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Comparability

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Division of Short Term Statistics, Department of Business Statistics
Mathias Bluhme
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mdb@dst.dk

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Rail Transport

Comparable time series for all EU-member states and EFTA-member states are published by Eurostat.

There is no significant breaks in the existing time series. The time series for personkilometres for the Metro has a minor break between 2016 and 2017 due to changes in methodology.

Comparability - geographical

The statistics are published in the same way by countries within EU, EFTA and EU-candidate countries and Eurostat publishes comparable figures.

Main aggregates provided to Eurostat for the purposes of EU Regulation 2018/643 or joint questionnaire Eurostat/International Transport Forum (ITF)/United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) on land transport statistics can be found in tables BANE31 (rail traffic), BANE25 (rail passenger transport) and BANE1 (rail transport of goods) mediated by, among others, Statistics Denmark.

Comparability over time

The statistics are generally comparable over time and have been compiled since 1990 and in its current form since 2006.

The Metro opened the 19th of October 2002. By the end of the third quarter of 2019 opened the M3 line.

First part of the Light Rail in Aarhus opened the 21st of December 2017 and fully finished 30th of April 2019.

Nordjyske Jernbaner started operating all trains in Northern part of Jutland in 2017. This means that there is a move from "Network managed by Banestyrelsen" to "Other Railway Networks".

The time series for personkilometres for the Metro has a minor break between 2016 and 2017 due to a change in the methodology for calculating journey lengths used for the calculation of personkilometres.

Coherence - cross domain

Annual statistics are directly comparable with the quarterly figures.

Coherence - internal

Not relevant to this statistics.