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| The Data: Coverage, Periodicity, and Timeliness | ||||||||||||
| Coverage characteristics | 5.1.1 Statistical presentation Data are disseminated on the producer price index (PPI), a Laspeyres index (2005=100), measuring the monthly changes in prices for industrial products manufactured for the total, domestic market and non-domestic market.
The prices collected are producer prices, i.e. they include excise duties but not VAT. In order to build up the industrial production price index, only the transaction corresponding to the first marketing stage of products are taken into account, namely their output from manufacturing economic operators..
Data are collected from around 2,000 economic operators; those with the largest turnover as reported by the NIS's Annual Business Statistical Survey. The coverage is between 60 to 100 percent of each industry's turnover. Data are collected for the most important products manufactured by each operator economic. Prices are collected at a very detailed level using the PRODROM classification (compatible with the European PRODCOM). Varieties are aggregated into product groups as unweighted arithmetic means. Subsequent levels of aggregation use sales in the base period. The base year is only changed every five years; it is currently 2005. | |||||||||||
| Periodicity | 4.1.1 Periodicity Monthly | |||||||||||
| Timeliness | 4.1.2 Timeliness The index is published not later than 32 days after the end of the reference period.Notes: Romania is availing itself of a flexibility option on the timeliness of the Price index: Producer prices data. | |||||||||||
| Access by the Public | ||||||||||||
| Advance dissemination of release calendar | 5.1.3 Advance release calendar An advance release calendar which is updated at the beginning of each month to show the precise release dates for the next months is disseminated on the following National Institute of Statistics Internet website (http://www.insse.ro).
An advance release calendar which gives one quarter ahead notice of the prices release dates is also disseminated on the Internet on IMF’s Data Dissemination Bulletin Board (http://dsbb.imf.org). | |||||||||||
| Simultaneous release to all interested parties | 5.1.4 Simultaneous release The producer price index is available simultaneous for all users in the NIS publications.
The producer price index is disseminated simultaneously to all interested parties through a news release. | |||||||||||
| 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 National Institute of Statistics All data are compiled and disseminated according to Law no 226/2009 on the organisation and functioning of official statistics in Romania.0.1.2 Data sharing and coordination among data producing agencies National Institute of Statistics Official statistics covers all the activities organised for the collection, processing, analysis and dissemination of statistical data,the development of statistical culture, the creation and administration of official statistical data series produced by:
0.1.3 Confidentiality of individual reporters' data National Institute of Statistics Under the provision of this law, NIS cannot publish, or otherwise make available to one individual or organization, statistics that could enable the identification of data for any individual person or entity. (chapter X of the statistical law).0.1.4 Ensuring statistical reporting National Institute of Statistics The Law specifies that: the official statistical services are authorized to ask for and receive free of charge statistical data and information from all natural and legal persons who are located, hold any kind of capital or carry out any type of activity on the Romanian territory. (chapter VIII of the statistical law).0.2.1 Staff, facilities, computing resources, and financing National Institute of Statistics The level of funds and the number of jobs necessary for carrying out the activities that, according to the national statistical programmes, are the responsibility of the National Institute of Statistics, shall be established on a yearly basis, within the funds and number of jobs approved for the Secretariat General of the Government, by the Law on the state budget. The National Institute of Statistics and its territorial directorates shall manage the funds obtained, under the terms of art. 34, through activities set up in accordance with the provisions of Law No 500/2002 on public finance, with subsequent changes. The National Institute of Statistics shall be authorised to manage external funds, in accordance with legal provisions, and to use additional specialised staff during the period in which the activities financed from these funds are performed. 0.3.1 Monitoring user requirements The ECB, several Directorates General of the European Commission, National and International Business Cycle Analysts are using the PPI intensively.
