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Authors: Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Public Legal Records and Related Services, Bank of Slovenia, National Institute of Public Health and Ministry of Finance.

Collected and edited by Luka Kalaš

Translated by Boris Panič

Publication available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/LegislationAndDocuments/StatSurveys

Issued and published by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Litostrojska cesta 54 – © SURS – Use and publication of the data is allowed provided the source is acknowledged– ISSN 1408‐9475.

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Table of contents

Introduction ...... 5 1 Achievements of national statistics in implementing basic objectives set in the Medium‐Term Programme of Statistical Surveys 2013–2017 ...... 6 1. 1 Increasing the use of statistical data ...... 6 1.2 Preserving the confidence of all stakeholders and increasing the recognition of national statistics ...... 11 1.3 Implementing the activity of national statistics according to the cost‐benefit principle ...... 12 2 Achievements of national statistics in 2016 by subject‐matter areas ...... 17 2.1 Indicators ...... 17 2.2 Systems of accounts ...... 19 2.2.1 Economic and social development ...... 19 2.2.2 Environmental sustainability ...... 21 2.3 Basic statistics ...... 24 2.3.1 Business ...... 24 2.3.2 People and the society ...... 30 2.3.3 Environmental, agricultural and other sectoral statistics ...... 38 2.3.4 Spatial statistics (geostatistics) ...... 44 Statistical legislation adopted in 2016 ...... 46 List of abbreviations ...... 47

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The Statistical Council of the Republic of Slovenia

at its 54th regular session on 10 April 2017 discussed the Report on the Implementation of the Annual Programme of Statistical Surveys for 2016 and adopted the following

DECISION

»The Statistical Council of the Republic of Slovenia at its 54th regular session on 10 April 2017, under Item 3 of the agenda, took note of the Report on the Implementation of the Annual Programme of Statistical Surveys 2016.«

Dr Anuška Ferligoj President of the Statistical Council of the Republic of Slovenia

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Introduction

Slovene national statistics is not immune to changes happening all around us in the digital age. Information and knowledge are important building blocks of the Slovene society and national statistics plays one of the key roles in providing the information infrastructure. The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (SURS) is aware of the many challenges of modern society and provides high‐quality statistics to its users. Doing this it thinks proactively and focuses its work into upgrading the current methods of work. In 2016, too, SURS and authorised producers of national statistics were gradually implementing their objectives from the Medium‐Term Programme of Statistical Surveys 2013–2017. In line with the objectives that the national statistics system wishes to achieve by implementing the Annual Programme of Statistical Surveys, 273 regular statistical surveys were conducted in 2016 (of which 224 by SURS). The implementation of some key statistical surveys and additional projects enabled us to set up the basis for further development of statistics, primarily the measurement of progress and sustainable development. Constantly striving to further reduce the reporting burden while preserving high quality standards, SURS is looking for new methods and possibilities of obtaining data, including so‐called big data. Because work with big data brings new opportunities and challenges, SURS set up a partnerships with faculties and scientific and research institutes to study the potentials of big data and train SURS’s staff. SURS has already tested the use of big data for job vacancy statistics, price statistics, population mobility and early economic indicators. At the international level, SURS cooperated in various activities developing the use of big data in official statistics of the European Statistical System (ESS) and the United Nations (UN). In 2016, SURS continued to upgrade information security: it improved the procedures for providing information security, trained its employees and cooperated in activities to improve the information security of the ESS. The self‐assessment questionnaire showed 85% compliance of SURS’s information security system with the common ESS information security framework. In 2016, the analysis and risk assessment regarding information security were implemented in connection with the transition of some IT services to the Ministry of Public Administration (MJU). SURS’s website was upgraded in 2016 so that it enables the use on small‐screen devices such as tablets and phones. To draw statistics closer to people, SURS included in its publications interactive charts, and prepared three interactive tools (Quality of Life, You in the EU, Young Europeans). SURS included in its printed publications simple but very telling infographics. The communication potential of infographics is well‐presented in the publication Regions in Figures – Statistical Portrait of Slovene Regions 2016, the printed version of which is upgraded by its interactive web publication. I would like to thank everybody contributing to successful implementation of statistical surveys in 2016 for a job well done and for contributing to the overall development of national statistics in Slovenia.

Genovefa Ružić Director‐General

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1 Achievements of national statistics in implementing basic objectives set in the Medium‐Term Programme of Statistical Surveys 2013–2017

This chapter presents development achievements of national statistics in Slovenia in implementing basic objectives set in the Medium‐Term Programme of Statistical Surveys 2013–2017. These objectives were: increasing the use of statistical data among users, preserving the confidence of all stakeholders in the quality of national statistics in Slovenia and increasing its recognition, and implementing the activity according to the cost‐benefit principle.

1. 1 Increasing the use of statistical data Satisfying the needs of users by further developing and optimising websites for disseminating national statistics The upgraded SURS website was launched in early 2015. The upgrade improved clarity of and navigation on the website, optimised the procedures of publishing data and information, and improved communication with users and data providers. In 2016, the website was upgraded so that it enables the use on small‐ screen devices such as tablets and phones. A pilot project was implemented for technological upgrade of the SI‐STAT Data Portal, which will – in addition to interactive takeover – enable the users machine takeover and integration of data with other applications.

Interactivity as a guide in improving dissemination of statistical data and communication with users To draw statistics closer to people, and make it understandable, clear and interesting, SURS included interactive charts in its releases, particularly in releases for the media, but also for the general public. With them we present statistical phenomena and enable users to research statistical data1. Better understanding and managing of user needs for data (mostly by preparing and publishing survey results and offering services adjusted to users) are among the main objectives both nationally and internationally. Within the project »Digital Communication, User Analytics and Innovative Products«, which is being carried out within the European Statistical System, three interactive tools / interactive publications were translated into Slovene (Quality of Life, You in the EU, Young Europeans) and are available to users on SURS’s website2. Continued subject‐matter and design upgrade of printed publications is based on simple but very telling infographics. With them we communicate to the public that statistics is by no means dry but that it is interesting, even colourful and that it tells stories. Infographics are a step forward in

1 See European week of waste reduction, 14 November 2016, Special Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6338 (17. 2. 2017). 2 See Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/ (17. 2. 2017).

National Statistics in 2016 7 understanding statistical data. One of the upgraded publications, Regions in Figures – Statistical Portrait of Slovene Regions 2016, illustrates well the communication potential of infographics. As all similar publications, this one was issued in printed and online versions; the online version was upgraded by linking it with the web interactive publication Slovene Statistical Regions and Municipalities in Figures3, which was with responsive design brought closer to our users accessing the content on our website via mobile devices.

