- Methods and Projects
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Standardised Methodological Report
Residents Travel Survey
- 1Contact
- 1.1Contact organisation
National Statistics Institute of Spain
- 1.5Contact mail address
Avenida de Manoteras 50-52 - 28050 Madrid
- 1.1Contact organisation
- 2Metadata update
- 2.1Metadata last certified
15/03/2024
- 2.2Metadata last posted
29/03/2022
- 2.3Metadata last update
15/03/2024
- 2.1Metadata last certified
- 3Statistical presentation
- 3.1Data description
The Residents Travel Survey is a continuous survey with the main objective being to provide monthly, quarterly and annual estimations of trips made by resident population in Spain and their main characteristics such as destination, duration, purpose, accommodation, means of transport, expenditure and sociodemographic characteristics of the travellers, amongst others.
Annually, it is estimated the behaviour of travellers over 15 years old and the analisys of the alleged reasons to not to travel in that case.
It also estimates same-day visits made by residents over 15 years old. - 3.2Classification system
- Comunidades y Ciudades Autónomas
01 Andalucía
02 Aragón
03 Asturias, Principado de
04 Balears, Illes
05 Canarias
06 Cantabria
07 Castilla y León
08 Castilla - La Mancha
09 Cataluña
10 Comunitat Valenciana
11 Extremadura
12 Galicia
13 Madrid, Comunidad de
14 Murcia, Región de
15 Navarra, Comunidad Foral de
16 País Vasco
17 Rioja, La
18 Ceuta
19 Melilla - Destino de turismo
1 Extranjero
2 España
3 Dentro de la CCAA
4 Dentro de la provincia
5 A otra CCAA - Medios de transporte
1 Transporte aéreo
2 Vehículo propio
3 Autobús
4 Tren
5 Transporte marítimo
O Otro tipo de transporte
. - Motivos para no viajar
1 Motivos financieros
2 Falta tiempo por compromisos familiares
3 Falta tiempo por compromisos laborales
4 Motivos de salud
5 Prefiere quedarse en casa
O Otros motivos - Nacionalidad
1 Española
2 Extranjera
. - Sexo
1 Hombres
2 Mujeres - Tipo de viaje
1 Viajes de fin de semana
2 Viajes de puente
3 Vacaciones de Semana Santa
4 Vacaciones de verano
5 Vacaciones de Navidad
6 Trabajo
7 Estudio
8 Desplazamiento al centro de trabajo
9 Desplazamiento al centro de estudio
O Otros viajes
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- Comunidades y Ciudades Autónomas
- 3.3Sector coverage
National tourism: contains the trips made by the resident population both inside Spain and abroad
- 3.4Statistical concepts and definitions
- Hostel
In general, hostels are considered to be establishments that offer the public an accommodation service, mainly in shared bedrooms, with or without complementary services, and usually with the possibility of practising some activity related to the surroundings.
- Make-shift accommodation
Accommodation in a part of a building not designed for use as a bedroom (hall, corridor, staircase), garage, cave, abandoned car, etc.
- Rural tourism accommodation
These are establishments or dwellings intended for tourist accommodation for payment, with or without other complementary services, and which are registered in the corresponding Register of each Autonomous Community. These establishments usually present certain characteristics: a) They are located in a rural environment. b) They are buildings with an architecture that is typical of the region, or they are located on property that maintains agricultural holdings (agrotourism). c) They offer a limited number of bedplaces and bedrooms for guest lodging, and they meet certain basic infrastructure and facility requirements.
- Alojamiento principal
Es el tipo de alojamiento en el que se ha pasado el mayor número de noches durante el viaje
- Alojamiento turístico
Alojamiento utilizado en un viaje turístico
- Alojamiento turístico de mercado
Es aquel alojamiento turístico por el cual se ha realizado un pago por su servicio.
- Automóvil u otros vehículos compartidos con pago al conductor
Automóvil u otros vehículos compartidos con pago al conductor: se incluyen en esta categoría los vehículos que se comparten con personas que no formen parte del grupo de viaje, con los que se acuerda el desplazamiento al destino deseado a cambio de un pago efectuado al conductor del vehículo con el que se habrá contactado directamente o a través de intermediarios tipo Blablacar, Uber o similares
- Campsite
Group installations in enclosed areas for tents, caravans, bungalows or the like, that provide some services, such as a shop, recreational activities, bar, restaurant or laundromat.
