Methodologies used in surveys of road freight transport in member states and candidate countries

The present document describes the methods used by Member States, candidate and EFTA countries in their surveys on road freight transport statistics. Part A describes national methodologies for data collection. This information is based on questionnaires completed by the reporting countries. Data in these questionnaires refer to the first quarter of 2007. Part B 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 2007, while the main characteristics given for each country refer to the years 2005 and 2006, according to data availability. "Methodologies used in surveys of road freight transport in member states and candidate countries" is published in English only.