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The purpose of the statistical survey on turnover in other services is the quarterly statistical monitoring of turnover (income from sale of goods and services) in service activities as well as the measuring of the dynamics of its change and as input for National accounts statistics. The quarterly compilation of the turnover index is intended for a simple monitoring of change flows in economic development. It is suitable for short-term observations and analyses of the economic development. Just like in other short-term conjunctive statistics, the basic purpose is not the level of a particular phenomenon but rather it’s dynamic of change. The Regulation on Short-Term Statistics foresees the monitoring of a major part of service activities.
3.2. Classification system
NACE Rev. 2
3.3. Coverage - sector
The survey on turnover in service sector includes all business entities (legal units, tradesmen and free lances) if their prevailing activity is one of the following:
H49 Land transport and transport via pipelines;
H50 Water transport;
H51 Air transport;
H52 Warehousing and support activities for transportation;
H53 Postal and courier activities;
I55 Accommodation;
I56 Food service activities;
J58 Publishing activities;
J59 Motion picture, video and television program production, sound recording and music publishing activities;
J60 Programming and broadcasting activities;
J61 Telecommunications;
J62 Computer programming, consultancy and related activities;
J63 Information service activities;
L68 Real estate activities;
M69 Legal and accounting services;
M702 Management consulting services;
M71 Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis;
M73 Advertising and market research;
M74 Other professional, scientific and technical activities;
N77 Rental and leasing activities;
N78 Employment activities;
N79 Travel agency, tour operator reservation services and related activities;
N80 Security and investigation activities;
N81 Services to bildings and landscape activities;
N82 Office administrative, office support and other business support activities;
HTNXK Services of the business economy (except K);
Data of turnover in services is taken from the Tax administration (data on VAT).
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions
Turnover comprises the totals invoiced by the observation unit during the reference period, and this corresponds to market sales of goods or services supplied to third parties. Turnover includes all duties and taxes on the goods or services invoiced by the unit with the exception of the VAT invoiced by the unit vis-a-vis its customer and other similar deductible taxes directly linked to turnover. Number of employees - defined as the total number of employees who work in the observation unit (including working proprietors, partners working regularly and unpaid family workers). Hours worked including working hours which employees are held in operating activities during the reporting quarter.
3.5. Statistical unit
The survey on turnover in service sector includes all business entities (legal units, tradesmen and free lances) if their prevailing activity is one of the following:
H49 Land transport and transport via pipelines;
H50 Water transport;
H51 Air transport;
H52 Warehousing and support activities for transportation;
H53 Postal and courier activities;
I55 Accommodation;
I56 Food service activities;
J58 Publishing activities;
J59 Motion picture, video and television program production, sound recording and music publishing activities;
J60 Programming and broadcasting activities;
J61 Telecommunications;
J62 Computer programming, consultancy and related activities;
J63 Information service activities;
L68 Real estate activities;
M69 Legal and accounting services;
M702 Management consulting services;
M71 Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis;
M73 Advertising and market research;
M74 Other professional, scientific and technical activities;
N77 Rental and leasing activities;
N78 Employment activities;
N79 Travel agency, tour operator reservation services and related activities;
N80 Security and investigation activities;
N81 Services to bildings and landscape activities;
N82 Office administrative, office support and other business support activities;
HTNXK Services of the business economy (except K);
Data of turnover in services is taken from the Tax administration (data on VAT).
3.6. Statistical population
The survey on turnover in service sector includes all business entities (legal units, tradesmen and free lances) if their prevailing activity is one of the following:
H49 Land transport and transport via pipelines;
H50 Water transport;
H51 Air transport;
H52 Warehousing and support activities for transportation;
H53 Postal and courier activities;
I55 Accommodation;
I56 Food service activities;
J58 Publishing activities;
J59 Motion picture, video and television program production, sound recording and music publishing activities;
J60 Programming and broadcasting activities;
J61 Telecommunications;
J62 Computer programming, consultancy and related activities;
J63 Information service activities;
L68 Real estate activities;
M69 Legal and accounting services;
M702 Management consulting services;
M71 Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis;
M73 Advertising and market research;
M74 Other professional, scientific and technical activities;
N77 Rental and leasing activities;
N78 Employment activities;
N79 Travel agency, tour operator reservation services and related activities;
N80 Security and investigation activities;
N81 Services to bildings and landscape activities;
N82 Office administrative, office support and other business support activities;
HTNXK Services of the business economy (except K);
Data of turnover in services is taken from the Tax administration (data on VAT).