PPI is considered as one of the main short-term indicator, that has several main uses:
- as a main short-term business indicators that predict the tendencies in inflation rate; PPI can be considered as an early measure of the current inflation process in the economy;
- as a deflator for calculation the values at constant prices. Example for deflation in National accounts, or for deflation of industrial production and then for compilation the industrial production index;
- some ministries and branch associations use PPI for monitoring price pressures on sub-sectors of Romanian industry;
- trade associations and companies use PPI as an impartial measure of prices for contractual purposes and for comparing with their own patterns of purchases and sales;
- as a short-term indicator required from different international organizations like Eurostat, International Monetary Fond, European Central Bank, that use PPI for international comparisons and economic supervision. 0.4.1 Quality policy National Institute of Statistics All the members of the National Institute of Statistics and the staff of the other producers of official statistics commit themselves to work and co-operate according to the principles fixed in the Quality Declaration of the European Statistical System.0.4.2 Quality monitoring National Institute of Statistics The statistical departments of the NIS continually address the issue of the quality of statistical data received from statistical surveys. Quality assessment is connected with the development of national statistical practice on control of the quality of data and its harmonization according to the European Statistical System (ESS) requirements. Focusing on quality is directed at all stages of the production and dissemination of statistical data.0.4.3 Quality planning National Institute of Statistics The NIS has adopted the principles of the Quality Declaration of the ESS. Recommendations on quality will be gradually applied in statistical practice for different surveys in line with the accepted criteria established by the ESS. The quality reports on different indicators will be prepared in compliance with the requirements of European Commission and Council Regulations for the respective surveys. 1.1.1 Impartiality of statistics National Institute of Statistics By law the National Institute of Statistics and the other producers of official statistics must produce and disseminate official statistics respecting scientific independence and in an objective, professional and transparent manner in which all users are treated equally.1.1.2 Selection of sources, methodology, and modes of dissemination National Institute of Statistics The government has repeatedly and publicly recognized 1.1.3 Commenting on erroneous interpretation and misuse of statistics National Institute of Statistics Key data are presented and explained at press conferences. One of the objectives is to prevent any misunderstandings or misinterpretations by users. In all cases of incorrect interpretation of data, the NIS responds publicly to provide the correct interpretation.1.2.1 Disclosure of terms and conditions for statistical collection, processing, and dissemination National Institute of Statistics The most important aspects on the organization of the official statistics in Romania, including the law no 226/2009 on the organisation and functioning of official statistics in Romania, are posted on the National Institute of Statistics Internet website (http://www.insse.ro/indexe.htm). 1.3.1 Guidelines for staff behavior National Institute of Statistics The Law no. 188/8.12.1999 (consolidated version) concerning the status of the public servant contain foresights regarding: rights and duties, conflicts of interests, incompatibilities. | |||||||||||
| Identification of internal government access to data before release | 1.2.2 Internal governmental access to statistics prior to release National Institute of Statistics No government official outside the National Institute of Statistics has access to the data before release to the public. | |||||||||||
| Identification of ministerial commentary on the occasion of statistical releases | 1.2.3 Attribution of statistical products National Institute of Statistics No ministerial commentary is included with the release of the 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 in the next month, at which time they become final. The final data are published in the relevant issue of the NIS Prices Statistical Bulletin, Monthly Statistical Bulletin and Industry Statistical Bulletin 4.3.2 Identification of preliminary and/or revised data In the case of any revisions, for example significant errors the revised status of data is highlighted with asterisks.1.2.4 Advance notice of major changes in methodology, source data, and statistical techniques. National Institute of Statistics Major changes in methodology are announced and explained in the Monthly Statistical Bulletin and Monthly Statistical Bulletin of Industry and the annual NIS Statistical Yearbook. | |||||||||||
| Quality | ||||||||||||
| 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 The existing methodology is published in the NIS publications. The NIS metadata base, available on NIS website, presents in structured fashion the methodologies on which the statistical researches from the Yearly Statistical Plan are developed by the NIS or other of its associated institution, the definitions of the resulting indicators and of the most useful statistical terms, as well as theoretical statistical information.
(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 PPI is published at the 2-digit NACE Rev. 2 level, 4-digit NACE Rev. 2 level, and by MIG’s (main industrial groups). | |||||||||||
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