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1.1. Contact organisation | Statistics Poland |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Trade and Services Department |
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1.5. Contact mail address | Al. Niepodległości 208, 00-925 Warsaw, Poland |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 14/06/2024 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 14/06/2024 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 14/06/2024 |
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3.1. Data description | |||
The Producer Price Index of Services (SPPI) is an output price index for the service production of resident producers. The index covers services provided to customers that are enterprises or persons that represent enterprises as well as consumers. Published data refer to the whole country – no regional breakdown is available. Price indices are published with the following reference periods:
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3.2. Classification system | |||
PKD - Polish Classification of Activities (compatible with NACE rev.2) - applied at the level of categories of economic activities. |
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3.3. Coverage - sector | |||
The survey covers service branches belonging to NACE rev. 2 Sections H, J, L, M (excl. 70.1, 72 and 75) and N. H Transportation and storage
J Information and Communication
L Real estate activities M Professional, scientific and technical activities
N Administrative and support service activities
Only units employing 10 and more persons are covered. |
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3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | |||
The methods used for price observation are as follows: direct use of prices of repeated services, contract pricing, unit value method, time based methods and percentage fee method. The applied concepts and definitions conform to the definitions set forth in the Regulation 2020/1197. In particular the following rules are applied:
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3.5. Statistical unit | |||
The legal unit is a reporting unit. Legal units’ activities (primary or secondary) according to service products sold in particular classes (CPA) are observation units. |
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3.6. Statistical population | |||
The survey is directed at legal units employing 10 or more persons which principal or secondary kind of activity is classified in the branches mentioned in concept 3.3. Units belonging to the population are identified on the basis of the Statistical Business Register (BJS) as well as results of the survey on the form SP "Annual survey of enterprises". |
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3.7. Reference area | |||
All regions of Poland are covered. |
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3.8. Coverage - Time | |||
SPPI indices for activities belonging to:
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3.9. Base period | |||
Until 2023 the base year was 2015, from 2024 the base year is 2021. Also other reference periods are applied to the data released nationally (preceding period = 100, corresponding period of preceding year = 100, fourth quarter of preceding year = 100, base year 2021 = 100). |
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Data are presented as indices. |
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Quarter (for activities belonging to Sections H and division 61 till 2018– month). |
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6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | |||
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 (EBS-Regulation). Commission Implementing Regulation 2020/1197 laying down technical specifications and arrangements pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 mentioned above. The legal basis of Statistics Poland's responsibility for collection, processing and dissemination of statistics is the Act on Official Statistics passed on 29th June 1995 with subsequent amendments (consolidated text published in the Journal of Laws 2021 no. 955). Data on producer price index of services are collected on the basis of the ”Statistical Survey Program of Official Statistics”, which fulfils requirements of EBS Regulation. |
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6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |||
Data on producer price index of services are transmitted only to Eurostat. |
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
All statistics collected and published by Statistics Poland are governed by the Act on Official Statistics. This Act establishes the statistical independence of Statistics Poland. Statistics Poland cannot publish, or otherwise make available to any individual or organization, statistics that would allow the identification of data for any individual person or entity. The question of confidentiality is explained in the art. 10, 38 and 38a of the Act on Official Statistics: Article 10. Identifiable individual data collected in statistical surveys are subject to absolute protection. Such data may only be used to prepare statistical studies, compilations and analyses, as well as to create a statistical survey sampling frame by the President of Statistics Poland; making such data available or using them for purposes other than those specified herein is prohibited (statistical confidentiality). Article 38. 1. Identifiable unit data obtained in statistical surveys may not be published nor made available. 2. Statistical data obtained in statistical surveys that can be linked and identified as data concerning a specific natural person, as well as information and statistical data characterising economic and financial results of national economy entities conducting economic activity, may not be published nor made available if the given aggregation consists of fewer than three entities or the share of one entity in a given compilation is greater than three-fourths of the whole. 3. In the case of national economy entities, the information and statistical data referred to in sec. 2 may be published if the person authorised to represent a given entity has consented to the publication of specific data characterizing the economic and financial results of that entity. Article 38a. 1. The President of Statistics Poland, at the request of entities referred to in Art. 25 25 sec. 1 point 9, justified by the preparation of specific programmes, forecasts and analyses, may provide these entities with identifiable unit data of public finance sector entities within the meaning of Art. 9 of the Act of 27 August 2009 on public finances. 2. The data made available in accordance with sec. 1 may be used only for the purpose indicated in the application, subject to the rules referred to in art. 38 sec. 1 and in Regulation No. 223/2009.1. Identifiable unit data obtained in statistical surveys may not be published nor made available. |
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
Confidential data are treated in accordance with the policy described in concept 7.1.
