Statistical Service of Cyprus

Demography

Michael Karaolis Str.

1444 Nicosia

CYPRUS

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) No 862/2007 and Regulation (EU) No 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.

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/.

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Number of persons.

Government controlled areas of the Republic of Cyprus.

Annual data: Reference year 2022.

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Data is collected at unit (person) level.

The reference date for population data is the end of the reference period (midnight of 31 December).
The reference period for vital events data is the calendar year in which the events occurred. The reference period for migration flow data is the calendar year in which migration occurred.

Article 3 of the national Official Statistics Law, No. 25(I) of 2021 defines the functions of the Statistical Service of Cyprus regarding the production and dissemination of official statistics. Moreover, Article 13, explicitly stipulates the mandate for data collection and introduces a mandatory response to statistical enquiries by stipulating the obligation of respondents to reply to surveys and provide the data required. This relates not only to national but also to European statistics which, by virtue of Article 8 of the said Law, are incorporated in the annual and multiannual programmes of work without any further procedure.

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Official statistics are released in accordance to all confidentiality provisions of the following:

* National Official Statistics Law No. 25(I) of 2021 (especially Article 16 on statistical confidentiality).

* Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics and its later amendments (especially Chapter 5 on statistical confidentiality).

* European Statistics Code of Practice (especially Principle 5 on statistical confidentiality).

* Guidelines for the Protection of Confidential Data.

Related Links:

* Official Statistics Law No. 25(I) of 2021: https://www.cystat.gov.cy/en/StaticPage?id=1074

* Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (consolidated text): http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:02009R0223-20150608&qid=1504858409240&from=EN

* European Statistics Code of Practice: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-manuals-and-guidelines/-/KS-32-11-955

* Guidelines for the Protection of Confidential Data: https://www.cystat.gov.cy/en/StaticPage?id=1066

The treatment of confidential data is regulated by CYSTAT's Code of Practice for the Collection, Publication and Storage of Statistical Data.

• Code of Practice for the Collection, Publication and Storage of Statistical Data:

 https://www.cystat.gov.cy/en/StaticPage?id=1066

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According to the Dissemination and Pricing Policy of the Statistical Service of Cyprus, CYSTAT΄s main channel for dissemination of statistics is the website, which offers the same conditions to everyone and is updated at the same time every working day (12:00 noon). 

In addition to the annual release calendar, users are informed of the various statistical releases through the “Alert” service provided by CYSTAT.

• Dissemination and Pricing Policy of the Statistical Service of Cyprus:

https://www.cystat.gov.cy/en/AboutCYSTAT

Annually.

https://www.cystat.gov.cy/en/AboutCYSTAT

https://www.cystat.gov.cy/en/AboutCYSTAT

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Statistical micro-data from CYSTAT’s surveys are accessible for research purposes only and under strict provisions as described below:

Under the provisions of the Official Statistics Law, CYSTAT may release microdata for the sole use of scientific research. Applicants have to submit the request form "APPLICATION FOR DATA FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES" giving thorough information on the project for which micro-data are needed.

The application is evaluated by CYSTAT’s Confidentiality Committee and if the application is approved, a charge is fixed according to the volume and time consumed for preparation of the data. Micro-data may then be released after an anonymization process which ensures no direct identification of the statistical units but, at the same time, ensures usability of the data. The link for the application is attached below.

Related Link:

Link to the application for access to microdata on CYSTAT's website: https://www.cystat.gov.cy/en/DataRequestContactForm?fid=7

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Since 2008 (with the exception of 2010, 2013 and 2020) CYSTAT carries out an annual online “Users Satisfaction Survey”. The results of the surveys are available on CYSTAT’s web portal at the link below.

Overall, there is a high level of satisfaction of the users of statistical data published by CYSTAT.

* Results of CYSTAT’s User Satisfaction Surveys: https://www.cystat.gov.cy/en/StaticPage?id=1144

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According to Article 4 (2) of the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 205/2014, each year Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with data at national and regional level as described in Annex II and related standard reference metadata (in the metadata structure definition defined for the Euro SDMX Metadata Structure) for the reference year within 12 months of the end of the reference year. According to Article 3 (2) of the Commission Regulation (EC) No 862/2007, Statistics on international migration, usually resident population and acquisition of citizenship shall be supplied to the Commission (Eurostat) within 12 months of the end of the reference year.

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Statistics are only available at national level and hence there is no issue of non-comparability between geographical areas.

Concerning migration statistics, some differences may exist between figures published by CYSTAT and figures available from administrative sources, due to different definitions and methodologies used. For example, the number of residence permits statistics at the end of the year may not be equal to the number of third country nationals included in the population stock. This may be due to the fact that for the population stock, estimates are made to account for the number of third country nationals who may have left the country even though their permits are still valid, or for the number of third country nationals who are not legally registered. Additionally, EU citizens may be registered in administrative sources but may have left the country without being deleted from registers or there may even be cases when EU citizens are not officially registered, even though they have been residing in the country for more than a year. For the above reasons, additional sources such as the Passengers Survey and other surveys available by CYSTAT, are used to provide more accurate estimates of population and migration statistics. 

At the moment, plans are being made by the Statistical Service to make greater use of administrative sources and to try to link the two domains. It is expected that in the coming years there will be greater coherence between the available sources and disparities will be eliminated.

No internal inconsistencies exist.

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A data revision policy is in place at CYSTAT. It is published on CYSTAT’s web portal, at the following link: https://www.cystat.gov.cy/en/StaticPage?id=1072

CYSTAT also publishes a list of scheduled revisions (regular or major revisions), also published on its web portal, at the following link:

https://www.cystat.gov.cy/en/AnnouncementList

The responsibility to declare an error when found in published statistics lies on the production unit. If an error is found, the Head of the Division informs the Director of CYSTAT accordingly and the correct information is then forwarded from the production unit to the Dissemination Unit for publication.

Annual.

Please see section 14.1.

Some data validation rules are performed with the use of SPSS in order to ensure that the results are correct and consistent. These rules are mainly based on the definitions provided in the methodological manual prepared by Eurostat.

In addition, as previously mentioned, data on births and deaths are also matched with the databases kept at the Health Monitoring Unit of the Ministry of Health, in order to ensure that all additional information can be obtained.

Data on births, deaths, immigrants, emigrants and population sent to Eurostat, refer to the usually resident population of the Government controlled area of Cyprus only. The population in the Government controlled area of Cyprus does not include the military forces (and their families) residing in the two Sovereign Base Areas (Akrotiri and Dhekelia) – it does include however the rest of the resident population in the two SBAs which do not belong to the military forces.

Figures on births, deaths, immigrants, emigrants and population refer to the Government controlled areas of Cyprus.

The balancing equation: Population of previous year plus natural change (live births minus deaths) plus net migration (immigrants minus emigrants) equals the population on 1 January of the reference year (the demographic balance for total population).

No supplementary text is attached.