3.7. Reference area
The whole territory of Montenegro.
3.8. Coverage - Time
The other services data are available from 2010 year.
3.9. Base period
The base year is 2021.
Changes compared to the previous periods - showed in percentage (%).
Data are collected in reference to period of month.
6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements
The legal basis for the implementation of the survey of turnover index in other services is the Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System of Montenegro ("Official Gazette of Montenegro“, No. 18/12 and 47/19and 23/25) and Annual plan of statistical surveys.
Implementation of the other services survey in Montenegro also relies on the following EU regulations: EU Regulation 2019/2152 Framework Regulation Integrating Business Statistics – EBS and EU Regulation 2020/1197 on technical specifications and arrangements.
6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing
Other services data series of turnover from 2010 year, were sent to Eurostat in SDMX format.
Data series for all variables are calendar and seasonally adjusted using JDemetra+ software.
Data of employee and wages and salaries, in services, are transmitting to Eurostat.
7.1. Confidentiality - policy
National legislation
According to the Law on Statistics and Statistical System of Montenegro, Article 54 the data collected, processed and stored for the purpose of official statistics shall be confidential, if it is on the basis of these data, either directly or indirectly identify reporting units which disclosing individual information.
European legislation
Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 11 March 2009, on the transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office of the European Communities.
7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment
Confidential data are treated according to policy rules (see point 7.1). Data are nationally published only on the level at which they are not confidential. Individual data represent an official secret.
8.1. Release calendar
Data are published on 48 days after the end of the observed period. Date of publication statements is defined in the Calendar of statistics of MONSTAT.
Other services data are published 48 days after the end of the reference period, on the MONSTAT website at 11 am. The data are published in a press release (Excel and Word), in the monthly statistical bulletin (Excel and Word) and as dynamic data (Excel). Also, we send data to Eurostat in SDMX form. When a user submits a request for information that is not on the site, we respond to him through official procedures within 15 days.
On users’ request and on their behalf, statistics may provide the data and information obtained by Eurostat via EDAMIS.
10.6. Documentation on methodology
Methodology of other services survey is available on MONSTAT website.
10.7. Quality management - documentation
Quality report for other services survey are available on site.
11.1. Quality assurance
MONSTAT has officially accepted the European Statistics Code of Practice. European Statistics Code of Practice in Montenegro is available on the website: .
For the systematic and standardized approach to quality, the Quality Management Framework was adopted by MONSTAT. Clear intention is expressed to take further steps towards full compliance with the European Statistics Code of Practice.
11.2. Quality management - assessment
Quality is monitored throughout all stages of data production, by the responsible statisticians, according to specifications for concrete surveys. Data collection, data capture and processing are usually subject to this monitoring (similarly as timeliness and punctuality).
In the framework of the organization of statistical surveys, selected quality aspects are part of preparing staff involved in statistical production.
12.1. Relevance - User Needs
Main users of data are: Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economy, Chamber of Commerce, research institutions, companies engaged in trade, statistics of National accounts, and other sectors inside MONSTAT, as well as general public.
12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction
Customer satisfaction survey is not yet available at the level of research. All users request was fulfilled and based on that, we have concluded that users are satisfied with our survey. At the level of institutions is available online survey:
12.3. Completeness
From 2010 to 2018 survey is done on the basis of a sample includes companies that are registered in sections G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R.
From january 2018 we start to use administrative data sources - Tax administration (VAT data) by recomended groups. Now, we are able to satisfy all recomendation from REGULATION (EU) 2019/2152 Framework Regulation Integrating Business Statistics – EBS.
13.1. Accuracy - overall
The quarterly other services survey results are based on administrative data and are subject to the usual types non-sampling errors, measurement errors, processing errors and non-response. This is the full coverage survey.
13.2. Sampling error
Not applicable.
13.3. Non-sampling error
Response rate for this survey is 100% so the non-sampling errors have not any impact.
14.1. Timeliness
The first results are published around 38 days after the end of the reference quarter.
14.2. Punctuality
Deadlines for publishing have been complied in accordance with the calendar of release. There is no time lag between the actual delivery of the data and the target date when it should have been delivered.
15.1. Comparability - geographical
Methodology of our other services survey is the same as in other European countries, that is the reason why our data are comparable geographically with data of other EU countries.
