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1.1 Organization | The Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic |
1.2 Address | Lamačská cesta 3/C, 840 05 Bratislava |
1.3 Contact name | Zuzana Sečánska |
1.4 Organization unit | Department of Methodology and Synthesis of Business Statistics |
1.5 Phone number | +421 2 50236 341; +421 2 50236 339 |
1.6 Email address | info@statistics.sk |
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2.1 Date of last update | 30.03.2023 |
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3.1 Data description | |
The purpose of the survey survey on domestic and outbound tourism and business trips is to provide basic information about tourism demand side in accordance with the established methodological definition in Regulation (EU) No 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning European statistics on tourism and Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/1681 of 1 August 2019 amending Regulation (EU) No 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning European statistics on tourism. |
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3.2 Classification system | |
NUTS 2016 |
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3.3 Sector coverage | |
National tourism: domestic tourism and outbound tourism (trips made by residents of the reporting country). |
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3.4 Statistical concepts and definitions | |
Tourism- the activity of visitors taking a trip to the main destination outside their usual environment, for less than a year, for any main purpose, including business, leisure or other personal purposes, other than to be employed by a resident entity in the place visited. |
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3.5 Statistical unit | |
Respondents addressed in the survey provide information on
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3.6 Statistical population | |
All residents aged 15 or over excluding children up to 14 years old and students living in dormitories/student houses, persons living in monasteries, members of Slovak embassies, and institutions abroad. |
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3.7 Reference area | |
The survey includes households according to random sampling within regions, age groups, and gender. The sample is grossed-up by using mathematical-statistical methods to the entire population of the Slovak Republic older than 15 years within the entire territory of the Slovak Republic. |
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3.8 Time coverage | |
In the Datacube database, data are available from the reference year 2003:
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3.9 Base period | |
Data are presented in absolute values and as a index compared to the previous year = 100) |
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Data are presented in absolute values, in euros and as a index compared to the previous year = 100) |
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Year 2021 |
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6.1 Legal acts and other agreements | |
The reporting obligation is laid down in Act no. 540/2001 Coll. on state statistics as amended (§ 18, paragraph 3) and cannot be refused (§ 18, paragraph 8). The Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic is responsible for the protection of confidential data obtained and guarantees their use exclusively for statistical purposes. The statistical surveys are part of the Program of State Statistical Surveys issued for a three-year period in the Collection of Laws of the Slovak Republic. European legal acts: Regulation (EU) No. 692/2011 concerning European statistics on tourism — link Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/1681 — link
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1051/2011 — link Methodological manual for tourism statistics— link
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6.2 Data sharing | |
Statistical information from SOSR's surveys is a source for fulfilling the obligations of the Slovak Republic resulting from the requirements of the European statistical system, the requirements of international institutions, to ensure the needs of the information system of the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. Statistical information are regularly provided to international and national organizations (Eurostat, National Bank of SR, OECD, OSN) or irregularly to other users. |
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7.1 Confidentiality - policy | |
The Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic is responsible for the protection of confidential data obtained and guarantees their use exclusively for statistical purposes. In accordance with the Act on State Statistics No. 540/2001 Coll. §2g and §30, the SOSR may not publish confidential statistical data, but only information resulting from the aggregation of confidential statistical data, which does not allow direct or indirect identification of the reporting unit. |
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7.2 Confidentiality - data treatment | |
SOSR ensures the protection of confidential statistical data in the disseminated aggregated data. |
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8.1 Release calendar | |
The First Release Calendar contains the timetable for the first publication of selected indicators in the next 4 months. The calendar is updated monthly. The Catalogue of Publications contains basic information about published publications, publication dates and language versions. All publications are available on the Internet portal of the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. The edition program is available on the website of the SOSR. |
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8.2 Release calendar access | |
The First Release Calendar is available on the website of the SOSR here: |
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8.3 User access | |
The First release Calendar contains timetable of the first release of selected indicators. Data will be published in the given day at 9 o´clock on the Internet website of the SO SR (www.statistics.sk) in the part Information reports Catalogue of the SO SR and there will be also at the disposal at the spokesperson of the SO SR (phone number: +421 2 5023 6553). You will also find notice for amendments of dates on the Internet website of the SO SR. |
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Annually
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10.1 News release | |
Data in Press releases are published in the terms of the First Release Calendar on the web portal of the SOSR.Data in Press releases are published in the terms of the First Release Calendar on the web portal of the SOSR. |
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10.2 Publications | |
Since 2021 Publication on domestic and outbound tourism is replaced by detailed tables in database DATAcube and by Information report available on the SO SR website. |
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10.3 On-line database | |
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10.4 Micro-data access | |
Users are provided with aggregated data, microdata are not published. |
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10.5 Other | |
International and national organizations have also defined their own specific data requirements, which are provided mainly for OECD, UN, UNWTO, ministries, associations and others. |
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10.6 Documentation on methodology | |
Statistical questionnaires including methodological guidelines and explanations of variables and methodological explanations within the Glossary of the statistical terms are published on the web portal of the SOSR. Each publication contains methodical explanations and a contact for the information service of the SOSR |
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10.7 Quality documentation | |
Following internal project documentation exists for the compilation of statistical outputs: |
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11.1 Quality assurance | |
The Quality policy is defined and publicly accessible in the Quality Declaration and Quality Policy documents. The Quality Declaration expresses the basic ideas and commitments of the President and top management of the SOSR for the Quality Policy as well as increasing efficiency and effectiveness of the integrated management system of the SOSR. |
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11.2 Quality assessment | |
