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1.1. Contact organisation | State Statistical Office of the Republic of North Macedonia |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | International trade in goods |
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1.5. Contact mail address | Dame Gruev 4, 1000 Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 23/08/2023 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 23/08/2023 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 23/08/2023 |
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3.1. Data description | |||
Trade by invoicing currency (TIC) data are part of the information available for extra-EU trade. The invoicing currency is the currency in which the commercial invoice is drawn up. |
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3.2. Classification system | |||
Product classification |
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3.3. Coverage - sector | |||
The scope of TIC data is the same as for montly detailed data.They cover all goods entering (imports) or leaving (exports) the statistical territory of Republic of North Macedonia. The statistical teritory of the country correspodend to its customs territory. As ITGS in general, TIC data cover all sectors of the economy. |
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3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | |||
Reporting country – Except for some specific goods like vessels and aircraft, ITGS follow the physical movements of the goods. A country should record an import when goods enter its statistical territory and an export when goods leave that territory except if those goods are in simple transit. Data for the reference period 2021 and 2022 are process acording the EBS Regulation.The new EBS Regulation requires SITC sections 0 to 9, as well as division 33, to be reported individually.The new EBS Regulation requires SITC sections total trade:
Under the EBS legislation (since 2021), trade flows shall be broken down into the following invoicing currencies:
Additional invoicing currency breakdown:
additional currencies that are defined according to the data sources used to compile TIC statistics:
For compilation the detailed data we used the custom declaration. |
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3.5. Statistical unit | |||
The statistical unit is any natural and legal person lodging a customs declaration in the reporting country on the condition that the customs procedure is of statistical relevance. |
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3.6. Statistical population | |||
The statistical population comprise all the legal or natural persons who lodged a customs declaration with the National Customs Authority. |
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3.7. Reference area | |||
Republic of North Macedonia |
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3.8. Coverage - Time | |||
TIC data disseminated by Eurostat |
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3.9. Base period | |||
Not applicable. |
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Trade values (in national currency units) by invoicing currency. The value of traded goods is calculated at the national frontier, on a FOB (free on board) basis for exports and a CIF (cost, insurance, freight) basis for imports. |
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The reference period for the TIC data is the calendar year. |
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6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | |||
National: Law on State Statistics (“Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia” No. 54/97, 21/07, 51/11, 104/13, 42/14, 92/15, 27/16, and 83/18, 220/18, 31/20), Programme of Statistical Surveys 2018-2022 (“Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia” No. 20/13, 24/14 and 13/15 and 7/16, 22/18 and 224/18). |
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6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |||
Not applicable. |
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
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 www.stat.gov.mk/pdf/PolitikaZaDoverlivost.pdf contains the basic principles used in the SSO. Regulation (EC) No 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council |
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
As ITGS in general, TIC data are compiled according the passive confidentiality apllied in detaled data. |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
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. |
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
http://www.stat.gov.mk/Kalendar_en.aspx |
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8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
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. |
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Trade by invoicing currency (TIC) data are updated once a year with a new reference year. |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/6842948/10374150/TIC+quality+indicators/ |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/6842948/10374150/TIC+quality+indicators/ |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
MAKStat database-Foreign Trade, available on the State Statistical Office website. https://makstat.stat.gov.mk/PXWeb/pxweb/en/MakStat/?rxid=46ee0f64-2992-4b45-a2d9-cb4e5f7ec5ef |
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10.3.1. Data tables - consultations | |||
See document TIC Quality indicators. |
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10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
Not applicable. |
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
Not applicable. |
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10.5.1. Metadata - consultations | |||
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/6842948/10374150/TIC+quality+indicators/ |
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/6842948/10374150/TIC+quality+indicators/ |
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10.6.1. Metadata completeness - rate | |||
100% |
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/6842948/10374150/TIC+quality+indicators/ |
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11.1. Quality assurance | |||
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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11.2. Quality management - assessment | |||
