Registered vehicles
1. Contact
Responsible agency
Unit
Contact person
Position
Email (agency)
Phone
2. Statistical presentation
Data description
Data on the number of motor vehicles registered are used to determine the number of motor vehicles: number of registered motor vehicles in breakdown by regions and cities under state jurisdiction, make, year of output, type of fuel, number of registered new passenger cars; number of railway transport: locomotives, freight wagons and passenger carriages; number of aircraft, number of ships and number of transport vehicles used in electrified city transport.
Statistical concepts and definitions
Statistical unit
N/A
Statistical population
Data on registered vehicles are collected from vehicle registration authorities and enterprises who owns vehicle.
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.
Length of comparable time series
N/A
6. Coherence
Coherence- cross domain
N/A
7. Statistical processing (data source etc.)
Source data
Data are obtained conducting a full scope survey. Data sources are:
- information from JSC "Road Traffic Safety Directorate";
- information from Latvian Shipping Register of the Latvian Maritime Administration;
- data from Latvian Civil Aircraft Register;
- CSB statistical report form 1-electrified transport "Survey on Electrified transport";
- CSB statistical report form 1-railway "Survey on Railway transport".
Data collection
N/A
Data compilation
Passenger cars per 1,000 population - Starting from 2000, data are recalculated in compliance with the results of the Population and Housing Census 2011.