Promotion of the use of statistical data via various communication channels In view of promoting statistics, national statistics pays a lot of attention to those mediating statistical data and information to the interested public. The key players in this are newspapers, radio and TV stations, and web portals. In 2016, too, SURS cooperated with the media and journalists in the established way. It replied to journalists’ requests for data and statements and interviews of statisticians and top management in the shortest possible time. SURS transmitted more than 40 statements and interviewers of statisticians and held 16 press conferences at which it presented the latest statistical data. The media were offered special web releases prepared by SURS at special days and holidays and at current events (e.g. anniversary of independence, anniversary of euro adoption4, etc.). In addition to established ways of cooperating with the media and journalists, we are constantly seeking new ones. In 2016, we held a workshop on the use of official statistical data for the journalists of the Slovenian Press Agency. In line with social development and progress, the needs of users are changing and are becoming more complex. Digitisation of the society emphasises the importance of online content, while web users wish ever more dynamic presentations of some contents. Social media are tools that present various contents in an entertaining way and generate mutual communication among the public playing an active role. Social media are modern communication channels with the help of which producers of national statistics perform their mission of disseminating statistical data and information to the interested public, collecting and exchanging information, knowledge and users’ opinions. SURS’s Twitter feeds (@StatSlovenija and @StatSlovenia) are followed by more than 7,600 people and their number is constantly growing.

The NIJZ also promotes its activities via social media in various ways: on Twitter5 with current releases, on Facebook6 by creating videos, on YouTube7 by releasing them and by promoting traditional events (release of publications, data releases, events, activities, etc.) on Twitter and Facebook via the mentioned online media that enable more rapid (even in real time) information dissemination. Promotion of statistical data with infographics on social media is a regular feature.

3 See Slovene Statistical Regions and Municipalities in Figures. Available at: http://www.stat.si/obcine/en/2014 (17. 2. 2017). 4 See A decade of euro in Slovenia, 23 December 2016, Special Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6414 (17. 2. 2017). 5 See NIJZ Twitter. Available at: https://twitter.com/NIJZ_pr (15. 2. 2017). 6 See NIJZ Facebook. Available at: https://www.facebook.com/Nacionalni‐in%C5%A1titut‐za‐javno‐zdravje‐ NIJZ‐523616787816640 (15. 2. 2017). 7 See NIJZ YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClPyMQKRwlE9geMcwuVM26Q (15. 2. 2017).

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The NIJZ expanded some of the content on its data portal8 and upgraded some of the content in line with the release calendar. It added some new content that has so far not been available to its users in such a form (on registered alcohol consumption by type of alcoholic beverages, on the community nursing service by statistical regions, etc.), and supplemented some of the content (e.g. detailed data on external causes of death). Metadata have a single structure that includes information on legal bases, the purpose of data collection, the history of individual data collection (with the emphasis on breaks in time series) and the definitions of published indicators. In addition, the NIJZ presents its activities in the form of an electronic eNijz bulletin9, the purpose of which is to inform the readers about developments at the NIJZ (publications, workshops, activities, etc.). The bulletin is usually published every month and it is possible to receive it on one’s e‐mail address only by registering via a form and scanning the QR code. The bulletin always emphasises developments in health statistics.

Activities for improving statistical literacy Producers of national statistics are aware that one of the key conditions for developing statistics is to improve the statistical literacy of users. Correct understanding and use of data depends on clear, appropriate, interesting and objective data releases in tables, charts, infographics and comments. We are actively cooperating in training of our youngest users (schoolchildren, pupils and students) in SURS’s premises as well as in educational institutions. We presented what we do to students of the Faculty of Organisational Sciences in Kranj and the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana, and to pupils of an upper secondary school in Sežana and of an elementary school in Vrhnika. In 2016, too, we conducted a training course on the use of national statistics data for public servants within the Administration Academy; public administration users are decision‐makers and planners and thus an important user group. Producers of national statistics strive to provide to them objective and reliable statistical data whenever they are preparing and adopting important decisions.

Cooperation with data providers and users via the Statistical Council of the Republic of Slovenia and statistical advisory committees Cooperation with data providers and users was implemented in the traditional form of the Statistical Council10 and statistical advisory committees11. In 2016, the Statistical Council met three times at regular sessions and once at a correspondence session; it discussed proposals of documents regarding the annual programme of statistical surveys and took note of some other information (e.g. Slovenian presidency of the Partnership Group (PG) at the European Statistical System Committee (ESSC), changes in business statistics, and methodological challenges, solutions and the quality of register‐ based population census). In 2016, 23 statistical advisory committees with around 370 external members were active at SURS. Twelve meetings were organised at which many initiatives, recommendations and opinions of members were presented, e.g. they proposed to provide data on life expectancy by statistical regions (these data were published in autumn 2016), they proposed the inclusion of detailed data from health accounts in the SI‐STAT database (detailed data are available in attached files within First Release, and availability in the SI‐STAT database is planned), they warned that the system for monitoring

8 See NIJZ data portal. Available at: https://podatki.nijz.si/pxweb/sl/NIJZ%20podatkovni%20portal/ (15. 2. 2017). 9 See Elektronski bilten NIJZ (eNijz). Available at: http://www.nijz.si/sl/enijz‐0 (15. 2. 2017). 10 See Statistical Council of the Republic of Slovenia. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/NationalStatistics/StatCouncil (2. 2. 2017). 11 See Statistical advisory committees. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/NationalStatistics/AdvCommittees (2. 2. 2017).

National Statistics in 2016 9 information on natural disasters should be upgraded (SURS cooperated with the Administration for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief in the past and harmonised with it the data necessary for comprehensive monitoring of natural disasters). Participants were informed about implemented and planned tasks from the fields of work of each advisory committee; in addition, they were informed about the participating institutions (regarding the use of statistical data, presentation of projects) and were trained in general contents prepared for them by SURS’s experts, e.g. web cartographic application of statistical data (STAGE) and the use of big data in providing statistical data. Methodological explanations were presented regarding the amendment of the Decree on the Introduction and Use of the Education and Training Classification System (implemented at the meeting of the Education Statistics Advisory Committee in October 2016).

