Reference metadata describe statistical concepts and methodologies used for the collection and generation of data. They provide information on data quality and, since they are strongly content-oriented, assist users in interpreting the data. Reference metadata, unlike structural metadata, can be decoupled from the data.
[SI5] National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) (Slovenia)
1.2. Contact organisation unit
Health Data Centre
1.3. Contact name
Confidential because of GDPR
1.4. Contact person function
Confidential because of GDPR
1.5. Contact mail address
Zdravstveno podatkovni center
Trubarjeva 2
SI-1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
1.6. Contact email address
Confidential because of GDPR
1.7. Contact phone number
Confidential because of GDPR
1.8. Contact fax number
Confidential because of GDPR
2.1. Metadata last certified
6 July 2026
2.2. Metadata last posted
14 July 2026
2.3. Metadata last update
6 July 2026
3.1. Data description
Statistics on healthcare non-expenditure provide information on healthcare human resources, healthcare facilities, and healthcare utilisation.
The people active in the healthcare sector (doctors, dentists, nurses, etc.) and their status (graduates, practising, migration of doctors and nurses, etc.);
The available healthcare technical resources and facilities (hospital beds, beds in residential care facilities, medical technology, etc.);
The health activities or patient contacts undertaken (hospital discharges, surgical procedures, ambulatory care data, etc.).
Annual national and regional data are provided in absolute numbers or as a rate of a relevant population. Data are based mainly on administrative records (see section 18.1 ‘Source data’ for more information).
3.2. Classification system
For the collection data on healthcare non- expenditure, the classifications used in the System of Health Accounts (SHA) and its related set of International Classification for the Health Accounts are applied.
For Health Employment, the Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications apply.
Definitions of mandatory variables are laid down in Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/2294.
Where possible, the statistics are separated by sex (male/female), age group and NUTS2 region.
National deviations: see Annex at the bottom of the page.
3.3. Coverage - sector
Public health.
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions
The healthcare non-expenditure statistics describe the public health sector from a non-monetary perspective. The statistics explain the number or rate of different healthcare resources, facilities and utilisations. A wide range of indicators are collected from a multitude of sources and therefore, details pertaining to individual variables are given in the Annex.
Definitions of mandatory variables are laid down in Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/2294.
National changes of statistical concepts and national definitions deviating from Regulation (EU) 2022/2294: see Annex at the bottom of the page.
3.5. Statistical unit
Registered health professionals or health care facility categories.
3.6. Statistical population
All health care staff.
All available beds or equipment in hospitals or in nursing and residential care facilities.
All discharges or procedures performed in all hospitals.
3.7. Reference area
Slovenia
3.8. Coverage - Time
Statistics on healthcare non-expenditure provide information on healthcare human resources, healthcare facilities, and healthcare utilisation for Slovenia:
Healthcare staff; most of the data (with some exceptions) are available yearly, overall from the year 2005 onwards.
Healthcare technical resources and facilities; most of the data (with some exceptions) are available yearly, overall from the year 2010 onwards.
Health activities; most of the data (with some exceptions) are available yearly, overall from the year 2011 onwards.
3.9. Base period
Not applicable
Annual national and regional data are provided in absolute numbers, days or as a rate of a relevant population.
Calendar year.
6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements
Joint Questionnaire on Non-Monetary Health Care Statistics, which is carried by Eurostat, OECD and WHO-Europe.
7.1. Confidentiality - policy
Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20 (4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p.164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data. All data collected and published by the National Institute of Public Health are governed by the Healthcare Databases Act (OJ RS No. 65/00 and updates) and additionally also by the National Statistics Act (OJ RS No. 45/95 and (No. 9/01). The National Statistics Act states that Statistics may be published in aggregate form only and are equally accessible to users, defined in paragraph 2 of Article 1 hereof. By way of exception, data may also be published individually:
upon written consent of the reporting unit as regards publication of the data in such a way;
if data have been collected from public (generally accessible) data collections (records, registers, databases, etc.);
if data are published in such a way that the reporting unit involved cannot be identified.
7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment
All categories showing an absolute number less than 5 cases are considered as confidential.
8.1. Release calendar
Final national data is released at the end of September, every year, for the previous year (t + 9 months). Release calendars are available on websites of participating organisations.
8.2. Release calendar access
Data release calendar of National Institute of Public Health (Slovenia) is published on NIJZ webpage (slovene language only)
Release calendar of all producers included in the System of national statistics are published on SURS (Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia) webpage.
All other institutes, participating in international questionnaires: not applicable
New data releases and all the changes are published in release calendars.
All the data are publicly available after the official first release, as announced in the release calendars. Same release policy valid in national release is applied to transmissions to Eurostat and other national and international organizations.
Methodological guidelines for each individual NIJZ database or research are published annually (or as needed) and can be found on the news page for each database.
10.7. Quality management - documentation
National Institute of Public Health data: Short quality reports are available for internal users.
Other organisations: not applicable
11.1. Quality assurance
Data on non-monetary health care statistics are based on a regulation, which defines scope, definitions of variables and characteristics of the data.
Data are mostly derived from administrative databases, survey data are used exceptionally.
Deviations from the given definitions from the manual and other notes are documented in the Sources and Methods (Annex file).
11.2. Quality management - assessment
All data are collected in compliance with methodological requirements and standards.
