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Data Provider: Welsh Government Accredited Official Statistics Imports and exports carried by road to and from Wales, by country of loading/unloading
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Metadata

Title

Imports and exports carried by road to and from Wales, by country of loading/unloading

Last update

October 2024 October 2024

Next update

October 2025 (Provisional)

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Survey of Road Freight, Department for Transport

Contact email

stats.transport@gov.wales

Designation

National Statistics

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Wales

Geographical coverage

Wales

Languages covered

English and Welsh

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

Statistical quality

Timeliness and punctuality:
The statistics presented covers road freight traffic to and from Wales and the UK from 1985 up to 2022.

Comparability and coherence:
The Department for Transport produces a range of statistics relating to the road freight sector presenting domestic and international road freight and roll-on, roll-off international freight.

Geographical classification:
From 2004, the following 10 countries are included in the European Union new members: Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.

General description

This dataset gives details on road freight goods carried by road, to and from Wales, by country of loading or unloading.

Data collection and calculation

Road freight statistics are based on a data collected by the Department for Transports 3 road freight surveys, the Continuing Survey of Road Goods Transport, Great Britain (CSRGT GB), the Continuing Survey of Road Goods Transport, Northern Ireland (CSRGT NI), and the International Road Haulage Survey (IRHS).

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

The statistics relate to cases in Wales from 1985 up to the year 2023.

Users, uses and context

These statistics are used both within and outside the Welsh Government to monitor trends in road freight and as a baseline.

Revisions information

Data for previous periods are routinely updated. Data for the current financial or calendar year may be revised with the release of next year’s data set.

Keywords

Road freight

Weblinks

Road freight, statistical headline: http://gov.wales/statistics-and-research/road-freight/