Number of cars per household type: from the DataLab to an official statistic

DataLab
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Since 2019, Statbel has implemented a double coupling of the annual population data files and the vehicle fleet files (DIV), on the one hand, and the tax data files (Belcotax) making it possible to count the number of company cars, on the other hand.

This methodology successfully passed several validation exercises, both internal (in comparison with our surveys) and external (by consulting experts), and has been sufficiently refined to act as official statistic.

The DataLab series therefore ends here and data from the reference period 2022 onwards are now available in the official section.