| Category: |
Demographic and social statistics |
| Area: |
Population |
| Survey / data collection: |
Married couples |
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| 1. Contact Vrh |
| 1.1. Contact organization: |
Statistical Office of Montenegro - MONSTAT |
| 1.2. Contact organization unit: |
Demography and Migration Statistics Department |
| 1.2. Contact organization unit: |
IV Proleterske 2, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro |
| 2. Metadata update Top |
| 2.1. Metadata last certified: | |
| 2.2. Metadata last posted: | 29 December 2023 |
| 2.3. Metadata last update: | 23 December 2019 |
| 3. Statistical presentation Top |
| 3.1. Data description: | Marriages statistics collects the data on total registered marriages done in accordance with valid legal regulations on marriages. Statistics on marriages aim to produce the data that enable main demographic analyses of population at the level of Montenegro or municipalities. The survey collects the data on marriages as well as main demographic, education and economic data on persons entering in marriage. The data represent a basis for the calculation of a number of analytical demographic indicators used for purpose of analysis draft, both present and future population structure. |
| 3.2. Classification system: | Municipalities |
| 3.3. Sector coverage: | Not relevant |
3.4. Statistical concepts and
definitions: | Marriage concluded
Marriage concluded is a living community between woman and man regulated by law
Marital status
Marital status - for classifying by this characteristics only legal marrital status is considered. It means that only persons married in accordance with the legal provisions during the observed phenomena are considered to be married persons. |
| 3.5. Statistical unit: | Observation unit in marriage statistics is every legally concluded marriage. |
| 3.6. Statistical population: | Population aged 15 years and over. |
| 3.7. Reference area: | Montenegro |
| 3.8. Time coverage: | Comparable time series data from 1974 are available. |
| 3.9. Base period: | Not relevant. |
| 4. Unit of measure Top |
| Unit within which data values are measured is concluded marriage and persons entered in marriage. |
| 6. Institutional mandate Top |
6.1. Legal acts and other
agreements: | The Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 18/12 and 47/19) defines provisions for collection, processing, and dissemination of data.
The Law provides to the Statistical Office legal powers to collect and access the data necessary for the implementation of Programme and Annual Plan.
The Law gives a priority to the use of administrative data and right of access to individual data that are a result of survey of other official statistical producers.
As an annex to legal provisions, Statistical Office has signed several memoranda on cooperation with administrative data providers. |
| 6.2. Data sharing: | |
| 7. Confidentiality Top |
| 7.1. Confidentiality - policy: | Articles 53-60 of the Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 18/12 and 47/19) provide a framework for protection, use, and transmission of confidential data. Statistical office has produced two comprehensive rulebooks that cover the procedures for individual data protection as well as keeping individual records. With purpose of the meeting legal framework on functioning of security system and statistical confidentiality there was adopted the Rulebook on Keeping Statistical Data by which Manner, Time, Technical Conditions and Organization of Statistical Data Storage to Prevent Their Destroying, Misappropriation, and Unauthorized Use is Regulated as well as the Rulebook on Contents and Manner of Keeping Records on Users of Individual Statistical Data by which contents and manner of keeping records on users of individual statistical data is regular.
Pursuant to the Article 59, an access to the confidential data is limited to persons performing duties and tasks of official statistical producer and up to the stage the data are necessary for official statistical production. Persons that performs duties and tasks within official statistical producers must sign the statement on respecting the principle of confidentiality.
Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System is aligned with the Regulation No 223/2009 and the Regulation (EU) 2015/759 from 29 April 2015 that also regulate confidentiality provisions.
The Government of Montenegro adopted the Statement on Commitment of Confidence in Official Statistics (Commitment of Confidence). |
7.2. Confidentiality - data
treatment: | |
| 8. Release policy Top |
| 8.1. Release calendar: | The Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 18/12) stipulates that official statistical producers prepare, update, and publish Statistical Release Calendar. It is published on the website of Statistical Office not later than 20 December for the next year, for all official statistical producers that includes date of releasing statistical data. Any change in date of releasing in the Calendar is published in advance in accordance with the Procedure on Unplanned Revisions. |
| 8.2. Release calendar - access: | http://www.monstat.org/cg/page.php?id=12&pageid=12 |
| 8.3. User access: | A general aim of official statistics producers is to meet the needs of its users and to make available statistical data in an understandable manner to all users, in the same time and under the same conditions. Statistical Office is obliged to produce and disseminate official statistics in objective, transparent and professional manner, so that all users are equally tretated. |
| 9. Frequency of dissemination Top |
| Preliminary data are monthly published, and final data are published at the annual level. Annual data are transmitted to Eurostat. |
| 10. Accessibility and clarity Top |
| 10.1. News release: | Release on marriages and divorces is published on the day envisaged by Annual Plan and Statistical Release Calendar. The Calendar is available at the link: http://www.monstat.org/cg/page.php?id=1141&pageid=51. The data for 2020 were published on 30 April 2021. |
| 10.2. Publications: | Statistical Office publishes the following regular publications: 1. Statistical Yearbook, 2. Montenegro in figures, 3. Monthly statistical review. In addition to the above regular ones, Statistical Office publishes also additionally publications. Some of the most important additional publications are as it follows: 1. Women and Men in Montenegro, 2. The most often used statistical data All publication published by Statistical Office are available at the following link: http://monstat.org/eng/publikacije.php |
| 10.3. Online database: | It does not exist. |
| 10.4. Micro-data access: | The Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 18/12) regulates rules under which external users can obtain an access to individual data for needs of research. Article 58 defines types of scientific and research organizations that can obtain such data. Providing individual data without identifier is possible only upon a written request of scientific and research institutions, with purpose of performing scientific and research activities as well as international statistical organizations and statistical producers from other countries.
