Goods carried by type of journeys and type of carriage
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| Type of journey Type of carriage |
IV quarter | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type of carriage | |||||||||
| On own account | For hire and reward | Total | |||||||
| thousand tons | million tkm | Average distance travelled | thousand tons | million tkm | Average distance travelled | thousand tons | million tkm | Average distance travelled | |
| Loaded journeys | |||||||||
| national | 19 028.1 | 834.7 | 43.9 | 14 302.6 | 1 789.6 | 125.1 | 33 330.7 | 2 624.3 | 78.7 |
| international1 | 214.6 | 148.1 | 690.1 | 6 868.6 | 5 517.3 | 803.3 | 7 083.2 | 5 665.4 | 799.8 |
| Total | 19 242.7 | 982.8 | 51.1 | 21 171.2 | 7 306.9 | 345.1 | 40 413.9 | 8 289.7 | 205.1 |
| Unloaded journeys | thsnd km | thsnd km | thsnd km | ||||||
| national | 50 102.9 | 56 318 | 106 420.9 | ||||||
| international | 4 433.8 | 36 172.4 | 40 606.2 | ||||||
| Total | 54 536.7 | 92 490.4 | 147 027.1 | ||||||
1 including transit, cross trade and cabotage |
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| Contact | |
|---|---|
| Contact organisation | National Statistical Institute |
| Contact organisation unit | "Short-term statistics and transport statistics" Department |
| Contact name | Joana Iltchevska |
| Contact person function | Chief expert |
| Contact mail address | 2, P.Volov Str. Sofia 1038, Bulgaria |
| Contact email address | |
| Contact phone number | +359 2 9857 604 |
| Contact fax number | |
| Metadata update | |
| Metadata last certified | 04 September 2023 |
| Metadata last posted | 04 September 2023 |
| Metadata last update | 04 September 2023 |
| Statistical presentation | |
| Data description | Goods carried - measures the total volume of goods carried by the road transport between two places (place of loading and place of unloading). Transport performance - measured in tonne-kilometres corresponds to the transportation of one tone over one kilometre by the road transport. Average distance travelled - characterizes the average distance in kilometres on which the goods have been carried for a specific time period. |
| Classification system | · Classification of economic Activities (CEA-2008, for international use NACE.BG-2008) - 49.41 "Road freight transport"; · Unique Classification for transported goods - NST 2007; · Classification of Territorial Units for Statistical Purposes in Bulgaria - NUTS; · Classification of Dangerous goods - ADR. |
| Sector coverage | Data refer to road freight operation for own account or for hire or reward performed on national or international territory. |
| Statistical concepts and definitions | The quantity and performance of road freight transport are collected in tonnes, tonne-kilometres and vehicle-kilometres. Data refer to: · National transport; · International transport; · Cross-trade; · Cabotage. |
| Statistical unit | Road freight vehicle |
| Statistical population | Sample from the Register of motor vehicles. |
| Reference area | For the Republic of Bulgaria. |
| Time coverage | Since 1st quarter of 2000 |
| Base period | Not applicable. |
| Unit of measure | |
Thousand tonnes, million tkm, kilometres | |
| Reference period | |
Quarter | |
| Institutional mandate | |
| Legal acts and other agreements | · Council regulation (EC) No 1172/98 of 25 May 1998 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road; · Commission Regulation (EC) No 2691/1999 of 17 December 1999 on rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) 1172/98 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road; · Commission Regulation (EC) No 2163/2001 of 7 November 2001 concerning the technical arrangements for data transmission for statistics on the carriage of goods by road; · Commission Regulation (EC) No 6/2003 of 30 December 2002 concerning the dissemination of statistics on the carriage of goods by road; · Commission Regulation (EC) 642/2004 of 6 April 2004 on precision requirements for data collected in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road; · Commission Regulation (EC) No 833/2007 of 16 July 2007 ending the transitional period provided for in Council regulation (EC) No 1172/98; · Commission regulation (EC) No 1304/2007 of 7 November 2007 establishes NST 2007 as the unique goods classification for road freight and other transport statistics; · Regulation (EC) No 399/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 amended council regulation No 1172/98 as regards the committee procedure; · Commission regulation (EC) No 520/2010 of 16 June 2010 amending Regulation (EC) No 831/2002 concerning access to confidential data for scientific purposes as regards the available surveys and statistical data sources; · Commission regulation (EU) 202/2010 of 10 march 2010 amending Regulation (EC) No 6/2003 concerning the dissemination of statistics on the carriage of goods by road; · Regulation (EU) No 70/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 January 2012 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road. |
| Data sharing | Not applicable. |
| Confidentiality | |
| Confidentiality - policy | · Law on Statistics; · Commission regulation (EC) No 520/2010 of 16 June 2010 amending Regulation (EC) No 831/2002 concerning access to confidential data for scientific purposes as regards the available surveys and statistical data sources; · Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society. |
