Dwellings

SORS

Construction units

Dejana Đorđević

Head of units

Milana Rakića 5

dejana.djordjevic@stat.gov.rs

+381112412922 ex.260

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Data on completed and demolished dwellings are used to calculating of the housing fund for the inter-census years (Census of Population and Dwellings). Housing fund is used for planning the construction of residential buildings.

Data on prices of dwellings of new construction are used for understanding level of current prices of new construction dwellings, determining contributions for the regulation of construction land (Law on Planning and Construction, Article 97), legal proceedings and for conducting the measures of current housing policy.

- National classification of economic activities - KD (2010) based on NACE Rev.2 classification (Statistical   Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community).

- Classification of Types of Constructions (CC classification).

- Nomenclature of territorial statistical units.

Data on completed dwellings is filled in by entreprises that have built dwellingss in the reference period.

For demolished dwellings, data providers are the respective administration bodies that issue the decisions on demolishing and building permits for starting the works which change the purpose of residential space into non-residential or which joint two or more dwellings into one. Moreover, the survey obtains the data on enterprises that have the available documentation related to demolishing.

The data about new construction dwellings are taken from the administrative data source, the Real estate Cadastre kept by the Republic Geodetic Authority.

Dwelling is any construction unit intended for habitation, consisting of one or more rooms with functional areas for ancillary use (kitchen, bathroom, lobby, pantry, toilet, etc.) or without functional areas for ancillary use and with one or more separate entries, directly from the hall, staircase, from the garden or street.   

Dwelling area (m²) is useful floor area measured inside the walls and presents the sum of floor area of all rooms, kitchen, bathroom, toilet and other areas for ancillary use in the dwelling, excluding basement, cellar that are not arranged as dwelling or its part, garage spaces, pantry, areas occupied by heating and air-conditioning installations, or by power generators, etc, as well as staircase and other common rooms used by the owners of the residential units in the buildings with more dwellings

Completed dwelling is taken to be only a dwelling in which all intended construction, installation and final works are completed.

Average prices published by one m² are the result of characteristics of construction and difference in a month in which the contract was arranged on the particular territory. Average prices are calculated at the municipality / city level and VAT (value added tax) is included in the price.

Number of dwellings and useful floor space of dwellings that were built or demolished in the observed period.

Average prices of dwellings of new construction for which the purchase contract was realized.

Republic of Serbia.

(Remark: Since 1999, the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia doesn’t dispose of certain data for AP Kosovo and Metohia, so they are not contained in the data coverage for the Republic of Serbia (total))

The data series on built dwellings covers the period from 2001. The prices of dwellings for new construction have been published since 1966.

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Number of dvellings;

Usefool floor space in m2;

Average prices of new construction dwellings, RSD per m2. 

National legislation:

There is no data sharing to international institutions.

Data confidentiality is stipulated by:

- Official Statistics Law (Official Gazette of RS, number 104/2009), Articles 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, and 49.

(www.stat.gov.rs/media/2322/zakon_o_statisticie.pdf)

- Rulebook on statistical data protection in the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia

(www.stat.gov.rs/media/2343/rulebook-on-statistical-data-protection-in-sors.doc ) 

- Guidelines on measures of data and information protection in the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia

(www.stat.gov.rs/media/2341/guidelines-on-measures-of-data-and-information-protection-in-the-sors.doc )

Confidential data are treated according to policy rules (see Official statistics law, point 7.1).

Data are published only on the level at which they are not confidential. 

Calendar of releases is available at SORS website:

https://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/calendar.

Data on completed and demolished dwellings are collected and published annually.

Data on the prices of new dwellings are taken semi-annually and published semi-annually and annually.

Statistical release GR20 i GR21.

https://www.stat.gov.rs/en-us/oblasti/gradjevinarstvo/stanovi/.

Statistical releases contain data on the average prices of new construction dwellings per m2.

Municipalities and regions of the Republic of Serbia, contain data on the completed and demolished dwellings in the referent period. 

https://www.stat.gov.rs/en-us/oblasti/gradjevinarstvo/stanovi/.

Data on number and usefool floor space of completed dwellings and average prices id new construction dwellings are published in online database . 

https://data.stat.gov.rs/?caller=0501&languageCode=en-US

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Short methodological information on the national methodologies is available on the statistical website:

Methodology and documents | Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia.

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Data on comleted and demolished dwelling and prices of new construction dwelling are produced in accordance with methodological requirements and standards.

The publication schedule is fixed and announced in advance.

Data are used by different users. Users of statistical data on construction production indices can be found in all areas: individual citizens, business entities, media, state government as well as academic, scientific and research institutions and non-government organizations.

On biennial basis (once in two years), by the means of web interview, implemented is the User Satisfaction Survey. The survey results are available at SORS website: https://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/o-nama/sistem-upravljanja-kvalitetom.

In accordance with the Regulation on defining the plan of official statistics, data are available at semi-annual and annual levels.

The annual survey includes reporting units that built dwellings. Dwellings built in the organization of individual owners are estimated on the basis of issued building permits.

In scope of the Semi-Annual Survey on the Prices of New Construction Dwellings, all contracts from the Real Estate Price Register, on the sale of new construction dwellings in urban settlements, are included. The Real estate Cadastre database contains information from the contracts of real estate purchase and sale. The contract delivery is performed by the contracting authorities - notaries and basic courts. 

Quantifying sampling errors is not possible because the sample is not based on random sampling.

Measures to reduce non-response: units are contacted by phone plus reminders are sent by post.

Data on completed dwellings are available on the website of the Republic Statistical Office  seven months after the end of the reference period.

Data on the prices of new construction dwellings are available 75 days after the end of the reference period.

All data are published according to the announced Publications calendar.

Link https://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/calendar

The same concepts are used within the whole national territory.

There is no difference in comparability of the data for various frequencies. 

The Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia has used the available administrative data source for the calculation of the average price of new construction dwellings, which is kept by the Republic Geodetic Authority, since 2019. 

Results show a very similar global dynamic between the two indicators, number of dwellings which were built and number of issued building permits for the dwellings. Data on building permits are used to anticipate the evolution of production in the construction sector.

Data within the data set are consistent.

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The first published data are preliminary. In the next calendar year, data revision is allowed. Data can change due to questionnaires arriving late or the corrections which are initiated by data suppliers. Revisions due to errors are implemented immediately after detection.

The source of data are statistical survey "Annual survey on construction works - GRAĐ-11", data on works performed in organization of individual owners, taken over from the data on building permits-GRAĐ-10" and Annual survey on demolished buildings and adaptation of residential space - GRAĐ-71".

For the "Semi-annual survey on prices of new construction dwellings - GRAĐ-41", the data are taken from the administrative data source, the Real estate Cadastre kept by the Republic Geodetic Authority. The statistical unit is a new constructed dwelling for which a sale contract was realized in the observed period in urban settlements.

Data are collected with a paper questionnaire. Reporting units may send completed questionnaires by post, fax or e-mail.

The questionnaire can be filled in via the web (e-questionnaire)

For the "Semi-annual survey on prices of new construction dwellings - GRAĐ-41", the data are taken from the administrative data source, the Real estate Cadastre kept by the Republic Geodetic Authority. 

Data quality checks are done by manual revision of questionnaires and procedures of logical control.

Collected data are first checked and verified during the process of data entering. After that quality checking is carried out by using a set of strict manual and electronic logical and calculation controls. Reports that fail to meet the quality standards are subject to verification and are corrected as required.

For logical control and corrections of errors is used Integrated Survey Tool (IST). IST is a software package that includes the process of data entry, logical control and production of output tables.

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