The State Statistical Office carries out statistical activities in accordance with the Statistical Business Process Model, which is based on the international model - Generic Statistical Business Process Model (GSBPM). The application of this model and international standards in statistical production ensures a high level of accuracy and comparability of data. |
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
Data by invoicing currency can be used for instance to explore the use of the euro in the EU’s international trade, to compare it with the role of the United States dollar (USD) or to analyse the role of the euro in the euro area and in the EU. |
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12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | |||
TIC data on national level are produced every year. Main users express the good level of satisfaction as regards the data coverage and timeliness. |
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12.3. Completeness | |||
About the data according the Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 on European business statistics, SSO has a full coverage. |
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12.3.1. Data completeness - rate | |||
See document TIC Quality indicators. |
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||
As the invoicing currency is a manadatory data in custom declaration the accuracy of the TIC data is on high level |
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13.2. Sampling error | |||
Not applicable |
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13.2.1. Sampling error - indicators | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3. Non-sampling error | |||
Data control done by checking data accuracy, reliability and completeness shows no error due to the fact that all nessesary variables are mandatory in digital custom declaration. |
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13.3.1. Coverage error | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3.1.1. Over-coverage - rate | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3.1.2. Common units - proportion | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3.2. Measurement error | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3.3. Non response error | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3.3.1. Unit non-response - rate | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3.3.2. Item non-response - rate | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3.4. Processing error | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3.5. Model assumption error | |||
Not applicable. |
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14.1. Timeliness | |||
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/6842948/10374150/TIC+quality+indicators |
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14.1.1. Time lag - first result | |||
See document TIC Quality indicators. |
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14.1.2. Time lag - final result | |||
Not applicable. |
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14.2. Punctuality | |||
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/6842948/10374150/TIC+quality+indicators |
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14.2.1. Punctuality - delivery and publication | |||
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/6842948/10374150/TIC+quality+indicators |
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | |||
From a methodological point of view, the comparability across countries is ensured by the implementation of the concepts and definitions set up by the EU legislation and by the application of the complementary guidelines provided by the Compilers guide on European statistics on international trade in goods. |
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15.1.1. Asymmetry for mirror flow statistics - coefficient | |||
Not applicable. |
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15.2. Comparability - over time | |||
There were no changes, so the data are comparable in the entire series from 2013 to 2021. |
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15.2.1. Length of comparable time series | |||
time series from 2013 to 2021
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | |||
The intra-domain checks carried out by Eurostat before any data dissemination ensure the coherence between the trade values published in the TIC dataset and trade values coming from detailed trade in goods statistics. |
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15.3.1. Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics | |||
Not applicable. |
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15.3.2. Coherence - National Accounts | |||
Not applicable. |
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15.4. Coherence - internal | |||
Internal coherence of data is ensured. |
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The cost of TIC data only relates to the compilation steps carried out by SSO in Microsoft access.
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
TIC data revision policy is in a close correlation with the detailed ITGS data revisions. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
Data revision partice is defined in revision polycy for the ITGS detailed data. |
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17.2.1. Data revision - average size | |||
Not available. |
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18.1. Source data | |||
TIC data are derived from the annual final detailed data |
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18.2. Frequency of data collection | |||
Annual |
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18.3. Data collection | |||
Collection of trade in goods data |
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18.4. Data validation | |||
TIC data have passed the following quality checks: |
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18.5. Data compilation | |||
The process of data compilation, starts with defining the requirments in EBS compilers’ manual for international trade in goods statistics – trade by invoicing currency. After application of the validation rules (checks of the accuracy, data completeness, compilation the time series) value by invoicing currency is calculated. |
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18.5.1. Imputation - rate | |||
At national level: No imputation.
At European level: No imputation is made by Eurostat. |
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18.6. Adjustment | |||
Not applicable. |
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18.6.1. Seasonal adjustment | |||
Not applicable. |
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