Secondary educationMetadataPeriod: AnnualYear: 2023 |
01. Contact | Top |
01.1. Contact organisation | |
Statisticаl Office of the Republic of Serbia | |
01.2. Contact organisation unit | |
Group for pre-university education and lifelong learning. | |
01.3. Contact name | |
Sava Boškoćević | |
01.4. Contact person function | |
Statistician-analyst | |
01.5. Contact mail address | |
5 Milana Rakica street, 11000 Belgrade | |
01.6. Contact email address | |
01.7. Contact phone number | |
+381 11 2412922 ext.440 | |
01.8. Contact fax number | |
not applicable |
02. Metadata update | Top |
02.1. Metadata last certified | |
18/03/2024 | |
02.2. Metadata last posted | |
18/3/2024 | |
02.3. Metadata last update | |
18/3/2024 |
03. Statistical presentation | Top |
03.1. Data description | |
State of playat the beginning and at the end of school year by main indicators- data about number and type of upper secondary school, ownership form, data on the number of students by gender and students with disabilities, students by fields of education and profiles for which they are educated. | |
03.2. Classification system | |
International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED2011) | |
03.3. Coverage - sector | |
Not applicable | |
03.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | |
This survey provides data on the status, structure and development of schoolss, sexstructure and movement of upper secondary students, students who participate in different fields of education and profiles. | |
03.5. Statistical unit | |
Statistical unit is every upper secondary school in the Republic of Serbia. | |
03.6. Statistical population | |
Students attending upper secondary education (regular and education for students with disabilities). | |
03.7. Reference area | |
The data refer to the territory of the Republic of Serbia. As of 1999, Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia do not collect data for AP Kosovo i Metohia, so they are not included in this data set for the Republic of Serbia (total). | |
03.8. Coverage - Time | |
Annually from 2010. | |
03.9. Base period | |
Not applicable |
04. Unit of measure | Top |
04. Unit of measure | |
Number of students, schools. |
05. Reference Period | Top |
05. Reference Period | |
School year |
06. Institutional Mandate | Top |
06.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | |
The survey is conducting on the basis of the Law on official statistics ("Official Gazzete of the Republic of Serbia" number 104/2009). | |
06.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |
Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia fills annual UOE (Unesco, OECD, Eurostta) and UNESCO-UIS questionnaires, gathering various data on all levels of education. |
07. Confidentiality | Top |
07.1. Confidentiality - policy | |
Data confidetiality is guaranteed by the Law on the official statistics which prescribes the use of data solely for statistical purposes and Rullebook on protection of statistical data in the Statistical Office. | |
07.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |
All obtained data from statistical units are published agregated. Individual data can be provided exclusively with special procedures. |
08. Release policy | Top |
08.1. Release calendar | |
Data obtained by this survey are publishing in Statistical releases and the Bulletin according to the Calendar of publications. | |
08.2. Release calendar access | |
All publications can be found at SORS website (www.stat.gov.rs) | |
08.3. Release policy - user access | |
The data are publicly available on website. With the request sent by user, SORS obtain other data specified in the request (on aggregate level). |
09. Frequency of dissemination | Top |
09. Frequency of dissemination | |
The data are collecting and publishing on annual level. |
10. Accessibility and clarity | Top |
10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |
Statistical realise on upper secondary education beginning and end of the school year - beginning of March | |
10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |
The statistical Bulletin on upper secondary education contains detailed data on students, schools and teaching stuff to the level of the municipality. | |
10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |
SORS database-area Education-sublevel-Uppersecondary education | |
10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |
On request, the access to anonymized microdata is ensured to scientific and research institutions. The request can be placed by email at stat@stat.gov.rs, or by regular mail addressed at
5 Milana Rakića St, Belgrade.
For more information, please see http://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/korisnicka-podrska/micropodaci. | |
10.5. Dissemination format - other | |
| |
10.6. Documentation on methodology | |
Methodology is available on the SORS website: www.stat.gov.rs
| |
10.7. Quality management - documentation | |
Not applicable. |
11. Quality management | Top |
11.1. Quality assurance | |
The SORS quality management system is relied on the Serbian official statistics mission and vision, as well as on the European Statistics Code of Practice – CoP and the Total Quality Management – TQM principles, which together make the common quality framework of the European Statistical System (ESS).
For more information, please see the documents at http://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/o-nama/sistem-upravljanja-kvalitetom | |
11.2. Quality management - assessment | |
Not applicable. |
12. Relevance | Top |
12.1. User needs | |
Various domstic and foreign institutions. Public: ministries, agencies, institutes, other public unstitutions... private: enterprises, media, NGOs, researches,... | |
12.2. User satisfaction | |
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: http://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/o-nama/sistem-upravljanja-kvalitetom. | |
12.3. Completeness | |
Not applicable. |
13. Accuracy and reliability | Top |
13.1. Overall accuracy | |
Not applicable. | |
13.2. Sampling error | |
Not applicable. | |
13.3. Non-sampling error | |
Not applicable. |
14. Timeliness and punctuality | Top |
14.1. Timeliness | |
Nationally: 4 months for the entire round of creating, acquiring, processing and data publishing. For Eurostat: 6 months for delivering all required data (through UOE questionnaire), as of 2014. | |
14.2. Punctuality | |
All deadlines according publications callendar are respected. |
15. Coherence and comparability | Top |
15.1. Comparability - geographical | |
Not applicable. | |
15.2. Comparability - over time | |
Data are comparable in series from 2010 with no interuption. From the end of the 2022/2023 school year. and the beginning of 2023/2024. year, data on secondary education do not provide data on regional school departments, so comparability for that indicator has a break in the data series. | |
15.3. Coherence - cross domain | |
Not applicable. | |
15.4. Coherence - internal | |
Not applicable. |
16. Cost and Burden | Top |
16. Cost and Burden | |
Since it is annual survey, no significant burden is on reporting units |
17. Data revision | Top |
17.1. Data revision - policy | |
The SORS general revision policy constitutes the global frame ensuring that each statistical domain shall define its own revision policy in compliance with its specific nature.
The general SORS revision policy determines:
- general rules of revisions of the published data,
- forms of informing users as regards the possible causes of revisions,
- categories of revisions, and
- documents covering all aspects of revisions.
The general SORS revision policy is available at http://www.stat.gov.rs/media/2332/general-revision-policy.docx | |
17.2. Data revision - practice | |
Published data are considered final, unless otherwise stated. Correction and revision are possible.So far, no data revision were planned for this survey. |
18. Statistical processing | Top |
18.1. Source data | |
Data for the end of the 2022/2023 school year, the beginning of 2023/2024 school year and data on secondary education were obtained from the database of the Ministry of Education - the Unified Information System of Education (JISP). In conclusion with the beginning of the 2022/2023 school year, the Republic Institute of Statistics conducted regular statistical surveys on secondary education, where secondary schools submitted statistical reports with the situation at the beginning and the end of the school year. | |
18.2. Frequency of data collection | |
Annually | |
18.3. Data collection | |
Data on secondary education were obtained from the database of the Ministry of Education - the Unified Information System of Education (JISP). | |
18.4. Data validation | |
| |
18.5. Data compilation | |
Not applicable | |
18.6. Adjustment | |
Not applicable |
19. Comment | Top |
19. Comment | |
Not applicable. |