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1.1. Contact organisation | Statistical Office of Montenegro - MONSTAT |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Department for price statistics and foreign trade statistics |
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1.5. Contact mail address | IV Proleterske br. 2, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 28/06/2023 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 28/06/2023 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 28/06/2023 |
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3.1. Data description | |||
The purpose of import price indices survey is to collect data on monthly price changes of industrial products from import. Price indices of industrial products from import represent important economic indicators which can be used as an inflation measure; as time series deflators, especially for the needs of national accounts and as a tool for adjusting prices when concluding various sales contracts. |
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3.2. Classification system | |||
NACE Rev. 2, CPA Version 2008 |
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3.3. Coverage - sector | |||
Indices are calculated for the following sections of industrial activity: B (Mining and quarrying), and C (Manufacturing) according to NACE Rev. 2 classification. |
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3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | |||
Purchase price of industrial products from import is the price of a good delivered at the frontier of the importing country, including transportation costs, insurance charges, and any other costs incurred to that point (CIF price) that influence on the unit price of a product. |
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3.5. Statistical unit | |||
Reporting units are enterprises - domestic importers of industrial products covered by sections B (Mining and quarrying) and C (Manufacturing) of NACE Rev. 2. |
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3.6. Statistical population | |||
Reporting units are enterprises - importers of industrial products covered by sections B (Mining and quarrying) and C (Manufacturing) of NACE Rev. 2. |
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3.7. Reference area | |||
Price index of industrial products from import covers the whole territory of Montenegro. |
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3.8. Coverage - Time | |||
Data in the form of monthly releases are available from 2010: http://monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=423&pageid=28 |
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3.9. Base period | |||
Year 2015 is used as the base year. |
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Indices. |
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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 18/12 and 47/19) defines provisions for collection, processing, and dissemination of data. Also we use European regulations: (EBS) Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 on 27 November 2019 and Commission implementing Regulation 2020/1197. |
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6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |||
Signed agreement on cooperation with the official statistical producers: |
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
Articles 53-60 of the Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 18/12 and 47/19) provide a framework for protection, use, and transmission of confidential data. Statistical office has produced two comprehensive rulebooks that cover the procedures for individual data protection as well as keeping individual records. With purpose of the meeting legal framework on functioning of security system and statistical confidentiality there was adopted the Rulebook on Keeping Statistical Data by which Manner, Time, Technical Conditions and Organization of Statistical Data Storage to Prevent Their Destroying, Misappropriation, and Unauthorized Use is Regulated as well as the Rulebook on Contents and Manner of Keeping Records on Users of Individual Statistical Data by which contents and manner of keeping records on users of individual statistical data is regular. Pursuant to the Article 59, an access to the confidential data is limited to persons performing duties and tasks of official statistical producer and up to the stage the data are necessary for official statistical production. Persons that performs duties and tasks within official statistical producers must sign the statement on respecting the principle of confidentiality. Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System is aligned with the Regulation No 223/2009 and the Regulation (EU) 2015/759 from 29 April 2015 that also regulate confidentiality provisions. The Government of Montenegro adopted the Statement on Commitment of Confidence in Official Statistics (Commitment of Confidence). |
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
Employees of the Statistical Office of Montenegro sign confidentiality statements and legal actions are foreseen for the intentional violation of the confidentiality of statistical data. |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
The Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 18/12) stipulates that official statistical producers prepare, update, and publish Statistical Release Calendar. 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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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
Statistical Release Calendar is available on the following link: |
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8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
General aim of official statistical producer is to meet the needs of users, and to make an access to statistical data to users in an understandable manner, simultaneously and under the same conditions. Statistical Office is obliged to produce and disseminate official statistics in objective, transparent and professional manner, so that all users are equally treated. |
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Data are transmitted to Eurostat monthly. |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
Data are available in the form of monthly releases on the official website: From 2021 data are published in form of quarterly releases, and monthly data are available in Monthly Statistical Review on the following link: |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
Statistical Office publishes the following regular publications: |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
Monthly releases from January 2011: |
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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. |
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
Data on import price indices are regularly (monthly) submitted to Eurostat via the web portal eDAMIS. |
