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1000 Ton<br />

7000<br />

6000<br />

5000<br />

4000<br />

3000<br />

2000<br />

1000<br />

0<br />

80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97<br />

Also <strong>for</strong> the handling factor a number of analyses have been carried<br />

out trying to establish a relation between the economic variables and<br />

the coefficients. Most of the prices investigated should reflect that<br />

higher prices lead to rationalisations in the number of transports carried<br />

out <strong>for</strong> each produced article. It has not been possible to establish<br />

a firm relationship using prices, but to some extent it has been possible<br />

using a trend.<br />

The descriptions are not perfect because many of the handling factors<br />

vary very much. A reason <strong>for</strong> this is the in the data-set containing<br />

in<strong>for</strong>mation on the freight transport. There are many indications of<br />

erroneous responses in the original data (even though many of these<br />

have been corrected by Statistics Denmark). At the aggregate level a<br />

well-behaved development in the handling factor can be observed,<br />

but the disaggregation into different types of goods <strong>for</strong> some types of<br />

goods in a picture where no tendencies seem to be present. Figure 3<br />

gives an illustration of the various handling factors and why the estimation<br />

has been so difficult.<br />

TT TX HANDLE<br />

Fertilizer<br />

1000 Ton<br />

250000<br />

200000<br />

150000<br />

100000<br />

50000<br />

0<br />

3,50<br />

3,00<br />

2,50<br />

2,00<br />

1,50<br />

1,00<br />

0,50<br />

0,00<br />

1000 Ton<br />

8000<br />

7000<br />

6000<br />

5000<br />

4000<br />

3000<br />

2000<br />

1000<br />

0<br />

80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97<br />

TT TX HANDLE<br />

80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97<br />

TT TX HANDLE<br />

Machines etc.<br />

Aggregate<br />

Figure 3 Illustration of the differences in the handling factor in two types of goods and in the aggregate.<br />

In quite a few of the estimations the difficulties is due to a single extreme<br />

observation (like the observation from 1987 in the upper right<br />

figure of Figure 3). But the few observations make it uncertain as to<br />

exactly which of the observations is the extreme one. As a test of the<br />

1,40<br />

1,35<br />

1,30<br />

1,25<br />

1,20<br />

1,15<br />

1,10<br />

1,05<br />

5,00<br />

4,50<br />

4,00<br />

3,50<br />

3,00<br />

2,50<br />

2,00<br />

1,50<br />

1,00<br />

0,50<br />

0,00<br />

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