State Statistical Office of the Republic of North Macedonia

Department for industry, construction and business tendencies

 Dame Gruev" 4, 1000 Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia

Turnover indices in industry, total, on domestic market and non-domestic market (total, sectors, main industrial groupings, divisions, groups of products).

National Classification of Activities - NACE Rev.2 and National Nomenclature of Industrial Products - NNIP 2017.     

The sectors: B - Mining and quarrying and C - Manufacturing (the groups 05.1 - 33.2) of the National Classification of Activities NACE Rev.2.

The value of the turnover is an invoiced value that the reporting unit has achieved on the basis of sales of goods and services in the reporting month. It coincides with the market value of goods sold and services supplied to third parties in the domestic and foreign market. The value of the turnover should include all costs of transportation and packaging and all taxes of the invoiced goods and services of the reporting unit apart from the value added tax (VAT) and excise duties. We exclude all discounts and price reductions and value of returned packaged goods, except cash discounts. Discounts, reductions and additional bonuses that are credited to the customers, are also excluded.

Statistical units are business entities in industry and mining, sectors B - Mining and quarrying and C - manufacturing from the National Classification of Activities - NACE Rev.2.
Statistical units are also the units from the business entities that produce industrial products but their parent company do not belong to the industrial sectors but to forestry, construction, trade etc.
Business entities that industrial activity are performed in the territory of two or more municipalities are divided as many statistical units as there are municipalities on which territory perform their activity.

Business entities and the units of the business entities that belongs to any of the sectors B and C of NACE Rev.2.

Republic of North Macedonia, activities outside the geographical coverage are not included in the data.

From 2010.

2015=100.

Indices.

Month.

National: Law on State Statistics (“Official Gazette of the Republic of North Macedonia” No. 54/97, 21/07, 51/11, 104/13, 42/14, 192/15, 27/16 and 83/18), Programme of Statistical Surveys 2018-2022 (“Official Gazette of the Republic of North Macedonia” No. 22/18 and 224/18).
International: Regulation (EU)2019/2152 of the European Parlament and of the Council on European business statistics and Commission Implementing Regulation 1197/2020.

Time series from January 2010 is submitted by EDAMIS to EUROSTAT.

Individual data are protected by the Law on State Statistics. Data collected with statistical surveys from the reporting units or indirectly from administrative or other sources are confidential data and are used only for statistical purposes. Results from the statistical processing may also generate information considered as confidential, for example: anonymised individual data, tables with low level of aggregation, as well as unreleased data. The Policy on Statistical Confidentiality contains the basic principles used in the SSO.

All individual or personal data, in each phase of statistical processing, are treated as confidential data and may be used only for statistical purposes. When releasing data from this survey at an aggregated level, there is no need for additional data treatment for the purpose of ensuring confidentiality.   

Data are released in accordance with the Release Calendar, which is published on the web site of the State Statistical Office. The Release Calendar is prepared annually before the beginning of each year and is updated quarterly.

https://www.stat.gov.mk/Kalendar.aspx

In accordance with the dissemination policy, all users have equal access to statistical data at the same time. Data are released on the web site at the same time for all users, which are informed with the Release Calendar, and no user has privileged access. At the same time, data are sent to Eurostat via EDAMIS according to the Release Calendar.

Monthly.

Monthly news release "Turnover Indices in industry".                                                                                                                   

Data from the monthly survey of the industrial turnover is been published in "Monthly Statistical Bulletin" and "Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of North Macedonia".

MakStat database available od the website of the SSO.

According to the Law on State Statistics (Article 41) and the Policy on Access to Anonymised Microdata for scientific purposes, data collected for the purpose of official statistics may be used for scientific purposes if there is no risk of direct or indirect identification, i.e. disclosure of data individuality. Access to microdata is possible only in the safe room at the SSO, based on a submitted and approved request and a signed agreement.    

http://www.stat.gov.mk/ZaNas_en.aspx

Survey data are sent to Eurostat and they are released on the web site of this institution.

