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Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia
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• INFORMATION BOOKLET
• on work of the
• Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia

Date of publishing May 26, 2006 Date of the last
change April 7, 2009
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GENERAL DATA ON THE BOOKLET

• Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia
• This booklet is created according to the Law on
  free access to information of public interest
  (Official Journal of RS, no. 120/2004) and
  Instructions for publishing the booklet on public
  institutions work (Official Journal of RS, no.
  57/05).
• Responsible person Jovanka Salinovic
• phone/
  fax number 2401 284
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  jsalinovic_at_stat.gov.rs
• Date of publishing May 26, 2006
• Date of the last change April 7, 2009

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REGULATIONS AND ACTS

• Law on ministries (article 24)
• (Official Journal of RS, no. 19/2004, 84/2004,
  79/2005)
• Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia
  performs expert tasks referring to creating
  programs, organizing and conducting of
  statistical surveys, that is methodology
  defining, collecting, processing, statistical
  analysis and statistical data publishing
  preparing and creating of unique statistical
  standards development, maintenance and using of
  republic administrative and statistical
  registers creating and maintenance of the system
  of national accounts cooperation and expert
  coordination with organizations that are
  authorized for statistical surveys conducting
  cooperation with international organizations
  aiming at standardization and providing of data
  comparability data processing, referring to
  elections and referendum results obtaining, at
  the republican level, as well as other tasks
  defined by the Law.
• Law on statistical surveys (" Official Journal of
  RS ", no. 83/92,
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  53/93, 67/93, 48/94)

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MOST FREQUENTLY REQUESTED INFORMATION, 2008

• Number of requests, total - 36297 (53 via
  phone)
• Most frequent statistical areas
• employment and earnings (average, net, gross,
  monthly, annual and earnings by activities)
• demography (number of population, sex and age
  structure, national structure, natural increase,
  migrations)
• prices (monthly and annual inflation rate, prices
  by products, prices and consumer prices increase)
• external trade (import and export by products, by
  destination, by countries)
• industry (industrial production by products,
  index of industrial production)
• E-mail 5506 (15 from abroad)
• Library (visits) 1870 (85 overtaking of the
  data)
• Selling of publications and CDs (copies) - about
  2200 publications, about 1300 CDs
• Most frequent publications
• Statistical Yearbook of Serbia
• Municipalities of Serbia
• Census 2002

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ACCESS TO STATISTICAL DATA

• Published statistical data 
• The Office is not obliged to perform the
  particular users requests when they refer to the
  already published data in such cases, users are
  provided with information where the needed data
  can be obtained (publications, website).
• Unpublished statistical data 
• Unpublished statistical data, requested by legal
  entities or physical persons, are provided in
  written form, by Assistant Director or Head of
  Information, Dissemination and Marketing Unit
  (hereinafter authorized persons).
• Unpublished statistical data, requested by
  foreign countries or international organizations,
  are provided in written form, by Assistant
  Director or Head of International Statistical
  Cooperation Unit (authorized persons), only after
  Director General agrees with it.

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ORGANIZATIONAL CHART
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INTERNAL ORGANIZATION OF THE OFFICE

• A part of Regulation on principles of internal
  organization and systematization of working posts
  in the Statistical Office of the Republic of
  Serbia relates to internal organization of the
  Office.
• It contains
• internal units of the Office
• scope of work and mutual relations between
  internal units
• internal units management
• permissions and responsibilities of internal
  units heads
• ways of Offices cooperation with other bodies
  and organizations

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EXTERNAL ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
Statistical Department of AP Vojvodina Novi
Sad 14 Regional Offices
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NUMBER AND STRUCTURE OF THE EMPLOYEES
-3.1
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QUALIFICATION STRUCTURE
2007
2008
3 PhD holders, 16 MSc / MA holders
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FUNDS STRUCTURE 2008 / 1
Own receipts
Salaries
Investments
Other costs
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SERVICES

• The Office is qualified, from the point of
  view of human resources and technical capacities,
  to render quality services in the following
  fields
• Design of applications at users request
• Market research based on surveys
• Public opinion survey
• Performance of various economic analysis at
  users request
• Training at users request (word, excel, access,
  etc.).

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HOW TO SUBMIT A REQUEST AND HOW IT IS PROCESSED

• Ways of submitting a request
• written form post, fax
• electronic form
• - e-mail pub_at_stat.gov.rs stat_at_stat.gov.rs
• - form on the website part Enquiries
  http//webrzs.stat.gov.rs/axd/F
  aq/faq.htm
• http//webrzs.stat.gov.rs/axd/kontakt.htm
• personal contact
• Each request must contain the following elements
• features, variables that are searched
• time point (month, quarter, year, series)
• territorial level for which the data are
  searched
• purpose of using the data
• Ways of data delivery
• paper, electronic form

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AGENT IN CHARGE OF PUBLIC INTEREST INFORMATION

• Forms for submitting a request for free access to
  information of public interest and complaints
• Request for accessing the information of public
  interest http//www.poverenik.org.yu/Dokumentac
  ija/12_fldok.doc
• Complaint against the decision to refuse access
  to information http//www.poverenik.org.yu/Dokume
  ntacija/6_fldok.doc
• Complaint against not-discussed request (silence
  of administration) http//www.poverenik.org.yu/Do
  kumentacija/11_fldok.doc

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INFORMATION MEDIA OF THE STATISTICAL OFFICEOF THE
REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

• Publications library
• Paper,CD,DVD archive, documentation
• Internet presentation website
• IBM main frame individual data

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INFORMATION ON HOW AND WHERE INFORMATION MEDIA
ARE KEPT

• Archives
• Library
• Database
• Two copies of all data, defined by the processing
  project, are kept on magnetic and paper media as
  long as foreseen by the project, i.e. the list of
  keeping archives and register materials.
• Additional copies of data of specific and key
  statistical surveys (censuses, economic foreign
  relations, national accounts, complex annual
  report, industry, register of territorial units
  and register of organizational units, demography,
  employment, main classifications) are kept in a
  special refractory chest inside and outside the
  Office as well as in premises particularly
  intended for this purpose.

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DATA ON TYPES OF INFORMATION / 1 Plan of
statistical surveys, 2009
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DATA ?N TYPES OF INFORMATION / 2

• - Review of statistical surveys January -
  December 2009
• http//webrzs.stat.gov.rs/axd/planstatist1.htm
• - Development Strategy of the Official statistics
  
• http//webrzs.stat.gov.rs/axd/strategija.htm
• - Review of publications by statistical fields
• http//webrzs.stat.gov.rs/axd/prpub.php
• - Individual data are regarded as official secret

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CONTACTS / 1
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CONTACTS / 2
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CONTACTS / 3
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CONTACTS / 4
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STATISTICAL OFFICE OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Milana Rakica 5, Belgrade ?-mail
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biblioteka_at_stat.gov.rs
tel/fax [phone] - main tel.
exchange 011/2401 284 -
info Working hours 900 1700
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