| Category: |
Economic statistics |
| Area: |
Agriculture and fishing |
| Survey / data collection: |
Monthly survey on marine fish catch, done for individual (private) fishermen and enterprises |
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| 1. Contact Vrh |
| 1.1. Contact organization: |
Statistical Office of Montenegro - MONSTAT |
| 1.2. Contact organization unit: |
Department of Agricultural Statistics |
| 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: | 01 October 2020 |
| 3. Statistical presentation Top |
| 3.1. Data description: | Data on catches of sea fish are collected by species, as follows:
blue fish, cephalopods, crabs, shells. |
| 3.2. Classification system: | NACE Rev. 2 |
| 3.3. Sector coverage: | A-Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries |
3.4. Statistical concepts and
definitions: | Marine fishing is the management of living resources of the sea and includes: catching, collecting and protecting fish and other marine organisms on the principles of sustainable development in the fishing sea of Montenegro.
Fishing can be: economic, sports and recreational.
Enterprise and entrepreneurs, i.e. other legal and natural persons, under the conditions laid down in the Law on Marine Fisheries and Mariculture can be engaged in maritime fishery (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 56/09).
Sea fish catch refers to the amount of fresh fish that are discharged at sea, i.e. actual catch minus those quantities that are for any reason disposed of from the moment of withdrawal from the sea to landing on land. This includes the catch of ships that fish and process it on the ship itself. |
| 3.5. Statistical unit: | Enterprises, cooperatives and individual fishermen. |
| 3.6. Statistical population: | Enterprises and cooperatives |
| 3.7. Reference area: | Montenegro |
| 3.8. Time coverage: | Statistical data on fisheries have been collected since the 1960s. |
| 3.9. Base period: | Not relevant |
| 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: | 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. 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: | Pursuant to Article 56 of the Law on Official Statistics and the System of Official Statistics, individual data on natural or legal persons are confidential and constitute an official secret. Pursuant to Article 57, confidential data will be used exclusively for statistical purposes and will be presented 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) 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://www.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: | The data are published in the Statistical Yearbook and in the Montenegro in Figures. |
| 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: | There is no online database that can be accessed by data, but users can send a request for necessary data. |
| 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: | Data from this survey are published on the website of Statistical Office in form of Excel tables. |
10.6. Documentation on methodology:
domain: | http://monstat.org/userfiles/file/poliprivreda/metodologije/METODOLOGIJA-Morsko%20i%20slatkovodno%20ribarstvo.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: | Fish catch by individual fishermen is estimated in municipalities. When estimating catches, factors that influence on catch volume and available data sources of benefit to estimate more realistically are taken into accounts.
The data on sea fish for individual (private) fishermen PO-61-a are provided based on the estimations of professional service in municipalities of individual (private) fishermen' residence. Professional service in municipality performs the estimation of fish catch by individual fishermen based on: records of enterprises for sale and processing of fish that buy fish from individual fishermen, data on fishing gear and means, time of appearing fish and fishing nets capacity. |
| 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: https://www.monstat.org/uploads/files/kvalitet/2.%20Izvjestaj%20o%20zadovoljstvu%20korisnika%20-%202022_FINAL%20engleska.pdf |
| 12.3. Completeness: | |
15.3. Coherence - cross
domain: | Not available |
| 15.4. Coherence - internal: | |
| 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: | |
| 18. Statistical processing Top |
| 18.1. Source data: | Enterprises and individual fishermen. |
18.2. Frequency of data
collection: | |
| 18.3. Data collection: | |
| 18.6. Adjustment: | Not relevant |
