| Category: | Economic statistics |
| Area: | Transport, storage and communications |
| Survey / data collection: | Quarterly survey on transport |
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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 of business 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: | 01/09/2022 |
| 3. Statistical presentation Top | |
| 3.1. Data description: | The aim of survey in the field of transport statistics is collecting, processing and disseminating data on the passengers, goods, and infrastructure by type of traffic as well as data of the postal and telecommunications services and infrastructure in the postal and telecommunications traffic. Furthermore the aim is collecting processing and disseminating data on traffic accidents, injured and killed persons in accidents and data on registered road motor vehicles and trailers. The data are used to monitor volume and the dynamics of the observed phenomenon. |
| 3.2. Classification system: | NACE Rev.2 NST 2007 classification of goods |
| 3.3. Sector coverage: | Section H (KD 2010), divisions 49, 50, 51, 52, 53 and Section J divisions 61. |
| 3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions: | Transport is the movement of passengers and goods and from place of loading to place of unloading. Passenger is every person with ticket or appropriate document with the aim to travel to desired place. Passenger kilometre presents the transport of one person over the distance of 1 km. Goods transported are goods transferred based on the contract on transport. The quantity of goods transported is expressed in gross weight, meaning that the quantity of goods covers also the quantity of packaging or packing material (containers). Tonne-kilometres indicate transport of one-tone goods over the distance of 1 km. Trans-sipped tons of cargo related to the total amount of cargo that passes through the transhipment business entity, where the same load, regardless of the number of manipulations that it has executed, shown only once. Manipulated tons are a unit of performance that expresses the sum of operations registered by kind that are made (unloading, loading, reloading the direct transfer). Postal service is a service of receiving, processing, transfer and delivering letter mails in accordance with accepted standards. Letter is a type of communication in written form on paper or other appropriate data carrier, which must be sent and delivered to the address indicated by the sender on the item or letter cover. The package is a postal consignment containing goods and items. Other printed papers are printed publications issued by the publisher of a daily, occasionally or in a given period (newspapers and magazines). Telecommunication services cover transfer of voice, data, text, and sound, and video material by the transmission equipment based on single technology or combination of several technologies. Fixed telecommunication is services providing to users the access to public fixed network at the fixed location, and the use of public accessible telephone service at the fixed location. Mobile telecommunication is services providing to users the access to public mobile network, and the use of mobile telecommunication services. Traffic accident is an event that occurred on the road or the start on the road, which was attended by at least one vehicle in motion and in which one or more persons injured or killed or died within 30 days of the result of the traffic accident or result damage to property. Registered road motor vehicle and trailer are all vehicles registered in the Ministry of Interiors, except military vehicles. For the first time registered vehicles include: new and imported vehicles, i.e.vehicles with the first-time registration in Montenegro. Road transport is any movements of goods and/or passengers using a road vehicle on a given road network. National road transport is transport between two places (a place of loading and a place of unloading) located in the same country in which the vehicle is registered. International road transport is transport between two places (a place of loading and a place of unloading) in two different countries. It may involve transit through one or more additional country or countries. Cross-trade road transport is international road transport performed by a road motor vehicle registered in a third country. Transport for hire or reward is the carriage for remuneration, of persons or goods, on behalf of third parties. Transport on own account is transport which is not for hire or reward. Goods road motor vehicle is any single road motor vehicle designed to carry goods (lorry), or any coupled combination of road vehicles designed to carry goods, (i.e. lorry with trailer(s), or road tractor with semitrailer and with or without trailer). Road tractor is road motor vehicle designed, exclusively or primarily, to haul other road vehicles which are not power-driven. |
| 3.5. Statistical unit: | Data source: (i) for rail transport are reporting units with the carriage of passengers and goods by rail prevailing activity (Section H, field 49); (ii) road passenger traffic reporting units with the carriage of passengers in road traffic prevailing activity (Section H, field 49); (iii) road freight transport vehicles for transportation of goods payload of 3500 kg and higher, as well as tractors. Sources of data are legal and natural persons who are owners or users of vehiclesthere are in the sample. Frame for sample selection is a database of registered vehicles that are obtained from Ministry Interior of Montenegro; (iv) local road traffic reporting units with the carriage of passengers in local road (urban) traffic prevailing activity (Section H, field 49); (v) traffic at airports reporting units that perform service activities in air traffic (Section H, field 52); (vi) air traffic reporting units which operate in air traffic (Section H, field 51); (vii) maritime traffic reporting units with the carriage of goods and passengers in maritime transport prevailing activity (Section H, field 50); (viii) report on the arrival and departure of ships reporting units are the Port Authority and Maritime safety department of Montenegro (ix) reloading the reporting unit which is engaged manipulating freight (shipping in ships and unloading from them) core business (Section H, field 52); (x) postal and telecommunications traffic reporting unit is Agency for electronic communications and postal service (xi) Source data for the number of road traffic accidents is Montenegro police directorate and the number of registered road motor vehicles and trailers Ministry of Interior of Montenegro. |
