Transport and Communications: Economic Results

Introductory note

Publication “Transport and Communications: Economic results 2000 - 2005“ ¹⁾is put out in Czech–English version; it follows the publication “Economic Results in Transport and Communications 2000 – 2004“ put out in 2006. It includes results of annual statistical survey of selected indicator in businesses with transport and communications as their principal activity.

According to Industrial Classification of Economic Activities (CZ-NACE) it includes the following two-digit divisions:

60 – Land transport, transport via pipelines: this division includes activities related to providing passenger or freight transport by rail, road or pipeline
61 – Water transport: this division includes sea and coastal transport of passengers and freight, whether scheduled or not, incl. renting of any ships and boats with crew; inland transport of passengers or freight via rivers, canals, lakes and other inland waterways incl. renting of any ships and boats with crew
62 – Air transport: this division includes scheduled transport of passengers or freight by air; non-scheduled transport of passengers or freight by air incl. renting of aircraft with crew
63 – Supporting and auxiliary transport activities; activities of travel agencies: this division includes cargo handling and storage; other supporting land, water and air transport activities, operation of terminal facilities; activities of travel agencies and tour operators, tourist assistance activities n.e.c.; activities of other transport agencies
64 – Post and telecommunications: this division includes post and courier activities and telecommunications

Legal persons and incorporated natural persons drawn to the sample were sent out with the one of four versions of the questionnaire P 5-01.

questionnaire version (m) for enterprises with 0 employees (except joint-stock companies)²⁾
questionnaire version (a) for enterprises with 1 to 19 employees (except joint-stock companies),
questionnaire version (b) for enterprises with 20 to 99 employees (including joint-stock companies employing 0 to 99 persons),
questionnaire version (c) for enterprises with 100 or more employees (including joint-stock companies).

Questionnaire P 5-01 was prepared considering the way of bookkeeping. The questionnaire versions differed from one another in the number of indicators. Among questionnaires P 5-01, version P 5-01(m) and previously version P 5-01(a) was the least extensive. They asked about selected information on enterprise characteristics and organisational changes, labour and wages indicators, incomes, costs, assets, liabilities and some indicators were surveyed in division by regions. Financial data were taken mainly from accounting statements (balance sheet, profit and loss account) and completed in the questionnaire in whole thousands of CZK without decimal places. In addition to the above so-called “core part” of the questionnaire, selected questionnaires contained independent sections designed for the specification of selected indicators by codes of the modified CZ-CPA (SKPm) and other independent supplements.
Questionnaires P 4-01 were sent in the above-mentioned years to unincorporated natural persons. These economic entities were sent only one type of questionnaire irrespective of the number of employees. It asked about selected indicators on labour and wages, receipts and expenditures, property and liabilities, and basic investment data. Questionnaire P 4-01 was drawn up considering tax records and simplified bookkeeping. Financial data were completed in CZK without decimal places.

You can find more about individual questionnaires on CZSO web pages in part “Patterns of statistical questionnaires” at http://dw.czso.cz/pls/vykazy/pdf1.

In view of the high number of economic entities being in business in observed industries, a combination of exhaustive and sample survey was chosen. Reporting units were selected from the Business Register (BR). Exhaustive survey in the reference period usually covered economic entities with 20 or more employees. Representative random samples were used for respondents up to 19 employees. Grossing up of the collected and validly completed questionnaires to the total population was carried out for the whole sample in the final stage of data processing. The grossing was made by the method of weight adjustment with weights computed on the basis of the probability sampling theory and using an additional variable of the number of employees and size of “sales” and other information on economic activity of enterprises taken from available administrative sources.

The data in the tables are broken down and aggregated according to the below-mentioned aspects:

by CZ-NACE (Industrial Classification of Economic Activities) and by industry (transport and communications), by divisions CZ-NACE (60, 61, 62, 63, 64), by groups CZ-NACE: transport via railways (60.1), other land transport (60.2), cargo handling and storage (63.1), other supporting transport activities (63.2), activities of travel agencies and tour operators; tourist assistance n.e.c. (63.3), activities of other transport agencies (63.4), post and courier activities (64.1) and telecommunications (64.2),
by size of reporting units (number of employees into two basic groups of enterprises with 0 to 99 employees and with 100 or more employees),
by ISECTOR (institutional sectors) into ISECTOR 11* – legal persons and incorporated natural persons (11001 – public non-financial enterprises, 11002 – national private non-financial enterprises, 11003 – private non-financial enterprises foreign controlled) and ISECTOR 14* – unincorporated natural persons.

Complementary information:

All the financial data are at current prices. The methodological contents of indicators are set out in the part – Methodological notes on indicators. Monetary data in the tables are predominantly in millions of CZK. Calculations were made from source data given in CZK and in thousands of CZK without decimal places. Minor discrepancies between calculated or summed data may occur due to rounding. In order to observe individual data protection, we were not able to publish all the results in all breakdowns.

Time series of data from annual structural survey is available since 1997. Due to changed methodology of the survey, data published for 1997 - 1999 are not comparable with the data contained in this publication.

Data given in this publication may differ from the content-identical indicators brought out in other publications (results of monthly and quarterly surveys). The discrepancies are attributed for example to the state of the Business Register on the day of generating samples for corresponding surveys (due to different samples), to current state of bookkeeping records of individual reporting units (corrections of bookkeeping records, final-accounts operations) and to further differences in methodology.

Other data on transport and communications are available in form of time series on CZSO web pages (http://www.czso.cz/eng/redakce.nsf/i/transport_and_communication_time_series) as well as in the following CZSO publications brought out according to the Catalogue of Publications 2007; under group 9 – SERVICES, subgroup 93 – Transport and Communications:

“CZSO News” (Czech-English version), monthly
“Indicators of Economic and Social Development of Czech Republic” (Czech-English version), quarterly
“Bulletin CZSO”, quarterly
“Statistical Yearbook of the Czech Republic”, yearly,
Results of the monthly survey on transport and communications published in form of quarterly News Releases and in form of monthly time series on CZSO web pages.

Data on transport are also available in the “Transport Yearbook” put out every year by the Ministry of Transport of the CR.

1) Considering the fact that compared to the original intention the publication contents also the data for 2001 and 2002, its title published in the Catalogue of publications 2007 under the code 9302-07 („Transport and Communications: Economic Results of 2000, 2003 - 2005“) has been renamed to „Transport and Communications: Economic Results 2000 - 2005“.

2) This version was introduced from the reference period of the year 2002 (previously the questionnaire version (a) was used also for enterprises with 0 employees) when the respective statistical survey underwent partial adjustments to the methodology (questionnaire content revision, changes in the system of processing results), which were partially related to changing requirements of Eurostat (the Statistical Office of the European Communities) for annual structural surveys (Council Regulation No 58/1997).