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<p>National statistical authorities are under pressure to provide reliable and readily accessible data with minimum costs and respondent burden. To this end, a use of administrative data, defined as those not primarily collected for statistical purposes, is increasingly encouraged to supplement sample and census surveys. In this paper, a possibility to produce new statistics by combining several sources where at least one is the administrative data is tested. This exercise was applied to measure a volume of tourists (residents and non-residents) staying in non-commercial accommodation facilities in Croatia. Four data sources were analysed: (i) administrative data from eVisitor system, a unique online central information system for tourists registration in Croatia that provides insights into tourist traffic and accommodation capacities (commercial and non-commercial), (ii) Croatian Bureau of Statistics Survey on Tourist Activity of the Croatian population, that provides information on number of domestic trips and nights in commercial and noncommercial accommodation establishments, (iii) Croatian National Bank Survey on foreign visitors in Croatia, that estimates number of foreign tourist nights in Croatia in, both, commercial and non-commercial type of accommodation, and (iv) administrative data from Tax Register on paid taxes on second homes – holiday houses and apartments. The results clearly demonstrated that two survey-based data sources and the administrative one regarding the second homes taxes had not provided a quality foundation to improve the current estimations of tourist traffic in non-commercial accommodation provided by the eVisitor system.</p>
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National statistical authorities are under pressure to provide reliable and readily accessible data with minimum costs and respondent burden. To this end, a use of administrative data, defined as those not primarily collected for statistical purposes, is increasingly encouraged to supplement sample and census surveys. In this paper, a possibility to produce new statistics by combining several sources where at least one is the administrative data is tested. This exercise was applied to measure a volume of tourists (residents and non-residents) staying in non-commercial accommodation facilities in Croatia. Four data sources were analysed: (i) administrative data from eVisitor system, a unique online central information system for tourists registration in Croatia that provides insights into tourist traffic and accommodation capacities (commercial and non-commercial), (ii) Croatian Bureau of Statistics Survey on Tourist Activity of the Croatian population, that provides information on number of domestic trips and nights in commercial and noncommercial accommodation establishments, (iii) Croatian National Bank Survey on foreign visitors in Croatia, that estimates number of foreign tourist nights in Croatia in, both, commercial and non-commercial type of accommodation, and (iv) administrative data from Tax Register on paid taxes on second homes – holiday houses and apartments. The results clearly demonstrated that two survey-based data sources and the administrative one regarding the second homes taxes had not provided a quality foundation to improve the current estimations of tourist traffic in non-commercial accommodation provided by the eVisitor system.

Measuring non-commercial tourism traffic in Croatia: Challenges of using administrative data

Croatian Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Croatia, Spatial Statistics Directorate, Tourism Statistics Department

Croatian Review of Economic, Business and Social Statistics

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National statistical authorities are under pressure to provide reliable and readily accessible data with minimum costs and respondent burden. To this end, a...

Measuring non-commercial tourism traffic in Croatia: Challenges of using administrative data

Published Online: Jan 05, 2021

Page range: 69 - 81

Received: Nov 16, 2020

Accepted: Dec 08, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/crebss-2020-0012

Keywords
administrative data sources, non-commercial accommodation, tourism statistics, tourists’ overnights

© 2020 Zrinka Marušić et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Measuring non-commercial tourism traffic in Croatia: Challenges of using administrative data

Published Online: Jan 05, 2021

Page range: 69 - 81

Received: Nov 16, 2020

Accepted: Dec 08, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/crebss-2020-0012

Keywordsadministrative data sources, non-commercial accommodation, tourism statistics, tourists’ overnights

© 2020 Zrinka Marušić et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
administrative data sources, non-commercial accommodation, tourism statistics, tourists’ overnights