Passenger traffic
1. Contact
Responsible agency
Unit
Contact person
Position
Email (agency)
Phone
2. Statistical presentation
Data description
Data on passenger traffic are used to determine the amount and turnover of passengers transported by different modes of transport.
Statistical concepts and definitions
Statistical unit
N/A
Statistical population
Passenger traffic data are collected from:
- enterprises involved in passenger transportation with electrified city transport;
- Carriers that are registered in the Republic of Latvia that performs regular commercial passenger transportation by buses;
- enterprises involved in passenger traffic by rail;
- enterprises involved in licensed passenger traffic by air;
- passenger terminals in ports;
- airports.
3. Institutional mandate
Legal acts and other agreements
N/A
4. Accessibility and clarity
On-line database
5. Comparability
Comparability - geographical
EU data on Eurostat website Section: Transport.
Indicator "passenger arrivals and departures at the airport Rīga" that is published in Latvia differs from the indicator published in the Eurostat data bases. Latvia publishes all passenger arrivals and departures at the airport "Rīga", but data available in Eurostat data bases is only on passenger arrivals and departures with revenue flights and cargoes loaded and unloaded with transport for hire or reward.
Length of comparable time series
N/A
6. Coherence
Coherence- cross domain
N/A
7. Statistical processing
Source data
Data on passenger traffic are obtained from:
- annual report 1-railway "Survey on railway transport" (CSB);
- monthly report 2-railway "Survey on railway transport" (CSB);
- quarterly report 3-electric vehicle "Survey on the activity of electric vehicle" (CSB);
- monthly report form 2-airports "Survey of aircraft traffic through the airports" (CSB);
- monthly report form 2-ports (short) "Survey of ports activity" (CSB);
- information compiled by the Ministry of Transport;
- information compiled by state Ltd. "The Road Transport Administration".
Data collection
N/A
Data compilation
Data are obtained in full-scope survey.
Data are collected from airports of Latvia with passenger turnover (arrivals and departures) of 150 000 passengers and more per year.