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Technical Assistance in Development of Business Statistics and Upgrading of Data Collection System
Details
Locations:Croatia
Start Date:Jan 1, 2014
End Date:Jul 31, 2015
Contract value: EUR 446,492
Sectors: Statistics
Categories:Consulting services
Funding Agencies:
Date posted:Feb 24, 2014
Description
Objectives:
The general objective of the project is to provide statistics to users in Croatia and EU, necessary for decision-making processes in public administration, business, research and academic community and to other users.
The specific purposes of the project are:
- To achieve required compliance level with the Acquis communautaire in Business Statistics;
- To upgrade the Data Collection (Computer Assisted Interviewing – CAI) System.
The coverage of the project includes:
- Energy statistics
- Service Producer Price Index (SPPI)
- Modernization of European economic and trade statistics (MEETS)
- Information Society Statistics
Furthermore, the project aims at upgrading and testing a system of data collection using computer-assisted interviewing (CAI) for three major household surveys.
Activities:
The provision of services within the technical assistance project comprises of experts' advice to their counterparts at CBS and training of CBS staff though workshops, seminars and methodological material.
The specific project activities aim at the following results:
- new survey on energy final consumption in transport sector established and carried out;
- new surveys introduced on short term indicators – SPPI (Service Pro-ducer Price Indices);
- technological modernisation based on of electronic questionnaires and data processing tools (as included into the Eurostat MEETS programme) introduced for selected surveys;
- data Collection (Computer Assisted Interviewing – CAI) System upgraded and tested on three household surveys.