Statistical report on students’ enrolment

Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia

Sector of Social Statistics

Department of Statistics of Education, Science and Culture

Maja Tošić

Statistician - analyst

Belgrade, 11050 Milana Rakića 5, Serbia

maja.tosic@stat.gov.rs

+381 11 6964234

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The data are collected on the basis of the survey: "Statistical report for enrollment of students (SV-20)" conducted on the basis of the Law on Official Statistics ("Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia" No. 104/2009). 

Reporting units for tertiary education surveys are all higher education institutions – universities, faculties, art academies and higher schools whatever the ownership is.

• ISCED - International Standard Classification of Education

Higher education sector.

Students are enrolled in accredited study programs organized by a higher education institution in the manner prescribed by the Law on Higher Education.

Higher education institutions where students are enrolled are educational institutions where educational and scientific process is carried out in view of preparing specialists to work in corresponding areas, according to specially regulated curricula.

The activity of tertiary education is performed by the following higher education institutions: university, faculty, i.e. art academy within a university; academy of applied studies; higher school and higher school of applied studies.

Republic of Serbia (without data for Kosovo and Metohija).

The school year is being watched.

Not applicable.

Number of students, number of higher education institutions.

Data refer to the last school year.

National legislation

The Official Statistics Law („Official Gazette of the RS“, No. 104/09) specifies the legal framework for the production and dissemination of official statistics and also for the organization of the system of official statistics of the Republic of Serbia. Nevertheless, the Official Statistics Law, together with the five-year Statistical Programme over the period 2021 – 2025 and the annual implementation plans, provides the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (SORS) with a clear and broad legal mandate to collect and access the data needed for the execution of the Statistical Programme and the Implementation Plan.

In addition, pursuant to Article 18, paragraph 2 of the Law on Official Statistics (“Official Gazette of the RS”, No 104/09) and Article 42, paragraph 1 of the Law on Government Administration (“Official Gazette of the RS” No 55/05, 71/05‐corrigendum, 101/07, 65/08, 16/11, 68/12 - decision of the Constitutional Court, 72/12, 7/14 - decision of the Constitutional Court, 44/14 and 30/18 - other law), the Government adopts every year a regulation that defines the plan for official statistics.

Pursuant to Article 46 of the Law on Official Statistics (“Official Gazette of RS”, number 104/09), Articles 7 and 35 of the Law on Government Administration (“Official Gazette of RS”, No 79/05, 101/07, 95/10, 99/14, 47/18 и 30/18 - other law) and Articles 9, 15, 16  and 18 of the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Interest (“Official Gazette of RS”, No120/04, 54 /07 104/09, 36/10  and 105/21), Director of the SORS hereby adopt Rulebook on statistical data protection in the statistical office of the Republic of Serbia. The Rulebook lays down the measures to be implemented so as to protect data and information in the SORS.

In addition, Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.

The protection of secret data and documents shall be done in accordance with the Law on Data Secrecy. Confidential data from Article 3 of the Rulebook are considered official secret and cannot be published or communicated, that is, they cannot be part of aggregated data from which individual data can be identified. Individual data can be given only to the owner of those data. Only the employees of the Office authorized by decision of the Director of the Office shall have access to confidential data from administrative sources.

Also, if SORS transmits data with a confidentiality flag or an embargo date, these data are not disseminated until the confidentiality flag is lifted in a subsequent data transmission or the embargo expired.

 This indicator is available at the end of June in the Statistical Release on the website of the SORS:

http://www.stat.gov.rs      

External users can find the exact date of publication in the calendar located on the Institute's website.

http://www.stat.gov.rs

External users can find information in the Special publication on the Institute's website.

https://publikacije.stat.gov.rs/G2023/PdfE/G20236008.pdf

In line with the Community legal framework and the European Statistics Code of Practice Eurostat disseminates European statistics on Eurostat's website respecting professional independence and in an objective, professional and transparent manner in which all users are treated equitably. The detailed arrangements are governed by the Eurostat protocol on impartial access to Eurostat data for users

Annual.

Not applicable.

Special publication "Higher Education"

https://publikacije.stat.gov.rs/G2022/PdfE/G20226012.pdf

Database on SORS and Eurostat website.

Available at the request of international organizations, researchers, etc. The request must be sent to the dissemination group (to the official email address: stat@stat.gov.rs) which will start the process of creating a cooperation agreement after receiving the approval of the top management.

Not applicable.

Abbreviated methodology on the web site of the SORS

https://publikacije.stat.gov.rs/G2023/Pdf/G202320001.pdf

The ESS Metadata Handler.

Quality is provided by strict implementation of definitions and conceptual frameworks of European Statistics and through validation of data. Major deviations and inconsistencies were not observed.

Data is collected from reliable sources applying standards with regard to the OECD methodology and ensuring a high degree of comparability across countries.

The main beneficiary is the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development as well as other ministries.

Also, beneficiaries are international institutions and researchers, students and all who are doing analysis in the field of higher education.

Not applicable.

Annual reports on students enrolled in higher education institutions provide a complete and consistent overview of enrolled students in the Republic of Serbia, in accordance with Eurostat's requirements.

High.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

According to Transmission Programme data should be transmitted to Eurostat within 6 months after the end of the reference year, as previous data (t+6), and t+12 month, as final data.

The SORS shall submit the data within the prescribed time limit.

Comparability is ensured by applying common definitions and methodological frameworks based on international methodologies and standards.

The data have been available since 2007 and the comparison is feasible because there is no deviation from the proposed international methodology.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

The general audit policy as an official document is available on the RZS intranet site. Revised data is available in the RZS database as soon as their validation is performed.

Published data are considered final, unless otherwise stated. Corrections and revisions are possible.

Significant methodological changes are announced and users can be informed about them on the SORS website.

The source of data is the Statistical Questionnaire on students enrolled in a higher education institution.

Data are collected annually.

One part of the reporting units-the higher education institution delivers filled-in questionnaires to the electronic SORS, and one part of the reporting units takes the questionnaire from the SORS website and returns statistics at the end of December of the current year (n) for the reference year (n-1) in an file form.

Data on students enrolled in a higher education institution are controlled in order to ensure their accuracy and completeness. Control is done internally, by the SORS and externally, by Eurostat.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.