| Category: |
Economic statistics |
| Area: |
Agriculture and fishing |
| Survey / data collection: |
Monthly survey on agricultural product prices, raw material, equipment and services in agriculture |
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| 1. Contact Vrh |
| 1.1. Contact organization: |
Statistical Office of Montenegro ? MONSTAT |
| 1.2. Contact organization unit: |
Department for Economic accounts in Agriculture, Forestry and Environment |
| 1.2. Contact organization unit: |
IV Proleterske br. 2, 81000 Podgorica Crna Gora |
| 2. Metadata update Top |
| 2.1. Metadata last certified: | Not available. |
| 2.2. Metadata last posted: | 29 December 2023 |
| 2.3. Metadata last update: | 24/08/2022 |
| 3. Statistical presentation Top |
| 3.1. Data description: | The purpose of the survey is collecting data on agricultural products, i.e. product groups and equipment and services performed in the agriculture: prices from the price list valid up to 15th in a month and quantities of agricultural products produced produced and purchased in the reporting month. |
| 3.2. Classification system: | NACE Rev 2. |
| 3.3. Sector coverage: | Sector A - Agriculture, forestry and fishery. |
3.4. Statistical concepts and
definitions: | The quantity is considered to be total quantities produced and sold agricultural products for reporting month.
Agricultural product prices are considered to be prices collected in the first phase of turnover, i.e. within the transaction where salesperson is a direct agricultural producer.
The prices are from the price list valid until up to 15th in a month.
Agricultural product price index covers crop and livestock products.
Agricultural (input) price according to EUROSTAT recommendations is agricultural input prices recorded in the last marketing stage. This principle applies mainly for energy, fertilizers and feeding stuff, while for other goods there are used prices from other marketing stages (e.g. producer prices, wholesale prices) or price indices of other statistical surveys (e.g. consumer price indices, producer price indices, etc.) can be also taken into account. In our case we follow the principle of price recording in the last marketing stage by all groups of goods and services.
Agricultural (input) price indices cover goods and services for the current use in agriculture. |
| 3.5. Statistical unit: | The observation units are:
Business entities and agricultural cooperatives engaged in agricultural production and services in agriculture and unincorporated enterprises, as well as business units (purchase stations) that purchase and is defined according to the Classification of Activities in the sector A - Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery. |
| 3.6. Statistical population: | Reporting units are all business entities and agricultural cooperatives engaged in agricultural production and services in agriculture according to the Classification of Activities in the sector A - Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery. Criteria for coverage of legal entities are number of workers (from 2 and more employed workers). |
| 3.7. Reference area: | Montenegro |
| 3.8. Time coverage: | Data are collected from 2011. |
| 3.9. Base period: | The base year is 2015, and every 5th years. |
| 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, 047/19) 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: | 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, 047/19) 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 realisation 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: | According to Article 56 of the Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System, individual data on natural or legal persons shall be confidential and represent official secret. According to Article 57, confidential data will used only for statistical purposes and will be expressed in aggregate form. |
| 8. Release policy Top |
| 8.1. Release calendar: | The Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System ("Official Gazette of Montenegro" No 18/12, 047/19) 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: | https://monstat.org/uploads/files/Kalendar%20objavljivanja%20za%202023%20-%20%20ENG.pdf |
| 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. |
| 10. Accessibility and clarity Top |
| 10.1. News release: | Not available. |
| 10.2. Publications: | Not available. |
| 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, 047/19) 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 available. |
10.6. Documentation on methodology:
domain: | http://monstat.org/userfiles/file/agromonetarna%20statistika/Methodological%20materials%20agricultural%20output%20price.pdf
http://monstat.org/userfiles/file/agromonetarna%20statistika/Methodological%20materials%20%20input%20prices.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;
? individual.
Within middle-term deadline, Statistical Office has chosen the TQM implementation through the following objectives:
? strong commitment to users and other interested parties;
? quality statistical processes and products;
? professional orientation of staff members;
? constant improvements;
? reduction of overburden of reporting units |
| 11.2. Quality assesment: | Not available. |
| 12. Relevance Top |
| 12.1. User needs: | International users:
1. Eurostat;
2. World Bank;
3. UN organizations;
4. International Monetary Fund
National users:
1. Ministries and other public administration bodies;
2. Local government and other local government bodies;
3. Central bank;
4. non-governmental organizations;
5. students;
6. researchers;
7. 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: https://monstat.org/uploads/files/kvalitet/2.%20Izvjestaj%20o%20zadovoljstvu%20korisnika%20-%202022_FINAL%20engleska.pdf |
| 12.3. Completeness: | All requested data are produced by this survey. International and national requirements are met. |
| 13. Accuracy and reliability Top |
| 13.1. Overall accuracy: | Survey on the survey on agricultural product prices and raw material, equipment, and services in agriculture includes business entities and agricultural cooperatives engaged in agricultural production and services in agriculture according to the Classification of Activities in the sector A - Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery, as well as local units engaged in sold, and whose activities do not belong to the mentioned area, and the data are obtained by the reporting method, so they are subject to the usual types of errors - mistakes in processing and non-response. In order to prevent the occurrence of errors, appropriate actions are taken to identify and eliminate potential sources of error. |
| 13.2. Sampling error: | Not exist. |
| 13.3. Non-sampling error: | Non-sampling errors are associated with other errors that aren't connected with sample. Non-sampling errors include: coverage error, error of measurement, response error and processing error. |
| 14. Timeliness and punctuality Top |
| 14.1. Timeliness: | The data are not publishing, and they are used for the purpose of calculation the Economic account in agriculture. |
| 14.2. Punctuality: | Not exist. |
| 15. Coherence and Comparability Top |
15.1. Comparability -
geographical: | The survey methodology is in line with the Handbook for EU Agricultural Price Statistics, 2008, which allows comparability between countries. |
| 15.2. Comparability over time: | The data are completely comparable. |
15.3. Coherence - cross
domain: | The survey methodology is in accordance with the Handbook for EU Agricultural Price Statistics, 2008. |
| 15.4. Coherence - internal: | Not available. |
| 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: | Not exist. |
| 18. Statistical processing Top |
| 18.1. Source data: | Data are collected from business entities and agricultural cooperatives engaged in agricultural production and services in agriculture and / or managing sold, i.e. and is defined according to the Classification of Activities in the sector A - Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery, as well as local units engaged in sold, and whose activities do not belong to the mentioned area. |
18.2. Frequency of data
collection: | The reference period for this survey is a month. |
| 18.3. Data collection: | Data collection is performed by the reporting method. |
| 18.6. Adjustment: | Not available. |
