5.1.1 Statistical presentation

From January 2005 SO SR starts compilation of the Consumer Price Index  (CPI)  as Laspeyres chained index with annually updated weights. CPI covers approximately 90 % of all households in the Slovak Republic.

From January 2013, after comprehensive revision of CPI are collected for the adjusted consumer basket, which covers 713 goods and services and about 90,000 price quotations from 13 400 retail outlets. The consumer prices of individual commodities include value-added tax and are collected during the initial 20 days of a reference month.

All general expenditure categories of goods and services, as defined by ESA 95 are covered by the consumer price index. These include: food and non-alcoholic beverages; alcoholic beverages and tobacco; clothing and footwear; housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels; furnishings, household equipment and routine maintenance of the house; health; transport; communication; recreation and culture; education; hotels, cafes and restaurants; miscellaneous goods and services.

The weights are derived from the 2011 households budget survey, adjusted to the results of the 2011 national accounts data and other administrative sources. The weights from the year 2011 are price updated.

The seasonally adjusted consumer price indices of food are published in the monthly publication Consumer Price Indices in the Slovak Republic within 30 days after the end of the reference month.

Time series for the years 1990–2001 were recalculated in breakdown by 12 divisions and 44 groups of the COICOP classification and are available.

4.1.1 Periodicity

Monthly

4.1.2 Timeliness

Within 15 days after the end of the reference month.

5.1.3 Advance release calendar

An advance release calendar that gives the precise release dates for the coming four months is disseminated on the Internet website of the Statistical Office of the SR (http://www.statistics.sk/) and in the monthly publication Monitor of the Economy of the SR. The public is also informed of the availability of the advance release calendar in a notice published in the monthly Consumer Prices Indices in the Slovak Republic.

5.1.4 Simultaneous release

The data are released simultaneously to all interested parties by issuing the Information reports, which is posted on the Internet website of the Statistical Office of the SR (http://www.statistics.sk/ ) at 9:00 a.m. on the day of release.

0.1.1 Responsibility for collecting, processing, and disseminating statistics

Statistical office of the Slovak Republic

All statistical information collected, processed and released by SO SR is regulated by the Act on State Statistics (No.540/2001 Digest of Laws as amended; the full text is published in the Act No. 298/2010 Digest of Laws). This Law:

• Establishes that statistical survey is directed by the Programme of State Statistical Surveys compiled by the SO SR in coordination with the ministries and state institutions for a three-year period.
• Obliges the office to regularly inform the public about the socio-economic and demographic development, to provide statistical information and publish statistical publications.

0.1.3 Confidentiality of individual reporters' data

Statistical office of the Slovak Republic

The Law on State Statistics defines the secrecy and confidential data protection. Without the approval of legal or physical persons providing the relevant individual data, these data cannot be published or announced to anybody or used for other than statistical purposes.

1.1.1 Impartiality of statistics

Statistical office of the Slovak Republic

The Law on State Statistics specifies that the SO SR, ministries and state institutions are independent and impartial when collecting, processing and assessing statistical information. The President of the SO SR is appointed and recalled by the President of the Slovak Republic on the basis of the proposal made by the Government of the SR for a five-year period.

1.2.1 Disclosure of terms and conditions for statistical collection, processing, and dissemination

Statistical office of the Slovak Republic

The Law on Statistics is published in the Digest of Law of the SR, which is available in the Library of the Statistical Office of the SR, Bratislava, Miletičova 3. (Phone: + 421 2 50236768.) The English version is available at the Department of European Affairs and International Cooperation of the Statistical Office of the SR, Bratislava, Miletičova 3 (Fax: + 421 2 55561774.) A copy of the Act in Slovak can be also obtained from: Poradca Podnikateľa, spol. s.r.o., Martina Rázusa 23/A, 010 01 Žilina, Phone: + 421 41 70 53 222, Fax: + 421 41 70 53 343, Email: sluzby@zisk.sk, bonus@epi.sk.

1.2.2 Internal governmental access to statistics prior to release

Prime Minister of the Government of the SR, the Ministry of Finance of the SR and the National Bank of Slovakia have access to the data under embargo 24 hours before their release to the public, in accordance with the Principles of Release and Provision of Statistical Information by the Statistical Office of the SR.

1.2.3 Attribution of statistical products

There is no ministerial commentary on the occasion of the release of the data.

4.3.1 Revision schedule

The data are final when first released and are not subject to revision.

1.2.4 Advance notice of major changes in methodology, source data, and statistical techniques.

Changes in methodology are announced in the form of methodological explanations or notes which are added to the published data in all the relevant publications, following implementation of the changes.

5.2.1 Dissemination of documentation on concepts, scope, classifications, basis of recording, data sources, and statistical techniques

The monthly Consumer Price Indices in the Slovak Republic publishes methodological explanations and information on data sources. Methodological explanations are also published in the monthly Monitor of the Economy of the Slovak Republic.

4.2.1 Internal consistency

4.2.2 Temporal consistency

The monthly publication Consumer Price Indices in the Slovak Republic, disseminated on the SO SR web site within 30 days after the end of the reference month, publishes consumer price indices to the following basis: the previous period =100, December 2000=100, December of the previous year=100, and the same period of the previous year=100. It contains: (1) consumer price indices for the last 3 months in breakdown by the 12 divisions and 44 groups of goods and services of the COICOP classification; (2) consumer price indices for the last 3 months in breakdown by the 12 divisions and 44 groups of goods and services of the COICOP classification for the social groups (employees, pensioners and low-income households); and (3) CPI monthly time series for the current and the previous year and other, e. g. seasonally adjusted consumer price indices of food (December 2000=100) for the individual months since the year 2004.

The monthly Monitor of the Economy of the Slovak Republic, disseminated on the SO SR web site within 3 weeks after the first release of the CPI data, publishes consumer price indices (December 2000=100, previous period=100, the same period of the previous year=100) in breakdown by 12 divisions of the COICOP classification for the latest 13 months and annual data for 2010, 2011 and 2012.