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1.1. Contact organisation | Statistical Office of Montenegro - MONSTAT |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Department of Agriculture and Fishery |
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1.5. Contact mail address | Statistical office of Montenegro - MONSTAT IV Proleterske 2, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 30/06/2023 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 30/06/2023 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 30/06/2023 |
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3.1. Data description | |||
The collected statistics for the country cover the following data:
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3.2. Classification system | |||
3.3. Coverage - sector | |||
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | |||
3.5. Statistical unit | |||
3.6. Statistical population | |||
3.7. Reference area | |||
Montenegro |
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3.8. Coverage - Time | |||
2016 onwards |
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3.9. Base period | |||
Not applicable. |
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Calendar year |
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6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | |||
- The Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 018/12 and 047/19) defines provisions for collection, processing and dissemination of data. The Law provides to the Statistical Office legal powers to collect and access the data necessary for the implementation of Programme and Annual Plan. The Law gives a priority to the use of administrative data and right of access to individual data that are a result of survey of other official statistical producers.
- The Law on Organic Production (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 56/2013).
- REGULATION (EU) 2018/848 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 30 May 2018 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007
- As a bridge between the previous and new legislation until the adoption of the SAIO regulation, the ESS Agreement on organic production statistics, approved by the ESSC on February 12, 2020, entered into force on January 1, 2022. The agreement covers the annual collection of statistical data on organic production, previously established in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) no. 834/2007.
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6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |||
Administrative data source is the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Water Management (Directorate of Agriculture), which previously received the data from tne certification body ``Monteorganica``, in accordance with the Law on Organic Production (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 56/2013). Statistical Office has signed several Memoranda on cooperation with administrative data providers (with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management in June 2013).
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
The privacy of data providers, the confidentiality of the information they provide and its use only for statistical purposes must be absolutely guaranteed the Law on Official Statistics and System of Official Statistics (Chapter XIII CONFIDENTIALITY AND PROTECTION OF DATA FOR NEEDS OF OFFICIAL STATISTICS). |
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
Provisions the Law on Official Statistics and System of Official Statistics shall refer to data provided by reporting units, but also to data collected from other sources for needs of official statistics from the moment of their delivery to official statistics producers.
Data collected, processed, and stored for purpose of official statistics shall be considered confidential if they allow reporting units to be identified, either directly or indirectly. Individual data may be used only for statistical purposes and presented in cumulative (aggregated) form, in accordance with provisions of this Law. Statistical Office of Montenegro may provide, upon written request, individual statistical data, without identifiers, to scientific-research institutions for purpose of carrying out scientific and research activities as well as to international statistical organizations and statistics producers from other countries. Official statistics producers shall be obliged to take all measures of administrative, technical or organizational nature required for protection of confidential data against illegal access, disclosure or use. Aggregated data for which there are reasons for confidentiality (due to a small number of units, rules of indirect identification), are treated and considered as confidential and therefore not published. Data for the use of which reporting units gave the explicit approval shall not be considered confidential. |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
The Statistical Release Calendar is the schedule of publishing the results of official statistics during one year. It is prepared by the Statistical Office in cooperation with the other producers of official statistics in accordance with Article 50 of the Law on Official Statistics and the Official Statistics System ("Official Gazette of Montenegro", No. 018/12 and 047/19).It is published on the website of the Statistical Office.
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
Statistical Release Calendar is avaliable on the following link: Statistical Office of Montenegro - MONSTAT ;
https://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=1179&pageid=12 .
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8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
Based on the Statistical Release Calendar, users are informed in advance of the release dates on which the producers of official statistics have committed to publish statistics.
It is published on the website of Statistical Office not later than 20 December for the next year, for all official statistical producers that includes date of releasing statistical data. Any change in date of releasing in the Calendar is published in advance in accordance with the Procedure on Unplanned Revisions.
