Metadata
| Category: | Other producers of official statistics |
| Area: | ONAs |
| Survey / data collection: | Statistics of other financial institutions - microcredit financial institutions |
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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: | Central Bank of Montenegro |
| 1.2. Contact organization unit: | Sector for Financial Stability and Research and Statistics |
| 1.2. Contact organization unit: | Bulevar Sv. Petra Cetinjskog 6, 81000 Podgorica |
| 2. Metadata update Top | |
| 2.1. Metadata last certified: | November 27 2025 |
| 2.2. Metadata last posted: | 24 December 2025 |
| 2.3. Metadata last update: | November 27 2025 |
| 3. Statistical presentation Top | |
| 3.1. Data description: | Monthly production of statistics of other financial institutions - microcredit financial institutions. |
| 3.2. Classification system: | Classification is in line with MFSMCG (Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide - IMF, 2016) and ESA 2010 (European System of Accounts) methodology. |
| 3.3. Sector coverage: | Microcredit financial institutions have the reporting obligation. |
| 3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions: | The survey is aligned with the international standards |
| 3.5. Statistical unit: | Microcredit-financial institutions |
| 3.6. Statistical population: | Microcredit-financial institutions |
| 3.7. Reference area: | Montenegro |
| 3.8. Time coverage: | Monthly data since 2009 for microcredit financial institutions. |
| 3.9. Base period: | Attn. |
| 4. Unit of measure Top | |
| EUR (thousands) | |
| 5. Reference period Top | |
| Monthly data | |
| 6. Institutional mandate Top | |
| 6.1. Legal acts and other agreements: | In accordance with the Law on Official Statistics and the System of Official Statistics ( Official Gazette of Montenegro , No. 18/12, 47/19, 023/25), the Central Bank of Montenegro is the producer of official monetary and financial statistics. The CBCG collects and statistically processes data pursuant to the Central Bank of Montenegro Law (OGM 40/10, 6/13, 70/17, 125/23), the Law on Financial Leasing, Factoring, Purchase of Receivables, Micro-lending, and Credit-Guarantee Operations (OGM 73/17, 44/20), and the Decision on Reports to be Submitted to the Central Bank of Montenegro (OGM 24/18). |
| 6.2. Data sharing: | Eurostat and IMF |
| 7. Confidentiality Top | |
| 7.1. Confidentiality - policy: | Chapter V Statistical Confidentiality of the Regulation (EC) No 2232009 of the European Parliament and Council adopted on 11 March 2009 on the European Statistics regulates protection and transmission of confidential data in ESS and ESCB |
| 7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment: | Data is available to public in aggregate form only. |
| 8. Release policy Top | |
| 8.1. Release calendar: | Data is published following the date defined in the official publication Calendar. The calendar is publicly available. |
| 8.2. Release calendar - access: | https:www.cbcg.meenstatisticsrelease-calendar |
| 8.3. User access: | Data is available on the CBCG website, according to the release calendar and at the same time for all the users. |
| 9. Frequency of dissemination Top | |
| Monthly | |
| 10. Accessibility and clarity Top | |
| 10.1. News release: | Attn. |
| 10.2. Publications: | Bulletin, Quarterly and Annual Macroeconomic Report, Annual Report, Inflation Report (https:www.cbcg.meen) |
| 10.3. Online database: | Attn. |
| 10.4. Micro-data access: | Attn. |
| 10.5. Other: | https:www.cbcg.meenstatisticsstatisticalmonetary-and-financial-statisticsother-financial-institutions |
| 10.6. Documentation on methodology: domain: | https:www.cbcg.meenstatisticsstatisticalmonetary-and-financial-statistics https:www.cbcg.meenpublicationsregular-publicationscbcg-bulletin |
| 10.7. Quality documentation: | Operating procedures |
| 11. Quality management Top | |
| 11.1. Quality assurance: | Quality is ensured by the use of statistical concepts presented in the IMF Compilation Guide for monetary and financial statistics, as well as using ECB methodologies for monetary and financial compilation |
| 11.2. Quality assesment: | Attn. |
| 12. Relevance Top | |
| 12.1. User needs: | National users: ministries and other institutions of public administration, MONSTAT, banks, researchers, media and other International users: IMF, World Bank, ECB, foreign embassies, researchers and other |
| 12.2. User satisfaction: | Attn. |
| 12.3. Completeness: | Attn. |
| 13. Accuracy and reliability Top | |
| 13.1. Overall accuracy: | Attn. |
| 13.2. Sampling error: | Attn. |
| 13.3. Non-sampling error: | Attn. |
| 14. Timeliness and punctuality Top | |
| 14.1. Timeliness: | Attn. |
| 14.2. Punctuality: | The data is published in line with the release calendar |
| 15. Coherence and Comparability Top | |
| 15.1. Comparability - geographical: | The data are comparable with international documents and methodology |
| 15.2. Comparability over time: | Time series is fully comparable |
| 15.3. Coherence - cross domain: | Attn. |
| 15.4. Coherence - internal: | Attn. |
| 17. Data revision Top | |
| 17.1. Data revision - policy: | Preliminary quarterly data is revised upon definitive data availability. Users are informed on data definitiveness. In case of significant differences, changes, alongside reasons behind them, are explained in reports. Series are revised as far-back as possible, with the aim of ensuring data series comparability. |
| 17.2. Data revision - practice: | Attn. |
| 18. Statistical processing Top | |
| 18.1. Source data: | Monthly reports of microcredit financial institutions. |
| 18.2. Frequency of data collection: | Monthly |
| 18.3. Data collection: | Direct reporting by microcredit-financial institutions. |
| 18.6. Adjustment: | Attn. |
| 19. Comment Top | |
| Attn. | |
