Transportation Survey

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Overview

Survey Name

• Transportation Survey

Survey Type

• Survey Statistics

Type of Statistics

• Designated Statistics

Purpose

• To understand the structure, distribution, and management status so as to provide basic data required for the establishment of policies, researches, analyses, etc.
• To use the data for the establishment of policies to promote industries by the central and local governments
• To provide basic data required for BOK's GDP estimation and inter-industry relation table

Frequency

• Annual

Target Population

• Companies operating "H. transport industry" under the Korean Standard Industrial Classification

Survey Unit and Target Population Size

• Survey unit: company
• Survey size: Around 7,200 transportation companies selected via a complete set and sampling methods

Survey Reference Period and Date

• Reference period: Jan. 1 ~ Dec. 31
• Reference date: Dec. 31

History

• 1977: Began annual surveys and collected data on Land and Water transport businesses
• 1978: No. of sub-industries expanded to 3 with Air transport business added
• 1979: No. of sub-industries expanded to 4 with 'Support Activities for Transportation' added
• 1990: For survey, owner-driven taxi, owner-delivery van, owner-delivery truck business classified as a single company
• 2000: Published Report on the Transport Survey after transfer of the 'Communication' industry to the Ministry of Information and Communications
• 2004: Introduced the Internet (email) survey method
• 2015: 6 types of questionnaires classified by transport industries consolidated to a single questionnaire

Method of Data Collection

• Interview

Survey System

• Company → Regional Offices of Statistics and District Offices of Statistics → KOSTAT
• Company → Company → associations by each city and province (bus/taxi/owned car) → Regional Offices of Statistics and District Offices of Statistics → KOSTAT

Survey Business Process

• Establish survey plan → select items and design questionnaire → build sample and prepare sampling frame → employ and train surveyors → conduct survey → complete the questionnaire and preliminary inspection → comprehensive inspection and level analysis → announce the results and publish report

Data Provision

Method of Publication and URL

• Press releases (http://kostat.go.kr)
• KOSIS (Korean Statistical Information Service)

Publication Frequency

• Annual

Publication Title

• Report on the Transportion Survey (published at year-end)