Cooperation in Slovenia, and in the European and international community SURS cooperated in the European project Science for Life, the main purpose of which is to popularise the occupation of research scientist and draw it closer to the general public, particularly young people. The central event of this project was the European Night of Researchers. Within the project SURS prepared two activities: Open Doors Day at SURS (we presented who we are and what we do) and the Statomania stand in Citypark Ljubljana (we presented our products and services and tried to persuade people that statistics is not boring but interesting and useful and can even by fun). In September 2016 SURS organised the International Marketing and Output DataBase Conference (IMAODBC), which is intended for experts from national statistical offices and international organisations in order to exchange information on trends, new ideas and the use of various applications and technologies in disseminating statistical data and informing about them. A feature of this conference is the discussion about successes and failures. As a member of the European Statistical System (ESS), SURS is actively involved in the work of this partnership at all levels of cooperation and decision‐making within the system. SURS is also active internationally both within the United Nations (UN) and the Organisation for Economic Coordination and Development (OECD), in international development cooperation and in cooperation with international scientific associations in the field of statistics. In 2016, 391 SURS’s representatives participated in 314 international events and EU events.12 SURS’s representatives mostly participate in regular meetings and conferences organised within the EU, the UN and the OECD attended by representatives of all Member States because this is conditioned by the method of work of the ESS and the mentioned international organisations. 268 of these events were organised by EU institutions, other European organisations and national statistical offices. In addition to the mentioned events, SURS’s representatives attended 44 multilateral events organised by the UN (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe / Conference of European Statisticians, UN Statistical Commission and various specialised UN agencies, funds and programmes) and two bilateral events. Within the ESSC there is a PG that is in 2016 and in 2017 chaired by SURS’s Director‐General. In 2016, the group met four times at regular meetings at which members discussed strategic issues of the ESS such as the implementation of the ESS Vision 2020, further actions for modernising the Intrastat, implementation of Regulation 223/2009, etc.

12 Attendance in international and European courses, conferences, seminars, forums, study visits, workshops, consultations, meetings, working groups, expert groups, committees, etc.

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PG members in the lobby of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia

SURS is currently fulfilling statistical commitments towards the OECD and is actively cooperating in the OECD Committee on Statistics and Statistical Policy (CSSP), the CSSP Bureau and various OECD working groups on statistics. SURS is actively cooperating in the transfer of knowledge and experience to other statistical offices within the framework of various EU projects. In 2016, four statisticians from Bosnia and Herzegovina and from Turkey were trained at SURS in the fields of business and agricultural statistics. Together with Italian National Institute for Statistics ISTAT, SURS is conducting a twinning project in Macedonia, the aim of which is to strengthen the capacity of the statistical system in Macedonia. At the European level, in addition to the ESS there is also the European System of Central Banks (ESCB), a member of which is the Bank of Slovenia (BS). At the international level, the BS cooperated the most intensively as a member of many ESCB bodies. Further on, in addition to SURS the BS represented Slovenia in the Committee on Monetary, Financial and Balance of Payments Statistics (CMFB) and the European Statistical Forum (ESF) linking the operation of both European statistical systems. The BS also cooperated with Eurostat, in working groups on financial accounts and government finance statistics, balance of payments, foreign direct investment ("FDI network") and foreign affiliates statistics. International statistical cooperation of the BS included the Bank for International Settlements, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the OECD and the World Bank. In 2016, the Bank of Slovenia continued its activities for the transition to the expanded special data dissemination standard (SDDS+) under the IMF. Preparations covered the technical part of data dissemination, so that the standard will be implemented already in 2017. In 2016, the BS contributed two lectures at the workshop of the Centre of Excellence in Finance co‐ organised by the IMF. Representatives of the BS Statistical Department continued to exchange experience with their colleagues in central banks of the Central Europe within regular meetings. The NIJZ cooperates in the International Association of National Public Health Institutes and represents Slovenia in the World Health Organisation (WHO). In recent years the WHO has been strengthening the initiative to improve the quality of data on health and health care (EHII – European Health Information Initiative). Countries are joining the EHII voluntarily; Slovenia, represented by the NIJZ, joined in 2016.

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The NIJZ also cooperates in several projects and in joint actions within the European Union where the main topic is data: the European Core Health Indicators (ECHI) group, the Bridge Health project, the Joint Action on Nutrition and Physical Activity (JANPA); at the same time the NIJZ is preparing for two joint actions on health information and inequality. The NIJZ is actively cooperating in several Eurostat working groups and task forces: on public health, on health and safety at work, on health surveys related to causes of death, and on morbidity. In 2016, the NIJZ presented the health statistics system to representatives of many countries, including South Korea and Georgia.

Making access to metadata friendlier for users of national statistics SURS took care of making access to metadata friendlier for users of national statistics. It started to improve the content of methodological explanations presenting key methodological information on all published data in line with the recommendations received in 2015. The content of methodological explanations is more transparent and harmonised among statistical surveys. The practice will continue in the coming years. In 2016, too, SURS was regularly preparing and publishing standard and annual quality reports for statistical surveys. Within the planning and development of the database of reference metadata and the database of quality indicators, SURS prepared the subject‐matter upgrade of quality reports which will be completed with the setting up of the mentioned databases. The upgrade of quality reports will improve the standardisation of preparing reports so that they will be more transparent for users.

Publication of public use files As part of the cooperation with the scientific community and the academia, in 2016 SURS published on its website13 public use files from the Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (2012, 2013) and the Labour Force Survey (2013), which were prepared within the international project »Framework Partnership Agreement on Statistical Disclosure Control«. Statistically protected microdata from the mentioned surveys (i.e. such that do not enable the identification of units) and metadata describing the published microdata files were published.

1.2 Preserving the confidence of all stakeholders and increasing the recognition of national statistics Following the principles of the European Statistics Code of Practice Based on the report on the compliance of the Slovene statistical system with the principles of the European Statistics Code of Practice, which was prepared by peer reviewers on the basis of documents and the visit to Slovenia in 2014, SURS prepared the action plan for improvements, based on which recommendations given by peer reviewers will be implemented in the coming years. In line with this plan, in 2016 SURS implemented the following activities: improved the management of the costs of statistical surveys, improved the drafting of the Release Calendar, included external teachers in SURS’s training programme, studied the revision procedures, and prepared guidelines for statistical protection for researchers.

13 See Public use files. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/StaticPages/PublicUseFiles/public‐use‐files (2. 2. 2017).