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The data is published once a year and has been available on the Montenegrin Statistical office website since June 30. The survey on organic production statistics is included for the first time as a regular survey for 2022 in the Annual Plan of Official Statistics (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 2/2022 of January 12, 2022). In March 2023, the Statistical Office published the final data for the data series for the period 2016-2020, which were previously submitted to Eurostat as preliminary and protected. Data for 2022 were submitted to Eurostat in June of this year. |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
Data are published according to a realase calendar and are available at the same time to all users on the official website on MONSTAT.
The data is not published through a press release, but only through the Excel table on the official website.
Also, the data are available in the Statistical Yearbook of the Statistical Office of Montenegro.
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
All publications published by the Statistical Office are available at the following link: Statistical Office of Montenegro - MONSTAT; https://www.monstat.org/eng/publikacije.php?id=100 . |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
Statistical Office of Montenegro - MONSTAT; https://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=1799&pageid=1797 . Annexes: link |
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10.3.1. Data tables - consultations | |||
Not applicable. |
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10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
The Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 018/12 and 047/19), Article 58. regulates rules under which external users can obtain an access to individual data for needs of research. |
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
The required tables are prepared for the needs of Eurostat, while other users use the tables from the website in Monstat (table format from the website). |
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10.5.1. Metadata - consultations | |||
Not applicable. |
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
The methodology for this research can be found on our website at the following link: https://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=1797&pageid=1797. |
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10.6.1. Metadata completeness - rate | |||
Not applicable. |
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
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. The national Quality report is published on the official website of Monstat: Organic production statistics_2021.pdf (monstat.org) . |
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11.1. Quality assurance | |||
The Quality Management System of the Statistical Office relies on the European Statistics Code of Practice and the principles of Total Quality Management (TQM), which symbolize a common framework for the quality of the European Statistical System. 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. The 2020-2023 Quality Management Strategy is the second strategy which is prepared for the Montenegro official statistical system and it represents a strategic, development document in domain of quality in the statistical system of Montenegro. At regular meetings of the Working Group, where representatives of all institutions (statistics, ministry and control body) are included, quality assurance procedures are discussed.
The Quality Management Strategy is available on web site http://monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=1422&pageid=1422
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11.2. Quality management - assessment | |||
Not applicable |
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
International users : - Eurostat; - FAO. National users: - Ministries and other public administration bodies; - Local government and other local government bodies; - Non-governmental organizations; - Students; - Researchers; - Media Internal users are generally satisfied with the quality of the data. No external user satisfaction feedback.
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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. The results of the survey are available on the Statistical Office website, link:Izvještaj o zadovoljstvu korisnika uslugama uprave za statistiku u 2022. godini (monstat.org) http://monstat.org/userfiles/file/KVALITET/2020/2_%20Izvjestaj%20o%20zadovoljstvu%20korisnika.pdf. |
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12.3. Completeness | |||
The data is sent in full compliance with the applicable European Commission Regulations. Data are reported according to the type of operator, according to the type of agricultural area and distribution by crops and data are also reported according to the types of livestock according ESS Agreement on Organic Production Statistics. There is no certified organic aquaculture in Montenegro. |
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12.3.1. Data completeness - rate | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||
Data source is an administrative database and expected a good accuracy the data. The data cover all operators involved in the organic sector in Montenegro (producers, processors, importers, and others). Total sums are controlled with the sum of individual categories (through the LRK). |
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13.2. Sampling error | |||
Administrative database is used and coverage is full. The organic production statistics data collection is not based on sample survey. Not applicable. |
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13.2.1. Sampling error - indicators | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3. Non-sampling error | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3.1. Coverage error | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3.1.1. Over-coverage - rate | |||
No over-coverage rate |
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13.3.1.2. Common units - proportion | |||
Not applicable for organic production statistics as the data stem from one source. Only administrative data are used. |
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13.3.2. Measurement error | |||
Ministry of Agriculture collects data in a electronic form. After MONSTAT get the data (in electronic form) from administrative sources check data with previous year.Total sums are controlled with the sum of individual categories. |
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13.3.3. Non response error | |||
