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1.1. Contact organisation | Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Transport and Tourism Statistics section |
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1.5. Contact mail address | Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia, Lacplesa 1, Riga, LV-1010 |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 27/09/2023 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 04/04/2024 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 04/04/2024 |
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3.1. Data description | ||||||||||
Main aim of the Latvian residents survey on recreational and business trips is to obtain information on same-day and overnight trips of Latvian population, including personal and business trips outside the usual environment in Latvia (domestic tourism) and abroad (outbound tourism). During the survey, the following information is obtained: number of trips, age, gender, educational level and employment status of the travellers, purpose of the trip, duration of the trip, destination of the trip, mode of transport and accommodation used, type of booking, and expenditures made during the trip. |
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3.2. Classification system | ||||||||||
Not applicable |
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3.3. Coverage - sector | ||||||||||
National tourism: domestic tourism and outbound tourism (trips made by residents of the reporting country). |
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3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | ||||||||||
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3.5. Statistical unit | ||||||||||
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3.6. Statistical population | ||||||||||
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3.7. Reference area | ||||||||||
Entire territory of Latvia. |
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3.8. Coverage - Time | ||||||||||
Coverage - Time [data comparable since (YYYY)]
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3.9. Base period | ||||||||||
Not applicable. |
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Not applicable |
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2022 |
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6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | ||||
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6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | ||||
Tourism statistics are also included in OECD and UNWTO datasets. |
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
Confidentiality of the information provided by respondents is protected by the Statistics Law:
Central Statistical Bureau Privacy policy and information security. |
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
CSB fulfills the requirements of Section 17 and 19 of the Statistics Law for ensuring confidentiality: Section 17. Data Processing and Statistical Confidentiality (1) The statistical institution shall use the data that are obtained in accordance with Sections 14, 15, and 16 of this Law for the production of official statistics, with the exception of cases laid down in Sections 25 and 26 of this Law. (2) The data may be modified, supplemented or combined with other data available to the statistical institution, as well as re-used for the production of other official statistics. (3) In using data, the statistical institution has the right to establish and maintain statistical registers for the production of official statistics. (4) The statistical institution shall determine the data storage duration, by taking into account the needs for production of official statistics. (5) Data of a natural person obtained for the production of official statistics shall be anonymised immediately after collection, testing and linking thereof, except the case where personal data are still required for production of official statistics. The statistical institution shall ensure that the identifying data are stored safely and separately from other data. (6) The statistical institution shall take all the necessary measures to prevent unauthorised access to data, data modification or dissemination, accidental or unauthorised destruction. (7) Employees of the statistical institution shall not disclose data or any other restricted access information coming to their knowledge in the performance of their service or work duties. This shall also apply to persons who are temporarily involved in the production of official statistics or have terminated employment or service relations. Section 19. Dissemination of Official Statistics (1) The statistical institution shall disseminate official statistics in a way that does not allow either directly or indirectly identify a private individual or a State institution in cases other than those laid down in Section 25 of this Law.
CSB publishes data in aggregated form only. The number of observations is taken into account when publishing data. If the number of observations is less than 20, then the data are confidential and not published. If the number of observations is from 20-49, then the data is published with the note "Data based on small number of respondent answers". Anonymized individual data can be only used for scientific or research purposes. Individual data are further processed before being released for research by deleting direct identifiers (e.g. name, surname, personal identification number, registration number) and applying data minimisation techniques (e.g. geographic characteristics only at regional or municipality level, age groups rather than age in years). More information https://stat.gov.lv/en/research. |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
Publication of press releases and database tables is scheduled one year ahead with specific publication dates. Latvian residents survey on recreational and business trips results are published in aggregated data base tables and analitic press relaises annualy at the beginning of June, 5 months after the end of the data collection. |
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
Official statistics of Latvia https://stat.gov.lv/en (all themes press releases and database tables calendar). Advance dissemination calendar for Tourism (tourism press releases and database tables calendar). |
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8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
Release dates (News releases and Statistics Database) are pre-announced and statistics is in database at 13:00 PM. Data is published and distributed to all users at this specified time. |
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From reference period 2012: annual. |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
News release of Trips made by Latvian residents in 2022 is available in Latvian and English - number of domestic and outbound overnight and same-day trips, main purpose, nights spent, expenditures, type of accommodation and transport used during the trip, number of domestic trips of Latvian residents by region of destination: |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