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
Short methodology of survey is available on the next link: |
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
The Law on Official Statistics and the Official Statistical System ("Official Gazette of Montenegro" No. 18/12 and 47/19) defines the commitment to quality, which ensures that producers of official statistics in Montenegro work and cooperate in accordance with international principles of quality of the statistical system. 1. Quality Strategy of the Statistical Office |
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11.1. Quality assurance | |||
Statistical Office has chosen the implementation of elements of TQM (Total Quality Management) model that foster development and improvement of functioning of: |
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11.2. Quality management - assessment | |||
Not available. |
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
International users: |
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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. |
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12.3. Completeness | |||
All national requirements are fulfilled. |
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||
The accuracy of Price index of industrial products from import is generally considered to be high. The accuracy of source data is monitored by assessing the methodological soundness of price and weight sources and the adherence to the methodological recommendations. Appropriate actions are taken to identify and eliminate potential sources of errors. |
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13.2. Sampling error | |||
Sampling error can not be calculated because the survey was not conducted on the basis of a random sample. |
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13.3. Non-sampling error | |||
The response rate is about 70%. Depending on their size or representatives, companies are contacted by phone in order to provide data on time. The price of the temporarily unavailable product is determined by contacting the company from which it is required to estimate/assess the missing price or to repeat the last declared price. In cases when the product of a certain quality for which the prices are collected is not imported, or if the product of that quality is "non-market goods" then a new product of the specified quality is defined, which is most imported and it is expected to be imported for a long time and in large quantities. Prices for the new selected quality product are given simultaneously for the current and previous month. Companies are obliged to explain any change in quality. |
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14.1. Timeliness | |||
Data are published on the date defined by the Statistical Release Calendar - quarterly. |
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14.2. Punctuality | |||
All data are published according to Statistical Release Calendar 2022. |
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | |||
The methodology of survey is compliant with the EU regulations to a great extent, which makes it comparable between the countries. |
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15.2. Comparability - over time | |||
Data according to NACE Rev. 2 Classification are available from January 2010. |
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | |||
Data are coherent in different periods of time. |
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15.4. Coherence - internal | |||
The data are internally coherent. Higher levels of aggregation are derived from elementary indices according to pre-defined procedures. |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
Statistical Office has adopted the revision policy and it is available on the website: Same revision policy is applied nationally and in transmissions to Eurostat. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
Published data are considered as final, except in the case of methodological changes and the introduction of new classifications, when they are subjected to revision. |
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18.1. Source data | |||
The main source of data for calculation of the price indices of industrial products from import is the Monthly survey on the prices of industrial products from imports. This survey includes companies - importers of industrial products covered by sections of mining and quarrying and manufacturing of the NACE Rev. 2 classification, with more than five employees that meet the unit of measurement prescribed by the Nomenclature of industrial products per unit of product. Sample and weights are based on foreign trade survey. The sample is determined by three criteria: selection of products with significant import values; selection of enterprises importing these selected products, selection of representative items in cooperation with the reporting units. |
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18.2. Frequency of data collection | |||
Monthly. |
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18.3. Data collection | |||
Reporting method is used for data collection. Questionnaires are filled by reporting units between the 14th and 16th of each month for the current month. Purchase price of industrial products from import is the price of a good delivered at the frontier of the importing country, including transportation costs, insurance charges, and any other costs incurred to that point (CIF price) that influence on the unit price of a product. |
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18.4. Data validation | |||
Data validation is performed in accordance with the defined criteria for control. Validation is done before and after entering the data. Reporting units confirm product prices by entering the prices for the current and previous month and if any changes occur, they need to be explained in the questionnaire. In case of major deviations, reporting units are contacted. Calculated indices are also checked before publishing. |
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18.5. Data compilation | |||
Import price indices are relative numbers that show changes in import prices from period to period. Price indices are calculated for certain products (individual indices), for groups of products and for all products included in the index list (total index). Product prices are used to calculate elementary indices and calculation of aggregate indices is carried out by weighting individual indices according to the Laspeyeres formula. For the purposes of this survey, the average price of products for the previous year is used as a base. Weights are based on foreign trade survey. |
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18.6. Adjustment | |||
Adjustment of data is not made. |
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