| 3.6. Statistical population: | Units for all surveys of transport, except survey of freight road transport, are enterprises.For freight road transport units are in addition to enterprises and natural persons who are owners / users road vehicle payload 3500 kg or larger and unit. |
| 3.7. Reference area: | Teritory of Montenegro |
| 3.8. Time coverage: | Electronic data available since 2010 |
| 3.9. Base period: | 2015 |
| 4. Unit of measure Top | |
| Passengers carried, passenger kilometers, goods in tonnes and tonne miles, the number of registered road motor vehicles and trailers, the number of first time registered road motor vehicles and trailers, the number of registered road motor vehicles and trailers according to year, the number of traffic accidents and number of persons killed and persons injured in road traffic accidents, reloaded tons, manipulated tones. Postal services: letters, packages, printed matter; Telecommunication services: minutes spent in fixed telephony, spent minutes of mobile telephony. | |
| 5. Reference period Top | |
| Quarter | |
| 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 protected from misuse under the Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System of Montenegro ("Official Gazette of Montenegro", No. 18/12, 47/19 from 30. 03. 2012) |
| 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://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 | |
| Quarterly | |
| 10. Accessibility and clarity Top | |
| 10.1. News release: | Quarterly release are available on the website: http://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=1292&pageid=36 |
| 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: | http://monstat.org/eng/pxweb.php |
| 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: | The data are transmitted to Eurostat in the planned dynamics. |
| 10.6. Documentation on methodology: domain: | The methodology is available on the website: http://monstat.org/userfiles/file/saobracaj/2016/Transport%20stataistiss_Methodology_EN.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: | Definitions of basic variables and the methodology of calculation results are consistent with Eurostat recommendations. |
| 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: | Units for all survays of transport except survay of freight road transport are enterprises with 5 or more employees who are in the Statistical Business Register according to the activity classification in Section H (KD 2010), divisions 49, 50, 51, 52, 53 and Section J divisions 61. Survey transport of goods by road conducted on a sample, frame for sample selection is a database of registered vehicles that are obtained from Ministry Interior of Montenegro. |
| 13. Accuracy and reliability Top | |
| 13.1. Overall accuracy: | Not relevant. |
| 13.2. Sampling error: | Not relevant. |
| 13.3. Non-sampling error: | Not relevant. |
| 14. Timeliness and punctuality Top | |
| 14.1. Timeliness: | Data are published according to the Statistical Data Release Calendar (45 days after the end of the reference period). |
| 14.2. Punctuality: | Deadlines for publishing data during 2021, except for preliminary data for the third quarter, fulfilled in accordance with the Statistical Data Release Calendar. |
| 15. Coherence and Comparability Top | |
| 15.1. Comparability - geographical: | Not relevant |
| 15.2. Comparability over time: | Not relevant |
| 15.3. Coherence - cross domain: | Not relevant |
| 15.4. Coherence - internal: | Data is internally 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=1411 |
| 17.2. Data revision - practice: | Typical revisions are minimal. |
| 18. Statistical processing Top | |
| 18.1. Source data: | Data source: (i) for rail transport are reporting units with the carriage of passengers and goods by rail prevailing activity (Section H, field 49); (ii) road passenger traffic reporting units with the carriage of passengers in road traffic prevailing activity (Section H, field 49); (iii) road freight transport vehicles for transportation of goods payload of 3500 kg and higher, as well as tractors. Sources of data are legal and natural persons who are owners or users of vehicles. Data source for road vehicles is the Ministry of Interior of Montenegro; (iv) local road traffic reporting units with the carriage of passengers in local road (urban) traffic prevailing activity (Section H, field 49); (v) traffic at airports reporting units that perform service activities in air traffic (Section H, field 52); (vi) air traffic reporting units which operate in air traffic (Section H, field 51); (vii) maritime traffic reporting units with the carriage of goods and passengers in maritime transport prevailing activity (Section H, field 50); (viii) report on the arrival and departure of ships reporting units are the Port Authority and Maritime safety department of montenegro (ix) reloading the reporting unit which is engaged manipulating freight (shipping in ships and unloading from them) core business (Section H, field 52); (x) postal and telecommunications traffic reporting unit is Agency for electronic communications and postal service (xi) Source data for the number of road traffic accidents is Montenegro police directorate and the number of registered road motor vehicles and trailers Ministry of Interior of Montenegro. |
| 18.2. Frequency of data collection: | Quarterly |
| 18.3. Data collection: | Transport data are collected through regular quarterly and annual surveys, data collection apply to reporting methods. Data are collected by questionnaire (mail, email), in addition to study on freight road transport used for polls methods. |
| 18.6. Adjustment: | Not relevant |
| 19. Comment Top | |
