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1.1. Contact organisation | Statistical Office of Montenegro – MONSTAT |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Department of business statistics short-term indicators |
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1.5. Contact mail address | IV Proleterske no. 2 , 81000 Podgorica Montenegro |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 08/12/2020 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 08/12/2020 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 08/12/2020 |
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3.1. Data description | |||
Maritime transport data refer to gross weight of goods (in tonnes), passenger movements (in number of passengers) as well as for vessel traffic (in number of vessels and in gross tonnage of vessels). |
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3.2. Classification system | |||
The following classifications are applicable: Maritime Coastal area: the nomenclature is based on the Geonomenclature (the country nomenclature for the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States, originally drawn up by the Council Regulation (EEC) N°1736/75) in force in the year to which the data refer (RAMON: https://showvoc.op.europa.eu/#/datasets/ESTAT_Geonomenclature_2021_%28GEONOM_2021%29/data). Ports: the codes used are the official UN/LOCODEs, when they exist. If a port does not have an official UN/LOCODE a provisional (numeric) code is attributed to the port. As soon as an official UN/LOCODE is attributed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) to the port at the request of the competent national authority, the provisional (numeric) code is replaced by the final official one. In exceptional cases (see for example one-port transport or special aggregation for minor ports) permanent numeric codes are attributed to special locations or activities. The code list of UN/LOCODE is available by country through the following link: http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/service/location.html. According to the relevant directive, Eurostat draws up a list of ports, coded and classified according to countries and maritime coastal areas. The list of ports is included in implementing legal acts and as such is published in the Official Journal of the European Union (the "official" list). The most recent list of ports published in the Official Journal is found in Commission Decision (EU) 2018/1007 Nationality of registration of vessels: the nomenclature used is the Geo-nomenclature (the country nomenclature for the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics of trade between Member States, originally drawn up by the Council Regulation (EEC) N°1736/75) in force in the year to which the data refer (RAMON: https://showvoc.op.europa.eu/#/datasets/ESTAT_Geonomenclature_2021_%28GEONOM_2021%29/data). The type of ship classification is harmonised with an internationally agreed International Classification of Ship by Type (ICST). The type of cargo classification, available in Directive 2009/42/EC, has been established in conformity with the United Nation ECE Recommendation N°21. |
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3.3. Coverage - sector | |||
Maritime transport |
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3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | |||
Main concepts used in this domain are the following and for more information on the concepts and methodology, please consult the Reference Manual on Maritime Transport Statistics.
Port -A place having facilities for merchant ships to moor and to load and/or unload cargo or to disembark and/or embark passengers to or from vessels, usually directly to a pier.
Bunkers and stores supplied to vessels shall be excluded from the scope. Seagoing vessel -Floating marine structure with one or more surface displacement hulls. In the context of the Directive, sea-going vessels are vessels other than those which navigate exclusively in inland waters or in waters within, or closely adjacent to, sheltered waters or areas where port regulations apply. Swap bodies are excluded. Although without internal volume flats used in maritime transport should be considered to be a special type of container and therefore are included here. For a fuller description, reference should be made to ISO 668 and 1496.The related term "container cargo" refers to containers, with or without cargo, which are lifted on or off the vessels which carry them by sea. Ro-Ro unit- This means wheeled equipment for carrying cargo, such as a truck, trailer or semi-trailer, which can be driven or towed onto a vessel. Port or ships' trailers are included in this definition. Classifications should follow United Nations ECE Recommendation No 21 'Codes for types of cargo, packages and packaging materials'. Live animals on the hoof are included. Vehicles being transported as cargo as opposed to a means of transport for freight are recorded in the separate headings of the Ro-Ro cargo classification, when they are rolled on or rolled off a vessel on their own wheels.
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3.5. Statistical unit | |||
The data used in the domain are collected at port level. |
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3.6. Statistical population | |||
Detailed data are provided for ports handling more than one million tonnes of goods or recording more than 200 000 passenger movements annually (Main ports). The other ports are required to provide summary data. However, detailed data may be included also for minor ports on a voluntary basis. |
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3.7. Reference area | |||
Ports of Montenegro |
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3.8. Coverage - Time | |||
Maritime transport data are available from 2012. Until 2018 Statistical Office of Montenegro transmitted to EUROSTAT dataset A3, sine 2018 processing detailed data and sending quarterly datasets A1, A2, C1, F2 and annually datasets B1, D1, E1 and A3. |
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3.9. Base period | |||
Not applicable. |
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The units used depend on the variables collected within each data set and are: gross weight of goods expressed in thousands of tonnes; number of passengers in thousands, number of vessels.