Research entity signs the agreement with Statistical Office, and it signs the statement on respecting the confidentiality principle.
Official statistical producers keeps a separate records on users and purpose of using the statistical data given to these users. |
| 10.5. Other: | Not relevant. |
10.6. Documentation on methodology:
domain: | Methodological guide for marriage statistics is available at the website of Statistical Office, link:http://monstat.org/userfiles/file/demografija/brakovi/Marriages,%20methodology.pdf |
| 10.7. Quality documentation: | The Law on Official Statistics and the Official Statistical System ("Official Gazette of Montenegro" No. 18/12 and 47/19) defines the commitment to quality, which ensures that producers of official statistics in Montenegro work and cooperate in accordance with international principles of quality of the statistical system.
In accordance with the ESS Quality Declaration, Article 338 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, Regulations 759/2015 and 223/2009 and the European Statistics Code of Practice, the following documents are adopted:
1. Quality Strategy of the Statistical Office
2. Guide for the implementation of the Quality Strategy in the Statistical Office;
3. Implementation plan |
| 11. Quality management Top |
| 11.1. Quality assurance: | Statistical Office has chosen the implementation of elements of TQM (Total Quality Management) model that foster development and improvement of functioning of:
- Institution,
- Official statistical result production, and
- Individual.
Within middle-term deadline, Statistical Office has chosen the TQM implementation through the following objectives:
1. Strong commitment to users and other interested parties,
2. Quality statistical processes and products,
3. Professional orientation of staff members,
4. Constant improvements,
5. Reduction of overburden of reporting units. |
| 11.2. Quality assesment: | |
| 12. Relevance Top |
| 12.1. User needs: | International users:
- Eurostat,
- UN organizations,
National users:
- Ministries and other public administration bodies,
-Local government, and
-Other local government bodies,
- Non-governmental organizations,
- Students,
-Researchers,
- Media. |
| 12.2. User satisfaction: | The Statistical Office has adopted the Quality Management Strategy, the Guidebook to the Implementation of the Quality Management Strategy, as well as the Plan for the Implementation of the Quality Policy.
In order to measure the degree to which fulfills obligations towards users and within the new quality policy, the Statistical Office conducted User satisfaction survey.
The results of the survey are available on the Statistical Office website, link: http://monstat.org/uploads/files/2.%20Izvjestaj%20o%20zadovoljstvu%20korisnika%20ENG%20(Autosaved).pdf |
| 12.3. Completeness: | |
| 13. Accuracy and reliability Top |
| 13.1. Overall accuracy: | The coverage is full considering that the coverage source is administrative. The data accuracy by variables is not measured. |
| 13.2. Sampling error: | Not relevant. |
| 13.3. Non-sampling error: | Not relevant. |
| 14. Timeliness and punctuality Top |
| 14.1. Timeliness: | Final data are published 120 days at the latest after the last day of reference period (T+120). Final data are published in the release on marriages and divorces. The data for 2018 are published on 30 April 2019. The data are submitted to Eurostat on 31 December of current year for the previous year. |
| 14.2. Punctuality: | The data are published on the day envisaged by the Annual Plan and Statstical Release Calendar. |
| 15. Coherence and Comparability Top |
15.1. Comparability -
geographical: | The data are collected in accordance with the UN recommendations UN Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System Revision 2. Thus, the comparability with the countries using the same methodology has been ensured. |
| 15.2. Comparability over time: | A comparable time series is available from 1974. |
15.3. Coherence - cross
domain: | Not relevant. |
| 15.4. Coherence - internal: | Not relevant. |
| 17. Data revision Top |
| 17.1. Data revision - policy: | Statistical Office has adopted the revision policy and it is available on the website http://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=1411&pageid=1411 |
| 17.2. Data revision - practice: | A regular revision is used for the survey, since both preliminary and final data processing are envisaged by the Annual Plan. There was no large and unplanned revisions. Preliminary data are monthly published, and final at the annual level. |
| 18. Statistical processing Top |
| 18.1. Source data: | The survey uses administrative data source. |
18.2. Frequency of data
collection: | Monthly. |
| 18.3. Data collection: | Statistical Office of Montenegro produced methodological instructions, determines instruments for carrying out surveys, prepares and print forms and distributes it to reporting units, i.e. municipal services. Registry office fills in the statistical form on concluded marriage (wedding) - DEM-3 form and submits them after the end of every month.
The forms contain the data on municipality of wedding, data on bride and groom (previous marital status, marriage by ordinal number, place of residence before concluded marriage, activities, citizenship, national attainment, religion, the highest attained school level). |
| 18.6. Adjustment: | Not relevant. |
