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| The Data: Coverage, Periodicity, and Timeliness | ||||||||||||
| Coverage characteristics | 5.1.1 Statistical presentation Data are disseminated on a monthly basis in millions of Czech crowns (CZK) and cover the operations of budgetary central government (the State budget). On the Ministry of Finance's (MOF) Internet website data are disseminated on a monthly cumulative basis in millions of Czech crowns (CZK). The operations of the central government extrabudgetary funds and the social security funds (that is, the health insurance accounts) are not included in the data. Data are disseminated on revenue (broken down into taxes, nontaxes, capital revenue and received subsidies, operations of state financial assets), expenditure (broken down into current, capital and operations of state financial assets), lending minus repayments, the deficit/surplus and financing broken down into domestic (bank and non-bank) and foreign financing. The detailed breakdown described above is available on the MOF's Internet website (http://www.mfcr.cz/cps/rde/xchg/mfcr/hs.xsl/sta_ustred_vl.html). The fiscal year is the same as the calendar year. | |||||||||||
| Periodicity | 4.1.1 Periodicity Monthly | |||||||||||
| Timeliness | 4.1.2 Timeliness Four weeks after the end of the reference month. For Financing breakdown, within 40 days after the end of the month. Notes: Czech Republic is availing itself of a flexibility option on the timeliness of the financing data. Under this flexibility option, Czech Republic will disseminate financing data within 40 days. | |||||||||||
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| Advance dissemination of release calendar | 5.1.3 Advance release calendar An advance release calendar that gives at least one quarter ahead notice of the precise release date is posted each October on the Ministry of Finance's Internet website (http://www.mfcr.cz/cps/rde/xchg/SID-53EDF4E6-BADAF117/mfcr/hs.xsl/central_govern_oper.html). | |||||||||||
| Simultaneous release to all interested parties | 5.1.4 Simultaneous release The data are released simultaneously to all interested parties by posting on the Ministry of Finance's Internet website (http://www.mfcr.cz/cps/rde/xchg/SID-53EDF4E6-BADAF117/mfcr/hs.xsl/central_govern_oper.html). Approximately two weeks later the data are disseminated in the monthly "Statistical Actuality" published by the Czech Statistical Office. | |||||||||||
| Integrity | ||||||||||||
| Dissemination of terms and conditions under which official statistics are produced, including those relating to the confidentiality of individually identifiable information | 0.1.1 Responsibility for collecting, processing, and disseminating statistics Ministry of Finance There is no act requiring the Ministry of Finance to publish central government budgetary data, general government of public sector operations data, and central government debt data. The data are compiled and disseminated only on the basis of an unofficial agreement between the Czech Statistical Office and the Ministry of Finance. The data are disseminated by the Ministry of Finance as a service to the public. The various entities of the general government, which produce general government operations data, are governed by a variety of acts as follows: (1) Data on central government budget (the State budget) are compiled according to the Act on Budgetary Rules (218/2000) and the State Budget Act which is submitted every year for legislative authorization of the Czech Parliament. The Act on Budgetary Rules 218/2000 of the Collection of Laws defines the obligation to provide the Czech Parliament with the State budget data on a quarterly basis. According to the new Act on Budgetary Rules, the new chapter District Administrations has been included in the State Budget since 2001. This chapter was abolished at the end of 2002. For this reason, the present data on State Budget are not fully comparable with data before 2003. Since 2006 the activities of the National Property Fund have been transferred to the Ministry of Finance and its operation have been included into the State Budget operations [see item (2)/(b) below]. (2) The data on the extrabudgetary funds of central government are governed by the following acts: (3) Health insurance companies are governed by the following acts: 48/1997, 592/1992, 280/1992, and 551/1991, as well as by subsequent regulations and supplementary declarations. (4) Local governments are governed by the new Act on Budgetary Rules of Local Budgets (250/2000). According to the new Act on Budgetary Rules, regions have been newly established as a part of the local governments and the districts have been excluded from local governments and included in the central government. Since 2006 regional councils of cohesion have been newly established as a part of the local governments. 1.2.1 Disclosure of terms and conditions for statistical collection, processing, and dissemination Ministry of Finance Above mentioned acts are published in Czech in the Collection of Laws of the Czech Republic, which is available in all public specialized libraries. Under the terms of the Act on the Collection of Laws, copies are also available at any local authority. English translations are not available. | |||||||||||
| Identification of internal government access to data before release | 1.2.2 Internal governmental access to statistics prior to release Ministry of Finance No government officials outside the Ministry of Finance have access to the data before their release to the public. | |||||||||||
| Identification of ministerial commentary on the occasion of statistical releases | 1.2.3 Attribution of statistical products Ministry of Finance Noe ministerial commentary is attached to the release of data. | |||||||||||
| Provision of information about revision and advance notice of major changes in methodology | 4.3.1 Revision schedule The data are preliminary when first released and are revised and published as final in the "State Final Accounts" six months after the end of the fiscal year.1.2.4 Advance notice of major changes in methodology, source data, and statistical techniques. Ministry of Finance Notice of major changes in methodology is provided together with the data at the time when changes are implemented. | |||||||||||
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| Dissemination of documentation on methodology and sources used in preparing statistics | 5.2.1 Dissemination of documentation on concepts, scope, classifications, basis of recording, data sources, and statistical techniques Information on the new Budgetary Structure and classification effective from July 19, 2002 ( Decree of the Ministry of Finance, No. 323/2002 On the Budget Structure), is published in the Collection of Laws July 2, 2002, part 118/2002. (Available in Czech only, from newsstands.)5.2.2 Disseminated level of detail More detailed information on the methodology can be provided by the contact person above on request.(See also summary methodology) | |||||||||||
| Dissemination of component detail, reconciliations with related data, and statistical frameworks that support statistical cross-checks and provide assurance of reasonableness | 4.2.1 Internal consistency The Ministry of Finance's Internet website (http://www.mfcr.cz/) and website (http://www.mfcr.cz/cps/rde/xchg/SID-53EDF4E6-BADAF117/mfcr/hs.xsl/central_govern_oper.html) disseminate the following detailed annual data for the State budget for the months of the current and previous fiscal years as follows:
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