Czech Statistical Office (CZSO)

Industrial, Construction and Energy Statistics Department (51)
Construction Statistics Unit (5102)

Český statistický úřad
Na Padesátém 81
100 82 Praha 10

Building permits measured as the number of dwellings and square metres of useful floor area.
The total number of construction permits granted by the construction office for new construction work.

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The results cover the whole population of enterprises, what represents institutional sectors of non-financial corporations and household firms.

Building permits measured as the number of dwellings and square metres of useful floor area.
The total number of construction permits granted by the construction office for new construction work.

The dwelling refers to one room or a set of rooms, which are dedicated for residential purposes by the planning and building control authority and which may serve as an independent dwelling for such purpose.

The useful floor area of the dwelling is the floor area of all habitable and ancillary rooms, including facilities of the dwelling. Cellars, washrooms and uninhabitable lofts are not surveyed at all. Garages are surveyed only if located in non-residential areas.

Planning and building control authorities.

Planning and building control authorities.

1095 units

Czech Republic

Length of time series: Year 2000 - Presence
- The infomation is valid for all aggregates required by STS-R.
- The data available nationally are identical to those trasmitted to Eurostat.

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Number of dwellings

m2

Calendar month

Act No. 89/1995 Coll. on the state statistical service of June 15, 1995, as amended (does not refer to any specific indicator).

Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 on European business statistics.

Data sharing with international organizations: IMF, UN, OECD (tables predefined by the organization)

The confidentiality policy is based on:
1. Act No. 89/1995 Coll. on the state statistical service as amended (assures protection of individual data and implies the active approach to data protection),
2. Law on protection of personal data,
3. The internal Directive No. 1/2012 of the Czech Statistical Office (the defines the detailed rules, which are seen as confidential).

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The Czech Statistical Office publishes the following advance notice: 'Calendar of News Releases' in October of each year with precise dates for the coming calendar year. At the same time they are posted on the CZSO web site www.czso.cz.

Release calendar is available at the CZSO website.

The data are released simultaneously to all interested parties by issuing the News Releases "Construction" at 9:00 AM on the scheduled day of release.

No user has pre-release access to the data.

Data are transmitted monthly to EUROSTAT. Transmission of the data to Eurostat begin on the day of national publication.

Monthly
- There are differences between transmissions to Eurostat and national dissemination.

The data represents the key component of regular monthly "Construction" News Release, which is published on the CZSO Website. The News Release is amended by set of tables, charts and by udated time series strating from 2000.

Statistical Yearbook of the Czech Republic.

Selected tables are available in the CZSO Public Datase (VDB). This dissemination channel is currently still under contruction and the future changes are foreseen.

According to the national legislation the access to the microdata is allowed for scientific puproses only. Each request is decided on individual basis by the relevant expert group.

Other formats:
- The most comprehensive infomation is available as Time Series, which represent a specific dissemination format available in electronic form only.
- The data are regularly transmitted to Eurostat.

Important aspects and procedures of quality management within statistical production process as well as methodology are documented by the internal Statistica Metadata System (also in the form of so-called Technical projects), event. instructions for surveyors that are available for every statistics produced.

Technical projects in general contain description of the primary input data, data sources, definition of population, sampling procedure, processing technology, requirements for data transfer, control relations and checks, automatic corrections, derived indicators, definition of organization responsibilities, description of controls and relations, methodology of imputations, definition of outputs, description of input, source and user databases, backups, schedules of project and program preparation, schedules of preliminary and final processing, etc. In the CZSO there is a process of technical project preparation that is coordinated by the Department for Methodology of Performing Statistical Processing. For these purposes every year the so-called Schedule of technical preparation of statistical surveys is discussed in the advisory bodies of the President, where activities, terms and responsible units are specified.

As regards documetation accesible to the wide public, an elementary description of the methodology is published in the methodological notes on the CZSO website. Advanced information on methodology appears occasionally in specialised periodicals.

The whole process of data production is driven by internal documentation (Technical project and the Statistica Metadata System) to which all interested parties has an access (see the point 11.1).

Audit reports including all the test and analysis carried out within the audit are stored and the public parts are available on request (see also quality management).

The key components of the quality assurance are the following:
1. Strategic dosuments of the CZSO: Mission, Vision and Priorities of the CZSO, Quality commitment, Priority tasks defined for each year
2. Irregular methodological audits represents an important tool in quality control. Audits are usually carried out by expert group comprising of internal and external experts (NA experts, representatives of universities, ministries etc.). The IPI was audited in 2018.
3. Important aspects and procedures of quality management within statistical production process are documented in by internal Statistical metadata system, including so-called Technical projects, event. by instructions for surveyors that are available for every statistics produced.