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Activities of SURS’s Methodological Council In 2016, the Methodological Council14 met three times and discussed the proposals for revising five statistical surveys and the proposal for introducing a new statistical survey in agriculture. The main reasons for revisions are: merging of several statistical surveys into one (culture, research statistics, education), reducing the number of questions (agriculture, education, research statistics), replacing direct data collection with the use of administrative sources (education) and introduction of additional (web) method of data collection (education). Members of the Methodological Council supported the proposed changes in the surveys since merging of surveys and the use of administrative data contribute to greater quality of data and reduce the reporting burden, and web data collection is friendlier for reporting units. Members of the Methodological Council proposed to SURS some recommendations related to including parts of the population in surveys, to data dissemination, to the change in the periodicity of data collection, to the cost‐efficiency analysis of individual methods of data collection in view of data quality, to the sampling plan, to taking over data from other administrative sources, and to considering the possibility of calculating additional indicators.

Development of information security The development of the information security system continued in 2016. In line with the rules on procedures for managing security events, SURS dealt with security events and took care of overcoming the consequences of these events and preventing future security events. In 2016, SURS organised for its employees training related to information security and took care of regular training and raising awareness of new employees regarding information security. As regards data for scientific and research purposes, in 2016 information security improved with the change in procedures of preparing data for scientific and research purposes and introducing the research number. With the help of a self‐assessment questionnaire regarding information security, which was prepared by Eurostat within the common ESS information security framework, SURS prepared the action plan for harmonising information security with the common ESS information security framework. The self‐assessment questionnaire showed 85% compliance of SURS’s information security system with the common ESS information security framework. In 2016, analysis and assessment of risks regarding information security were prepared related to the transition of some IT services and IT employees to the Ministry of Public Administration (MJU). The annual review of information security and the annual report on security events were also prepared.

1.3 Implementing the activity of national statistics according to the cost‐benefit principle Providing appropriate financial resources by constantly controlling the efficiency of use SURS is constantly monitoring the commitment of expenditure and controlling the efficiency of the use of resources since planning and setting priorities is very important for implementing tasks and managing the financial plan. At the same time SURS is constantly monitoring calls for proposals, particularly those published by Eurostat, and applying for international projects from various fields of statistics. In addition to providing international comparability, applicability and quality of national statistics, this contributes to obtaining European funds because contracts enable partial or majority co‐financing of projects. In 2016, SURS applied for 18 new calls for proposals for receiving European

14 See Methodological Council. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/NationalStatistics/MethCouncil (27. 1. 2017).

National Statistics in 2016 13 funds. As a direct budget user, SURS is faced with human resource limitations determined with the personnel plan, which makes the implementation of tasks more difficult. In 2016, SURS spent EUR 12,308,560 or 1.7% more than in 2015. Most of it, EUR 11,897,264, was financed from the state budget and EUR 411,296 was financed from European funds. In 2016, SURS upgraded the application for work recording (work log) in which SURS’s employees record hours worked according to the new cost units and work activities introduced in 2015. In autumn SURS analysed the keeping of hours worked and based on its results upgraded the application with an additional module, which will enable monitoring and analysis by individual code lists. Project managers were informed about new developments and practical guidelines for correct recording of work done. Based on the record of hours worked by cost units and work activities, SURS will be able to calculate the costs of individual surveys.

SURS’s activities for reducing the reporting burden One of the permanent tasks of SURS is trying to find balance between obtaining quality data on one hand and reducing the reporting burden of enterprises and rational implementation of statistical surveys on the other hand. To this end, within the project Measuring and Managing the Burden of Business Entities, in 2016 SURS set up the methodology of measuring the reporting burden and implemented the technical solution that enables monitoring of actual reporting burden at one place, improvement of coordinated sampling and management of reporting burden of business entities. The transition to administrative data sources radically decreases the reporting burden. In 2016, SURS started to take over data from new and existing administrative sources in education statistics (on participants and graduates of upper secondary education, on scholarships, on the number of persons employed in formal education), in statistics of building permits15 and in crime statistics.

Modernisation and optimisation of data collection procedures Producers of national statistics continued to optimise and modernise data collection procedures in 2016. Web (electronic) data transmission became one of the standard methods of data collection. Based on experience, the procedures and standards are being constantly improved and upgraded. For surveys conducted by national statistics, in 2016 business entities transmitted over 75% of questionnaires in electronic form. Business entities were enabled to report the data electronically for two more surveys: the survey on construction and new orders and the survey on output price indices. Individuals were enabled to report data via the internet in the consumer survey and the adult education survey. Procedures were prepared and tested for introducing electronic reporting in the surveys on prices, culture, innovations and R&D. The existing eSTAT web application for electronic reporting by business entities was upgraded. It is now much more responsive and can be used also on devices with smaller screens such as tablets and phones; access to using the functions of the application is simpler, sending of the questionnaire is quicker. For collecting price statistics data, in 2016 IT solutions were prepared for takeover and preparation of data directly from databases of larger traders and for including them in the data processing system. A mobile application was developed for collecting prices in outlets, which enables price collectors to monitor the prices of products and transmitting the data to SURS more effectively. The “Survey Mode Effects” workshop was organised in 2016 as a third such workshop bringing together SURS, the NIJZ and the Faculty of Social Sciences. Its focus is the exchange of experience in mixed‐mode data collection and advice, ideas and recommendations related to challenges presented by new web modes of data collection. The workshop was also attended by American political scientist

15 All reporting units participating in the survey are fully free of reporting burden (before the transition to taking over the administrative source 58 reporting units completed around 500 questionnaires per month).

14 National Statistics in 2016 and professor at Stanford University Jon A. Krosnick, who is one of the leading researchers in survey methodology, particularly web data collection. He presented his views of the effects of mixed‐mode data collection and answered questions related to problems and challenges we face in surveys. The workshop is always a very good opportunity for cooperation of the mentioned institutions and finding common solutions because in combining different modes of data collection the institutions face similar problems.

Upgrade of process solutions by working with big data SURS’s working group on big data is testing the use of big data for job vacancy statistics and price statistics, mobility statistics and statistics on early economic indicators. SURS set up partnerships with faculties and scientific research institutes to study the potential of big data and prepare training for SURS’s staff. SURS cooperates in projects »Shared SERVices« and »Big Data« as a member of operative and strategic groups, and SURS’s employees lead some tasks of related ESS projects, such as ESSnet Sharing Common Functionalities in ESS and the ESSnet Big Data project. SURS is an active member of the international consortium preparing guidelines for »Services concerning ethical, communicational, skills issues and methodological cooperation related to the use of Big Data in European statistics«. Within the consortium SURS was one of the organisers of the ESSnet Big Data conference, which was held in October 2016 in Ljubljana.