- Compañía aérea de bajo coste (low cost)
Son línea aérea que ofrece vuelos a precios muy competitivos, no ofreciendo como incluidos, o vendiendo, la mayoría de los servicios que se pueden ofrecer como complementarios al servicio de transporte aéreo (comidas y bebidas a bordo, reservas de asiento, equipaje,....)
- Crucero
Es aquel viaje con fines vacacionales o turísticos, realizado a bordo de un barco de pasajeros a cualquier parte del mundo haciendo escala en destinos intermedios, que proporciona a sus pasajeros todos los servicios propios de un hotel, como alojamiento, manutención, servicio médico, actividades de entretenimiento,....
- Desplazamientos al centro de estudios
Son los viajes que realiza un estudiante que se considera residente en la vivienda familiar pero que pernocta con regularidad durante parte de la semana en otro municipio donde está su lugar de estudios
- Desplazamientos al centro de trabajo
Son los viajes que realiza un trabajador que se considera residente en la vivienda familiar pero que pernocta con regularidad durante parte de la semana en otro municipio donde está su lugar de trabajo
- Duración del viaje
Número de días que dura el viaje desde la salida del lugar de residencia habitual hasta su regreso al mismo.
- Entorno habitual
El entorno habitual es el área geográfica formada por zonas no necesariamente contiguas, en las que una persona lleva a acabo habitualmente sus actividades que se determinará sobre la base de los siguientes criterios: el traspaso de fronteras administrativas o la distancia dese el lugar de residencia habitual, la duración de la visita, su frecuencia y el objetivo de la misma
- Hotel establishments
Hotel establishments are understood to be those establishments that offer collective accommodation services for payment, with or without other complementary services (hotel, hotel-apartment or apart-hotel, motel, inn, pension, etc.).
- Etapas de viaje
Una etapa es cada una de las paradas con pernoctación del viaje. Es decir, un viaje tiene tantas etapas como destinos intermedios en los que se ha pernoctado un número de noches consecutivas.
- Excursión
Se considera excursión todo desplazamiento sin pernoctación realizado fuera del entorno habitual de la persona y que tenga como punto de partida el entorno habitual de la misma.
- Habitación en alquiler en casa particular
Habitaciones alquiladas dentro de una vivienda particular, incluyan o no servicios de limpieza, comida, etc.
- Household according to residence criterion
A human group formed by one or more persons who regularly reside in a family dwelling for the entire year or most of it. There does not necessarily have to be kinship relations among the members of the group.
- Household Member
The conditions established in order to determine whether or not a person is a member of the household endeavour to avoid the possibility of a single individual being classified in more than one household or, conversely, not being classified in any.
Requirements for being a household member are:
- To normally reside in the dwelling: a person normally resides in a dwelling if he or she spends most of his or her daily rest in said dwelling.
- To share the household expenses: this means profiting from expenses (children, persons with no income, etc.) and/or contributing to the income. If expenses are not shared, the person constitutes a separate household at the same address. - Motivo principal del viaje
Se define el motivo principal del viaje como el motivo sin el cual el viaje no habría tenido lugar
- Paquete turístico
Reserva previa del viaje que incluye al menos alojamiento y transporte, aunque alguno de estos dos elementos puede ser reemplazado por cualquier otro servicio que suponga una cantidad significativa del precio total del viaje (visitas organizadas, alquiler de coche, etc.) y que ha sido vendida a un precio global indivisible a través de agencia de viajes o turoperador.
- Resident population
The population resident in a given geographical scope is defined as those persons who, on the reference date, have established their usual residence therein.
- Usual residence
Place where a person normally spends rest periods, not taking into account temporary absences due to leisure trips, holidays, visits to family and friends, business, visiting friends or relatives or religious pilgrimages. Nevertheless, it is important to highlight that only usual residents in a region will be considered:
- Those who, according to the previous definition, would usually have lived therein for a continuous period of at least 12 months.
- Those who, according to the previous definition, would have established their usual residence therein less than 12 months ago, but with the intention of remaining therein for at least one year.
Where the above circumstances cannot be established, "usual residence" shall mean the place of registered residence. - Tren de alta velocidad
Es un tren que alcanza velocidades superiores a 200Km/h sobre líneas existentes actualizadas, y 250 Km/h sobre líneas específicamente diseñadas para tal efecto.
- Turismo cultural
Son los viajes realizados con el fin principal de conocer los aspectos culturales (museos, patrimonio histórico o artístico, etc.) que ofrece determinado destino turístico, ya sea un pueblo o una ciudad.
