The Programme of State Statistical Surveys is a generally binding legal act compiled by the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic in cooperation with ministries, other government authorities and state organizations. It contains the list of statistical surveys which are 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 Legal Acts of the Slovak Republic.
Statistical surveys as the part of the State Statistical Surveys Programme are for a limited range of reporting units obligatory in terms of the obligation to provide data. Reporting obligation arises for a reporting unit when the competent authority invites it to complete respective statistical questionnaires. Every reporting unit shall provide data to the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic from 1 January 2016 by filling in and sending questionnaire in an electronic form. The reporting unit who is a physical person or a physical person – entrepreneur and by 31 December of previous calendar year does not have any employee, or the reporting unit who has a seat in the municipality without internet connection or signal can fulfil the obligation of providing data also by delivery of the questionnaire in a paper form (§ 18, article 5 of the act No. 540/2001 Coll. on Official Statistics, as amended). Patterns of statistical questionnaires are published in the section Metadata / Patterns of statistical questionnaires.
Authority carrying out state the statistical survey and ensuring its processing is required to protect confidential and personal data of respondent against misuse. Principles of confidential data protection are published in the section Services.
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)
Reports on the implementation of the Programme of State Statistical Surveys: