The Programme of State Statistical Surveys is a generally binding legal regulation compiled by the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic in cooperation with ministries, other central bodies and state organizations. It contains the list of statistical surveys organized and executed by the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic, ministries, other government authorities and state organizations. The Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic issues the Programme of State Statistical Surveys in the form of a decree published in the Collection of Laws of the Slovak Republic.
The statistical surveys published in the Programme of the State Statistical Surveys are binding for a specific group of reporting units in terms of the obligation to provide data. If the statistical survey is conducted using the exhaustive survey method, all reporting units are contacted in accordance with the above definition.
For sample surveys, the set of reporting units (sample file) is established in accordance with the stratification criteria of the individual surveys. The reporting obligation for a reporting unit arises when the competent authorities are required to complete the relevant statistical forms.
Every reporting unit shall provide data to the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic from 1 January 2016 by filling in and submitting questionnaire in an electronic form. The reporting unit that is a natural person – entrepreneur and has no emplyoees by 31 December of the previous calendar year, or the reporting unit that has a seat in the municipality without internet connection or signal may also be obliged to fulfil the obligation to provide data also by submitting the completed the questionnaire in a paper form (§ 18, Article 5 of the Act No. 540/2001 Coll. on State Statistics, as amended). Samples of statistical questionnaires are published in the section Metadata / Samples of statistical questionnaires.
A body carrying out state the statistical survey and ensures its processing is required to protect the respondents´confidential and personal data from misuse. The method of management and implementation of activities related to ensuring the protection of confidential statistical data is regulated by internal legislation in the Statistical Office of the SR. The principles of confidential data protection are published in the section Services/Information Service/Protection of confidential statistical data. Access to confidential data submitted to the Community authority (Eurostat) and the rules for cooperation between the Community and the national authorities are governed by the Commission Regulation (EU) No. 1095/2010, 557/2013 of 17 June 2013-745 kB).
Decrees issuing and amending the Programme of State Statistical Surveys:
- for the years 2012 - 2014: basic decree 358/2011 Coll. (sk pdf - 1039 kB) and decrees 378/2012 Coll. (sk pdf - 74 kB) and 410/2013 Coll. (sk pdf - 82 kB)
- for the years 2015 - 2017: basic decree 291/2014 Coll. (sk pdf - 958 kB) and its ammendment 317/2014 Coll. (sk pdf - 26 kB); decree 385/2015 Coll. (sk pdf - 81 kB); decree 358/2016 Coll. (sk pdf - 277 kB)
- for the years 2018 - 2020: basic decree 250/2017 Coll. (sk pdf - 2 981 kB); decree 266/2018 Coll. (pdf – 167 kB) ; decree 358/2019 Coll. (pdf – 270 kB)
- for the years 2021 - 2023: basic decree 292/2020 Coll. (sk pdf - 2 562 kB); decree 393/2021 Coll. (sk pdf – 261 kB); decree 348/2022 Coll. (sk pdf 318 kB); Related legislation - consolidated (sk pdf – 750 kB) and Ensuring the processing of statistical surveys and administrative sources - consolidated (sk pdf - 239 kB)
Reports on the implementation of the Programme of State Statistical Surveys:
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