The National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat)

Population Census and Demographic Statistics Department

30, Tsotne Dadiani Str,

0180 Tbilisi,

GEORGIA

Data and metadata are transmitted to Eurostat by the Member States in the framework of the Unified Demographic Data Collection which is in accordance with Regulation (EC) 862/2007 and Regulation (EU) 1260/2013 and their implementing regulations.

This Euro SDMX Metadata Structure is used for the purpose of quality reporting. The definition of the quality concepts and guidelines are described in the European Statistical System Handbook for Quality Reports.

Population figure by age, sex and administrative unit, the indicators are published in absolute and/or in thousands.

Vital events - number of vital events (births, deaths, marriages and divorces) registered during the calendar year and are published in absolute and relative terms (as rates) by various demographic characteristics.

The regional breakdown of the Member States in the regional demographic tables is done under the most recent NUTS classification. There are agreements between Eurostat and Candidate countries as well as between Eurostat and EFTA countries, for which statistical regions have been coded in a way that resembles NUTS.

For more information on the versions in force, please see: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/nuts/.

International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision (ICD-10).

Usual population; Births; Deceased persons; stillbirths; Marriage; Divorce; Emigrants; Immigrants.

Persons, births, deaths, marriages, divorces, migrants.

Population by urban and rural – at national, regional and municipality level;

Population by sex and age - at national level;

Births - at national, regional and municipality level;

Deaths - at national, regional and municipality level;

Migration - at national level.

Population:

Population at national level by urban-rural – since 1920;

Population at regional and municipality level by urban-rural – since 1980;

Population by sex and age – since 1989.

Births:

Live births at national level by urban-rural - since 1950;

Live births by regions and sex - since 1969;

Stillbirths at national level by urban-rural - since 1960;

Stillbirths by regions and sex - since 1969.

Deaths:

Deaths at national level by urban-rural - since 1950;

Deaths by causes regions and main causes of death - since 2005.

Migration:

Net-migration at national level - since 1990;

Emigrants and Immigrants by sex and age at national level – since 2002.

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Number of persons;

Number of births;

Number of deaths; 

Number of marriages;

Number of divorces.

Population - as of 1 January;

Births, Deaths - the calendar year in which the events occurred;

Marriages, Divorces - the calendar year in which the events registered;

Migration - the calendar year in which the migration occurred.

National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat), the legal entity of public law, carries out its activities in accordance with the UN Fundamental Principles. It is an institution established to produce the statistics and disseminate the statistical information according to the Georgian legislation.

The National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) is responsibility, collecting, producing and disseminate the statistical data. Geostat guided by the following legal acts: i) the Law of Georgia on “Official Statistics” and ii) Annual Statistical Work Program.

In accordance with the Law of Georgia on “Official Statistics”, the Geostat is authorized to request from the administrative bodies and other physical and legal entities and receive all the statistical and other information (including confidential information and/or information containing personal data, in line with the “Law on Personal Data Protection") necessary for carrying out its functions. 

Upon the request and according to the legislation of Georgia, the administrative bodies are obliged to provide the Geostat with the information on physical and private entities (including confidential information). 

Geostat receiving data from:

Population – population censuses;

Births, Deaths, Marriages, Divorces – Public Service Development Agency (PSDA), Ministry of Justice of Georgia; and Ministry of IPDS, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia;

Migration – Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia;

Abortions - Ministry of IDPs, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia.

Law of Georgia on Official Statistics:

Article 34. Observing Confidentiality of Statistical Data:

• Data acquired for statistical purposes are confidential, if they enable the direct or indirect identification of a statistical unit.
• The dissemination of confidential statistical data or their use for non-statistical purposes is prohibited unless the cases stated by the Georgian legislation.

See: https://www.geostat.ge/media/56202/The-Law-of-Georgia-on-Official-Statistics.pdf 

The data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is confidential if it allows for identification of individual data.

Confidential statistical data cannot be disseminated or used for non-statistical purposes, except for the cases envisaged by the Georgian legislation - the Law of Georgia on “Official Statistics”. 

Data is produced based on several documents:

• Data confidentiality policy at Geostat;
• Guidelines for tabular personal data;
• Reminder (Signed by all staff members)

The Geostat publishes yearly an advanced release calendar for all its publication for the current year. The calendar is publicly accessible on the Geostat website.

https://www.geostat.ge/en/calendar.

Annexes:
Statistical Calendar

The general policy is that before publishing statistics on the Geostat web site a press release is available, also on the web site, to inform users and media.

All users get access to data at the same time.

