Road freight transport  (S)

Reference period  
Year:
2016

General characteristics  
Contents:
Routes of road freight transport; Road freight transport; Journeys of loaded and unloaded vehicles
Analysis units:
Vehicles registered in Italy for freight transport by road (>35 tonne); Basic transport operations; Laden journeys
Periodicity:
Yearly
EU legislation:
Yes

Survey design  
Type:
Stratified random sampling

Data collection  
Reporting units:
Ministry of economy and finances; Ministry of infrastructure and transport; Enterprises authorised to transport on hire or reward; Enterprises with license of transport on own account
Data collection mode:
Acquisition of a database of individual administrative data; Mail self-administered data collection by paper questionnaire
Total units:
Not applicable
Respondents:
Not applicable

Quality  
Prevention, monitoring and evaluation of unit nonresponse:
Initiatives to foster survey participation; Adjustement methods to reduce the effect of unit nonresponse on the results; Methods to measure the effect of unit nonresponse on the results
Item nonresponse and measurement error treatment:
Operator training and supervision and assessment of survey procedures; Recontact of the units
Validation:
Coherence control with data from other surveys or sources; Coherence control with previous data of the same survey

Data dissemination  
Istat data bases:
I.Stat
Other data bases:
None
Press releases:
None
Timeliness of provisional data:
Not released
Timeliness of final data:
11 months and 7 days