Assesment of the quality uses the following components:
1. Standard STS compliance assessments carried out by Eurostat. This assesment is used internally as well.
2. The methodological audit (see also Quality assurance) includes inter alia different quality analysis, e.g. benchmark analysys, response analysis, in case of leading indicators, their ability to predict the changes in the economy.
3. Regular response rate measurement.
4. Regular confrontation of estaimates with later available administrative data or comparable data acquired or estimated from statistics with different periodicity.

The following users can be identified:
1. External users:
1.1 Eurostat
1.2 Ministry of Industry and Trade, Czech National Bank, other governmental institutions, other international organizations (IMF, UN, OECD)
1.3 Employers' associations, trade unions, media, students, wide public
2. Internal users: Quarterly National Accounts Department

The CZSO primarily fulfill its commitments towards the European Commission, which represents the high priority user. However, depending on the capacioty available the CZSO treats all the users equally.

No users satisfaction surveys are carried out exclusively for STS indicators on the national level. However, CZSO is constantly in contact with different groups of users, e.g. Ministry of Industry and Trade, Czech National Bank, different associations, internat users etc. Formal meeting with users is organized regularly by the General Methodology Department.

The CZSO provides Eurostat with all data requred by the STS Regulation.

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The response rate is 100% at the time when the survey is closed for a reference month (i.e. preliminary data published 37th day after the end of the reference period).

The target deadline for the release is 37th day after the end of the reference period. Exact dates (see the Release calendar) take into the account the distribution of working days in the particular period. These deadlines allows to meet requirements of both EU legislation and other users' requirements.

The data are always published at the 9:00 AM of the day announced by the Release Calendar. The CZSO does not register any deviation from this practice.

We are comply with EU definitions.

Relevant time series are available starting from 2000.
- There is no difference in comparability or acessibility of the data for various frequencies.

Data is not confronted with other results.

There are no problems regrading internal consistence of the time series in question.

The CZSO performs the burder measurement by statistical survey (questionnaire). With regard to the indirect relation between input and output data the precise distribution of the overall burden by the individual indicators is not possible.

Data revisions follow the Revision Policy of the CZSO, which represent one of the key documents of the office. It is accessible via the CZSO website in both Czech and English. Calendar of standard revisions is being prepared together with the release calendar.

The same revision policy is applied to STS data released nationally and transmitted to Eurostat.

Monthly Revisions: When data for February of the year Y are released data for January of the year Y are revised. Main reasons here are specific issues related to the start-up of tasks for the new reference period (increased non-response, updates of registers – the vast changes carried out during the year).

Quarterly Revisions: As the need may be revisions of monthly and quarterly data for the last elapsed quarter are carried out. Simultaneously, revisions of previous periods of the reference year may also be performed. All these ordinary revisions are released once a quarter elapsed along with the appropriate News Release for the first month of the current quarter. The revisions are based on knowledge and more accurate data from quarterly tasks.

Annual Revisions: 1st annual revision of monthly estimates for all reference periods of the last elapsed year (Y) is released along with the appropriate News Release for April of the current year. The revisions are based on further knowledge and more accurate data acquired during the year. Data released in this revision are considered to be finalised data.

Main Revision (MR) and Main Absolute Revision (MAR)

MR for all variables is 0.

MAR for all variables is 0.

Type of data source: Statistical survey (Stav 2-12)

Sample or census: census

Criteria for stratification: None

Threshold values and percentages: None

Monthly

Questionnaires used in the survey: Stav 2-12

Data collection media: Electronic questionnaire, web questiononnaire, printed questionnaire. Starting from 2013 printed questionnaires are available only to those respondents which are impossible to contact electronically or upon request.

Non-response treatment: Phone, email or postal reminders. The activity starts the next day after the dedline of the questionnaire. Fines can be given to non-responding units. The related processes are driven by internal Directive. 

The data validation is driven by survey documentation (Technical project, SMS Ulohy), which decribes approx. 60 validation checks attributed to the processing of the questionnaire Stav 2-12. This contains:
- Validity of each attribute collected within the questionnaire
- Logical checks between indicators inside the questionnaire
- Comparison over time (previsous period / the same period of the previous year)

The validation between surveys is attributed to the surveys of higher frequency (quarterly, annual).

Plausibility checks (e.g. comparison with NA) are performed at ad-hoc basis. They are also an integral part of methodological audits.

Feedback from the validation on micro level is available also to reporting units in case of electronic data collection (electronic questionnaire, online data collection).

For the transmission to Eurostat the internal application SDMX had been developed. Except encoding to Gesmes and communication with eDamis it assures also consistency with predefined structure of the data as well as appropriatate coding. As the application is part of the data production system, specific validation of the STS files is not needed.

Estimates for non-response: None

Estimates for grossing-up to population levels: None

Type of index: None

Method of weighting and chaining: None

Transmission of the data to Eurostat: The files are converted to SDMX using internally developed application.

Seasonal and working day adjusment is performed using JDemetra+ sofware (TRAMO-SEATS method).

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