| Category: | Demographic and social statistics |
| Area: | Education |
| Survey / data collection: | Masters of science and Specialists |
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| Reference metadata |
| 1. Contact |
| 2. Metadata update |
| 3. Statistical presentation |
| 4. Unit of measure |
| 5. Reference period |
| 6. Institutional mandate |
| 7. Confidentiality |
| 8. Release policy |
| 9. Frequency of dissemination |
| 10. Accessibility and clarity |
| 11. Quality management |
| 12. Relevance |
| 13. Accuracy and reliability |
| 14. Timeliness and punctuality |
| 15. Coherence and Comparability |
| 17. Data revision |
| 18. Statistical processing |
| 19. Comment |
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| 1. Contact Vrh | |
| 1.1. Contact organization: | Statistical Office of Montenegro - MONSTAT |
| 1.2. Contact organization unit: | Department for Education, Culture and Justice |
| 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: | 29.09. 2020 |
| 3. Statistical presentation Top | |
| 3.1. Data description: | Data on students graduated at postgraduate studies and acquired diploma on finished specialist studies, as well as at master studies, and acquired master, i.e. master of science. The data are a result of regular statistical surveys obtained in two manners - by regular statistical questionnaire from accreditd higher education institutions in Montenegro, and by administrative means. |
| 3.2. Classification system: | National Classification of Education (harmonized with the International Standard Classification of Education - ISCED 2011) |
| 3.3. Sector coverage: | Education sector. |
| 3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions: | Higher education is provided by universities and higher education institutions that are licensed and accredited in accordance with the Law on Higher Education. Higher education is acquired in Montenegro at universities and other institutions, which can be established as public and private. The University realizes its activity through: faculties, art academies, institutes and colleges, as organizational units. The University is an autonomous institution that, in carrying out its activities, unifies educational, scientific and research and artistic work as parts of a unique higher education process. The Faculty is a scientific-teaching higher education institution that develops scientific-research work as the basis of teaching activity. Faculty of Arts and Academy is a teaching and art institution of higher education that develops artistic creativity, scientific research work and performs teaching in appropriate fields. Judicial program is the basic unit for classification of higher education with defined structure and number of ECTS credits which provide the individual with the learning outcomes necessary for gaining knowledge, skills and competences for the field of work from the level of higher education defined in the national framework of qualifications and issuing a diploma. Postgraduate study programs can be accredited as academic and applied. The status of the student is obtained by enrolling in the appropriate study program. A student can have a status of a budget funded or self-financing student. Postgraduate studies are considered as any study program which entitles them to acquire a degree after completing basic studies, a degree in specialist studies, a master's degree or a diploma of the academic title of the Master of Science or Art, in accordance with the Law. Postgraduate specialist studies are organized after completion of basic studies of 180 ECTS credits and last one academic year (two semesters), ie the scope of the study program of these studies is 60 ECTS credits. Postgraduate master's studies (academic and applied) last for 1 year (60 ECTS credits) after specialist studies, and two years (120 ECTS credits) after basic studies. A diploma is a public document proving that the acquired qualification is the result of a successfully completed higher education program. The diplomas obtained at this level of study are: Diploma in specialist studies - after completing a one year study program in postgraduate studies, Diploma of applied master studies, after completing the applied study program for a period of one or two years at the applied master's postgraduate studies and defense of the master's thesis (one year after completing postgraduate specialist studies and basic studies for the duration of four years, and two years after the basic studies for a period of three years), Academic Master's Degree in Master of Science, after completing a one-year or two-year study program in academic master's postgraduate studies and defense of master's thesis (one year after completing postgraduate specialist studies and basic studies for a period of four years, and two years after the basic studies for a period of three years). |
| 3.5. Statistical unit: | Reporting units are all higher education institutions established or conducting classes in Montenegro, regardless of their status, which are established in accordance with the Law on Higher Education. ("Official Gazette of Montenegro" No 044/14 of 21.10.2014, 052/14 of 16.12.2014, 047/15 of 18.08.2015, 040/16 of 30.06.2016, 042/17 of 30.06.2017, 071/17 of 31.10.2017, 055/18 of 01.08.2018, 003/19 of15.01.2019, 017/19 of 19.03.2019). |
| 3.6. Statistical population: | All students at higher education institutions who have completed postgraduate studies (specialist or master). |
| 3.7. Reference area: | Montenegro |
| 3.8. Time coverage: | The results of the survey are regularly published in the Statistical Yearbook of Montenegro, for master degree from 2002, and for specialists from 2007. |
| 3.9. Base period: | Not relevant. |
| 4. Unit of measure Top | |
| Number of students who have completed postgraduate studies. | |
| 5. Reference period Top | |
| data refer to the calendar year. | |
| 6. Institutional mandate Top | |
| 6.1. Legal acts and other agreements: | The Law on Official Statistics and the Official Statistics System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No. 18/12 and 47/19) defines provisions for the collection, processing and dissemination of data. The Law provides the Statistical Office with a legal authority to collect and access the data necessary for the implementation of the Program and the Annual Plan. The law gives priority to the use of administrative data, as well as the right to access individual data as a result of research by other producers of official statistics. In addition to the legal provisions, the Statistical Office signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with the University of Montenegro as the owner of administrative data. |
