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1.1. Contact organisation | Swiss Federal Statistical Office FSO |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Section Mobility |
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1.5. Contact mail address | Espace de l'Europe 10, CH-2010 Neuchâtel, Switzerland |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 16/07/2020 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 16/07/2020 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 16/07/2020 |
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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 public or private railway undertakings operating on Swiss national territory and having the necessary rights to provide transport of goods, regular professional transport of passengers or construction and maintaining of infrastructure. |
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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: Railways Act of 20 December 1957 SR 742.101 Federal Ordinance on the Realization of Federal Surveys of June 30th, 1993 SR 431.012.1 European level: Agreement between the Swiss Confederation and the European Community on cooperation in the field of statistics SR 0.431.026.81 Decision No 2/2019 of the European Union/Switzerland Statistical Committee of 2 December 2019 replacing Annex A to the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on cooperation in the field of statistics Regulation (EU) 2018/643 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 April 2018 on rail transport statistics |
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6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |||
Not applicable |
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
Federal Statistics Act of 9th October 1992 SR 431.01 Federal Ordinance on the Realization of Federal Surveys of June 30th, 1993 SR 431.012.1 Federal Act on Data Protection of June 19, 1992 SR 235.1 Ordinance to the Federal Act on Data Protection of 14 June 1993 SR 235.11 |
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
Annex IV and V: Data by region of loading/embarkation and region of unloading/disembarkation (NUTS 2) are confidential. |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
Agenda and publications are on the site of the Federal Statistical Office. Annual data: goods transport by rail in July (five months after reference year), passenger transport by rail in September (eight months after reference year) Quarterly data on goods and passengers in March, June, September and December (three Months after reference quarter). |
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
Statistics are available at 8.30 a.m. on the date announced in the Agenda. Access is free of charge for all users. It is possible to subscribe to a newsletter service.
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Data on goods and passenger transport is published quarterly and annually according to the release calendar. |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
Agenda and publications are on the site of the Federal Statistical Office. For annual data, there is a specific newsletter linking to the publication package. |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
Rail transport statistics are published on our website https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home.html |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
The results can be found in the following tables: Public transport (incl. Rail freight) - overview Öffentlicher Verkehr (inkl. Schienengüterverkehr) - detaillierte Zeitreihen (available in German and French). |
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10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
Not applicable. |
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
Public transport statistical data is included in several additional publications on mobility and transport, to be found on the website. |
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
Documentation on methodology is available on the website. |
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
Not applicable to railway transport statistics |
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11.1. Quality assurance | |||
The system follows the quality commitment of the Federal Statistical Office. |
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11.2. Quality management - assessment | |||
Public transport statistics follow a standardized process including validation rules and quality checks as well as internal peer reviews. Part of it is a continual improvement process based on a quality assurance manual. |
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
Public transport statistics cover the information needs of different groups of users:
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12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | |||
There have not been carried out any user surveys on the railway transport statistics. |
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12.3. Completeness | |||
Statistics on goods and passenger transport are collected and reported according to Regulation EU 2018/634. Data on TEU cannot be provided. |
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||
Not applicable |
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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 | |||
Data are transmitted to Eurostat within the specified transmission deadlines. |
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14.2. Punctuality | |||
Data are delivered punctually. |
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | |||
Comparability is given by following the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2018/643. |
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15.2. Comparability - over time | |||
Goods 2010 (Annex I): An additional enterprise has exceeded the threshold of 500 mio. Tonnes-km per year. This enterprise has been included in detailed reporting from 2010. The effect on transport performance in tkm is more significant than on transport in tonnes as this enterprise is performing long-distance transport. However, not the whole increase from 2009 to 2010 can be explained by the inclusion of the new enterprise. A considerable regain after the economic crisis of 2009 contributed to the rising transport performance. Passengers 2015 (Annex II): International transport by country of loading to country of unloading: adaptation of methodology leads to a break in the statistical series. |
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | |||
Rail transport statistics are used as an input in sevaral statistics and more general publications on mobility and transport. |
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15.4. Coherence - internal | |||
The statistics are internally coherent.
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Cost and burden for supplying data by data providers is acceptable. |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
Revisions are published at the same time as the regular quarterly and annual results. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
In a regular publication, newly revised data of former periods is marked with “r” and commented with a footnote if necessary. |
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18.1. Source data | |||
Data are delivered by the railway undertakings filling in a questionnaire. |
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18.2. Frequency of data collection | |||
Switzerland started providing rail transport data from 2008 reference year, collected quarerly and annually. |
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18.3. Data collection | |||
Data are collected via eSurvey or Excel forms. Passengers (Annex II): Passengers using the services of more than one railway undertaking during one railway trip are counted only once. Transit passengers are not included. Goods (Annex I): Annual number of empty and loaded intermodal transport units carried on railways (number, TEU): Data on TEU cannot be provided. |
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18.4. Data validation | |||
Data validation follows the standardized statistical process.
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18.5. Data compilation | |||
Data are compilated in accordance with the standardized statistical process fulfilling the demands of Regulation (EU) 2018/643. |
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18.6. Adjustment | |||
Not applicable for rail transport data collection. |
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DECISION No 2/2019 OF THE EUROPEAN UNION/SWITZERLAND STATISTICAL COMMITTEE of 2 December 2019: The provisions of the Regulation shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be read with the following adaptation: In article 4, paragraph 2, the thresholds referred to in points (a) and (b) shall read:
Annex VIII is applicable for undertakings falling below the thresholds referred to in points (a) and (b). |
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