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New Tables and Change of Publication Date
This note lists the new tables which are included in this edition in order to provide additional information. It does not mention changes to the statistics which are presented in the tables and charts, for example following the introduction of new methods of collecting the data: such changes are described in the relevant Chapters. This note also explains why the publication date for "Scottish Transport Statistics" was changed this year,
New tables
The following new tables have been added in this edition:
- Table S3 (in the Summary section) - the main Transport-related results from the Scottish Household Survey;
- Table 1.17 - people who hold a full driving licence by sex and age*;
- Table 1.20 - households with a car available for private use*;
- Table 6.13 - emissions of carbon dioxide allocated to Scotland;
- Table 6.14 - emissions of greenhouse gases by Transport allocated to Scotland;
- Table 6.15 - carbon dioxide emissions - grams per passenger-kilometre;
- Table 12.13 - frequency of driving for people aged 17+*;
- Table 12.14 - frequency of walking for adults (16+)*;
- Table 12.15 - frequency of cycling for adults (16+)*;
- Table 12.23 - place of work of employed adults (16+)*;
- Table 12.24 - usual method of travel to work (if not working from home)*;
- Table 12.25 - usual main method of travel to school*;
Where appropriate, other tables have been renumbered to take account of these changes.
* these are time-series tables which were produced by extracting the time-series parts of the main tables on these topics.
The new publication date for "Scottish Transport Statistics"
"Scottish Transport Statistics" used to be published in August but, with effect from this edition, it now being published in December. The reason for the change is that, when it was published in August, it could not include several sets of statistics which become available in the Autumn (e.g. a further year's figures for local bus passengers, port traffic and waterborne freight). Therefore, the Scottish Executive decided, following discussion with the Transport and Travel Statistics Advisory Committee in October 2005, to publish "Scottish Transport Statistics" in December (with effect from 2006), so that its figures on such topics would not become out-of-date soon after it was produced. In order that the numbers which traditionally appeared in "Scottish Transport Statistics" would continue to be available to users in August, the Scottish Executive decided
(a) to publish a new "Main Transport Trends" bulletin in August, in order to provide a handy printed summary of the main trends shown by "Scottish Transport Statistics"; and
(b) to make updated versions of many of the "Scottish Transport Statistics" tables available on the Scottish Executive Transport Statistics web site when this new bulletin is published (they can be found via www.scotland.gov.uk/transtat/stsupdate ).
As a result, users will continue to have access to the main kinds of figures that they used to get from "Scottish Transport Statistics" in August, and will benefit from some parts of the printed edition not becoming out-of-date as quickly as before.
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