1. Technical Coordination Group for the next Census round in South East Europe EUROSTAT PREPARATION FOR CENSUS MONTENEGRO Budapest
Jun 2017

2. From traditional to register based census
Plans for 2021
From traditional to register based census
Legal basis:
EU Census Regulation 763/2008
UNECE Recommendations 2020
Law on Official Statistics and System of Official Statistics
Law on Central Population Register
Law on Personal Data Protection

3. Advantages of register based census
No need for fieldwork – no respondent burden
Only few staff needed
Significant budget savings
Better data quality
Improved privacy and confidentiality
Frequency – could be produced annually
Multi-use of data

4. What we have done so far? Two working groups are established
Signed Memorandum of Understanding with municipality Tivat
Five expert visits were realized
Enhanced cooperation with Ministry of Interior and Real Estate Agency
Analysis of existing registers

5. Which registers we plan to use for register based Census:
Adress register – Real Estate Agency - Cadastral office
Central population register – Ministry of interior
Register form Tax office
Register from Pension fund
MEIS register from Ministry of education
Registers from Universities
Social welfare information – Ministry of labor and social welfare
Employment office
Other institution

6. ADRESS REGISTER Real Estate Agency jurisdiction
Main users: MONSTAT, Ministry of interior, Ministry of public administration, local government, business sector
Data source for address, buildings, households, dwelling
Connection with CPR (adress code)
Time to establish Address register – 3 years

7. (Possible) problems:
Nationally important questions (nationality, religion, language)
Established and functional address register
Access to individual data from CPR
Content and quality of CPR
Content and quality of other registers in Montenegro
Linkage all registers

8. (Possible) solutions:
Strong support to Real Estate Agency in establishing Address register
Personal ID or statistical ID? MONSTAT or Ministry of interior? Jurisdiction?
Continuous work on updating registers and improving quality of data
Conduct traditional pilot census (2019)

9. Next steps
Identification of data sources (also for information on persons in institutional households);
Quality evaluation of data sources (inclunding, under and over coverage);
Identification of missing or incomplete information (work on improvements);
Methodology and algorithms – development and description;
Quality check of produced (piloted) census topics – using of surveys;
New data sources;
Identification of necessary imputation (selection of method).

10. Conclusion
For the next population census MONSTAT plans switching to a register based census
Two main precondition:
Established Address register by Cadastral office
No need to produce data about nationality, religion, language on traditional way

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