ESSnet Big Data conference in Ljubljana

Optimisation of the internal organisational structure and human resource management Highly trained, well organised and motivated employees are the backbone of the organisational structure to achieve the basic objectives of national statistics. On 31 December 2016 SURS had 323 employees, 304 of them in permanent employment. Nineteen employees left SURS, 11 of them retired. With active participation in international projects, in 2016 SURS obtained financial resources for employing 9 temporary staff (for the duration of projects). To optimise work, in 2016 divisions and services were reorganised. Be reducing the number of internal organisational units an environment is being created that facilitates the management of changes and implementation of tasks.

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DIRECTOR-GENERAL

GENOVEFA RUŽIĆ

DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL

Karmen Hren

PROCESSES AND MACRO- BUSINESS DEMOGRAPHY ENVIRONMENTAL DATA EDP* LEGAL HUMAN FINANCIAL AND COMMUNICATION ECONOMIC STATISTICS AND SOCIAL STATISTICS COLLECTION INFRASTRUCTURE RESOURCE ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION STATISTICS DIVISION STATISTICS DIVISION DIVISION AND TECHNOLOGY MATTERS OPERATIONS DIVISION DIVISION DIVISION SERVICE SERVICE

Nataša Železnik Tatjana Novak Mojca Škrlec Ema Mišič Erika Žnidaršič Mojca Suvorov Bojan Vovk Tjaša Zrnec Sanja Cvajdik Gorjan

GENERAL NATIONAL SHORT-TERM LABOUR ENVIRONMENT DATA IT PRODUCTION METHODOLOGY ACCOUNTS BUSINESS STATISTICS AND ENERGY RECEPTION AND SECTION SECTION STATISTICS SECTION STATISTICS SECTION INFRASTRUCTURE SECTION SECTION

Laura Šuštar Andreja Smukavec Simona Peceli Matej Divjak Mojca Žitnik Vojko Šegan Anka Čerk Kožuh

STRUCTURAL AGRICULTURE, STANDARDS PRICE AND GLOBAL SOCIAL FORESTRY, ENTERPRISE DATA SECTION STATISTICS BUSINESS SERVICES FISHING AND COOPERATION COLLECTION SECTION STATISTICS STATISTICS HUNTING SECTION AND SECTION SECTION STATISTICS EDITING SECTION Barbara Dremelj Barbara Kutin Tina Steenvoorden Mojca Maček Kenk Tatjana Škrbec Valerija Urbajs Karmen Kleindienst Ribič Slatnar

TRANSPORT, EDITORIAL DEMOGRAPHY TOURISM AND INTERVIEWING DATA BOARD STATISTICS AND INFORMATION OF PEOPLE AND PROCESSING SECTION LEVEL OF LIVING SOCIETY HOUSEHOLDS AND SECTION STATISTICS SECTION INTEGRATION SECTION Apolonija Oblak Suzana Kašnik Danilo Dolenc Ana Božič Tomaž Špeh Flander

USER ADMINISTRATIVE DATA RELATIONS OPERATION ANALYSIS AND SECTION DISSEMINATION

Simona Klasinc Jana Žužek Milan Kajić

* EDP – Electronic Data Processing

To improve the quality, organisation and cost efficiency, SURS is constantly adjusting the business process to professional, technological and communication developments. Therefore, it is necessary that all employees upgrade existing knowledge with new knowledge more appropriate for new forms of work. Employees were receiving relevant knowledge for implementing the statistical activity by attending seminars and workshops, and within in‐house training. Training in Slovenia was attended by 113 employees and training abroad by 161 employees. An important part of training abroad is courses within the European Statistical Training Programme (ESTP), which were attended by 38 employees. In 2016, SURS conducted 57 in‐house courses with 1,411 participants from SURS and authorised producers of national statistics. The content of courses covers various parts of the statistical process, methodology, and computer and communication skills. A third of courses were intended for obtaining data dissemination skills. 40% of the time for in‐house training was spent on methodology and processes and a third on increasing information literacy.

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Within internal professional conferences known as The Pulse of Statistics, in 2016 SURS again prepared two events: on 14 April and on 23 December. The event is popular among the employees, since according to the opinion survey it informs about new developments, encourages new ideas and contributes to better knowledge of work done by colleagues. In 2016 the following topics were discussed: SURS’s experience in working with big data and future plans, the »Single Market Statistics« project, i.e. exchange of microdata on trade in goods between statistical offices of EU Member States as a new aspect of statistical production, on the Modernisation of Price Statistics project, on the new publication Simply Not the Same: Women and Men from Childhood to Old Age, on the development of general IT architecture for successful modernisation of statistics, on the quality of data in the Central Population Register, on the Statistical Business Register of Slovenia and on food waste.

The Pulse of Statistics

Based on agreements on cooperation with various higher education institutions (University of Ljubljana’s Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences and Academy of Fine Arts and Design), SURS takes care of developing competent staff. The practice continued in 2016 by signing the agreement on cooperation with the Faculty of Computer and Information Science in Ljubljana and University of Maribor’s Faculty of Organisational Sciences. Faculty professors and students contribute to improving the work processes and products at SURS with various forms of cooperation. In 2016 a student of financial mathematics at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science completed his practical training at SURS. Seminar papers on mobile applications and social networks in disseminating national statistics were prepared by 23 students of the Faculty of Social Sciences. The outputs of all 24 students were introduced into SURS’s work. One of the students with whom SURS cooperated in the past was employed by SURS in 2016.

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2 Achievements of national statistics in 2016 by subject‐matter areas

This chapter presents achievements of national statistics in 2016 by individual subject‐matter areas. It follows the structure determined in the Medium‐Term Programme of Statistical Surveys 2013–2017.

2.1 Indicators Globalisation With the help of Member States, in 2016 Eurostat prepared new functionalities in the EuroGroups Register (EGR), which are used in exchanging data between the Register of Enterprise Groups (RSP) and the EGR. Within the European project the quality of RSP input data for the EGR was tested. The test showed that our RSP data are of good quality; in the next two years the final determination of quality indicators is planned.

In 2014 there were 3,382 multinational enterprise groups in Slovenia, 84% of them controlled by EU‐28 Member States and the European Free Trade Association.16

Updated sustainable development indicators and green growth indicators In 2016 SURS updated sustainable development indicators for Slovenia and presented some of them to the level of statistical regions. Sustainable development indicators have been prepared by SURS since 2010 and cover environmental, economic and social area. The main messages of these indicators were released on the website.