- Turismo de compras
Son los viajes realizados con el principal objetivo de efectuar compras de bienes o servicios para uso personal, regalos, etc. que no sean adquiridos para su reventa posterior o para su incorporación en un proceso productivo.
- Turismo de naturaleza
Son viajes cuya principal motivación es la realización de actividades recreativas, de esparcimiento, interpretación, conocimiento o deportivas en el medio natural.
- Turismo de sol y playa
Son los viajes a lugares situados en la costa con el propósito de disfrutar de las playas y del clima con el fin principal de descansar y relajarse; así como disfrutar de la oferta de restauración y el ambiente de ocio de la zona
- Turismo deportivo.
Son los viajes cuyo fin principal es practicar algún tipo de deporte (esquí, vela, golf, caza, pesca, senderismo, escalada, etc.) ya sea por libre o para participar en alguna competición de forma no profesional (ligas escolares, regionales, etc.)
- Turismo gastronómico.
Son los viajes cuya motivación principal sea de tipo culinario, como experimentar la gastronomía de determinada región, visitar determinado restaurante, catas, rutas gastronómicas, etc.
- Turismo termal y de bienestar
Son los viajes realizados con el propósito principal de disfrutar de estancias en balnearios, centros de talasoterapia u otros centros especializados para recibir masajes, tratamientos de belleza o de salud (adelgazamiento, desintoxicación, etc) cuando no sean por prescripción facultativa
- Viaje
Desplazamiento fuera del municipio de residencia, por cualquier motivo, en el que se pernocta al menos una noche y que finaliza en el periodo de referencia
- Viaje de estudio
Viaje efectuado para realizar actividades relacionadas con los estudios.
- Viaje de fin de semana
Viaje realizado durante un fin de semana
- Viaje de puente
Viaje realizado durante un puente marcado en el calendario laboral
- Viaje turístico
Se consideran viajes turísticos todos aquellos desplazamientos a un destino principal fuera del entorno de residencia habitual de la persona, que impliquen al menos una pernoctación fuera del mencionado entorno y tengan una duración inferior a un año, siempre que el principal motivo del mismo, incluidos negocios, ocio u otros motivos personales, sea distinto de un empleo en una empresa establecida en el lugar visitado.
- Viajes de ocio, recreo, vacaciones.
Son los viajes realizados para visitar lugares de interés turístico, ya sean enclaves naturales, patrimonio cultural, ciudades, etc.; la asistencia a eventos deportivos o culturales; los viajes orientados a la práctica no profesional de un deporte; ir a la playa, piscinas o a cualquier instalación de entretenimiento y recreo; los cruceros; los viajes a casinos; asistencia a campamentos de verano; descanso; lunas de miel, viajes gastronómicos, a balnearios spas u otros establecimientos especializados en tratamientos de relax y belleza o de "puesta a punto" siempre que no sean prescritos como tratamiento médico; estancias en viviendas vacacionales propias, cedidas o alquiladas, etc.
- Viajes por incentivos
Son viajes organizados y pagados por una empresa en recompensa a sus empleados, en los que estos realizan actividades de deporte, ocio o recreo
- Viajes por motivos profesionales
Viajes realizados para atender actividades de trabajo o negocios.
- Viajes por motivos religiosos o peregrinaciones
Son los viajes realizados para participar en actos, encuentros u otras citas de carácter religioso distintas de las celebraciones familiares o de amigos, las peregrinaciones (por ejemplo el Camino de Santiago, peregrinaciones a Lourdes, Fátima, Jerusalén, la Meca,...) y la asistencia a romerías como el Rocío, a procesiones de Semana Santa, etc. cuando se realicen con una motivación religiosa.
- Viajes por tratamiento de salud
Son los viajes realizados para acudir a consulta o recibir tratamiento (ambulatorio o no) en hospitales, centros de salud, clínicas u otros servicios de salud o instituciones sociales; estancias en balnearios, centros de talasoterapia u otros centros especializados para recibir tratamientos médicos o quirúrgicos por prescripción facultativa, incluyendo cirugía estética realizada por profesionales médicos.
- Visitas a familiares o amigos
Son los viajes realizados con el fin de visitar a familiares y amigos, asistir a bautizos, comuniones, bodas, funerales u otros acontecimientos familiares; para visitar amigos o familiares en el hospital, o para asumir temporalmente el cuidado de niños, mayores o enfermos (sin recibir una remuneración por ello).