Summary vital statistics - 2 times a year;

Detailed demographic data – yearly.

Data is provided in press-releases https://www.geostat.ge/en/news?year=&month=04&category=9 

Data publication is also provided in MS Excel, PDF format and for Android application (see: https://www.geostat.ge/en/modules/categories/316/population-and-demography).

For the regional data the special portal is available (see: https://regions.geostat.ge/regions/#)

Online annual publications are available:

• https://www.geostat.ge/en/single-categories/114/population

Data is available in PS-Axis format (see https://pc-axis.geostat.ge/PXweb/pxweb/en/Database/?rxid=a9e5191f-e414-4243-aef3-ddc839842cc5).

https://www.geostat.ge/en/modules/categories/316/population-and-demography

Demographic Portal:
http://database.geostat.ge/pyramid/index.php?lang=en

Quality documentation is available here.

To assure the quality of processes and products, Geostat applies EU Statistics Code of Practice and UN Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics and the ESS Quality Assurance Framework (QAF).

Geostat is also guided by the requirements provided for in article 4. “Basic principles of official statistics” of the Law on Official Statistics.

• State Bodies
• Local and international experts and researchers
• Students
• NGOs
• Research Institutions and Organizations
• International Organizations (IOM, UN, EUROSTAT, WHO, etc.)

available at: https://www.geostat.ge/en/user-survey

The data is relevant with international standards.

Births, Deaths, Marriages, Divorces - The reference year is the calendar year. The final data is disseminated 90 days after the reference year. Preliminary data (I –II quarter of current year) are released in 195 days;

Population - The reference year is the calendar year. The final data is disseminated 120 days after the reference year. No preliminary data are released;

Migration - The reference year is the calendar year. The final data is disseminated 120 days after the reference year. No preliminary data are released;

Leading causes of deaths - The reference year is the calendar year. The final data is disseminated 180 days after the reference year. No preliminary data are released.

Data are always delivered and published on the pre-announced release dates.

The data are internationally comparable. The International Migrations Statistics is based on the days cumulated in the country, while Residence permits mostly refer to the legal permission.

Information about demographic statistics is collected on the same basis, so the cross-sectoral analysis is possible.

The outputs of the statistical activity are coherent.

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Revision Police is available only in Georgian. Please see the link below:

https://www.geostat.ge/media/59824/Data-Revision-Policy-and-Error_Correction-at-Geostat_Eng.pdf

Please be informed that the document will soon be updated following the new Law of Georgia on Official Statistics

The 2014 General Population Census results revealed the necessity of re-estimation of basic demographic data of previous years. The re-estimation of data in the inter census period is recommended by the international organizations.

The retro-projected data is available on the web-page: https://www.geostat.ge/en/modules/categories/316/population-and-demography

Births, Deaths, Marriages, Divorces - quarterly;

Migration - yearly.

The data-base from administrative sources.

Data quality assurance plays an important role in collecting, processing and analyzing vital statistics. Starting from 2011 changes in normative acts and transition to the electronic issuance of medical certificates increased the coverage of death and birth facts, use of personal identification numbers and introduction of the electronic system eliminated duplicates and improved quality of personal information (name, surname, sex, and date of birth).

The PSDA assigns a PIN to a person at birth registration, or during registration by place of usual residence, or by time of issuance of Identity (Residence) cards. It is prohibited to assign two or more PINs to the same person, the same PIN to different persons, or to change or reuse a PIN of a deceased person A PIN consists of eleven digits. First two digits (from 01 to 99) denote an administrative unit code; the subsequent digit (from 1 to 9) is the control digit calculated from the other ten digits based on a certain formula. The following two digits (from 01 to 99) represent a code of a territorial office that assigned the PIN and the last six digits denote the serial number of the PIN record (from 000001 to 999999). The Chairperson of the PSDA approves the formula for calculating the control digit.

The PSDA, via its territorial authorities, performs logical checks of birth and death certificates sent from the medical institution. In case of missing information and/or inconsistencies within variables, the certificates are sent back to respective medical institutions for clarification.

Since 1998 Causes of death are coded according to the ICD-10 (the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems). The IRIS software recommended by the WHO for determining causes of death is used in Geostat since 2012. The software automatically selects the main cause of death and assigns a code according to the ICD-10. Additional quality checks for causes of death are performed using the ANACOD software, also recommended by the WHO.

Improvement in data quality was greatly facilitated by the introduction of the online system. Additional controls and validations were added to the system, for example, mothers’ age (15-49 years). 

After data cleaning and validation and linking, the annual anonymized source files are compiled, which are used for producing of statistics.

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