15.2. Comparability - over time
Comparable data are published since 2010 on the MONSTAT website .
15.3. Coherence - cross domain
The data from other areas of economic statistics (Structural Business Statistics, National Accounts, Tourism statistics, Transport statistics) are used to do cross-checking the data.
15.4. Coherence - internal
Data are internal coherent. Higher level aggregations are derived from detailed indices according to well-defined procedures.
Financial resources required for the implementation of this survey are defined by the budget of Statistical Office of Montenegro.
17.1. Data revision - policy
Revision Policy prepared by Statistical Office of Montenegro is available on web site.
The revision policy is applied nationally and in transmissions to Eurostat.
17.2. Data revision - practice
Significant revisions have only been made to reflect changes in methodology. We update figures all the time in the new press release with the remarks. The biggest revision is happen when we change base year.
A statistical calendar is published on the website. A link to the MONSTAT website: Statistical Release Calendar.
Routine revisions, related to replacing estimated data with the subsequently reported data, are not carried out, because all data are available according to the deadlines.
If error occurs, corrected data are published in the next issue of First release. Data changed in relation to the first released are disseminated with a comment.
The requiered indicators MR and MAR has not been calculated yet.
Size of revisions has not been calculated yet.
18.1. Source data
The survey on turnover in service sector includes all business entities (legal units, tradesmen and free lances) if their prevailing activity is one of the following:
H49 Land transport and transport via pipelines;
H50 Water transport;
H51 Air transport;
H52 Warehousing and support activities for transportation;
H53 Postal and courier activities;
I55 Accommodation;
I56 Food service activities;
J58 Publishing activities;
J59 Motion picture, video and television program production, sound recording and music publishing activities;
J60 Programming and broadcasting activities;
J61 Telecommunications;
J62 Computer programming, consultancy and related activities;
J63 Information service activities;
L68 Real estate activities;
M69 Legal and accounting services ;
M702 Management consulting services;
M71 Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis;
M73 Advertising and market research;
M74 Other professional, scientific and technical activities;
N77 Rental and leasing activities;
N78 Employment activities;
N79 Travel agency, tour operator reservation services and related activities;
N80 Security and investigation activities;
N81 Services to bildings and landscape activities;
N82 Office administrative, office support and other business support activities;
HTNXK Services of the business economy (except K);
Data of turnover in services is taken from the Tax administration (data on VAT).
18.2. Frequency of data collection
Monthly.
18.3. Data collection
Data are collected from administrative VAT data.
18.4. Data validation
Data validation is done thru control of individual data and control of aggregated data and indices. In order to ensure data quality, simultaneously with collecting and manual coding, data are visually checked by statisticians for missing, invalid or inconsistent values, and if needed manually corrected. Checking is done during the process of data entry and after data entry. Data checking is performed in accordance with the defined criteria for control (automatic validation) and error corrections are carried out. Data are compared with the previous period of the same year, as well as with same period of previous year. If necessary, the respondents are contacted in order to clarify the deviation. There is the remark field in the questionnaire for any explanation of the unit (especially for the case of large increase or decrease in turnover compared to the previous quarter). Moreover, there is possibility to report the corrections of turnover for the previous quarter.
Statistical results (aggregated data) for the reference quarter are also compared to the results of the previous quarter and with the corresponding quarter of the previous year at each level of aggregation.
18.5. Data compilation
In case of non-response, imputation is done for large non-respondents based on previous values for the same enterprise or value of the previous period multiplied by the growth rate of the equivalent period of the previous year; the other units are treated by reweighting (weights are adjusted to take account of non-response).
18.6. Adjustment
First adjustment data of services are sent to Eurostat in 2018. Please see attached the Annex "SA for services".
The purpose of the statistical survey on turnover in other services is the quarterly statistical monitoring of turnover (income from sale of goods and services) in service activities as well as the measuring of the dynamics of its change and as input for National accounts statistics. The quarterly compilation of the turnover index is intended for a simple monitoring of change flows in economic development. It is suitable for short-term observations and analyses of the economic development. Just like in other short-term conjunctive statistics, the basic purpose is not the level of a particular phenomenon but rather it’s dynamic of change. The Regulation on Short-Term Statistics foresees the monitoring of a major part of service activities.
