Statistical report for primary schools - end of school year

Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia.

Section for statistics of Education, Science and Culture.

Dušan Radovanović

Statistician-analyst, Advisor

5 Milana Rakića street, 11000 Belgrade

dusan.radovanovic@stat.gov.rs

+381 11 2412422 ext. 285

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State of play at the end of school year by main and additional indicators - number of schools (main and sattelite classrooms), number of students by sex and grades, number of classes, number of students by foreign languages learnt, number of teachers by sex and working hours, students who have completed school, students who attend inclusive education by sex and grades, equipment of schools with computers.

International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 2011).

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This survey provides data on the status, structure and development of schools and grades, sex and age structure i movement of primary and lower secondary students, results of schooling and teaching stuff executing primary and lower secondary education.

Statistical unit is every primary school in the Republic of Serbia.

Children attending primary and lower secondary education (regular or for children with disabilities), as well as adults who attend schools for primary education for adults.

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).

Annually from 2010.

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Number of students, schools, classes, teachers (in thousands).

School year.

The survey is conducting on the basis of the Law on official statistics ("Official Gazzete of the Republic of Serbia" number 104/2009).

Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia has an agreement on cooperation with large number of organizations and institutions, both nationally and internationally, with which it exchanges information, data and experiences. There is also an intensive cooperation between different organizational units within the Office itself.

Data confidetiality is guaranteed by the Law on the official statistics which prescribes the use of data solely for statistical purposes and Rulebook on statistical data protection in the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia.

All obtained data from reporting units are published on aggregate level. Individual data can be provided exclusively with special authorisation from Director.

Data obtained by this survey are publishing in:

Statistical release for the end of the school year - end of June

Statistical Yearbook - in October

Municipalities and regions of the Republic of Serbia - end of year

All publications can be found at Statistical Office's website (www.rzs.rs)

The data are publicly available on website. With the request sent by the user, he can obtain other data specified in the request (on aggregate level).

The data are collecting and publishing on annual level.

Statistical release for the end of the school year - end of June

Statistical Yearbook, the largest and the most complex statistical publication of the Office.

Municipalities and regions of the Republic of Serbia, annual data on municipalities, cities and regions of the Republic of Serbia.

Database of SORS.

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See 10.2.

Methodology on primary and lower secondary education is available on the website (www.rzs.com).

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Various domestic and foreign institutions,

public: ministries, agencies, institutes, other public institutions...

private: enterprises, media, non-govermental organizations...

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Nationally: 8 months for the entire round of creating, collection, processing and data publishing.

For Eurostat: 4-6 months for delivering all required data (through UOE questionnaire), as of 2014.

30th June.

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Data are comparable in series from 2010 with no interuption.

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Since it is a annual survey, no significant burden is on reporting units.

General revision policy has been established by "SORS General revision policy" from February 2016.

So far, no data revision were planned for this survey.

Statistical report for end of the school year is submitted by every primary school (public nad private) za main school and classes in other settlement, if any, including schools for children with disabilities and schools for adult education.

Annual.

The main methods are postal and through web application.

All reports go through thorough analysis and logic control before publishing. All discovered errors and vagueness are being rectified in consultation with the reporting unit.

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