted to Eurostat 8 months afther the reference year. |
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14.2. Punctuality | |||
All the statistics required by the provisions of the Regulation 2018/643 are mostly available in time before the deadline for the data provisions set up in the legal act. |
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | |||
Not applicable |
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15.2. Comparability - over time | |||
Results are compared with the previous quarter/year and the same quarter of the previous year. |
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | |||
There are no cross-domain coherence checks so far. |
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15.4. Coherence - internal | |||
Results are compared with the previous quarter/year and the same quarter of the previous year. |
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The response burden is put on the railway undertakings |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
Before data are sent to Eurostat, data are validated according the NSI rules and procedures. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
Revised data are sent to Eurostat. |
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18.1. Source data | |||
Statistics Belgium is using data from Infrastructure manager Infrabel and the railway undertakings operating at national territory. Next to these two datasources, other datasources online are used to gather more detailed data that is missing in the data we recieve. |
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18.2. Frequency of data collection | |||
Information needed for the rail transport statistics are collected on a quarterly and yearly basis. |
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18.3. Data collection | |||
The data transmission is possible via email. |
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18.4. Data validation | |||
Results are compared with the previous quarters/years. |
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18.5. Data compilation | |||
After various recodings, inputing missing information and plausibility checks, the data received from the data suppliers are compiled into quarterly/yearly data following the structure of the data sets which are preset by the regulation. |
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18.6. Adjustment | |||
Not applicable for rail transport data collection |
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No comments. |
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