Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia (CSB)

Business Statistical Department, Industrial and Construction Statistics Section.

Lacplesa street, Riga, LV - 1301.

Building permits indicators: Number of dwellings, Square meters of useful floor.

CPA 2.1. red. Statistical Classification of Products by activity in the European Union, Version 2.1

Data on the local governments of 36 counties and 7 city councils of national significance are obtained from administrative data sources. Annual data are obtained by summing quarterly data.

Data on building permits granted allow acquiring information on building permits issued for buildings and types thereof, obtaining data on building and structure number, intended floor space in buildings under construction as well as reconstruction, renovation or restoration of existing buildings. A building permit is an authorisation to start work on a building project. As such, a permit is the final stage of planning and building authorisations from public authorities, prior to the start of work.

Reporting unit - the building authority.

Observation unit - residential and non - residential buildings requiring building permits by cities under state jurisdiction and counties.

Within the full-scope survey data are acquired from  36 counties and 7 city councils of national significance.

Latvia

Time series for buildings permits are available since 2000.

Not relevant.

Number and floor area (m2)

Quarter.

Official Statistics Law is the legal base of all statistics.

Rules of Cabinet of Minister of the Republic of Latvia No 741 of 29 November 2022 concerning to National Statistical Information program for the 2023-2025.

Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 on European business statistics, repealing 10 legal acts in the field of business statistics.

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 of 30 July 2020 laying down technical specifications and arrangements pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European business statistics repealing 10 legal acts in the field of business statistics.

Data are transmitted, in addition to Eurostat, directly to United Nations Organisation (UNO).

All data provided by respondents is treated as confidential information and protected by Official Statistics Law.
The policy of data protection and dissemination has been described in Chapter III on Section 17: Data Processing and Statistical Confidentiality.

Statistical data shall be considered confidential if they directly or indirectly allow for identification of the private individuals or State authorities regarding which personal statistical data have been provided.

Data on building permits are published on the 40^nd day after the end of the reference period according to Release calendar. Dissemination calendar is available on the CSB website.

Dissemination calendar is available on the Official statistics portal.

The data are released simultaneously to all interested parties by issuing the press release "On construction and building permits granted" in xxx (quarter)" both to the media and to the main government officials.

Data are transmitted to Eurostat on the same day when the data are published in the national publication, 40 days after the reference period.

Quarterly and yearly.

Statistical information is published in accordance with an approved dissemination calendar and it's available on the Official statistics portal.

The data are released simultaneously to all interested parties by issuing a press release at 13.00 o' clock of the local time. At the same time the data are also sent to subscribers by e-mail. The data set is subsequently posted on the Official statistics portal. The press release and the indicators are also published on the Internet.

The CSB publishes quarterly and annual data of the construction production index on the Internet website.

Building permits granted in "Statistical Yearbook of Latvia" - annually. 

Information on permits granted are available on the Official statistics portal homepage database under section Construction and real estate.

The Official statistics portal internet database include quarterly and annual time series data for the following detailed data: new residental buildings completed, new dwellings completed, building permits granted for building (number and volume of envisaged capacity).

Not available.

Data are sent to Eurostat both to be used in European aggregates as well as to be released as national data. Data are available on the Eurostat database in section Industry, trade and services/Short - term business statistics, link: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database.

 A short explanations are available on the website of the Official statistics portal: https://stat.gov.lv/en/metadata/2740-building-permits-granted

Management Systems of the Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) are certified according to requirements of ISO 9001:2015 standard "Quality management systems – Requirements" and information security management system standard ISO 27001:2013.  

The Quality Policy of CSB consists of the CSB's vision, mission, core values and commitment to meet the requirements, follow good practice and ensure continuous improvement.

The quality policy is designed and implemented in accordance with the CSB strategy (3-year period) and the action plan.

The quality of statistics is assessed according to five quality criteria: relevance, accuracy, timeliness and punctuality, accessibility and clarity, coherence and comparability.

Every quarter the following indicators for quality monitoring and assurance are calculated: fields of relevance, accuracy and reliability, timeliness and punctuality, comparability, coherence are completed. These indicators are published in the metadata section of the CSB website

The main users of statistical information are State and municipal authorities and agencies, international organisations (Eurostat), the media, research and business communities, students.

We don’t receive any special feedback from our users and no user satisfaction survey has been done for this statistics. Official Statistics Portal data flow is monitored.

Statistics on Building permits number and floor area is accordance with the requirements of  REGULATION (EU) 2019/2152 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL.

Within the full-scope survey data are acquired from 36 counties and 7 city councils of national significance. The response rate is 100%. 

Not applicable

Not applicable

The Building permits data is published at 13:00 o' clock of the local time on the 40^nd day after the end of the reference quarter; if the 40^nd day is on a weekend or on a holiday then it is published on the next working day. 

The data is published  according to release calendar and sent to Eurostat at the same date when is  published on the press release in CSB website.

In 100% of cases data are published in line with the schedule.

For the whole Latvian territory the same statstical concepts are applied.

Statistical information is comparable between EU countries.

The Building permits data is comparable since year 2000.

Not aligned with other surveys.

The higher aggregates i.e. types of construction according to  CPA 2.1. red. Statistical Classification of Products by activity in the European Union, Version 2.1 are consistent with their main sub-aggregates.

Not relevant (administrative data are used).

CSB Revision policy has been laid down in accordance with European Union and international recommendations and good practice.

Basically CSB statistical data are revised in accordance with the scheduled revision cycle and plan.

Within the context of construction statistics, the revisions of statistical data concern:

• Regular revision of the published data, adding revised or more detailed information.
• Long-term planned revision of the published data in accordance with the changes in methodology or classifications.
• Unplanned revision (correction of errors) are carried out, if a respondent updates, supplements or corrects data on any of the previous periods, or if the methodology changes.

Revision policy is available on the CSB website.

The same revision policy is applied nationally and in transmissions to Eurostat.

Data on previous quarter could be revised. When building permits for a new quarter is published, the data of previous quarter can be updated. In practice data are not revised (MAR=MR=0).

Data for 2022 are obtained from the administrative data source: Construction Information System.

Quarterly

The data on 2023 are acquired from Construction Information System and acquired from 36 counties and 7 city councils of national significance.

CSB has the main program used for data entry, processing with automatic control and validation tools - ISDMS (Integrated Statistical Data Management System).
Standard MS Office professional software (MS Excel, MS Access) is used daily for the compilation of construction statistics.

Data are compared with the previous period and the same period of the previous year.

Data on building permits granted are aggregated by CSB. Missing data are not estimated.

Seasonality or seasonal fluctuations of time series are those movements, which recur with similar intensity in the same season each year. Seasonally adjusted data do not include seasonal fluctuations and calendar effects, so it is possible to compare, for example, current quarterly data with previous quarterly data.

Calendar effects cover influence of calendar on time series. It is the number of different working days in months /quarters; distribution of days of the week; the impact of the leap year on changes of the indicator. The Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia uses Latvian specific calendar regressors, which are calculated in accordance with the Law on Holidays, Remembrance and Celebration Days and JDemetra+ documentation. Calendar adjustment is performed only for those time series for which the calendar effect is statistically significant and economically explainable. Calendar adjusted data do not include calendar effects and are used to compare, for example, data for the current quarter with data for the corresponding quarter of the previous year.

Revisions are expected when new data are added to the time series, as the whole seasonally adjusted time series is recalculated. Once a year, the time series models are reviewed - that is, the models are checked for compliance with the time series and the time series models are improved if necessary. Larger data revisions are potentially expected for the next month or quarter after the model review.

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