Meeting of the Policy Group on Statistical Cooperation COORDINATION OF THE NATIONAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM OF THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Point 9 of the Agenda Dejan Stankov, MSc Deputy Director of the State Statistical Office of the Republic of Macedonia Herceg Novi, Montenegro October, 2015

Background Law on Amending the Law on State Statistics, 2013 Law on State Statistics, 1997 Five-year Programme for Statistical Surveys General principles for compilation of statistics in MKD In line with EU and UN statistical principles Establishment of national statistical system (NSS) Formalisation of the function Coordinator of NSS Establishment of the Statistical Council Defining of the partakers in the NSS Signing of Memoranda of cooperation

Role of coordinator  Coordination of the overall statistical system of the country  Leader and coordinator of the Working group 18- Statistics  Defining of the F ive-year P rogramme in cooperation with the other authori s ed bodies and the public  Application of uniform statistical standards  Giving opinions on the methodological bases  Eliminating duplicity in data collection  Strengthening of the capacity of the authori s e d bodies  Decreasing the burden on SSO - unified approaches in statistical data dissemination

National Statistical System State Statistical Office National Bank 7.3% Institute of Public Health 5% Ministry of Finance 0.9% Ministry of Interior 1.5% Ministry of Justice 0.3% Hydro meteoro logical Service 0.9% Pension and Disability Insuranc e Fund 1.5% Employ ment Agency 0.9%

82% of the total of 345 official statistical surveys Five-year Work Programme, SSO provides

National Bank Examples of surveys conducted by other authorised bodies ● monetary & financial statistics ● external statistics ○ sublimate of several different statistical surveys for collecting, processing and disseminating data on economic transactions with non-residents Ministry of Finance ●Statistical survey on generation of incomes and execution of expenditures ●Statistical survey on central government debt (consolidated) ○ data regarding the external debt provided from the National Bank ○ data regarding the internal debt from the database of the Ministry of Finance National Bank Conducting surveys in 2 areas: Ministry of Finance

Cooperation in practice  Preparation of the Five-year Work Programme for statistical surveys  Coordination of the international cooperation  Interoperability project  Establishment of different working groups (classifications,nomenclatures, registers…)  Working group for sectorisation  National Reference Metadata Editor  The National Summary Data Page (NSDP)  Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS)  Active participation at the workshops organised by the SSO ●October workshop with the authorized bodies and administrative holders of data sets

Cooperation with the producers of the administrative registers Signed Memoranda for cooperation (18) Ministry of Finance National Bank Customs Administration Ministry of Interior Central Registry Public Revenue Office Employment Agency Pension and Disability Insurance Fund Ministry of Justice Ministry of Health Institute of Public Health Health Insurance Fund Agency for Electronic Communication Ministry of Transport and Communications Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy Ministry of Education and Science Agency for Supervision of Fully Funded Insurance Civil Registry Office

Cooperation with the producers of the administrative registers In a procedure - Annex to the Memorandum of Cooperation with National Bank Central Registry Holders of data sets, prior to establishing or amending data sets, are obliged to obtain a written opinion from the SSO In case of a negative opinion not accepted by the holder of the data set, the SSO shall inform the Government of the Republic of Macedonia

Cooperation with research organizations, universities and business community Research organizations and universities Signed memoranda Memoranda to be signed on 20th October Faculty of Economics-Skopje Faculty of Philosophy-Skopje Balkan University-Struga Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics-Skopje University of Tourism and Management-Skopje Faculty of Economics- University “Goce Delchev” Faculty of Economics- University “St. Kliment Ohridski”

Good relations with the business community Signed Memorandum for cooperation with Economic chamber of Macedonia In November, SSO will organise workshop with the Chambers and the biggest companies  Memorandum for cooperation will be signed with: - Macedonian Chambers of Commerce - Economic Chamber of North-West Macedonia

Most important objectives of the SSO included in the Strategic Plan further strengthening of the role as coordinator of NSS support of the authorised partakers in the NSS by providing trainings in areas of common interest and participation in joint projects cooperation with international institutions continuous dialogue and cooperation with other providers of statistical production cooperation with institutions for scientific research, universities and the business community strengthening of the cooperation with holders of administrative data sets and providers of data

Conclusions Coordination remains to be a challenge in practice Good examples of the function Coordinator of NSS Preparation of the Five-Year Programme for Statistical Surveys Coordination of the international cooperation in the domain of statistics Emphasis on the need of thorough realisation of the role as coordinator Allocated budget of the SSO and human resources Monitoring of implementation of the five-year programme Greater engagement of the other authorized bodies and producers of administrative registers Reducing the response burden of data providers Certain institutions part of the statistical system should put more efforts to provide human resources sustainability in the statistical departments Higher level of awareness of all the partakers of the importance to respond to the requirements of NSS

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