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  4. Traffic accidents resulting in human injuries (until 2015)

Traffic accidents resulting in human injuries (until 2015)

1. Contact
1.1. Contact organisation

Statistics Estonia

1.2. Contact organisation unit

Enterprise and Agricultural Statistics Department

1.3. Contact name

Rita Raudjärv

1.4. Contact person function

Leading Statistician-Methodologist

1.5. Contact mail address

51 Tatari Str, 10134 Tallinn, Estonia

1.6. Contact email address

rita.raudjarv [at] stat.ee

1.7. Contact phone number

+372 625 9228

2. Metadata update
2.1. Metadata last certified

09/01/2015

2.2. Metadata last update

09/01/2015

3. Statistical presentation
3.1. Data description

Traffic accidents with casualties on the roads by county.

Traffic accidents with casualties on the roads by month.

3.2. Classification system

Classification of Estonian administrative units and settlements (EHAK)

3.3. Sector coverage

All the roads traffic accidents

3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions

Person injured – a person who is rendered medical assistance due to the injury in traffic accident; and to whom outpatient or hospital treatment has been prescribed. Differently from several European countries light and serious injuries are not distinguished.

Person killed – person who died at the place of the traffic accident immediately or within 30 days following the traffic accident because of an injury received in the traffic accident (incl. suicides).

Traffic accident – an event in which an individual is injured or killed as a result of at least one vehicle moving on or leaving the road. By road is meant a roadway, street, parking space, courtyard area or other building used for traffic with pavement, slight traffic road, wayside, greenery, separation and other areas. The events, where an individual is injured by a collision with a train and a collision of vehicles on the road which public access was closed for competition and events between vehicles and individuals working in road building and maintenance, are excluded.

Traffic accident with the participation of a drunk driver – a traffic accident in which at least one of the participating drivers was under the influence of alcohol or drugs, irrespective of whether he/she caused the accident or not. This does not include traffic accidents with the participation of drunk cyclists or moped drivers.

3.5. Statistical unit

Traffic accident

3.6. Statistical population

Road traffic accidents

FRAME

Road traffic accidents with casualties registered in the database of traffic accidents of the Estonian Road Administration

3.7. Reference area

Estonia as a whole

Counties

3.8. Time coverage

Monthly data 1990–…

Yearly data by county 1998–…

3.9. Base period

Not applicable.

4. Unit of measure

The number of traffic accidents, persons killed and injured

5. Reference period

Year

Month

6. Institutional mandate
6.1. Legal acts and other agreements

DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACT

Not available.

93/704/EC: Council Decision of 30 November 1993 on the creation of a Community database on road accidents

OTHER AGREEMENTS

Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat)

United Nations Organisation (UNO)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

International Transport Forum (ITF)

7. Confidentiality
7.1. Confidentiality - policy

The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in § 34 and § 35 of the Official Statistics Act.

7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment

Not applicable.

8. Release policy
8.1. Release calendar

Notifications about the dissemination of statistics are published in the release calendar, which is available on the website. On 1 October each year, the release times of the Statistical Database, news releases, main indicators by IMF SDDS and publications are announced in the release calendar (in case of publications – the release month).

8.2. Release calendar access

http://www.stat.ee/release-calendar

8.3. User access

All users have been granted an equal access to official statistics: this means that the dissemination dates of official statistics have to be announced in advance and no user category (incl. Eurostat, state authorities and mass media) can have access to the official statistics (results of official statistical surveys) before other users. Statistical information is first published in the Statistical Database. In case a news release is published based on the same data, the information provided in the relevant news release is simultaneously published in the Statistical Database. Official statistics are available on the website at 8.00 a.m. on the date announced in the release calender.

9. Frequency of dissemination

Year

Month

10. Accessibility and clarity
10.1. News release

Not published.

10.2. Publications

„Eesti statistika aastaraamat. Statistical Yearbook of Estonia”

10.3. Online database

Data are published under the heading „Economy/ Transport” in the Statistical Database in http://pub.stat.ee.

10.4. Microdata access

Not applicable.

10.5. Other

Data serve as input for statistical activities 50101 „Estonian regional development„, 50104 „Urban Audit” and 50201 „Sustainable development indicators (dashboard)”.

10.6. Documentation on methodology

Glossary for Transport Statistics (prepared by the Intersecretariat Working Group on Transport Statistics – Eurostat, ITF and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe)

http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/main/wp6/pdfdocs/glossen4.pdf

10.7. Quality documentation

Not available.

11. Quality management
11.1. Quality assurance

To assure the quality of processes and products, Statistics Estonia applies the EFQM Excellence Model, EU Statistics Code of Practice and the ESS Quality Assurance Framework (QAF). Statistics Estonia is also guided by the requirements provided for in § 7. „Principles and quality criteria of producing official statistics” of the Official Statistics Act.

11.2. Quality assessment

Statistics Estonia performs all statistical activities according to an international model (Generic Statistical Business Process Model – GSBPM). According to the GSBPM, the final phase of statistical activities is overall evaluation using information gathered in each phase or sub-process (this information includes, among other things, feedback from users, process metadata, system metrics and suggestions from employees). This information is used to prepare the evaluation report which outlines all the quality problems related to the specific statistical activity and serves as input for improvement actions.

12. Relevance
12.1. User needs

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications

Estonian Rescue Board

Users’ suggestions and information about taking them into account are available on the SE website http://www.stat.ee/tooplaan.

12.2. User satisfaction

Since 1996 Statistics Estonia conducts reputation surveys and user surveys.

All results are available on the website http://www.stat.ee/user-surveys.

12.3. Completeness

In compliance with the rules (regulations).

13. Accuracy and reliability
13.1. Overall accuracy

The type of survey and the data collection methods ensure sufficient coverage and timeliness.

13.2. Sampling error

Not applicable.

13.3. Non-sampling error

Not measured.

14. Timeliness and punctuality
14.1. Timeliness

Monthly data for Estonia are released 40 days upon the end of the reference year (T+40) and annual data by counties 90 days upon the end of the reference year (T+90).

month

(2010) T+22

(2009) T+22

(2008) T+22

(2007) T+22

year

(2012) T+23

(2011) T+21

(2010) T+22

14.2. Punctuality

The data have been published at the time announced in the release calender.

15. Coherence and comparability
15.1. Comparability - geographical

The data are internationally comparable.

15.2. Comparability - over time

The data are comaparable since 1990.

15.3. Coherence - cross domain

Not applicable.

15.4. Coherence - internal

Data are consistent.

16. Cost and burden

–

17. Data revision
17.1. Data revision - policy

The data revision policy and notification of corrections are described in the dissemination policy of Statistics Estonia http://www.stat.ee/dissemination-policy.

17.2. Data revision - practice

The published data may be revised if the methodology is modified, if errors are discovered, if new or better data become available.

18. Statistical processing
18.1. Source data

SURVEY DATA

Not used.

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

Data on road traffic accidents with casualties are received from the Estonian Road Administration.

DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES

Not used.

18.2. Frequency of data collection

Month

18.3. Data collection

Data are recived via the file transfer server.

18.4. Data validation

The data are validated by the data administrator.

18.5. Data compilation

The indicators to be published are calculated on the basis of the collected data.

18.6. Adjustment

Not applied.

19. Comments

Not available.

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