Coverage, reference period, data collection, control and data processing are in line with the Eurostat methodological guidelines.SOSR creates technical projects describing data collection and its evaluation, including a description of statistical controls. The data collection process is ensured by the regional office of the SOSR in Banska Bystrica. Data validation is done during the data collection, processing and validation of relevant data by the SOSR experts. SOSR also performs internal methodical audits. Evaluation of statistical surveys and methodical audits including the analysis of the results are integrated into the existing quality management system. |
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12.1 User needs | |
The requirement to conduct consultations with users of statistical information is stipulated in the Act on State Statistics itself. Consultations during the preparation of state statistical surveys take place within the framework of the preparation of the Program of State Statistical Surveys (PSSZ). PSSZ is a generally binding legal regulation compiled by the SOSR in collaboration with ministries, other central authorities and state organizations and contains statistical surveys organized and carried out by the SOSR, ministries, other central authorities and state organizations. SOSR publishes the Program of state statistical surveys by decree in the Collection of Laws of the Slovak Republic. The Coordinating Council for State Statistics ensures the fulfilment of the tasks of the SOSR. Key users of specific statistical products are listed in the Marketing Plan, e.g. international organizations - Eurostat, OECD, UN and national institutions, e.g. National Bank of Slovakia, etc. |
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12.2 User satisfaction | |
Since the 2009, SOSR carries out satisfaction surveys of customers with their products and services at two-year intervals. The goal of surveys is to determine customer satisfaction with the products and services of the SOSR, to obtain information about users, their interest and opinion on provision and quality of statistical products and services. The facts obtained are a valuable resource for the direction of other activities of the SOSR. One of the main goals defined in the Development Strategy. The goal of the SOSR until 2022 is to systematically increase the value of the institution and its recognition |
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12.3 Completeness | |
Time series of indicators in accordance with the regulation are available from 2003 in Datacube. |
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13.1 Overall accuracy | |
Overall accuracy is considered very good. SOSR makes great efforts to prevent the occurrence of errors in the data and performs data verification to detect the errors. |
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13.2 Sampling error | |
Over-coverage: Small over-coverage can be observed in terms of the sampled dwellings in case of their non-residential usage (recreational or commercial space), wrong addresses or temporarily empty flats (no persons with usual residence).
Under-coverage: Out of scope are household members of collective households, persons living in convents, members of the Slovak embassies and institutions abroad and students and schoolchildren living at dormitories or boarding schools, for which the data is not collected. |
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13.3 Non-sampling error | |
The technical project of data processing includes a description of all logical data controls at the microdata level performed during data collection. Data collection is organised by the office of the SOSR in Banska Bystrica. Automatic validation checks during data collection and informative checks are incorporated with the aim to follow logical checks, reducing the rate of partial anomalies and outliers. The purpose of this process is to minimize errors already in the data collection itself and subsequently during data processing. Response rate for 3.quarter 2021 is 76,9%. |
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14.1 Timeliness | |
Data dissemination in the public database Datacube is in accordance with the set up deadlines. |
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14.2 Punctuality | |
Publication deadlines were met. |
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15.1 Comparability - geographical | |
Indicators from the survey on domestic and outbound tourism are compiled for the entire territory of the Slovak Republic. |
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15.2 Comparability - over time | |
The time series are comparable from the reference year 2003-2012 and data since 2013. Break in time-series between years 2012 and 2013 is caused by methodological changes in the processing of data (collection of data was newly realized within Labour Force Survey). |
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15.3 Coherence - cross domain | |
The data are part of the tourism statistics outup series together with the relevant results from statistical surveys such as Monthly survey on the activity of accommodation facility (CR 1-12) and Annual survey on selected services in tourism (CR 6-01). |
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15.4 Coherence - internal | |
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SOSR regularly monitors the cost and burden of reporting units. As part of the optimization of statistical surveys, it takes measures aimed at reducing their burden. |
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17.1 Data revision - policy | |
The Revision policy regulates the general rules and procedures applied in revisions at the SOSR. The same revision policy applies to national and international users. In accordance with the Revision policy, the reason of the revision is always indicated. SOSR distinguishes the following revisions: |
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17.2 Data revision - practice | |
main source of information for routine revisions are new or revised data from reporting units. |
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18.1 Source data | |
The number of 2 050 households per quarter for the reference year 2021. The sampling design is a stratified two-stage probability sampling of dwelling units, using the Census of Population 2011 as the basis. |
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18.2 Frequency of data collection | |
Quarterly. |
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18.3 Data collection | |
Data collection is provided by the Section of Industrial Data Collection and Processing and Field Surveys in Banska Bystrica. Since January 2021 the survey is collected separately from LFS. The questionnaire is reported by a respondent, who travelled and stayed in the surveyed time period for personal or business purposes outside his/her usual environment. Other respondents specify their reasons for not travelling. Data for students living outside their usual environment (and households) in dormitories, schoolchildren at boarding schools, and other types of dwellings are not collected. |
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18.4 Data validation | |
The data entry, data completeness and statistical control are organised by specialised regional office of the SOSR. According to the importance there are classified 2 basic types of checks: Data validation is performed according to the national validation rules and Eurostat validation rules and according to the national technical project of the survey. The data collection is followed by a validation process based on the logical control rules and the validation rules according to Regulation 692/2011. The aggregated data are compared with the previous year. |
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18.5 Data compilation | |
Data from domestic and outbound tourism are collected quarterly. |
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18.6 Adjustment | |
Item non-response or missing data are imputed from relevant sources such as Accommodation statistics CR 1-12 (average price of an accommodation per night by category of accommodation and by region) which are used for imputation of tourism expenditure in domestic tourism. Data from the Annual questionnaire on selected services in tourism CR 6-01 are also used within imputation of expenditure on outbound package trips. The results of the sample survey are by mathematical-statistical methods grossed-up for the entire population of people 15 years old or over.
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