| Category: |
Economic statistics |
| Area: |
Tourism |
| Survey / data collection: |
Monthly survey on arrivals of cruisers |
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| 1. Contact Vrh |
| 1.1. Contact organization: |
Statistical Office of Montenegro - MONSTAT |
| 1.2. Contact organization unit: |
Business Statistics, Foreign Affiliates Statistics and Structural Business 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: | 06 Decembar 2023 |
| 3. Statistical presentation Top |
| 3.1. Data description: | The aim of this survey is to obtain data on the number of cruises of foreign vessels that arrive in the territorial sea of Montenegro, according to the flag of the vessel and the number of passengers on these ships. Survey results are used to analyze tourist activity as an element of the tourism development policy in Montenegro. |
| 3.2. Classification system: | Not relevant. |
| 3.3. Sector coverage: | Not relevant. |
3.4. Statistical concepts and
definitions: | Cruise is a tourist journey lasting from several days to a specific itinerary for cruises.
A cruise ship is a tourist boat intended for several-day tourist cruises.
The term traveler refers to any person who arrived by ship, regardless of age, and is not a member of the crew.
Under the flag of the ship means the country whose flag the ship sails. |
| 3.5. Statistical unit: | Port Authority of Bar and Kotor with its business units - branches. |
| 3.6. Statistical population: | Foreign ships on a cruise journey and entering the territorial sea of Montenegro. |
| 3.7. Reference area: | Montenegro. |
| 3.8. Time coverage: | Since 2007 it is implemented as a regular survey. |
| 3.9. Base period: | The base period is the period of the previous year . |
| 4. Unit of measure Top |
| The number of passengers and trips on a cruise in Montenegro expressed in absolute values.
Changes compared to the previous period - in percent (%). |
| 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 18/12,47/19) 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: | 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 18/12,47/19) 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 data are not published. According to Article 56 of the Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System, individual data on natural or legal persons are confidential and constitutes an official secret. According to Article 57 of confidential data will only be used for statistical purposes only if the reporting units give explicit consent for the use of its data, such information is not considered confidential. |
| 8. Release policy Top |
| 8.1. Release calendar: | The Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 18/12,47/19) 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://monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=1179&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. |
| 10. Accessibility and clarity Top |
| 10.1. News release: | Annual releases are available at the following link:
http://monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=500&pageid=43 |
| 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: | Data is available:
http://monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=500&pageid=43 |
| 10.4. Micro-data access: | The Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 18/12,47/19) 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: | Data is available in excel documents:
http://monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=454&pageid=43 |
10.6. Documentation on methodology:
domain: | The methodology is available under this link: http://monstat.org/userfiles/file/turizam/kruzna%20putovanja/Methodology%20(TU%2019).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: | All the data so far is fully comparable, deadlines for publishing are respected, there have been no breaks in time series. Survey is not subject to European regulations and requirements, but is implemented because of national needs. Quality is monitored at all stages of data production according to specification of survey. |
| 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: | The survey is carried out due to national needs, in accordance with national methodology. Coverage is complete. |
| 13. Accuracy and reliability Top |
| 13.1. Overall accuracy: | The survey is carried out on a full coverage, which includes two reporting units, the port authorities of Bar and Kotor. |
| 13.2. Sampling error: | The survey is conducted on full coverage, so there is no error in sampling. |
| 13.3. Non-sampling error: | Not relevant. |
| 14. Timeliness and punctuality Top |
| 14.1. Timeliness: | Data is collected monthly and is published annually on 17 March of the current year for the previous year. Questionnaires are sent to the reporting units at the beginning of the year (for all 12 months). The deadline for submission is 10 days after the end of the reference month. Data is published 80 days after the end of the reference year. |
| 14.2. Punctuality: | Indicator punctuality represents the time difference between the actual publication of the data and the planned publication
Concerning this survey, accuracy = 0, meaning that the data was published in accordance with the Statistical Release Calendar. |
| 15. Coherence and Comparability Top |
15.1. Comparability -
geographical: | The survey is conducted for national purposes, therefore, the data of this study are not comparable with data of other EU countries, because they are not subject to EU regulations. |
| 15.2. Comparability over time: | Data is comparable from 2007 when the survey was conducted. |
15.3. Coherence - cross
domain: | Not relevant. |
| 15.4. Coherence - internal: | Data are internal connected. |
| 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: | Published data are considered as preliminary until the next release when preliminary data become final according to Statistical Release Calendar. |
| 18. Statistical processing Top |
| 18.1. Source data: | The survey is conducted by reporting method to the full scope, and includes two reporting units, port of authorities Bar and Kotor. |
18.2. Frequency of data
collection: | Monthly. |
| 18.3. Data collection: | Data collection is done by a reporting method, using a questionnaire TU-19. Port authorities submitted to Monstat summary report for the entire area, a way that port authority takes the information from offices (marinas) and then send it to Monstat. Reports are completed for each vessel separately. |
| 18.6. Adjustment: | Not relevant. |
