Annual Passenger Bus and Urban Transit Survey (PBUT)

Maintenance cost of establishment, rate

Maintenance cost refers to the cost of vehicle parts, shop supplier, tires, tubes and purchased repairs. Labour costs that are incurred directly by the respondent are excluded, although labour expenses may be included when repairs are purchased from a third party.

Establishment refers to the level at which accounting data required to measure production is available (principal inputs, revenues, salaries and wages). The establishment, as a statistical unit, is defined as the most homogeneous unit of production for which the business maintains accounting records from which it is possible to assemble all the data elements required to compile the full structure of the gross value of production (total sales or shipments, and inventories), the cost of materials and services, and labour and capital used in production.

The data for this variable are reported using the following measurements:

• Dollars per kilometre