Data methodology
About our data
A plain-language account of what our numbers mean, how they are produced, and where their limits are.
Where the data comes from
For the Latvian catalogue, we use publicly available SS.lv listings. It is the catalogue’s only listing source in Latvia.
autopase.lv is not affiliated with SS.lv. The prices shown are sellers’ asking prices, not completed transaction prices.
Registry data (CSDD)
Listings only describe the cars that are for sale right now. Fleet and registration statistics — how many passenger cars are registered in Latvia, their average age, how many are electric — come from CSDD open data (as of 01.04.2026) and are published in a separate guide.
Latvia car market: CSDD statistics →How many listings are in the catalogue
The catalogue currently contains 66,520 active listings with an image. This count uses the same active-catalogue population as search and refreshes once a day.
How often the data is updated
Different parts of the catalogue run on different schedules:
- new-listing feed — every 10 minutes;
- listing details — every 2 hours;
- photos — every hour;
- price snapshot — daily at 06:00 UTC;
- deal-score recalculation — daily at 06:30 UTC;
- automated direct-URL checks — every 3 hours (a diagnostic signal, not a basis for removing a listing);
- overnight brand check — from 01:00 UTC (currently without listing removal).
A direct-URL check is unreliable because SS.lv can return the page of a removed listing as active. We normally remove a listing when the full overnight check of its brand no longer finds it; until the next brand check, it may remain in the catalogue for a while. Removal of sold listings is currently paused while we restore this check. As a result, some cars in the catalogue may already have been sold. We will mark them as removed as soon as the overnight check starts confirming removals again.
How the deal score is calculated
We compare each car with similar listings by brand, model, year and mileage; when the exact group is too small, the comparison widens to the brand. The result uses a 0–100 scale. A value of 50 can mean market level, but it is also the internal result when there is not enough comparison data. That is why a deal badge appears only from 70 points. The named levels begin at 70, 80 and 90 points. The calculation uses the price difference plus small adjustments for positive or warning signals found in the listing text. Removed listings are also included in the comparison set; they are currently the majority of the sample, including listings first seen around six months ago, because the comparison has no listing-age limit. The score is therefore a guide rather than a technical inspection of the car.
Price history
A price-history entry is written only when a listing price changes. We show the reductions that we recorded during subsequent checks, but we do not use this table to construct an “average price for the month”.
Price index
Once a month we freeze the active-listing median, the 25th–75th percentiles, and a model-year breakdown. Trends use only comparable monthly snapshots and appear after three points using one methodology. Days until sale is sold_at minus posted_at and is published only with at least 20 sold listings in 90 days.
Best car deals of the week
On Sunday we freeze up to 15 cars scoring at least 70/100, price buckets, weekly price drops, and numeric market context. The page, archive, RSS, and delivery channels use that one snapshot; past issues never recalculate.
How listings are ordered
On the home page listings are grouped into five tabs. Each tab has its own rule for choosing and ordering listings; they are described below.
- "Price cuts" shows listings where the seller has lowered the price; the biggest cut in euro comes first. For AutoPase showroom cars the "previous price" is the lowest price in the 30 days before the cut; without such a history no cut is shown.
- "New listings" is ordered by publication date, the newest first. A repeated scrape or the transfer of an old database does not make a listing new.
- "New cars" shows a model year of 2025 or later and a known mileage of at most 10,000 km, the newest first.
- "Popular" is ordered by the number of times a listing was shown in search results (in Lithuania and Estonia: by the number of times it was opened). No views, no place in the list.
- "Best value" shows a price 10-40% below the median of at least 5 similar listings. AutoPase showroom cars are not part of that comparison group. A showroom car's price is the final price (with delivery and registration in Latvia); we compare it with other sellers' asking prices, not with transaction prices.
The block holds up to 12 cars: 6 listings from your country and, where suitable ones exist, 4 Chinese and 2 other cars of the AutoPase showroom (SIA Baltic Oranges) - AutoPase's own offers. If no suitable showroom cars exist, listings from your country take their places; the block may be shorter than 12 and nothing is repeated.
A showroom car is shown only if the source's data on its availability is no more than 72 h old.
Listings marked as promoted were paid for by the seller; they stand only among the 6 places of your country's listings.
What we do not know
- Without a separate check, we cannot confirm the VIN, the car’s condition, or its ownership history.
- We do not know the completed transaction price after a sale.
Data for press and research
For a citable market cut or an explanation of a specific metric, visit our press data page.
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