Transport of passengers and goods by transport enterprises
Passenger transport and passenger traffic volume, transport of goods and freight turnover by type of transport. Population and sample of transport enterprises and respondents by type of transport. Passenger transport by bus (number of passengers and passenger traffic volume) on county routes, urban routes, rural routes, domestic long-distance routes, international routes, domestic occasional services and international occasional services, bus route mileage and low-floor bus route mileage. In statistical database quarterly tables TS101, TS121, TS40 the data of economically active transport enterprises, which have been included into the statistical register of economically active units compiled on the basis of business register, are published. In quarterly table TS541 and in annual table TS542 the data of economically active bus transport enterprises (according to its main activity), which have been included into the statistical register of economically active units compiled on the basis of business register, are published. | |
Estonian Classification of Economic Activities (EMTAK 2008) based on NACE Rev. 2 | |
Transport enterprises NACE 49–51 (excl. 494), enterprises owning road freight vehicles. | |
County line – passenger transportation by local county lines, the road of the start and end point are located in the same administrative territory of the county, or that has been commissioned by a county-level public transport centre. County lines include the public, commercial and special regular services. Domestic traffic – the origin and the destination point are within Estonia Enterprise – an enterprise consists of one or more companies (public limited company, private limited company, limited partnership, general partnership, commercial association) or branches of foreign companies or sole proprietors. Statistics do not cover branches of foreign companies and sole proprietors. Freight turnover – volume of freight transport in tonne-kilometres. One tonne-kilometre is the transport of one tonne of goods across a distance of one kilometre. Long-distance line – passenger transport line whose stops are located in different counties and which is not a county line International traffic – the origin and/or destination point is outside of Estonia Municipal line – passenger transportation by local municipal lines, the start and end point are located in the administrative territory of the municipal unit. Or the lines that have been commissioned by a (rural) municipality. The municipal lines include public, commercial and special regular services. Non-scheduled traffic – One-time customer transport or transport initiative formed a group of passengers between the carrier and the customer order or contract. Includes tourist bus travel Passenger traffic volume – volume of passenger transport in passenger-kilometres. One passenger-kilometre is the transport of one person across a distance of one kilometre. Urban transport – passenger transportation on local urban lines, the start and end point of the line are located in the administrative territory of the town. Or the lines that are commissioned by an urban municipality. Urban lines include public, commercial and special regular services. Volume of transport – to estimate the volume of transport, the variables – the total number of carried passengers and passenger traffic volume (in passenger-kilometres) – are used. To measure the amount of goods, the variables – the amount of goods (in tonnes) and freight turnover (in tonne-kilometres) – are used. | |
Enterprise, road freight vehicle | |
Transport enterprises; road freight vehicles registered in the traffic register which have a payload of over 3,500 kg (categories N2 and N3) and which are not older than 25 years. FRAME List of active enterprises whose main activity is passenger and freight transport, including taxi transport. The list is generated from the business register for statistical purposes. List of companies that hold bus route permits. List of road freight vehicles which have a payload of over 3,500 kg and which are not older than 25 years. The list is generated from the traffic register and from the register of economic activities, quarterly. | |
Estonia as a whole | |
Passenger transport, passenger traffic volume, transport of goods and freight turnover by type of transport 2001–… Passenger transport by bus on local and long-distance routes 2000–… Population, sample and respondents of transport enterprises 2010–… | |
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Data are published in the statistical database at https://andmed.stat.ee/en/stat under the subject area “Economy / Transport / General data of transport” in the following tables: TS541: Passenger transport by bus on local and highway lines (quarters); TS542: Passenger transport by bus on local and highway lines; TS34: Trams and trolley buses, 31 December; TS40: Population, sample and respondents of transport enterprises (quarters). | |
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Data serve as input for statistical activities 20407 “Consumer price index”, 21401 “National accounts (annual)”, 21405 “National accounts (quarterly)” and 21408 “Supply and use tables”. | |
Glossary for transport statistics (prepared by the Intersecretariat Working Group on Transport Statistics – Eurostat, ITF and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) | |