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
The basic information on the types of statistical information and the forms and time of its availability is specified in the “Statistical Survey Program of Official Statistics”, which is published once a year (in the second half of the year) as a regulation of the Council of Ministers and includes information for the next year. |
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
Not available. |
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8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
According to Article 14 of the ‘Act on Official Statistics’ the official statistics shall provide to all equal, non‑discriminatory and simultaneous access to the statistical information. |
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The data are published quarterly. The data for activities 49; 49.4; 50; 50.1+50.2; 51; 52; 52.1; 52.24; 53; 53.1; 53.2; 61; 62; 63; 63.1; 68; 69_702; 69; 70.2; 71; 73; 74; 77; 78; 80; 81; 81.2 with base year 2015=100 were sent to Eurostat quarterly ending with data for Q4 2023. Starting from 2024 data are sent for NACE Sections and Divisions: H, I, J, L, M (excluding M701, M72 and, M75) and N and aggregate of NACE Sections H+I+J+L+M (excl. M701, M72 and M75)+N with base year 2021=100 (including data for 2021-2023). |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
Producer price indices for business services in the quarter (News release) – quarterly indices previous quarter=100, corresponding quarter of the previous year=100 and fourth quarter of the previous year =100 for divisions of NACE Rev. 2 |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
Price indices are released in the following Statistics Poland's publications: "Statistical Bulletin" (monthly publication) – quarterly indices previous quarter=100 and corresponding quarter of the previous year=100 for sections and divisions of NACE Rev. 2 "Prices in the national economy" (annual publication) – annual indices previous year=100, base year =100 for sections, divisions, groups and classes of NACE Rev. 2 (till 2022 edition) “Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Poland” (annual publication) – annual indices previous year=100 and base year=100 for sections and divisions of NACE Rev. 2. |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
"Knowledge Database - Prices" - quarterly indices with the previous period =100 and corresponding period = 100 for NACE rev. 2 codes: H, 49, 49.1, 49.2, 49.3, 49.31, 49.32, 49.39, 49.4, 50, 50.1+50.2, 50.3+50.4, 51, 51.1, 52, 52.1, 52.2, 52.21, 52.22, 52.23, 52.24, 52.29, 53, 53.1, 53.2, 61 from Q1 2019 (from January 2010 to December 2018 monthly); quarterly indices with the previous period =100 and corresponding period =100 for NACE rev.2 codes: 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 68, 69_702, 71, 73, 74, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 81.2, 82 from Q1 2010 (from 2021 69 and 702 separately). From 2021 quarterly indices with base year 2021 =100 for NACE Sections and Divisions: H, I, J, L, M (excluding M701, M72 and, M75) and N and aggregate of NACE Sections H+I+J+L+M (excl. M701, M72 and M75)+N. "Poland – macroeconomic indicators" - quarterly indices with the previous period = 100, corresponding period = 100 and from the beginning of the year to the end of the period (corresponding period of the previous year=100) for Section H and division 61, from 2017; monthly indices with the previous period = 100, corresponding period = 100 and December of the previous year = 100 for Section H and division 61, from January 2006 to December 2018. |
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10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
No access to micro-data. |
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
The quarterly indices for activities 49; 49.4; 50; 50.1+50.2; 51; 52; 52.1; 52.24; 53.1; 53.2; 61; 62; 63; 63.1; 68; 69_702; 69; 70.2; 71; 73; 74; 77; 78; 80; 81; 81.2 with base year 2015=100 were regularly sent to Eurostat ending with data for Q4 2023. Starting from 2024 data are sent for NACE Sections and Divisions: H, I, J, L, M (excluding M701, M72 and, M75) and N and aggregate of NACE Sections H+I+J+L+M (excl. M701, M72 and M75)+N with base year 2021=100 (including data for 2021-2023). Additional, not published but non-confidential data are available upon request. |
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
According to article 3 of Act on Official Statistics - the official statistics ensure reliable, objective and systematic information to the public, state authorities and public administration as well as to national economy entities about the economic, demographic, social and natural environment situation. Documentation on procedures applied for quality management and assessment is available on the website: Quality in statistics |
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11.1. Quality assurance | |||
The applied quality policy is based on the following International and European standards:
In order to assure an appropriate quality of SPPI indices quality checks and validations are made throughout data collection as well as data processing process. |
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11.2. Quality management - assessment | |||
Quality assessment of the survey conducted with the use of C-06 forms is carried out annually since 2013. Quality report for survey on C-09 form is carried out from 2019. The quality reports starting from 2020 are available to external users. https://raportyjakosci.stat.gov.pl/ Relevance is maintained every year while drafting the “Statistical Survey Program of Official Statistics”. User satisfaction survey was conducted at the end of 2013. |
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
User needs are systematically monitored and taken into consideration while drafting the “Statistical Survey Program of Official Statistics” for the next year. The organs of the state power, government and self-government administration, organizations of employers and other institutions, provide opinions on statistical surveys and recommend implementation of the new ones.
The SPPI indices are used for macroeconomic analysis and as deflators to convert the value of service output into volume measures.