| 6.2. Data sharing: | Signed agreement on cooperation with the official statistical producers: 1. Customs Administration 2. Tax Administration 3. Ministry of Finance 4. Central Bank of Montenegro 5. Trilateral agreement (MONSTAT, Ministry of Finance, and Central Bank of Montenegro) International institutions: 1. EUROSTAT 2. UN organizations 3. IMF 4. World Bank |
| 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. MONSTAT 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: | Individual information is an official secret. The data is expressed in a aggregated form. Access to confidential data of official statistics is limited to persons who perform tasks with the official statistics producer and to the extent that these data are necessary for the production of official statistics. Data is published as aggregated without an identifier. The rule of access to micro data is defined in Articles 58 and 59 of the Law on Official Statistics and the System of Official Statistics. |
| 8. Release policy Top | |
| 8.1. Release calendar: | The Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 18/12 and 47/19) 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/eng/page.php?id=12&pageid=12 |
| 8.3. User access: | General aim of official statistical producer is to meet the needs of users, and to make an access to statistical data to users in an understandable manner, simultaneously 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 treated. |
| 9. Frequency of dissemination Top | |
| yearly - final data. | |
| 10. Accessibility and clarity Top | |
| 10.1. News release: | The release is published annually and is available at http://monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=295&pageid=75 |
| 10.2. Publications: | The Statistical Office publishes data on students who have completed postgraduate studies in Montenegro in the following publications: Statistical Yearbook, Women and Men in Montenegro. All publications published by the Statistical Office are available on the following link: http://monstat.org/cg/publikacije.php |
| 10.3. Online database: | not available |
| 10.4. Micro-data access: | The Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 18/12 and 47/19) 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: | The methodological admission for higher education is available on the Monstat website: http://www.monstat.org/userfiles/file/Obrazovanje/metodologije/metodolsko%20uputstvo%20-%20%20visoko%20obrazovanje(1).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: | The quality was monitored through all stages of production of data, from the responsible statistician, in accordance with the specifics of the appropriate survey. Data collection and processing is the subject of this control. Within the framework of the organization of statistical survey, certain quality aspects are a part of the preparedness of the staff involved and the production of statistics. |
| 12. Relevance Top | |
| 12.1. User needs: | International users: - Eurostat, - World Bank, - UN organizations, - International Monetary Fund National users: - Ministries and other public administration bodies, -Local government, and -Other local government bodies. - Central bank, - 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: | In the coming period it is necessary to improve the methodology and existing questionnaires used in the field of higher education through the application of the methodology and regulations prescribed by EUROSTAT, UNESCO and OECD, in order to ensure full international comparability. If it is possible to transfer to administrative sources of data. |
| 13. Accuracy and reliability Top | |
| 13.1. Overall accuracy: | The survey is conducted on the full coverage of reporting units. Reporting units are higher education institutions in Montenegro that have the data necessary for this research. This way provides a high degree of accuracy. |
| 13.2. Sampling error: | There are no sample errors because the survey in the field of higher education is conducted on a full-scale basis. |
| 13.3. Non-sampling error: | Not relevant. Since the survey in the field of higher education is based on a full coverage of the scope of errors, it has not been established. |
| 14. Timeliness and punctuality Top | |
| 14.1. Timeliness: | The data are published in accordance with the Annual Plan of Statistical Surveys, and the Statistical Release Calendar. The data shall be published on the date specified in the Statistical Release Calendar in the form of a regular annual release. Statistical Release Calendar is available on the link: http://monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=12&pageid=12 |
| 14.2. Punctuality: | No deviation between the announced date in the Statistical Release Calendar, and the actual date of publication. |
| 15. Coherence and Comparability Top | |
| 15.1. Comparability - geographical: | Data on students who have completed postgraduate studies in Montenegro are comparable to all countries using the International Standard Classification of Education - ISCED 2011. |
| 15.2. Comparability over time: | Data on students who have completed postgraduate studies in Montenegro are collected from the calendar year 2002 for master's and since 2007 for specialists. Data are time-comparable. There have been no interruptions in batches since the start of data collection for this statistical survey. |
| 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: | There was no data audit. Not applicable. |
| 18. Statistical processing Top | |
| 18.1. Source data: | All higher education institutions in the territory of Montenegro that have license and accreditation for their classes, regardless of their status. |
| 18.2. Frequency of data collection: | yearly |
| 18.3. Data collection: | Data is collected in a combination. From a number of reporting units, data is collected through a statistical questionnaire by a reporting method and partly by administrative means. |
| 18.6. Adjustment: | not relevant. |
| 19. Comment Top | |
