| Category: |
Demographic and social statistics |
| Area: |
Social protection |
| Survey / data collection: |
Users and forms of Social Security |
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| 1. Contact Vrh |
| 1.1. Contact organization: |
Statistical Office of Montenegro - MONSTAT |
| 1.2. Contact organization unit: |
Department of Education, Culture and Justice 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: | 29 September 2020 |
| 3. Statistical presentation Top |
| 3.1. Data description: | The purpose of the survey on socal welfare beneficiaries, personal disability allowence and and care and support is to provide data on the most important features, such as: monthly average of users of material support, by type of benefits (material support of family, personal disability alowance, care and support alowance), monthly average of users of material beneficiaries by municipalities. |
| 3.2. Classification system: | Municipalities. |
| 3.3. Sector coverage: | Not relevant. |
3.4. Statistical concepts and
definitions: | The data in this survey were obtained from the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare of Montenegro, referring to the average monthly number of holders of the right to material support, personal disability allowance and care and support.
The right to material support, as a basic material benefit from social protection
is realized by the family, that is, the individual if he is incapable of work or capable of working under
conditions prescribed by the Law on Social and Child Protection.
Persons with severe disabilities have the right to personal disability.
The right to care and assistance allowance is provided by a person to whom, due to physical, mental, intellectual or
sensory damage or changes in the health condition necessary care and help to have
provided access to meeting needs and any users of personal disability balowance. |
| 3.5. Statistical unit: | Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare. |
| 3.6. Statistical population: | Beneficiaries of material support, personal disability and care and support. |
| 3.7. Reference area: | Montenegro. |
| 3.8. Time coverage: | |
| 3.9. Base period: | Last year. |
| 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: | It is not relevant. |
| 7. Confidentiality Top |
| 7.1. Confidentiality - policy: | Articles 53-60 of the Law on Official Statistics and the Official Statistics System ("Official Gazette of Montenegro"No. 18/12 and 47/19) provide a framework for the protection, use and transfer of confidential data. MONSTAT has developed two comprehensive Regulations covering procedures for the protection of personal data, as well as the keeping of individual records. In order to implement the legal framework on the functioning of the security system and statistical confidentiality, the Rules on the Preservation of Statistical Data have been adopted which regulates the manner, time, technical conditions and organization of the preservation of statistical data in order to prevent their destruction, and unauthorized use, as well as the Rulebook on the Content and Manner of Keeping Records of Users of Individual Statistical Data, which prescribes the content and manner of keeping records of users of individual statistical data.
Article 59 access to confidential data of official statistics is restricted to persons performing tasks and tasks
with the producers of official statistics and to the extent that these data are necessary for the production of the official
statistics. Persons performing duties and tasks with producers of official statistics are obliged to sign a Statement of Compliance with the principle of confidentiality.
The Law on Official Statistics and the Official Statistics System is in accordance with Regulation 223/2009 and Regulation (EU) 2015/759 of 29 April 2015, which also regulates confidentiality provisions.
The Government of Montenegro has adopted a Statement on Commitment of Confidence Commitment to Confidence in Official Statistics of Montenegro. |
7.2. Confidentiality - data
treatment: | Confidentiality - the treatment of data is defined by the Law on Official Statistics and the Official Statistics System, Articles 54-61, (Official Gazette No. 18/12). |
| 8. Release policy Top |
| 8.1. Release calendar: | The Law on Official Statistics and the Official Statistics System ("Official Gazette of Montenegro" No. 18/12 and 47/19) prescribes that producers of official statistics prepare, update and publish the calendar of publishing statistical data. It is published on the website of the Statistical Office no later than December 20 for the following year, for all producers of official statistics that include the dates of publication of statistical data. Any changes on the date of publication in the Calendar are published in advance in accordance with the Unmanaged Audit Procedure. |
| 8.2. Release calendar - access: | http://www.monstat.org/cg/page.php?id=12&pageid=12 |
| 8.3. User access: | The overall objective of the official statistics producer is to meet the needs of its users and to make available to all users statistic data in a comprehensible manner at the same time and under the same conditions. The Statistical Office is obliged to produce and disseminate the official statistics in an objective, transparent and professional way, so that all users are treated equally. |
| 10. Accessibility and clarity Top |
| 10.1. News release: | Announcements are published annually and are available on the following web site: http://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=1359&pageid=79 |
| 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: | Not available. |
| 10.4. Micro-data access: | The Law on Official Statistics and the Official Statistics System ("Official Gazette of Montenegro"No. 18/12 and 47/19) regulates the rules under which external users can gain access to individual data for research purposes. Article 58 defines the types of scientific and research organizations who can get such data.
Giving individual data without an identifier is possible only on the written request of scientific research institutions, for the purpose of carrying out scientific research activities, as well as international statistical organizations and producers of statistics from other countries.
The investigating entity signs the Agreement with the Statistical Office, as well as the Statement of Compliance with the principle of confidentiality.
Manufacturers of official statistics keep separate records of users and the purpose for which statistics are given for use. |
| 10.5. Other: | |
10.6. Documentation on methodology:
domain: | The methodology is on the web address http://monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=1359&pageid=79 |
| 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: | The Statistical Office has opted for the implementation of TQM (Total Quality Management) models that encourage the development and improvement of the functioning:
- institutions,
- production of results of official statistics and
- individuals.
In the medium term, the Statistical Office opted for the implementation of the TQM model through the following goals:
1. Strong commitment to users and other stakeholders,
2. Quality statistical processes and products,
3. Professional orientation of employees,
4. Continuous improvements,
5. Reducing the burden on reporting units. |
| 11.2. Quality assesment: | |
| 12. Relevance Top |
| 12.1. User needs: | National users:
- non governmental institutions
- 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: | |
| 14. Timeliness and punctuality Top |
| 14.1. Timeliness: | The data is published on June 24, 2019 for the previous year in the form of a Release. |
| 14.2. Punctuality: | The data shall be published on the day foreseen by the Annual Plan and the Calendar of Publication of Statistical Data. |
15.3. Coherence - cross
domain: | |
| 15.4. Coherence - internal: | Not relevant. |
| 17. Data revision Top |
| 17.1. Data revision - policy: | The Statistical Office has adopted the audit policy and is available on the website http://www.monstat.org/cg/page.php?id=1493&pageid=1493 |
| 17.2. Data revision - practice: | |
| 18. Statistical processing Top |
| 18.1. Source data: | Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare. |
18.2. Frequency of data
collection: | Yearly. |
| 18.3. Data collection: | Administrative data source, Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare. |
| 18.6. Adjustment: | Not relevant. |