- Dwelling
Structurally separate and independent building that, due to the way in which it was built, rebuilt, transformed or adapted, is conceived to be inhabited by persons, or even if was not initially conceived as such, constitutes the regular residence of one or more persons during the reference period of the Statistical Operation. As an exception, the following are not considered dwellings: those buildings that, despite having been initially conceived for human inhabitation, at the time of the Statistical Operation are totally dedicated to other purposes (for example, those that are being used solely as locales, such as a doctor's office or an attorney's office).
- Group dwelling
Dwelling designed to be inhabited by a group of persons subjected to a common authority or scheme that is not based on family ties or specific coexistence schemes. The group dwelling may only partially occupy a building, or more frequently, the entirety of the building.
- Vivienda de uso compartido (Multipropiedad)
Corresponde al derecho de aprovechamiento por turno de bienes inmuebles de uso turístico, por ejemplo un apartamento en la costa que se compra en un régimen especial por el que se adquiere el derecho a usarlo sólo seis meses al año mientras que otro propietario lo usará los otros seis meses; ésa sería una vivienda en multipropiedad.
- Family dwelling
A dwelling designed to be inhabited by one person or more who do not constitute a group, regardless of the links between them.
- Non-conventional family dwelling or accommodation
Family dwelling that presents the particular feature of being mobile, semi-permanent or improvised, or that was not initially conceived for residential purposes, but which, however, constitutes the residence of one or more persons at the reference time of the Statistical Operation
- Main family dwelling
A family dwelling is considered main when it is used all or most part of the year as the regular residence.
- Hostel
- 3.5Statistical unit
The units of analysis are trips, same-day visits and persons.
The last sampling unit is the person.
- 3.6Statistical population
The population subject to observation is the population aged 15 years or older resident in main family dwellings all over the Spanish territory. Nevertheless, indirect information is gathered from persons under the age of 15 that allow for trips to be estimated for the whole resident population.
- 3.7Reference area
The sampling is spread over the whole national territory. Quarterly information is provided for autonomous communities of origin and destination.
- 3.8Time coverage
Information available since February 2015. The information with the previous survey methodology, FAMILITUR, can be consulted at the TURESPAÑA website (http://www.iet.tourspain.es/en-EN/estadisticas/familitur/paginas/default.aspx)
- 3.9Base period
2015
- 3.1Data description
- 4Unit of measure
- 4.1Unit of measure
Units used are trips, overnight stays, thousands of euros for total expenditures and euros for average expenditures.
- 4.1Unit of measure
- 5Reference period
- 5.1Reference period
Month, quarter, year
Data referred to the period: Trimestral A: 2023 TRI: IV
- 5.1Reference period
- 6Institutional mandate
- 6.1Legal acts and other agreements
The compilation and dissemination of the data are governed by the Statistical Law No. 12/1989 "Public Statistical Function" of May 9, 1989, and Law No. 4/1990 of June 29 on “National Budget of State for the year 1990" amended by Law No. 13/1996 "Fiscal, administrative and social measures" of December 30, 1996, makes compulsory all statistics included in the National Statistics Plan. The National Statistical Plan 2009-2012 was approved by the Royal Decree 1663/2008. It contains the statistics that must be developed in the four year period by the State General Administration's services or any other entity dependent on it. All statistics included in the National Statistics Plan are statistics for state purposes and are obligatory. The National Statistics Plan 2021-2024, approved by Royal Decree 1110/2020, of 15 December, is the Plan currently implemented. This statistical operation has governmental purposes, and it is included in the National Statistics Plan 2021-2024. (Statistics of the State Administration).
This operation is subject to the Regulation (EU) nº692/2011 of the European Parliament and Council in relation with the European statistics for tourism. The English version of European Union regulations concerning this survey can be found at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2011:192:0017:0032:EN:PDF
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32011R1051&from=ES
- 6.2Data sharing
The exchanges of information needed to elaborate statistics between the INE and the rest of the State statistical offices (Ministerial Departments, independent bodies and administrative bodies depending on the State General Administration), or between these offices and the Autonomic statistical offices, are regulated in the LFEP (Law of the Public Statistic Function). This law also regulates the mechanisms of statistical coordination, and concludes cooperation agreements between the different offices when necessary.
In the framework of the agreement for the transfer of this operation from TURESPAÑA to the INE, a clause is included for the exchange of information.