| Confidentiality - data treatment | All road freight micro-data are treated as if they were confidential. Only aggregated data are published. |
| Release policy | |
| Release calendar | Data are published according to the deadlines set in the National statistical program and the Release calendar - three months after the reference period. |
| Release calendar access | The calendar is available on the NSI website: https://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480 |
| User access | Data are published on the internet site of NSI and can be accessed from all users of statistical information. |
| Frequency of dissemination | |
Quarter, annual | |
| Accessibility and clarity | |
| News release | Press release on transport |
| Publications | · Statistical Yearbook; · Statistical Reference Book; · Bulgaria (brochure). |
| On-line database | Data on Road freight transport are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Domain statistics - Transport and Communications - Other annual data - Transport: https://www.nsi.bg/en/node/7167 |
| Micro-data access | The access to micro-data for research purposes is granted according to Commission Regulation (EC) No 831/2002 on access to confidential data for scientific purposes (addition of the 4 surveys: European Health Interview Survey (EHIS), Community Statistics on Information Society (CSIS) - module 2: Households and individuals, Household Budget Survey (HBS), Carriage of Goods by Road (CGR). |
| Other | Data on road freight transport from all reporting countries are published on the internet site of Eurostat. |
| Documentation on methodology | · Methodology for road freight transport: https://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/metadata/Transport_Methodology_RFT_en.pdf; · Reference Manual on Road Freight Transport Statistics; · Methodologies used in surveys of road freight transport in member states and candidate countries. |
| Quality documentation | Methodologies used in surveys of road freight transport in member states and candidate countries. |
| Quality management | |
| Quality assurance | · Usage of common definition and methods; · Checks and validation of data at national level; · Annual reports to Eurostat on the national characteristics of the data collection; · Data validation from Eurostat according to checks set in the methodology manual. |
| Quality assessment | The survey is carried out according the international requirements. |
| Relevance | |
| User needs | Main users are state institutions, different organizations and specialized in the sector enterprises. |
| User satisfaction | Not applicable. |
| Completeness | From the survey are excluded vehicles with gross weight under 6 tonnes, military vehicles, vehicles of Ministry of Interior and other public administration, agricultural tractors and other motor vehicles non designed to carry goods, vehicles with weight and dimensions exceeding the normal permitted limits of the country. |
| Accuracy and reliability | |
| Overall accuracy | Road freight data come from sample survey. The sample error should by up to 5%. |
| Sampling error | At the end of each reporting year the sample error in % is calculated. An error is calculated for each stratum separately in order to obtain the total error of the sample. This is done in respect of the tonnes and tonne-kilometres. |
| Non-sampling error | Underreporting can be considered as a prevalent bias of the road freight statistics. Having in mind that respondents ease their burden by omitting journeys, the underreporting is in principle an imminent systematic error. The necessary actions are taken in order to reduce this error to minimum and to ensure better quality and completeness of the received data. |
| Timeliness and punctuality | |
| Timeliness | Quarterly data are transmitted to Eurostat 5 months after the reference period. |
| Punctuality | All the data are transmitted according to the set deadline in the Regulations. |
| Coherence and comparability | |
| Comparability - geographical | Not applicable. |
| Comparability - over time | Not applicable. |
| Coherence - cross domain | Not applicable. |
| Coherence - internal | Road freight statistics is different from those of other transport modes and the most important characteristic is that the values are estimates based on sample surveys and that each reporting country reports on its haulier? operations all over the world, not just on national territory. |
| Cost and burden | |
Cost and Burden for the survey are defined according the National Statistical Program for each reference year. | |
| Data revision | |
| Data revision - policy | Countries can update incomplete or revised datasets referring to previous quarters at the same time when they submit new quarterly datasets. Data are revised on the basis of detected errors. |
| Data revision - practice | See 19.1. |
| Statistical processing | |
| Source data | The information is obtained weekly from all freight vehicles with weight over 6 tonnes included in the sample for the reference period. |
| Frequency of data collection | Quarterly |
| Data collection | Sample survey |
| Data validation | With special software. |
| Data compilation | With special software. |
| Adjustment | Not applicable. |
| Comment | |
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