Commission Report 2002 (Hungary)

Standard of living

Number of cars. Passenger car: road motor vehicle, other than a motor cycle, intended for the carriage of passengers and designed to seat no more than nine persons (including the driver).

The term ``passenger car'' therefore covers microcars (need no permit to be driven), taxis and hired passenger cars, provided that they have less than ten seats. This category may also include pick-ups.

Connected main line actually operating or temporarily suspended, main lines that connect terminal equipment to a switching exchange. These include private and institutional main lines, lines of public payphones and telecommunications service lines. Mobile phone lines are excluded. Connected main lines can be classified as dwelling, business and public main lines. ISDN channels are excluded.

Note: Since the passing of the Hungarian Telecommunication Law, the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (like the countries of the EU) has been collecting data on the main lines. Before 1993, the new Telecommunication Law, statistics surveyed main stations.

Number of Internet connections. Data collection of Internet connections started in 1999.