- 6.1Legal acts and other agreements
- 7Confidentiality
- 7.1Confidentiality - policy
The Statistical Law No. 12/1989 specifies that the INE cannot publish, or make otherwise available, individual data or statistics that would enable the identification of data for any individual person or entity. Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society
- 7.2Confidentiality - data treatment
INE provides information on the protection of confidentiality at all stages of the statistical process: INE questionnaires for the operations in the national statistical plan include a legal clause protecting data under statistical confidentiality. Notices prior to data collection announcing a statistical operation notify respondents that data are subject to statistical confidentiality at all stages. For data processing, INE employees have available the INE data protection handbook, which specifies the steps that should be taken at each stage of processing to ensure reporting units' individual data are protected. The microdata files provided to users are anonymised.
Microdata files categories have been added for some variables in order to prevent the identification of the interviewees.
- 7.1Confidentiality - policy
- 8Release policy
- 8.1Release calendar
The advance release calendar that shows the precise release dates for the coming year is disseminated in the last quarter of each year.
- 8.2Release calendar access
The calendar is disseminated on the INEs Internet website (Publications Calendar)
- 8.3User access
The data are released simultaneously according to the advance release calendar to all interested parties by issuing the press release. At the same time, the data are posted on the INE's Internet website (www.ine.es/en) almost immediately after the press release is issued. Also some predefined tailor-made requests are sent to registered users. Some users could receive partial information under embargo as it is publicly described in the European Statistics Code of Practice
- 8.1Release calendar
- 9Frequency of dissemination
- 9.1Frequency of dissemination
Quarterly.
- 9.1Frequency of dissemination
- 10Accessibility and clarity
- 10.1News release
The results of the statistical operations are normally disseminated by using press releases that can be accessed via both the corresponding menu and the Press Releases Section in the web
Survey results are disseminated together with a press release according to the publication calendar of INE.
- 10.2Publications
Survey results are quarterly disseminated on INE website through micro-data files and tables.
- 10.3On-line database
INEbase is the system the INE uses to store statistical information on the Internet. It contains all the information the INE produces in electronic formats. The primary organisation of the information follows the theme-based classification of the Inventory of Statistical Operations of the State General Administration . The basic unit of INEbase is the statistical operation, defined as the set of activities that lead to obtaining statistical results on a determined sector or subject based on the individually collected data. Also included in the scope of this definition are synthesis preparation.
All the survey information can be checked through the following link: https://www.ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/en/operacion.htm?c=Estadistica_C&cid=1254736176990&menu=ultiDatos&idp=1254735576863
- 10.4Micro-data access
A lot of statistical operations disseminate public domain anonymized files, available free of charge for downloading in the INE website Microdata Section
On the website https://www.ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/en/operacion.htm?c=Estadistica_C&cid=1254736176990&menu=resultados&secc=1254736195369&idp=1254735576863 the monthly anonymous micro-data trip files can be downloaded for free. Micro-data files categories have been added for some variables in order to prevent the identification of the interviewees.
Micro-data files for persons, stages of the trips and same-day visits are available for free under request through of this link: https://www.ine.es/infoine/?L=1
- 10.5Other
It is possible to request customised information through the INE Customer Service Area. Limitations to confidentiality or accuracy are borne in mind at the time of processing said requests.
- 10.6Documentation on methodology
Survey methodology can be consulted on the INE website, as well as a transcription copy of the electronic survey questionnaire. It is also available for users a guide for the use of the micro-data files.
https://www.ine.es/en/daco/daco42/etr/etr_metodologia_en.pdf
https://www.ine.es/en/daco/daco42/etr/etr_cuestionario_en.pdf
- 10.7Quality documentation
Based on European Parliament and Council Regulation 692/2001, the European Commission (Eurostat) assesses the quality of the transferred data and publishes reports on the quality of European statistics. To this end, each country provides a quality report within the 9 months following the end of the year.
The quality report for the reference year 2017 can be found in this link:https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/EN/tour_dem_esmsdm_es.htm
Fields 10.6 to 17 of this document are the quality report intended for users for this operation.
- 10.1News release
- 11Quality management
- 11.1Quality assurance
Quality assurance framework for the INE statistics is based on the ESSCoP, the European Statistics Code of Practice made by EUROSTAT. The ESSCoP is made up of 16 principles, gathered in three areas: Institutional Environment, Processes and Products. Each principle is associated with some indicators which make possible to measure it. In order to evaluate quality, EUROSTAT provides different tools: the indicators mentioned above, Self-assessment based on the DESAP model, peer review, user satisfaction surveys and other proceedings for evaluation.