5 June 2025
Turnover comprises the totals invoiced by the observation unit during the reference period, and this corresponds to market sales of goods or services supplied to third parties. Turnover includes all duties and taxes on the goods or services invoiced by the unit with the exception of the VAT invoiced by the unit vis-a-vis its customer and other similar deductible taxes directly linked to turnover. Number of employees - defined as the total number of employees who work in the observation unit (including working proprietors, partners working regularly and unpaid family workers). Hours worked including working hours which employees are held in operating activities during the reporting quarter.
The survey on turnover in service sector includes all business entities (legal units, tradesmen and free lances) if their prevailing activity is one of the following:
H49 Land transport and transport via pipelines;
H50 Water transport;
H51 Air transport;
H52 Warehousing and support activities for transportation;
H53 Postal and courier activities;
I55 Accommodation;
I56 Food service activities;
J58 Publishing activities;
J59 Motion picture, video and television program production, sound recording and music publishing activities;
J60 Programming and broadcasting activities;
J61 Telecommunications;
J62 Computer programming, consultancy and related activities;
J63 Information service activities;
L68 Real estate activities;
M69 Legal and accounting services;
M702 Management consulting services;
M71 Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis;
M73 Advertising and market research;
M74 Other professional, scientific and technical activities;
N77 Rental and leasing activities;
N78 Employment activities;
N79 Travel agency, tour operator reservation services and related activities;
N80 Security and investigation activities;
N81 Services to bildings and landscape activities;
N82 Office administrative, office support and other business support activities;
HTNXK Services of the business economy (except K);
Data of turnover in services is taken from the Tax administration (data on VAT).
The survey on turnover in service sector includes all business entities (legal units, tradesmen and free lances) if their prevailing activity is one of the following:
H49 Land transport and transport via pipelines;
H50 Water transport;
H51 Air transport;
H52 Warehousing and support activities for transportation;
H53 Postal and courier activities;
I55 Accommodation;
I56 Food service activities;
J58 Publishing activities;
J59 Motion picture, video and television program production, sound recording and music publishing activities;
J60 Programming and broadcasting activities;
J61 Telecommunications;
J62 Computer programming, consultancy and related activities;
J63 Information service activities;
L68 Real estate activities;
M69 Legal and accounting services;
M702 Management consulting services;
M71 Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis;
M73 Advertising and market research;
M74 Other professional, scientific and technical activities;
N77 Rental and leasing activities;
N78 Employment activities;
N79 Travel agency, tour operator reservation services and related activities;
N80 Security and investigation activities;
N81 Services to bildings and landscape activities;
N82 Office administrative, office support and other business support activities;
HTNXK Services of the business economy (except K);
Data of turnover in services is taken from the Tax administration (data on VAT).
The whole territory of Montenegro.
Data are collected in reference to period of month.
The quarterly other services survey results are based on administrative data and are subject to the usual types non-sampling errors, measurement errors, processing errors and non-response. This is the full coverage survey.
Changes compared to the previous periods - showed in percentage (%).
In case of non-response, imputation is done for large non-respondents based on previous values for the same enterprise or value of the previous period multiplied by the growth rate of the equivalent period of the previous year; the other units are treated by reweighting (weights are adjusted to take account of non-response).
The survey on turnover in service sector includes all business entities (legal units, tradesmen and free lances) if their prevailing activity is one of the following:
H49 Land transport and transport via pipelines;
H50 Water transport;
H51 Air transport;
H52 Warehousing and support activities for transportation;
H53 Postal and courier activities;
I55 Accommodation;
I56 Food service activities;
J58 Publishing activities;
J59 Motion picture, video and television program production, sound recording and music publishing activities;
J60 Programming and broadcasting activities;
J61 Telecommunications;
J62 Computer programming, consultancy and related activities;
J63 Information service activities;
L68 Real estate activities;
M69 Legal and accounting services ;
M702 Management consulting services;
M71 Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis;
M73 Advertising and market research;
M74 Other professional, scientific and technical activities;
N77 Rental and leasing activities;
N78 Employment activities;
N79 Travel agency, tour operator reservation services and related activities;
N80 Security and investigation activities;
N81 Services to bildings and landscape activities;
N82 Office administrative, office support and other business support activities;
HTNXK Services of the business economy (except K);
Data of turnover in services is taken from the Tax administration (data on VAT).
Quarterly according to Calendar of Release.
The first results are published around 38 days after the end of the reference quarter.
Methodology of our other services survey is the same as in other European countries, that is the reason why our data are comparable geographically with data of other EU countries.
Comparable data are published since 2010 on the MONSTAT website .
