1. Country Specific Notes Agenda point 11
Franz Justen
9-10 November 2011
Meeting of the Working Group on Rail Transport Statistics
Agenda point: 11

2. How to access metadata from Eurostat website?
Reference Metadata in « Euro SDMX Metadata Structure » (ESMS) format are available for each dissemination table (based on Regulation 91/2003) of the rail transport domain of Eurobase
Euro SDMX Metadata Structure for rail transport statistics
9-10 November 2011
Meeting of the Working Group on Rail Transport Statistics
Agenda point: 11

3. Country Specific Notes (CSNs)
Reasons for the creation of the CSNs:
external users’ needs
enrichment of the content of the ESMS methodological notes
Available to public from Circa & Eurobase ESMS
Specific methodological information by country for each dissemination table and reference year
Overview of the data availability
National definitions used
Documentation/explanation of any discrepancy in the data provided
9-10 November 2011
Meeting of the Working Group on Rail Transport Statistics
Agenda point: 11

4. Characteristics of the CSNs
Compiled from two main sources:
Comments received to validation rules applied to each dataset (detection of errors during data integration)
Comments received to validation process of the various publications
Updates can be performed in the following ways
on Eurostat’s initiative: Eurostat may propose changes in the CSNs and ask the country concerned to validate these changes
on a country’s initiative: CSNs may be downloaded from Circa, revised/updated by the country concerned and provided to Eurostat
In the future: the CSNs will be directly linked with the validation rules
9-10 November 2011
Meeting of the Working Group on Rail Transport Statistics
Agenda point: 11

5. Thank you for your attention !
Opinions and suggestions on the Country Specific Notes (CSNs) are welcome!
9-10 November 2011
Meeting of the Working Group on Rail Transport Statistics
Agenda point: 11