The concepts used in the survey are consistent with the International Recommendations of the World Tourism Organisation from 2008 and what is established in the Regulation nº692/2011 in relation with European statistics for tourism. Internationally recognised good practices have been implemented in the production process as the use of another survey as the framework to select the sample, in such a way that the information available allow for improved efficiency in the sampling design, directly interviewing a person or thoroughly investigating a limited number of trips. The electronic survey includes a series of controls in order to guarantee a certain level of coherence in the information collected which, subsequently, is subject to a micro-editing process. Furthermore, throughout the collection of information, inspections are carried out on behalf of the supervisors of each collection unit. In the process for the processing of information outliers are detected and dealt with and an imputation of some of the variables that are not thoroughly investigated indicating these records in the micro-data files. In the calculation of the raising factors correction procedures are applied for the non response and calibration techniques are applied with the aim to guarantee the coherence of the different statistical sources of information as well as to reduce possible bias.
- 11.2Quality assessment
The Residents Travel Survey is the result of the revision of FAMILITUR methodology. In this revision process a work group was formed to carry out a diagnosis of the operation proposing a series of improvement actions which, on the whole, have been applied to the theoretical design of the new project.
- 11.1Quality assurance
- 12Relevance
- 12.1User needs
The main users are the administration organisms with tourist expertise both nationally and on an autonomous or municipal scale, as well as the statistical institutes or offices of the autonomous communities. The Bank of Spain, the Spanish National Accounts Department and international organisms like Eurostat or the UNWTO are also notable users. Among the main operators of the private sector there is also a big interest in the national tourist behaviour.
- 12.2User satisfaction
The INE has carried out general user satisfaction surveys in 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019 and it plans to continue doing so every three years. The purpose of these surveys is to find out what users think about the quality of the information of the INE statistics and the extent to which their needs of information are covered. In addition, additional surveys are carried out in order to acknowledge better other fields such as dissemination of the information, quality of some publications...
On the INE website, in its section Methods and Projects / Quality and Code of Practice / INE quality management / User surveys are available surveys conducted to date.(Click next link)
The opinion of the main users have been taken into account throughout the methodological revision process of the survey.
- 12.3Completeness
This operation allows a response to be given to all of the information required in Annex II of the EU Regulation nº692/2011 in relation with national tourism. In this sense, the completeness is R1=100%.
- 12.1User needs
- 13Accuracy and reliability
- 13.1Overall accuracy
The application of calibration techniques corrects, to a great extent, the biases that can be presented when interviewing persons belonging to groups that are easier to locate and, therefore, less prone to travel. The survey design is also aimed at reducing these biases and at improving the variance when it is sampled, with a higher probability, people with a certain profile, correlating with the tendency to travel.
INE provides estimates for the sampling errors that allow the user to assess the accuracy of the published information.
- 13.2Sampling error
Sampling errors tables for the monthly information are disseminated:
https://www.ine.es/dynt3/inebase/en/index.htm?padre=2393
Computing the average of the last 12 months the coefficient of variation is A1=2,81% for trips, A1=3,57% for overnight-stays and A1=3,50% expenditure.
- 13.3Non-sampling error
The survey over-coverage rate is A2=4,62%
Non-response rate for the units in the first rotation is A4=39,15%.
Item non-response rate (for expenditure variables) is A5=14,73%
Imputation rate for overnight stays is A7=0,56%, and for the expenditure is A7=14,24%
- 13.1Overall accuracy
- 14Timeliness and punctuality
- 14.1Timeliness
The final estimates will be published approximately TP2=86 days after the end of the reference period.
- 14.2Punctuality
The calendar for the publication of results is complied with (TP3=0).
- 14.1Timeliness
- 15Coherence and Comparability
- 15.1Comparability - geographical
The same methodology is followed throughout the whole national territory.
Since the survey complies with the regulation 692/2011 in relation with European tourism statistics, estimates are comparable with data from other European Union countries.
- 15.2Comparability - over time
In February 2015, there is a break in the series due to the changes in the methodology. Variation rates are provided for the main magnitudes to link with the previous series:
The number of months comparable with the new series is CC2=95.