In 2014 extraction of domestic resources increased over 2013 by 13%. The share of separately collected municipal waste increased to 64.7%.17

In 2016 SURS updated green growth indicators, which have been released since 2014. These indicators are a subset of sustainable development indicators and describe only environmental and economic areas.

Economic governance The BS, the Ministry of Finance (MF) and SURS cooperated in economic governance in preparing the general government deficit and debt report18.

16 See Enterprise groups, Slovenia, 2014, 3 March 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/5797 (20.1.2017). 17 See Green growth indicators, Slovenia, 2014, 25 April 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/5878 (20.1.2017). 18 See October excessive deficit procedure report, Slovenia, 2012–2015, forecast 2016, 20 October 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6294 (1. 2. 2017).

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Health and health care indicators Health and health care indicators are a large set of indicators developed by expert groups within various EU projects. Work at the European level continued in 2016; the NIJZ was intensively cooperating in new working groups preparing additional sets and more precise definitions of indicators. Work was taken over by a group of countries within the Joint Action Bridge Health, where the cooperating institution from Slovenia is the NIJZ. In 2016 the NIJZ was intensively preparing the publication “Health Inequalities in Slovenia”, which will show key health indicators by level of education or other socioeconomic categories. The publication will be released in the first half of 2017.

Healthy municipality for a healthy Slovenia At the end of 2016 the National Institute of Public Health presented the project and outputs of “Health in the Municipality”, which enables the presentation of people’s health at the level of Slovene municipalities. The main output of the Health in the Municipality project is a four‐page publication presenting specific situations in each municipality in Slovenia, meaning that 211 publications were prepared. The publication presents data on the health of people in the municipality based on 35 key health indicators, important public health thematic articles and graphic and numerical presentations. The main purpose of the project is to present the problems of various population groups, public health challenges (risk factors, cancer, cardiovascular diseases) and positioning of individual municipalities into a larger socioeconomic picture.

People in the west of Slovenia are healthier than people in the east – The differences in health are the result of many factors that are not necessarily connected with the place or region of residence. Nevertheless, in municipalities in the eastern part of Slovenia the situation is on average slightly worse than in municipalities in the western part of Slovenia. The differences in health are the result of socioeconomic factors (education, income, employment), culture and ethnicity, health care system, which reflects in accessibility of quality and safe disease preventi0n programs, health treatment and rehabilitation, and lifestyle connected with a person’s integration into a larger social network, residential and working conditions, and accessibility of basic goods and services.19

Information from the Health in the Municipality project is intended primarily for local authorities, which can on the basis of the published data recognise the importance of local environment influencing people’s health, identify areas of improvement of health and health status of people, contribute to social development and reduce social inequalities in health, and enable long‐term, systematic work on health. The most important novelty introduced by the NIJZ is model calculation of health indicators based on survey data at municipal level, e.g. the share of smokers in the municipality, the share of persons drinking excessively, etc. For calculating the indicators, data sources are used that are kept by various institutions, e.g. the NIJZ, the Faculty of Sport in Ljubljana, the Institute of Oncology, the Traffic Safety Agency, the Social Protection Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, the MF and SURS. To facilitate the monitoring of the published data and the preparation of measures at the local level, a web application20 is available, which includes all key outputs of the project: annual short publications for each municipality, methodological documents, selected public health content, and tabular and graphical (thematic maps by indicators) presentation of data.

19 See Health in the Municipality application. Available at: http://obcine.nijz.si/Default.aspx?leto=2017&lang=ang (15. 2. 2017). 20 See Health in the Municipality application. Available at: http://obcine.nijz.si (15. 2. 2017).

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2.2 Systems of accounts 2.2.1 Economic and social development

Implementation of regular surveys in national accounts SURS published revised data on gross domestic product (GDP) and other national accounts aggregates for the 2012–2014 period and the first annual assessment for 2015. The impact of the regular revision was insignificant, both on nominal values as well as real growth rates. Compared to the first assessment for 2015 calculated from quarterly data (in February 2016), the first annual assessment of real GDP growth for 2015 was corrected by 0.6 of a percentage point (from 2.9% to 2.3%). The reason for the difference was a more complete data source at the August release. In line with the data transmission programme according to the European System of Accounts (ESA) 2010, after the annual release of GDP data other national accounts data were released: government accounts, annual and quarterly non‐financial sector accounts, supply and use tables, government expenditure by function, non‐financial assets and regional accounts. Within the preparation of the government deficit and debt report the methodology of presenting transactions of government sector units was supplemented. Due to lack of data sources on the public‐ private partnerships, SURS decided to measure the phenomenon within the existing survey on investment with a special set of questions for municipalities. An important achievement in regional accounts was the shortening of the deadline for data release for household accounts by one year with which we met the needs of users of these data. In October 2016 household accounts by regions for 2014 and 2015 were published.

In 2014 and 2015 disposable household income increased in all regions; before that, in 2012 and 2013, it declined in all regions. In 2015 disposable income per household member was the highest in the Osrednjeslovenska region (EUR 10,735); in 2014 it was the highest in the Koroška region (EUR 10,716). Between 2014 and 2015 the differences among regions increased.21

The preparation of the description of sources and methods for calculating national income according to ESA 2010 continued; in the first quarter of 2016 the output was sent to Eurostat. The description of sources and methods covers more than 300 pages and is based on data for 2011. When alignment with Eurostat is finished, we will decide on the method of publication.

Development work in national accounts SURS continued to prepare first estimates of pension rights/obligations and published it in March 2017. In 2016 work continued on measuring the economic and social inequality of households in national accounts for 2012 within the international project in cooperation with the OECD. The calculation will be upgraded with the inclusion of wealth (in the first phase dwellings) of households and a release in 2017.

Financial accounts statistics In 2016 the data of quarterly financial accounts were transmitted to the European Central Bank (ECB) in line with Guideline ECB/2013/24, data of quarterly financial accounts for the government sector to the ECB and Eurostat in line with Regulation 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council,

21 See Income and poverty indicators, Slovenia, 2015, 14 July 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6070 (22. 2. 2017).

20 National Statistics in 2016 and data on annual financial accounts to Eurostat in line with Regulation 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council. The publication Financial Accounts of Slovenia 2010–201522 was released in 2016, which in addition to data and methodology contains a review of financial accounts of individual sectors and a comparison with the euro area. Annual and quarterly data from financial accounts, data series and quarterly Financial Accounts of Slovenia were published on the BS website.

