Producer prices of agricultural and fishery productsMetadataPeriod: AnnualYear: 2018 |
01. Contact | Top |
01.1. Contact organisation | |
Statistical Office of the republic of Serbia | |
01.2. Contact organisation unit | |
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01.3. Contact name | |
Vladimir Miletic | |
01.4. Contact person function | |
Statistician | |
01.5. Contact mail address | |
Milan Rakic 5, Belgrade | |
01.6. Contact email address | |
01.7. Contact phone number | |
0112412-922/ 370 | |
01.8. Contact fax number | |
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02. Metadata update | Top |
02.1. Metadata last certified | |
24/09/2018 | |
02.2. Metadata last posted | |
28/9/2018 | |
02.3. Metadata last update | |
24/9/2018 |
03. Statistical presentation | Top |
03.1. Data description | |
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03.2. Classification system | |
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03.3. Coverage - sector | |
Agriculture | |
03.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | |
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03.5. Statistical unit | |
Purchase organizations and legal entities that have their own production in agriculture | |
03.6. Statistical population | |
There is a full coverage of statistic population | |
03.7. Reference area | |
Since 1999, the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia has no information on the AP Kosovo and Metohija, so they are not included in the coverage of the Republic of Serbia data (total). | |
03.8. Coverage - Time | |
Rapid data series have been since 2005. | |
03.9. Base period | |
Base period for index calculation is 2015. |
04. Unit of measure | Top |
04. Unit of measure | |
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05. Reference Period | Top |
05. Reference Period | |
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06. Institutional Mandate | Top |
06.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | |
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06.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |
Not applicable. |
07. Confidentiality | Top |
07.1. Confidentiality - policy | |
European legislation Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009, on the transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office of the European Communities.
National legislation Official Statistics Law (Official gazette RS, no 104/09). | |
07.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |
The confidential data transmitted are used exclusively for statistical purposes and only accessible to staff working in statistical activities. In order to protect individual's information privacy and business interests of business units, only aggregated data are published (observation units are not recognizable either directly or indirectly). Therefore, adjusted contents of the tables are in use and certain rules are applied to protect data (Official statistics law, Official gazette of RS, No 104/2009).n order to protect individual's information privacy and business interests of business units, only aggregated data are published (observation units are not recognizable either directly or indirectly). Therefore, adjusted contents of the tables are in use and certain rules are applied to protect data (Official Statistics Law (Official gazette of RS, No 104/2009)). |
08. Release policy | Top |
08.1. Release calendar | |
The release calendar is publicly available and published at the end of the year for the full following year on the SORS website, in Serbian and English. | |
08.2. Release calendar access | |
Web site: http://webrzs.stat.gov.rs/WebSite/Public/CalendarView.aspx?pKey=37&cType=1 | |
08.3. Release policy - user access | |
In line with the Community legal framework and the European Statistics Code of Practice, the release policy determines the dissemination of statistical data respecting professional independence to all users at the same time in an objective, professional and transparent manner in which all users are treated equitably. Users are informed of a data release by the release calendar (see point 8.2). Press release is available in English, too. |
09. Frequency of dissemination | Top |
09. Frequency of dissemination | |
Monthly, round the 12th of the month, m-2 (two months backward) |
10. Accessibility and clarity | Top |
10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |
Total index is published together with the Statistical release on API on the website: http://webrzs.stat.gov.rs/WebSite/, at 12:00 (local time), on the day of release, in Serbian as well as in English language. | |
10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |
API’s data are posted on the SORS website: http://webrzs.stat.gov.rs/WebSite/ | |
10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |
Micro data not available to the users. | |
10.5. Dissemination format - other | |
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |
Detailed methodological explanations are available on the website of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia: http://webrzs.stat.gov.rs/WebSite/Public/PageView.aspx?pKey=288 | |
10.7. Quality management - documentation | |
Not applicable. |
11. Quality management | Top |
11.1. Quality assurance | |
There is no specific process to focus on quality. | |
11.2. Quality management - assessment | |
Not applicable. |
12. Relevance | Top |
12.1. User needs | |
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12.2. User satisfaction | |
No information. | |
12.3. Completeness | |
API’s are covering sections A according NACE Rev. 2. |
13. Accuracy and reliability | Top |
13.1. Overall accuracy | |
The products for price monitoring are selected from each agricultural division, with the highest sale on market and their prices can represent the general price trends in the agriculture by division and according to products destination (MIGs). When creating the list, the selected products should represent the fluctuations of prices also for the products not included in the list. | |
13.2. Sampling error | |
Sampling error cannot be calculated because the methodology of price statistics based on the principle of representativeness. Primarily are selected enterprise by greatest production and realization of selected products. | |
13.3. Non-sampling error | |
This survey is caracterized by full coverage. |
14. Timeliness and punctuality | Top |
14.1. Timeliness | |
The reporting period for which prices are delivered for a month (from the beginning to the end of the month), with a release for the other months back (m-2). | |
14.2. Punctuality | |
Statistical releases CN40 are published each month according to the announced release calendar. |
15. Coherence and comparability | Top |
15.1. Comparability - geographical | |
Agricultural producer price indexes of agricultural and fishery products are calculated on the whole country level and as such are representative and comparable with indicators from other countries. | |
15.2. Comparability - over time | |
A comparable time series is available from January 2005. | |
15.3. Coherence - cross domain | |
There is no other statistical output for comparison. | |
15.4. Coherence - internal | |
All data in agriculture are mutually coherent. |
16. Cost and Burden | Top |
16. Cost and Burden | |
No information. |
17. Data revision | Top |
17.1. Data revision - policy | |
The data are published as final and are not subject to any revision. | |
17.2. Data revision - practice | |
Major changes in methodology are announced in advance or at the time of data dissemination. |
18. Statistical processing | Top |
18.1. Source data | |
Material data needed for the research of the producer price index of agricultural and fishery products is taken from the statistics of internal trade and statistics on agriculture and fisheries. The data relate to the quantities and values of the purchase and sale, as well as the unit prices obtained from the values and quantities. | |
18.2. Frequency of data collection | |
Monthly. | |
18.3. Data collection | |
The research of the price index of producers of agricultural and fishery products is not carried out directly through its reporting units, but data are taken from a monthly survey on the purchase of agricultural products from family farms within the internal trade statistics and a monthly survey on the realization of legal entities in agriculture in the field of agriculture statistics and fisheries carried out by the reporting method. | |
18.4. Data validation | |
The staff of the Price Statistics Division performs checking of prices on questionnaires and control of data entry by comparing calculated monthly indices between the current and the previous month and clarifies all significant changes with reporting units via the telephone and e-mail. | |
18.5. Data compilation | |
The weights can be divided into: | |
18.6. Adjustment | |
Delivery prices in another currency are converted into the national currency. |
19. Comment | Top |