| Category: |
Economic statistics |
| Area: |
Forestry |
| Survey / data collection: |
Production of forest assortments in state forests |
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| 1. Contact Vrh |
| 1.1. Contact organization: |
Statistical Office of Montenegro - MONSTAT |
| 1.2. Contact organization unit: |
Environmental Statistics and Forestry 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: | 10 August 2022 |
| 3. Statistical presentation Top |
| 3.1. Data description: | The purpose of the Survey Production of forest assortments in state forests is to provide data on production, sales and stock of forest assortments in state forests. |
| 3.2. Classification system: | NACE Rev 2. |
| 3.3. Sector coverage: | Sector A - Agriculture, forestry and fishery. |
3.4. Statistical concepts and
definitions: | Forest is considered to be land overgrown with forest trees in the form of a stand with an area of more than 20 acres, as well as forest nurseries, seed stands and seed plantations that are an integral part of the forest, forest infrastructure, fire lines and other open areas within the forest area less than 20 acres.
Separate groups of forest trees on an area of less than 20 ares, forest nurseries and seed plantations that are not an integral part of the forest, protective belts of forest trees with an area of less than 20 ares and a width of less than 20 m, tree lines and parks in settlements are not considered forests.
Industrial wood has favorable physical and chemical characteristics and is intended for industrial (mechanical and chemical) processing.
Technical wood has favourable physical and chemical characteristics and is intended for various technical purposes.
Firewood is wood cut in order to be used for fire or charcoal production. |
| 3.5. Statistical unit: | The observation units are local units of the Administration for Managing Forests and Hunting Grounds (Forest Administration). |
| 3.6. Statistical population: | Reporting units are all business entities classified in the sector A - agriculture, forestry and fishery according to the Classification of Activities 2010, and they carry out the production of forest assortments in the state forests. |
| 3.7. Reference area: | Montenegro. |
| 3.8. Time coverage: | Data are available from the 2006. |
| 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 clear and wide 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 i 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 realization 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 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: | 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: | Data obtained through Survey Production of forest assortments in state forests are published every quarter in the form of a release: https://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=342&pageid=65. |
| 10.2. Publications: | Statistical Office publishes the following regular publications:
1. Monthly Statistical Review
2. Statistical Yearbook;
3. Montenegro in Numbers;
All publication published by Statistical Office are available at the following link:
http://monstat.org/eng/publikacije.php. |
| 10.3. Online database: | On line data base for the Report on production of forest assortments in state forests is available on the following link: http://bazapodataka.monstat.org/PXWebEng/pxweb/en/Forestry%20and%20environment/?rxid=ae467ae8-9c24-47ef-a579-3161229d8a81 |
| 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: | Data obtained through survey Production of forst assortments in state forests are published on the web site of Statistical Office of Montenegro in the form of excel tables: https://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=203&pageid=65 |
10.6. Documentation on methodology:
domain: | Not available. |
| 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: | Quality Survey Production of forest assortments in state forestsis monitored at all stages of data production (collecting, entering, and processing). Data obtained through this survey are checked with data from previous years. |
| 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://www.monstat.org/uploads/files/kvalitet/2.%20Izvjestaj%20o%20zadovoljstvu%20korisnika%20-%202022_FINAL%20engleska.pdf |
| 12.3. Completeness: | Not available. |
| 13. Accuracy and reliability Top |
| 13.1. Overall accuracy: | Survey Production of forest assortments in state forests includes business entities that carry out the production of forest assortments in the state forests 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: | Sampling error can not be calculated because the survey was not conducted on the basis of a random sample. |
| 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. The response rate for the Survey Production of forest assortments in state forests is 100%. |
| 14. Timeliness and punctuality Top |
| 14.1. Timeliness: | According to the Annual Plan of Official Statistics and Statistical Release Calendar, data for the Survey Production of forest assortments in state forests are collected each month for the previous month, and they are published at the end of each month, quarter and year. |
| 14.2. Punctuality: | Not available. |
15.3. Coherence - cross
domain: | Not available. |
| 15.4. Coherence - internal: | Data obtained through Survey Production of forest assortments in state forests are internaly coherent. |
| 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=3 |
| 17.2. Data revision - practice: | Not available. |
| 18. Statistical processing Top |
| 18.1. Source data: | Data are collected from Administration for Managing Forests and Hunting Grounds (Forestry Administration - Central). |
18.2. Frequency of data
collection: | Data are collected monthly. |
| 18.3. Data collection: | Reporting method is used for data collection. |
| 18.6. Adjustment: | Not relevant. |