All organic operaters which are present in the Register of Organic Production Entities under the competence of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Water Management, are covered by this survey. Errors of non-response do not occur. |
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13.3.3.1. Unit non-response - rate | |||
All statistical units responded to the questionnaire, or reported data. |
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13.3.3.2. Item non-response - rate | |||
All units participated and provided the requested data. |
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13.3.4. Processing error | |||
Possible entry and calculation errors are controlled and corrected through the LK. |
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13.3.5. Model assumption error | |||
Not applicable. |
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14.1. Timeliness | |||
See concepts below. |
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14.1.1. Time lag - first result | |||
Not aplicable |
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14.1.2. Time lag - final result | |||
The data are due 120 days after the end of the reference year i.e. before 1st July each year. |
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14.2. Punctuality | |||
See concepts below. |
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14.2.1. Punctuality - delivery and publication | |||
Everything was published on time. There is no time lag between the actual data submission and the target date. All data are published in accordance with the scheduled publication date. |
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | |||
Montenegro is on all three levels (NUTS 1,2,3). The data are comparable with other countries in the region and the EU because the questionnaire is harmonized. |
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15.1.1. Asymmetry for mirror flow statistics - coefficient | |||
Not applicable. |
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15.2. Comparability - over time | |||
Data for organic production got from administrative source and they are comparable over time. |
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15.2.1. Length of comparable time series | |||
Data from the Organic Production Statistics are fully comparable over time and are available from 2016 to 2021 on the MONSTAT website in the Data section, link: https://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=1799&pageid=1797 . |
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | |||
Data from the Agricultural census in Montenegro are from 2010 and the annual crops and animal statistics can be used for cross-checking purposes. These data are also available in the relevant domains on Eurostat's website. There are some certain differences in concepts, surveys design and timing of the collections and can cause discrepancies in the data. |
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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 | |||
Not applicable. |
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The organic operaters are bound to send data on organic production to the certification body ``Monteorganica``,. Administrative data source is the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Water Management (Directorate of Agriculture), which previously received the data from the certification body ``Monteorganica`` in accordance with the Law on Organic Production (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 56/2013). MONSTAT use the data for pesticides sales from the administrative sources and of this way reducing the burden on respondents. The data is administrative, so there are no costs. |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
In March 2023, the Statistical office of Montenegro- Monstat published the final data for the series of data for the period 2016-2020, which were previously submitted to Eurostat as preliminary and protected. The survey on organic production statistics was included for the first time as a regular for the year 2022 in the Annual Plan of Official Statistics ("Official Gazette of Montenegro", No. 2/2022 of 12.01.2022"), when data were published for the first time on Monstat website for 2021. Since then survey does not disseminate preliminary results and that's the reason why the regular data revision does not exist. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
MONSTAT has on internal revision policy. It is available on:Statistical Office of Montenegro - MONSTAT
https://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=1411&pageid=3.
In 2022, data on organic production for the beginning of June 2021 was published on the official website of Monstat, and after that an unplanned audit was carried out after the validation of the data by Eurostat.
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17.2.1. Data revision - average size | |||
Not applicable. |
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18.1. Source data | |||
The data is administrative. |
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18.2. Frequency of data collection | |||
Once a year until the end of June of the current year for the previous year. |
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18.3. Data collection | |||
The data is collected by the certification body ``Monteorganica`` that supervise registered organic entities. |
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18.4. Data validation | |||
MONSTAT check data from previous year and with administrative sources. |
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18.5. Data compilation | |||
There is no imputation done. |
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18.5.1. Imputation - rate | |||
There is no imputation done. Imputation is not carried out because all entities that have registered any form of organic agriculture are included. |
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18.6. Adjustment | |||
Not applicable. |
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18.6.1. Seasonal adjustment | |||
Not applicable. |
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The survey on organic production statistics is included for the first time as a regular survey for 2022 in the Annual Plan of Official Statistics .The data are submitted to Eurostat from 2022 as final for the period from 2016 to 2022. Statistical Office of Montenegro- Monstat prepared for the first time the Quality Report on the Organic production in 2023 , according to the Organic Production Statistics ESS Agreement and based on Eurostat Quality Reporting Guidelines. |
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