External statistics In 2016 the BS revised the balance of payments statistics, international investment position and external debt for the period from 2013 on. The methodology of recording EU transfers was adjusted with the methodology implemented by SURS a year before. The revision lowered the annual current account surplus by EUR 0.2 billion. The greatest change at the revision for 2015 was data on reinvested earnings on direct investment, which the enterprises reported in the annual report on financial assets of non‐residents. These data replaced the provisional estimate based mostly on a time series of three years. In 2015 foreign owned enterprises in Slovenia achieved the highest level of profit ever, which differed considerably from the three‐year average. The revision lowered the annual current account surplus by EUR 0.3 billion. In October 2016, the BS issued the bilingual publication Direct Investment 2015 with the data on the origin of foreign direct investment in Slovenia and its integration into the Slovenian economy as well as the data on Slovenia’s direct investment abroad. In addition, the BS was publishing regularly monthly Slovenia’s External Position on current trends in this area (available only in Slovene).

Financial intermediaries statistics In 2016 the BS successfully implemented all tasks of monetary and financial statistics at monthly, quarterly and annual levels on the basis of ECB, IMF and OECD requirements and its own needs. This covers the data from the balance sheet and interest rates of monetary financial institutions as well as non‐monetary financial intermediaries, securities, payment systems and structural data of the banking system. Reporting requirements of the first phase of developing the Central Credit Register were implemented by credit institutions by upgrading the existing monthly system of reporting. The existing report was expanded with additional attributes to the level of contract for all exposure to legal persons. By including requirements from supervisory reports, these reports were abandoned at the end of the year. The new extended report was prepared by banks and savings banks for the first time as of 30 September 2016. For this reference date a new quarterly report on credit risk parameters was implemented which includes the attrition and default rates in line with guidelines of the BS as of 27 October 2015 and report on events related to debtors from financial instruments at the level of individual transaction in the reference month. The only problem was a large number of corrections for September 2016, which resulted in extensive corrections of data transmitted to the ECB. Reporting by insurance companies in line with the new ECB regulation started successfully in July 2016 with data for the first quarter of 2016. Data are reported via the Insurance Supervision Agency (AZN). New supervision reports by insurance companies in line with the Solvency II Directive are converted into statistical reports on the basis of ECB methodology. Cooperation with the AZN included control of regularity and adequacy of data produced by insurance companies. Due to the introduction of extended reporting for insurance companies, the previous non‐harmonised transmission of data by insurance companies and pension funds to the ECB was abolished and replaced by the new report on pension fund data.

22 See Bank of Slovenia – Financial Accounts of Slovenia. Available at: https://www.bsi.si/iskalniki/financni‐ racuni.asp?MapaId=1931 (22. 2. 2107).

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In the Register of Institutions and Affiliates Datase (RIAD) for the needs of the ESCB and the single supervisory mechanism, active verification of data quality and data cleaning were implemented in 2016 as well as regular transmission of data on monetary financial institutions, investment funds and insurance companies. In 2016 regular quarterly reporting of leasing companies took place. Due to the status changes of companies that are liable to report to the BS, the statistical sample of units that are liable to report was changed. The Register of Foreign Business Entities was set up by the BS in December 2015. For the needs of reporting to the BS, every day credit institutions can get feedback on the changes in business entities, the entire file and the file with international institutions. At the change in reporting in September 2016 the entry of business entities increased significantly. The primary reason was setting up reporting by individual transaction and as a result by individual customer. In most cases banks entered foreign business entities with which they still have relationships, even though in recent years no new credits have been given.

2.2.2 Environmental sustainability

Preparation of six modules of environmental‐economic accounts: three are being regularly reported, three are still being improved In 2016 SURS prepared all six modules of environmental‐economic accounts (air emission accounts, physical flow accounts, environmentally related taxes, environmental goods and services sector accounts, physical energy flow accounts, and environmental protection expenditure accounts). SURS has been reporting the first three accounts to Eurostat since 2013, while the other three accounts are being improved and have been reported to Eurostat on a trial basis. The first regular reporting will take place in 2017.

The environmental goods and services sector employed 25,427 full‐time equivalents and generated EUR 1.75 billion of total output in 2014.23

Completion of the system of forestry accounts In 2016 SURS focused a lot of attention on developing the system of forestry accounts, which shows the value of forests and forest resources from the environmental and economic aspect. Within the pilot project a methodology was established for monitoring the data on the area and value of forest land, on the quantity and value of growing stock, on the value of forestry activity, on the value of input and output of forestry products, and on the availability of growing stock. In determining the methodology SURS was cooperating with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food (MKGP), the Slovenian Forestry Institute and the Slovenian Forest Service. In addition, in forestry accounts all regular work (preparation and publication of data from the economic part of forestry accounts) was implemented.

In 2015 factor income in forestry industry decreased by 6% in comparison with the previous year. Gross value added amounted to almost EUR 220 million or 0.6% of gross 24 domestic product. Employment was higher by 1%.

23 See Environmental goods and services sector accounts, Slovenia, 2014, 8 December 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6388 (15. 2. 2017). 24 See Economic accounts for forestry, Slovenia, 2015, 4 October 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6246 (15. 2. 2017).

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Start of developing water accounts In 2016 SURS started to study the methodology for setting up water accounts by reviewing the current methodology applied by Eurostat and countries already compiling water accounts. SURS participated in the ESTP course on water accounts where guidelines were given for preparing this module, which is still being improved. Based on the guidelines given at the ESTP course and experience of countries already compiling water accounts, SURS started to collect and prepare data for compiling water accounts for Slovenia.

In 2014 total environmental protection expenditure was 37.2% higher than in 2013.25

Improving the quality of economic accounts for agriculture and interinstitutional cooperation In 2016 economic accounts for agriculture (EAA) and estimates of real income from agriculture were prepared and published according to plan. In addition, the entire data series was revised due to the improvement of the quality of EAA and the introduction of ESA 2010. EAA are satellite accounts of national accounts, so a change in ESA 2010 methodology has an impact on the change of EAA methodology. The EAA regulation has not yet been updated with ESA 2010, making the introduction of methodological changes in EAA more difficult. SURS analysed in detail the changes of ESA affecting agriculture from the point of view of national accounts and EAA. According to the new concept, fixed assets include expenditure for research and development in agriculture, but recording expenditure in EAA differs from recording in national accounts. Due to more appropriate presentation of wine and oil production, which reflects to a larger extent the actual situation, new wine and olive oil accounts were prepared. EAA were supplemented with revised data from national accounts and improved calculations due to the forthcoming preparation of the weighting scheme for the base year 2015, the basis of which is EAA data. In 2016 a detailed methodological overview of sources and calculations included in EAA was prepared and transmitted to Eurostat. The 7th conference of the Slovenia Association of Agricultural Economists was held in Ljubljana in December 2016 entitled Analytical Bases for Planning Agricultural Development. SURS presented a paper entitled Economic Accounts for Agriculture as an Analytical Tool of Agricultural Policy. SURS cooperated in the Monitoring Committee of the Rural Development Program of the Republic of Slovenia 2007–2013 and 2014–2020, in which it confirmed progress reports by individual years. SURS cooperated with the MKGP also within the Farm Accountancy Commission.