Tourism in Latvia 2023. Available in Latvian and English. The collection of statistics includes information drawn from the survey of persons crossing the state border and the travellers' survey that was carried out in 2021. It also includes statistics on activities of hotels and similar accommodation establishments, as well as travel agencies. The indicators are compared with the previous years. Children in Latvia 2023. Available in Latvian and English. The collection of statistics covers information on the number of children births and deaths, as well as age composition, state of health, education, social protection thereof, risk of material deprivation and monetary poverty in households with children, economic activity of children, use of information technologies, violence against children and children in conflict with law in 2021 and in comparison with the previous years. Statistical Yearbook of Latvia 2023. Available in Latvian and English. The Statistical Yearbook of Latvia is the most exhaustive annual publication of statistical information on the national economy and socio-economic processes in the country. |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
Annual data: TUL010 Same-day domestic trips of Latvian residents by gender of the traveller and age group 2012 - 2022 TUL020 Overnight domestic trips of Latvian residents by gender of the traveller and age group 2012 - 2022 TUL040 Same-day outbound trips of Latvian residents by gender of the traveller and age group 2012 - 2022 TUL050 Overnight outbound trips of Latvian residents by gender of the traveller and age group 2012 - 2022 TUL070 Trips of Latvian residents made in Latvia and abroad 2012 - 2022 TUL090 Population of Latvia in recreational and other personal trips in Latvia and abroad 2012 - 2022 TUL100 Trips of Latvian residents made in Latvia by destination regions 2012 - 2022 |
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10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
In Latvia, the entities entitled to obtain the statistically protected micro data include the registered research institutions, registered researchers, and the researchers of government offices. The statistically protected microdata can be obtained for statistical-analytical purposes, and for scientific research purposes, where the analysis involves a public benefit. |
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
Customised data sets: If you would like to obtain statistical data that are not available in publications or in the Official statistics portal online database, please send us an information request: |
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
https://stat.gov.lv/en/metadata/2698-recreational-and-business-trips-latvian-residents |
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
Not available. |
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11.1. Quality assurance | ||||||
Tourism statistics are compiled by the competent national statistics authorities. Data are collected and compiled in the line with Regulation 692/2011 and with the Code of Practice applicable to all processes for collecting and compiling European statistics. According to Regulation (EU) 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Article 6 (4)3), every year Member States shall provide the Commission with a report on the quality of the data. The report shall be provided within 9 months after the end of the reference year. |
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11.2. Quality management - assessment | ||||||
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | ||||
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12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | ||||
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12.3. Completeness | ||||
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The main possible source of error comes from the memory effect (recall effect, not understanding the questions, not knowing the answers, rough estimates of expenditures) or they are not interested in the survey. This would lead to an underestimation of trips and expenses. There is a significant item non-response for expenditure categories, where the level of non-response is more than 5% (imputation rate of expenditure equals to 0.16). Data are in this case imputed by the Member State. The main technique for correction of the item non-response on domestic trips is "Hot Deck" Imputation Method. Using a trip or traveller descriptive variables they are replaced with an observed response from a “similar” unit. The values of equivalent trips with the same destination are used for correction of item non-response on trips abroad. The following features are taken into account: • Transport type, The imputation in outbound trips is carried out by evaluating each trip separately, taking into account the comments left by the interviewers about the specific trip and comparing the answers given by other respondents on trips with similar parameters in the relevant quarter, taking into account as a priority: the destination of the trip, the transport used, the type of accommodation, the purpose, the duration and the number of persons from the same hosehold participating in the trip. In order to estimate the expenses, the prices available on the Internet in the specific destinations are studied. Thanks to the obtained telephone numbers from various registers, the percentage of non-response is lower than in previous years, amounting to only 32%. The sampling is built using two-stage design (probabilities proportional to size and simple random sampling). Received design weights are corrected by response homogeneity groups method. Calibration for corrected design weights is used in order to minimize non-response deviation. The process is made by age groups, sex, areas and region. Sampling errors vary among variables. The main variables are relatively accurate (e.g. Number of trips with purpose "leisure, recreation and holidays") whereas more detailed variables have a larger sampling error (e.g. Number of trips by destination). |
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13.3.1 Coverage errors
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14.1. Timeliness | ||||||
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | ||||||
No geographical comparability problems. The survey covers the whole country. |
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15.2. Comparability - over time | ||||||
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | ||||||
The data have not been compared between domains. |
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15.4. Coherence - internal | ||||||
Not applicable. |
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Cost and burden are not systematically collected. |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
The first and final results are disseminated after 6 months of the end of the reference period. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
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18.1. Source data | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18.1.1. Source data
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18.3.1. Type of survey
Annexes: Questionaire in Latvian |
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18.6. Adjustment | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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We collect and also publish the data regarding same-day domestic visits every year. Questions regarding main reason for not going on a private trip, type of destination for personal trips, the participation of children in the travel party, booking of the trip is included in the questionnaire every year and not every three years as it is expected in the Regulation 692/2011. |
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