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12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | |||
User satisfaction survey was conducted at the end of 2013. The survey covered the following data users: government and self-government administration, National Central Bank, Polish Financial Supervision Authority, research institutes, universities, organizations of employers, enterprises, insurance institutions, media, social organizations, professional self-government, economic self-government, trade unions, students, individuals.
The report on user satisfaction (in Polish) is available on the Statistics Poland's website. |
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12.3. Completeness | |||
All NACE activities required by EBS regulation are surveyed (except of NACE 55 and 56 which will be obtained from CPI survey). |
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||
The accuracy of SPPI indices is considered to be good. An appropriate actions are taken to identify and eliminate potential sources of errors and bias. |
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13.2. Sampling error | |||
Sampling errors are not calculated for SPPI indices because the sample is not based on random sampling. In order to ensure good representativeness the units which play an important role on the market are included in the sample. |
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13.3. Non-sampling error | |||
There are four main types of non-sampling errors which can occur in the survey of producer prices for services:
In order to minimize the impact of errors in data provided by respondents on SPPI indices appropriate validation procedures are applied. In case of non-response missing values are imputed. The response rate for the third quarter of 2023 was 94,0%. In order to increase the rate of response a telephone and e-mail follow-up of non-respondents takes place. There are no significant differences in response rate over the course of a year. In order to minimalize the impact of over-coverage, units with activity out of scope of SPPI are excluded from the sample. In order to follow prices of products with comparable quality in consecutive periods, reporting units are asked to specify on the reporting form the most important price-determining characteristics of the observed representatives (according to the features specified for particular kind of services). |
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14.1. Timeliness | |||
Data for activities belonging to Sections H and division 61 are released within 55 days after the end of the reference period and for other activities – within about 70 days. The data collection starts on the first day after the reference period. The deadline for replies is 15 days after the reference period. The data collection is closed about 20 days after the reference period. |
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14.2. Punctuality | |||
100% releases delivered on time according to the scheduled release dates. |
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | |||
SPPI indices for Poland are compiled in accordance with EBS Regulation requirements and other methodological guidelines and recommendations of Eurostat. It ensures good comparability of Polish SPPI indices with other national and European SPPI indices. |
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15.2. Comparability - over time | |||
SPPI indices are based on constant weights which are updated every five years. Also possible changes in the used classifications and calculation methods are introduced along with update of weights and are kept constant over 5 years. As a result index series are composed of fragments based on different weighting structures. These fragments are chain-linked to obtain long time series although they are not strictly comparable. |
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | |||
Changes in the SPPI indices are cross-checked with the changes in CPI indices. The differences between the SPPI and the CPI result from the fact that the CPI measures business to household prices whereas the SPPI measures prices of services provided to customers that are enterprises or persons that represent enterprises as well as consumers. Weights in the CPI are updated every year and are based on households expenditures, while weights for SPPI are updated every five years and are based on the turnover from the SBS survey. |
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15.4. Coherence - internal | |||
SPPI indices are internally coherent. Concepts, definitions and classification for compiling the indices are consistent across all activities covered. Higher-level aggregates are obtained from lower-level indices with the use of well-established procedures. |
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Cost of the NSI – 12488 hours annually. |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
Data revision policy (in Polish) is consistent with “ESS guidelines on revision policy for principal European economic indicators”. Information about major revisions, e.g. in classification, methodology or base year, is provided in advance of the change. Information about non-scheduled changes is given at the time the revision is introduced. The same revision policy is applied to data released nationally and transmitted to Eurostat. Revision calendar is available on the Statistics Poland's website. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
SPPI data are final when published so they are not subject to routine revisions. In the period 2019-2023, which refers to the same base year (2015), for all service activities the indices of MR and MAR are equal 0,000. |
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18.1. Source data | |||
Source data are mainly obtained through statistical surveys covering legal units employing 10 or more persons. Published price lists are also used. The frame on which the source is based is the Statistical Business Register (BJS) supported by the National Official Business Register (REGON). The sample for the survey is drawn using purposive sampling method. The survey covers about 2350 units. |
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18.2. Frequency of data collection | |||
Data collection is carried out on a quarterly basis. |
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18.3. Data collection | |||
Data collection is done by electronic questionnaires. Two questionnaires are used: C-06 – the quarterly report on producer prices of services (completed by units which principal or secondary kind of activity is classified in NACE rev. 2 codes: 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 68, 69, 70.2, 71, 73, 74, 77, 80, 81, 82) C-09 - the quarterly report on producer prices of transport, storage and telecommunication services (completed by enterprises which principal or secondary kind of activity is classified in NACE Rev.2 Section H and division 61) Price lists are extracted from websites or sent via email. |
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18.4. Data validation | |||
Data provided by reporting units are subject to quality checks. Among other things the following checks are performed:
In case of identifying any errors or inconsistencies the respondent is contacted for further clarifications. |
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18.5. Data compilation | |||
The SPPI is a Laspeyres type price index with fixed weights updated every five years. |
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18.6. Adjustment | |||
No statistical procedures are used for adjustments. The SPPI indices are not seasonally adjusted. |
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