Methodological explanations are published on the website of the SSO : http://www.stat.gov.mk/MetodoloskiObjasSoop_en.aspx?id=102&rbrObl=19

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The commitment of the SSO to ensuring quality of products and services is described in the Law on State Statistics, the Strategy of the State Statistical Office (http://www.stat.gov.mk/ZaNas_en.aspx?id=6) and the Quality Policy of the State Statistical Office (http://www.stat.gov.mk/pdf/Politika_za_kvalitet_en.pdf), as well as in the continuous efforts for harmonisation with the European Statistics Code of Practice. The main aspects and procedures for quality management in the phases and sub-phases of the Statistical Business Process Model, as well as the good practices for ensuring quality are documented in the internal document called “Guide for ensuring quality of statistical processes”. Input and output metadata, as well as relevant quality indicators for certain sub-processes are described in the document “Guide for survey managers”.

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Data from the monthly survey for turnover in industry are used by various government institutions in order to monitor the economic situation in the country and as short-term indicator they represent the point of reference for implementation of various economic analyzes, creating strategic plans for taking further actions and making decisions for the implementation of economic politics.

The State Statistical Office conducts the User Satisfaction Survey at the domain level. This Survey is conducted every three years and the last one was in 2019.

Concerning the indicators provided in accordance with the Regulation (EU)2019/2152 of the European Parlament and of the Council on European business statistics and Commission Implementing Regulation 1197/2020. SSO provides 100% of them.

Data accuracy is ensured by working on decreasing sampling and/or non-sampling errors, as well as with additional data comparisons and analysis before dissemination.

Survey is conducted with non-probability sample and there is no calculation of sampling errors.

Errors in coverage: It provides 100% coverage. Reporting units are reminded to fulfill their obligation.
Errors in processing: In the application for data processing, the control rules and calculations of output data are implemented.
Errors in non-response: Imputation is performed with data from some previous period.

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Data are disseminated within the established deadlines in accordance with the Release Calendar.

There is geographical comparability of the released data at national and regional level. With respect to geographical comparability with other EU countries, it is also ensured because data are collected in line with EU regulations.

Time series from January 2010 according to NACE Rev.2 (2015 = 100) and there is no interruption of time series.

Data are coherent between different parts of industrial statistics.
Coherence with other areas is partially provided.

Internal coherence of data is ensured.

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In accordance with the Statistical Data Revision Policy. The same revision is applied both to data released nationally and to data transmitted to Eurostat.
http://www.stat.gov.mk/ZaNas_en.aspx?id=25

Data revision is done by changing the base year and with changing the nomenclatures.    

This statistical survey is a sample survey.
The sample is selected from the business entities that are include in the "PRODCOM Survey for Industry".
The sample in 2015 covers 82.4% of the turnover in the industry, on total, 93.1% of the turnover on non-domestic market and 60.8% of the turnover on domestic market.
Updating of the sample is carried out every five years.
The sample in 2015 includes 500 business entities.

Monthly.

Data are collected by statistical questionnaire: "Monthly survey for turnover in industry" (IND.2) that is available to the reporting units on the website of the SSO (www.stat.gov.mk) through the system for electronic data collection (e-Stat).

Data verification is done in accordance with the defined control criteria. Data control is performed before and after data entry. For deviations we contact the reporting units. Verification is also done on the final indices before their publication.

Editing: Statistical survey is conducted monthly, on a sample basis. Data collection is done electronically through the system for electronic data collection (e-Stat), available on the website of the SSO.
Imputation: Imputation of nonresponses is done with data from some previous  period.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Wheithing: The weights for the turnover in the industry, total, is the value of the turnover from the final accounts of the enterprises for 2015, by kind of activity, aggregated at the level of groups of products, i.e. to three digits of NKD Rev.2. The weights for the turnover in the industry on non-domestic market is the value of the turnover of the enterprises realized from the export of their own production, by kind of activity, aggregated at the level of groups of products, i.e. to three digits of NKD Rev.2, according to the structure of the value of the export from the "External Trade, 2015". The weights for the turnover in the industry on domestic market are performed as a difference from the weights of the turnover in the industry, total and the weights for the turnover in the industry on non-domestic markets. The weights are changed every five years, and 2015 is used as a base year.

We do not perform seasonal adjustment and working day adjustment.

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