Statistical presentation

Data description

The statistics contain information on flights in public Danish airports. The information covers the number of passengers, amount of goods, direction of the flight, country of origin or destination, national or international flight and the type of flight, e.g. scheduled flights.

Outbound flights are determined by departure time and inbound by the arrival time. Round trips by the departure time.

Classification system

Countries are categorized using the international standard ISO 3166-1 alfa.2.

Other classifications are defined as in the European legislation.

Sector coverage

Transport.

Statistical concepts and definitions

Scheduled flight: Commercial, regular air traffic, which normally takes place accordin to a timetable.

Charter flight: Commercial non-regular public air transport, including taxi flight.

Statistical unit

The statistical unit in dissemination is the airport.

Statistical population

Aviation.

Reference area

The statistics covers flights using public airports in Denmark.

The statistics cover flights to and from public, controlled airports in Denmark.

Travel to and from Greenland and the Faroe Islands is considered domestic aviation. This means that in the statistics, the number of departing passengers in domestic traffic does not equal the number of arriving passengers in domestic traffic (although in reality these numbers are of course usually identical). For example, on a flight from Aalborg to Copenhagen, the number of departing passengers from Aalborg equals the number of arriving passengers in Copenhagen. For travel from Greenland to Copenhagen, only the number of arriving passengers from Greenland—reported by Copenhagen Airport—is known. The number of departing passengers from Greenland is not known, as those figures are not reported to the Danish Civil Aviation and Railway Authority."

Time coverage

The statistics on passengers and freight transport have been compiled in their current form since 1997.

The statistics on investments have been compiled in their current form since 1992.

The statistics on infrastructure have been compiled in their current form since 1990.

Base period

Fixed investments in airports are published in current prices, 1990-prices, 1995-prices and 2000-prices.

Unit of measure

Persons (for passengers) and tonnes (for goods).

Reference period

The reference period is either a full quarter (quarterly statistics) or a full calendar year (yearly statistics).

Frequency of dissemination

Annually since 1997.

Both annual and quarterly since 2000.

Legal acts and other agreements

Data are collected by the Danish Civil Aviation and Railway Authority as part of their monitoring role for aviation and airports.

Data are submitted to Eurostat by the Danish Civil Aviation and Railway Authority according to EU legislation:

• Regulation (EC) No 437/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 February 2003 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of passengers, freight and mail by air.
• Commission Regulation (EC) No 1358/2003 of 31 July 2003 implementing Regulation (EC) No 437/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of passengers, freight and mail by air.
• Commission Regulation (EC) No 546/2005 of 8 April 2005 adapting Regulation (EC) No 437/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the allocation of reporting-country codes and amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 1358/2003 as regards the updating of the list of Community airports.

Cost and burden

The response burden is not calculated.

Comment

There is a general page for the subject of transport statistics.