Published in the statistical database, table TS40: Population, sample and respondents of transport enterprises |
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The type of survey and the data collection methods ensure sufficient coverage and timeliness. | |
The error due to probability sampling is estimated for road transport indicators. In case of the other types of transport, a census is used and thus there are no sampling errors. | |
The response rates in different groups are published in the statistical database. |
The data are comparable with data of other European Union countries because a common methodology has been used for transport statistics. | |
The data are in general comparable over time because of the common methodology used in the time series. The increase in the number of passengers and in the passenger traffic volume in urban transport has been influenced by the adoption of a modified calculation system since the 1st quarter of 2012 and the 1st quarter of 2013. Since 2023, the methodology for calculating the number of passengers and passenger turnover in urban transport has changed. The data for years before 2023 are underestimated to some extent. Data on carriage of goods by road are comparable over time since 2017 when the source data are data of the statistical activity 22003 “Transport of goods by road”. | |
The data on freight and passenger transport volume are comparable with the same data in other activities of transport statistics. The data on freight and passenger transport by road have been collected by a sample survey and are therefore estimates. | |
The data are made internally coherent by using a common methodology in data collection and the same rules of data aggregation. |
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The published data may be revised if the methodology is modified, errors are discovered, new or better data become available within a year from the end of the reference period. |
SURVEY DATA Census methodology is used in the case of enterprises whose main activities are railway transport, water and air transport as well as passenger transport by land routes, as well as: other passenger transport by land and taxi service enterprises, with 10 or more persons employed. For the rest of the enterprises, stratified random sampling has been applied by economic activity and number of persons employed. The population is 790 objects in road passenger transport survey, the sample includes around 180 objects. ADMINISTRATIVE DATA For the bus transport survey, the data of the route permits of public bus lines are used. Domestic public transport is organised and route permits for international bus lines are processed by the Ministry of Regional Affairs and Agriculture. DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES Data from statistical activities 22003 “Transport of goods by road”, 22015 “Transport by railway”, 22031 “Water transport” and 22032 “Air transport” are used. | |
Quarterly | |
Data are collected and the submission of questionnaires is monitored through eSTAT (the web channel for electronic data submission). The questionnaires have been designed for independent completion in eSTAT and include instructions and controls. The questionnaires and information about data submission are available on the website of Statistics Estonia in the section Questionnaires. Data are collected with the official statistics quarterly questionnaires “Road transport”, “Tram-trolleybus” and “Inland waterway transport”. | |
Arithmetic and qualitative controls are used in the validation process, including comparison with the data of previous periods and other surveys. | |
In the case of missing or unreliable data, estimate imputation based on established regulations will be used. The data for road transport enterprises (with up to 20 persons employed) that did not submit data will be replaced with the average data of similar enterprises or with data from an earlier period; the data of enterprises with 20 or more persons employed will be replaced with data from an earlier period; weights are calculated for statistical units and used for expanding the sample survey data to the total population. Variables and statistical units which were not collected but which are necessary for producing the output are calculated. New variables are calculated by applying arithmetic conversion to already existing variables. This may be done repeatedly, the derived variable may, in turn, be based on previously derived new variables. Microdata are aggregated to the level necessary for analysis. This includes aggregating the data according to the classification, and calculating various statistical measures. The collected data are converted into statistical output. This includes calculating additional indicators. | |
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Since 2016, the statistical activity 22029 “Transport of passengers and goods by transport enterprises” is merged with the following statistical activities which have similar output indicators: 22029 “General data of transport” and 22030 “Passenger transport by road”. Since 2016, bus route mileage and low-floor bus route mileage are published. Since 2017, the national component of road freight transport in the statistical activity has been reduced (a decrease in the collection of data, but the composition of published data does not change). The data of the statistical activity 22003 “Transport of goods by road” are used as input. |