- 15.3Coherence - cross domain
The Occupancy in Tourist Accommodation Surveys provides information about the residents that spend a night in regulated accommodations. This information has been used, to the greatest possible extent, and after performing some adjustments, as supplementary information in the calibration of the raising factors, improving the comparability of results.
On the other hand, the basic concepts and definitions will be those of the Continual Household Survey, that are adapted to the current community regulations and other international recommendations on population statistics. These are also the references for tourism statistics, together with the Balance of Payments Manual, also essentially consistent with these definitions. The INE standards have likewise been respected in relation with the variables for the household composition, gender, nationality and country of birth.
- 15.4Coherence - internal
The estimates have complete internal coherence.
- 15.1Comparability - geographical
- 16Cost and burden
- 16.1Cost and burden
The estimated budget necessary to finance this operation in the annual Programme 2024 is 4,086.8 thousand Euros.
- 16.1Cost and burden
- 17Data revision
- 17.1Data revision - policy
The INE of Spain has a policy which regulates the basic aspects of statistical data revision, seeking to ensure process transparency and product quality. This policy is laid out in the document approved by the INE board of directors on 13 March of 2015, which is available on the INE website, in the section "Methods and projects/Quality and Code of Practice/INE’s Quality management/INE’s Revision policy" (link).
This general policy sets the criteria that the different type of revisions should follow: routine revision- it is the case of statistics whose production process includes regular revisions-; more extensive revision- when methodological or basic reference source changes take place-; and exceptional revision- for instance, when an error appears in a published statistic-.
- 17.2Data revision - practice
Published information is not revised, all data are set as definitive. Just for 2018, it was published data revised and definitive due to budget restrictions beyond INE control, since resources needed for data collection weren't available on time.
- 17.1Data revision - policy
- 18Statistical processing
- 18.1Source data
The information is collected by means of direct interviews of the people selected in the sample. As a framework for the survey, is used the sample of main dwellings which take part in the Georeferenced Address Framework (MDG)
This enables to:
1. Achieve an efficient sample. To reach this goal, a procedure is used to assign a tendency to travel to households and persons determined by the characteristics known based on the Municipal Register, which allows the sub-sample of the Residents Travel Survey to be stratified.
2. Have the phone numbers of the households to be able to use the interview CATI method.3. Improve the methods of correction of non-response.
The type of sampling used for the selection of the survey sample is a random stratified three-stage random stratified sampling. The first stage units are the census sections, the second stage units are the dwellings, and a person aged 15 or over has been selected within each dwelling. In the case of dwellings with minors the trips made by them will be investigated.
The stratification criteria used is a new variable defining the tendency of the section to travel. This variable is based on a logistic regression model that estimates the tendency to travel for each person and, as an average of the persons of a section, the tendency of the section. After assigning this tendency, within each stratum, the sections are grouped into two large groups (sub-strata) according to the tendency to work in the household. These two groups are determined by the median distribution.
The theoretical sample size has been established as 15,600 persons investigated every month. With the experience of other surveys in terms of the behaviour of the sample, an effective monthly sample is expected, of around 8,200 persons, which means that the information of each month will be provided by approximately 16,400 persons.
- 18.2Frequency of data collection
Data is collected on a monthly basis. The interviews are conducted on the first weeks of the month, but they continue throughout the whole month.
- 18.3Data collection
The majority of the interviews are conducted by telephone (CATI) except for households that are taking part for the first time which, if they are not located in the established deadline, shall subsequently be interviewed in person (CAPI). From february 2018 onwards, the option of answering via web (CAWI) is offered to those informants who are not new in the panel.
The questionnaire can be consulted on the INE website.
- 18.4Data validation
Throughout the collection of data, the personnel responsible for this task shall carry out inspections of the interviews conducted. The electronic survey includes coherence controls for the information, which, subsequently, is subject to a centralised micro-editing process.
- 18.5Data compilation
A series of processes are applied to the collected and edited data to obtain the final information. These processes are listed below and can be consulted in the survey methodology:
- Detection and treatment of outliers
- Allocation of uncollected variables in trips that have not been selected for their thorough investigation
- Memory effect analysis and correction
- Calculation of the raising factors
- Calculation of the coefficients that allow travel estimates to be obtained for the whole population These coefficients are calculated based on the information collected in an indirect manner for the trips made by persons under 15 years old.
- Calibration of the the raising factors
- Expenditure variables modeling
- 18.6Adjustment
No seasonal adjustments of any kind are made
- 18.1Source data
- 19Comment
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