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The present document describes the methods used by Member States, candidate and EFTA countries in their surveys on road freight transport statistics. Part I describes national methodologies for data collection. This information is based on the national reference metadata produced by the reporting countries. Data in these national metadata refer to the first quarter of 2019. Part II includes summary tables, with the basic information on sampling, response rate, register quality and precision of results of the surveys. Data on the registers used to draw the sample and the sampling methodology are relevant for the surveys conducted in the first quarter of 2019, while the main characteristics given for each country refer to the years 2018 and 2019, according to data availability. ‘Methodologies used in surveys of road freight transport in Member States, EFTA and Candidate Countries’ is published in English only.

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Release date: 4 February 2021

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Product code: KS-GQ-21-002
ISBN 978-92-76-29355-2
ISSN 2315-0815
doi:10.2785/78818
Theme: Transport
Collection: Manuals and guidelines