TEUs: Twenty feet equivalent units, expressed in units or in thousands depending on the table. TEU calculation coefficients: |
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Quarters for datasets A1, A2, C1 and F2. |
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6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | |||
National Level:
European Level:
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6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |||
Not applicable. |
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
National level:
European level:
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
Article 4 of Commission Decision 2001/423/EC mention that: "the highest level of detail in which data may be published or disseminated is the level of port to and from maritime coastal area. The Commission may however publish at more aggregate level if the quality and/or completeness of information are not appropriate in such detail." |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
The data obtained by the survey are published on the basis of the document " Data publishing calendar" that is being prepared in the current year for the next. http://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=12&pageid=12 |
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
The data obtained by the survey are published on the basis of the document " Data publishing calendar" that is being prepared in the current year for the next. http://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=12&pageid=12 First data are published in accordance with the release calendar as Latest news at 11:00 (local time) on the day of release. Statistical data could be obtained on email or MONSTAT’s website: http://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=36&pageid=36 |
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8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
According to the Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System „Official Gazette of Montenegro 18/12“ from 30 March 2012, statistical data are available in the same time for all users: www.monstat.org |
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Quarterly maritime transport statistics are published within 10 months after the reference period and annual maritime transport statistics within 16 months after the reference period. |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
In quarterly release of transport statistics Monstat publishes maritime transport data |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
The data are published in the following statistical publications:(i) Statistical Yearbook, (ii) the Monthly Statistical Review, (iii) statistical releases and (iv) in the publication "Annual statistics of transport, storage and communications. |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
The data presented in tables and graphs are available on our website as well as Android application for smart phones. https://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=36&pageid=36 Metadata can be found on the web address: https://www.monstat.org/eng/prikazi_metapodatke.php?id=1001&pageid=1001&name=Quarterly%20survey%20on%20transport |
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10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
The Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 18/12) regulates rules under which external users can obtain an access to individual data for needs of research. Article 58 defines types of scientific and research organizations that can obtain such data. Providing individual data without identifier is possible only upon a written request of scientific and research institutions, with purpose of performing scientific and research activities as well as international statistical organizations and statistical producers from other countries. Research entity signs the agreement with Statistical Office, and it signs the statement on respecting the confidentiality principle. Official statistical producers keeps a separate records on users and purpose of using the statistical data given to these users. |
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
Eurostat (Statistical office of the European Union) |
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
Methodological notes are available in: http://www.monstat.org/userfiles/file/saobracaj/2016/Transport%20stataistiss_Methodology_EN.pdf and in the Reference Manual on Maritime Transport Statistics. Additional elements are available in the "Illustrated Glossary for Transport Statistics - Fifth edition" available on-line |
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
National quality reports is available on website: |
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11.1. Quality assurance | |||
The role of quality reporting had been strengthened in Law of official statistics and official statistical system (Official Gazette of Montenegro 18/12 from 30 March 2012) as well as in Regulation 223/2009 on European Statistics. Producers of official statistics have to guarantee that statistics are developed, produced and disseminated on the basis of uniform standards and of harmonized methods.
Furthermore, users of statistics are guaranteed access to appropriate metadata describing the quality of statistical outputs, so that they are able to interpret and use the statistics correctly.
Quality report available link: http://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=1425&pageid=1425 |
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11.2. Quality management - assessment | |||
MONSTAT as producer of official statistics have to guarantee that statistics are developed, produced and disseminated on the basis of uniform standards and of harmonized methods |
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
Main users of data are classified into two groups:
2. National data users Ministries and other public administration bodies, Local government and other local government bodies, Non-governemental organizations, Students, Researchers, Media. |
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12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | |||
The Statistical Office has adopted the Quality Management Strategy, the Guidebook to the Implementation of the Quality Management Strategy, as well as the Plan for the Implementation of the Quality Policy. In order to measure the degree to which fulfills obligations towards users and within the new quality policy, the Statistical Office conducted User satisfaction survey. Data collection was carried out through a web survey, in the period from 1 September to 20 October, 2017. The results of the survey are available on the Statistical Office website, link: http://www.monstat.org/userfiles/file/KVALITET/Izvjestaj%20o%20zadovoljstvu%20korisnika%20eng.pdf |
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12.3. Completeness | |||
Definitions of main variables and methodologies for the calculation of main variable and methodology for calculation (absolute data) are fully harmonized with the Eurostat recommendations in area of road freight transport Regulation (EC) No. 1172/98 and No. (EU) 70/2012.
The quality of data on road freight transport based on the criteria of quality standards: the relevance of statistical data, the accuracy, timeliness and punctuality, comparability and coherence of data |
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||
The overall accuracy is considered to be good. Statistical office of Montenegro for survey use an administrative sources database (reporting units are Port Authority and Maritime safety department). |
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13.2. Sampling error | |||
Not applicable for maritime transport data collection. |
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13.3. Non-sampling error | |||
Statistical office of Montenegro for survey use an administrative sources database |
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14.1. Timeliness | |||
Quarterly data should be transmitted by Member States to Eurostat within five months of the end of the period of observation; annual data within eight months. The Commission (Eurostat) shall disseminate appropriate statistical data with a periodicity comparable to that of the results transmitted (Directive 2009/42/EC). |
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14.2. Punctuality | |||
The deadlines for transmission are usually met. |
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | |||
Methodology of maritime transport statistics are in line with Eurostat's recommendations Directive (EC) No 2009/42, so that the data are fully comparable with the data of the members of the European Statistical System. |
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15.2. Comparability - over time | |||
When we talk about the weather comparability, the detailed data are comparable from 2018. |
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | |||
The data are consistent |
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15.4. Coherence - internal | |||
As from 2012 all datasets collected and provided to Eurostat are consistent. |
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Cost and Burden defined according the National Statistical Program for each reference year |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
Statistical Office has adopted the revision policy and it is available on the website http://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=1411&pageid=1411 |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
Regular revision is done on preliminary data |
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18.1. Source data | |||
Port Authority and Maritime safety department |
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18.2. Frequency of data collection | |||
Quarterly |
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18.3. Data collection | |||
Statistical Office of Montenegro performs all the tasks of preparing for the proper and successful implementation of survey: description and format of the requested data. The reporting units delivers available data. Maritime safety department delivers electronically data from the diary of arrivals and departures of ships in the port. Port Authority delivers data on paper questionnaire. |
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18.4. Data validation | |||
Coherence control with previous data of the same survey |
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18.5. Data compilation | |||
Department of Information and Communication Technology prepared Applications for processing data, according to the requirements of a statistician from the field of transport. The database contains detailed information for all arrivals and departure ships in port since 2018. After data entry into an application, data are grouped according to the required sets of the Directive (EC) No 2009/42 and prepared to transmission to Eurostat. |
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18.6. Adjustment | |||
Not applicable for maritime transport data collection. |
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No comments. |
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