12.1. Relevance - User Needs
Users of healthcare non-expenditure data include both national and international organisations such as the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, Eurostat, WHO, OECD, Euromomo and EMCDDA and many more.
Locally users include policy makers both within the Ministry of Health and other Ministries as well as other entities, researchers and students.
12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction
User satisfaction is measured with different user satisfaction surveys, performed on regular basis. User satisfaction surveys plan is prepared for each calendar year and results of surveys are published on NIJZ restricted area for employees. One of the user satisfaction surveys is also about satisfaction with NIJZ webpage, including NIJZ data portal.
12.3. Completeness
The majority of the data (where possible) in the year of collection 2025 are reported for the reference year of 2023;
all mandatory variables,
where possible, the other variables not requested by the regulation (transmitted on a voluntary basis).
13.1. Accuracy - overall
The accuracy of the data included in the questionnaire depend on the data sources. Majority of the data included in the Joint questionnaire are from administrative sources, which are generally complete and accurate.
13.2. Sampling error
Not applicable.
13.3. Non-sampling error
Not applicable.
14.1. Timeliness
For majority of final data submitted to international organisations for the year N at N+14 months.
14.2. Punctuality
Nearly all data collections are able to meet the legal deadlines for transmission of data and metadata.
15.1. Comparability - geographical
Statistics are largely comparable between geographical areas.
15.2. Comparability - over time
There are several breaks in data collection methodology and technology that could possibly affect the reported time series:
Hospital Discharge Database: major methodological change from 2013 onward
Outpatient Data Database: major methodological change from 2023 onward
Health Professional Registry: major methodological change from 2016 onward
Australian modification of ICD-10 is nationally used in Slovenia since 2013. All the data is transformed into ICD-10, but the implementation of ICD-10-AM may affect the data at the collection phase.
In case of non-monetary health care statistics data a part of data are collected from other data sources (than NIJZ). Considering that these are totally different organisations, with different methodologies, sources and even sometimes definitions, overall coherence is acceptable.
15.4. Coherence - internal
Registry of health professional is incorporated into other data sources in the phase of data collection; therefore, no internal coherence issues are relevant. Comparison of data sources from different institutions is performed on regular bases when relevant (e.g., number of diagnostic machines from one source and number of services from another source).
Restricted from publication
17.1. Data revision - policy
All data are revised yearly and transmitted with new, updated data.
17.2. Data revision - practice
Information regarding revisions made are stated for each variable in the Annex.
18.1. Source data
Source data for the different variables are given in the Annex at the bottom of the page.
18.2. Frequency of data collection
Annual.
18.3. Data collection
Data are derived from different data sources:
health workforce - administrative data source
hospital beds - annual survey data source
hospital technical resources - external data source
doctor`s consultations- administrative data source
screening data - administrative data source, additional also survey data source
exams and procedures - administrative data sources
beds in residential long-term care facilities - combination of multiple data sources (external data source)
medical technology - multiple data sources (external data source)
workforce migration - multiple data sources (administrative data sources, also external data sources)
18.4. Data validation
Data validation checks are built into all data collections. The documents are published on the NIJZ website; two examples;
Statistics on healthcare non-expenditure provide information on healthcare human resources, healthcare facilities, and healthcare utilisation.
The people active in the healthcare sector (doctors, dentists, nurses, etc.) and their status (graduates, practising, migration of doctors and nurses, etc.);
The available healthcare technical resources and facilities (hospital beds, beds in residential care facilities, medical technology, etc.);
The health activities or patient contacts undertaken (hospital discharges, surgical procedures, ambulatory care data, etc.).
Annual national and regional data are provided in absolute numbers or as a rate of a relevant population. Data are based mainly on administrative records (see section 18.1 ‘Source data’ for more information).
6 July 2026
The healthcare non-expenditure statistics describe the public health sector from a non-monetary perspective. The statistics explain the number or rate of different healthcare resources, facilities and utilisations. A wide range of indicators are collected from a multitude of sources and therefore, details pertaining to individual variables are given in the Annex.
Definitions of mandatory variables are laid down in Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/2294.
National changes of statistical concepts and national definitions deviating from Regulation (EU) 2022/2294: see Annex at the bottom of the page.
Registered health professionals or health care facility categories.
All health care staff.
All available beds or equipment in hospitals or in nursing and residential care facilities.
All discharges or procedures performed in all hospitals.
Slovenia
Calendar year.
The accuracy of the data included in the questionnaire depend on the data sources. Majority of the data included in the Joint questionnaire are from administrative sources, which are generally complete and accurate.
Annual national and regional data are provided in absolute numbers, days or as a rate of a relevant population.
Most of the data is based on administrative sources and no imputation or design weights are used.
Source data for the different variables are given in the Annex at the bottom of the page.
Annual.
For majority of final data submitted to international organisations for the year N at N+14 months.
Statistics are largely comparable between geographical areas.
There are several breaks in data collection methodology and technology that could possibly affect the reported time series:
Hospital Discharge Database: major methodological change from 2013 onward
Outpatient Data Database: major methodological change from 2023 onward
Health Professional Registry: major methodological change from 2016 onward
Australian modification of ICD-10 is nationally used in Slovenia since 2013. All the data is transformed into ICD-10, but the implementation of ICD-10-AM may affect the data at the collection phase.
