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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 | 06/07/2023 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 06/07/2023 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 06/07/2023 |
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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 : A goods road motor vehicle is any single road transport vehicle (lorry), or combination of road vehicles, namely road train (lorry with trailer) or articulated vehicle (road tractor with semi-trailer), designed to carry goods on a road.
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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 : STATEC does not share Road freight data.
From Eurostat : Eurostat submits annually semi-aggregated data (data exchange tables, see Commission Regulation (EU) No 202/2010amending the Commission Regulation (EC) 6/2003) back to the reporting countries so that they can compile the total road freight transport on their national territories, including the operations by national hauliers and also those of all other reporting countries. These data exchange tables include more detailed breakdowns than the publicly available tables. They also include, for each value, the information on the number of observations that the estimates are based on. In this way, the reporting countries can estimate the reliability of results that they aggregate from the data exchange tables. |
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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 | |||
Statistics about Road Freight Transports can be found: |
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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: - Luxembourg uses similar methods and definitions in order to produce quality data. The response rate is 89% in 2016. - The statistical error of the micro-data transmitted to Eurostat is smaller than 5%
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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: Parc des véhicules automoteurs Name of organisation who maintains the register: Centre des technologies de l’information de l’Etat (CTIE) Frequency of update: Daily update, but monthly transmission of an extract to STATEC. Frequency of access to draw the samples: At present, the samples are drawn at the beginning of the year, with two supplementary samples drawn in July and November. Arrangements for accessing the register: The first days of each month, the CTIE is transmitting an extract of the register to STATEC. Information obtained from the register: In the data files transmitted by the CTIE, there are technical specifications for all kind of automotive vehicles. At present, the CTIE is drawing the samples without any stratification. In 2022, STATEC plans to use stratified samples. The criteria for stratification are not yet fixed. Procedure for reminders: In general, the questionnaires have to be returned to STATEC within 5 days after the end of the reference week. At present, the enterprises receive, if necessary, 1-3 reminders per questionnaire. A scheduled system, sending out automatically reminders according to intervals to be fixed by STATEC is implemented. In general, the response rate is good. |
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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: Tractive vehicle Types of units excluded: According to the EU road freight transport statistics regulation, STATEC excludes:
Time unit: 1 week Time unit of quarter 1 of 2022 included in the survey: 7 weeks Stratification: There is no stratification. The same weighting factor is used for all vehicles for the whole quarter. Recording of weight of goods: Enterprises should indicate the weight of transported goods without packaging. Recording of journey data sent to Eurostat: Single stop, multi stop and collection /delivery: It is only allowed to indicate the carriage of one commodity per journey. If there are two or more commodities transported, the most important in terms of weight must be indicated. Estimation of maximum permissible laden weight: In the data files on the automotive vehicles, the maximum permissible laden weight on the different axes is indicated. The enterprises have to indicate the number of axle of the vehicle, the trailer or the semi-trailer. These indications allow calculating the total maximum permissible laden weight. Calculation of weighting factors: weighting factor = (w*v)/(r+e) w = number of calendar weeks in a quarter v = quarterly average number of tractive vehicles in the register used for goods carriage r = quarterly recorded questionnaires e = quarterly unused questionnaires (no activity or unusable indications)
Additional (optional) variables collected compared to the legal requirements: Environmental impact-related variables: Statec does not collect any information on the type of fuel used or the fuel consumption. Nevertheless, in the vehicle register there is a variable on the type of fuel used: in 2014, more than 98 % of the transport vehicles use diesel. A1. Vehicle-related variables:
A2. Journey-related variables:
A3. Goods-related variables:
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18.4. Data validation | |||
From Eurostat : Since 1999, micro-data from the reporting countries have to be submitted according to Commission Regulation 2163/2001. The data are then checked and validated by EUROSTAT (verification of many different codes used (NUTS 3, numeric or alphabetic variables) correctness of linked questionnaires in the different dataset, etc…). Detected errors are then reported back to the data sender with the request for correction, this is an iterative process until at least 99.5% of all data records are validated and loaded in the database. |
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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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