In 2015 the value of agricultural production was EUR 1,264 million, 3% higher than a year before. The reason was the 5% volume increase, while the prices decreased by 2%.26

25 See Environmental protection expenditure accounts, Slovenia, 2014, 21 November 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6327 (15. 2. 2017). 26 See Economic accounts for agriculture, Slovenia, 2015, 30 September 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6248 (15. 2. 2017).

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In 2016 fruit balance sheet prepared for the first time In cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food and the Agricultural Institute of Slovenia, in 2016 SURS again prepared and published calendar balance sheets of production and consumption of agricultural products, which is standard information on the supply of and demand for certain agricultural products or groups of products. Balance sheets were prepared for meat, eggs, cereals, potato, vegetables, rice, sugar and wine. For the first time the fruit balance sheet was prepared and published.

In 2015 the self‐sufficiency rate remained very low for vegetables (39%) and potato (59%); in the balance sheet for fresh fruit it was 60%.27

At the World Food Day 2016 SURS prepared a special release on current trends in Slovenian agriculture. The central message of the day was that the climate is changing and that as a result agriculture and food systems will have to change as well.

27 See Supply balance sheets of agricultural products, Slovenia, 2015, 9 June 2016, Electronic Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6003 (15. 2. 2017).

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2.3 Basic statistics 2.3.1 Business

As regards business statistics, in 2011 Eurostat started the project of modernising and setting up a single legislative framework for systematic collection, processing, transmission and publication of European statistics related to the structure, economic activity, competitiveness, international trade, globalisation and operation of the business sector, the project called »Framework Regulation Integrating Business Statistics«. SURS was involved in the total overhaul by setting up the statistical business register, developing new short‐term indicators, using new data sources and common tools, reducing the costs and burden. By confirming the draft regulation in November 2016 the project passed into its final phase. Preparation of implementing regulations and delegated acts and implementation of all requirements of the new legislation should be completed by 2020.

Short‐term business statistics As regards construction statistics, large methodological and process changes were implemented in 2016. For preparing statistics on building permits and demolitions, in January 2016 SURS made a transition to using data from the administrative source, i.e. from the spatial information system of the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning (MOP). In the monthly survey on the value of construction put in place, the questionnaire was revised and the transition to e‐reporting was implemented. As regards trade and services statistics, development work continued. The first phase of the international project within which the bases for calculating the monthly services index were prepared was successfully completed. SURS applied for a new international project within which work will continue on setting up the services index. As regards services statistics, new services were added to the survey for which test calculations are being implemented. In 2016 separate data for accommodation activities and for food and beverage service activities started to be regularly published, including the time series from 2000 on.

The trend of turnover growth observed in 2015 continued also in 2016. In year on year comparison, the turnover in service activities was rising in all months of the year; in 2016 it was 3.9% higher than in the previous year. The highest growth was recorded in accommodation and food service activities (by 10.9%) and in administrative and support service activities (10.3%).28

As regards industry statistics, SURS was actively cooperating in modernising the international classification of products Production Communautaire (PRODCOM), which was the result of major changes in the Statistical Classification of Products by Activity (CPA) adopted in 2015. Changes in PRODCOM were transferred into the national version, i.e. Nomenclature of Industrial Products. SURS applied for the international project that will cover the modernisation of the annual survey of industrial production in the coming years. In the Consumer Survey, SURS introduced a new method of data collection, namely a combination of telephone and web interviewing.

28 See Turnover in service activities, Slovenia, December 2016, 28 February 2017. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWebArhiv/en/show‐news?id=6537&idp=23&headerbar=20 (28. 2. 2017).

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Business services and enterprise profiling As regards business services, SURS set up the methodology of estimating the residency of clients. By using administrative sources and new methodology, the breakdown of the residence of clients is no longer part of the questionnaire on business services. This reduced the reporting burden. In 2016 SURS continued to set up the profiling methodology. The analysis of various structures of enterprise groups was retested on five enterprise groups that were profiled in the previous period. SURS also cooperated in the Eurostat project of testing the methodology of automated profiling. SURS will continue to cooperate in a special Eurostat Task Force on Profiling, which will prepare the profiling methodology.

Statistical Business Register In 2016 the project of setting up the S_PRS was successfully completed. The S_PRS, which is being prepared regularly, i.e. monthly and annually, became the basis for the common sampling frame. In 2016 SURS was working intensively on testing the introduction of the S_PRS into the statistical process and regular production of individual statistical surveys. As regards the Standard Classification of Activities (SKD), in 2016 SURS continued activities facilitating the use of this classification and informing the users about changes; SURS upgraded the SKD 2008 e‐search engine29 and updated the related set of frequently asked questions, prepared a special leaflet, and conducted training for in‐house and external users. As regards the CPA, work continued on preparing and editing explanations to the changed regulation for this area.

International trade in goods The Eurostat project of upgrading international trade in goods – in which SURS was very actively involved – was completed in 2016. To this end SURS set up the necessary infrastructure for secure exchange of microdata on dispatches of goods between EU Member States and tested the exchange of microdata. Because data exchange proved to be possible, in the final phase of the project SURS studied in detail the costs and benefits of the new data source and together with other EU Member States cooperated in drafting a proposal that within the new legislation the exchange of microdata for business statistics should become mandatory in the next few years. As regards international trade in goods, the project of improving dissemination of external trade data was also completed in 2016. Within the project the possibility of using certain solutions was successfully tested. The upgrade of tables for the SI‐STAT Data Portal was also prepared. Due to extensive changes in the nomenclature of the harmonised system, which will come into force in 2017 and have an impact on the EU Combined Nomenclature, in 2016 SURS started preparations for introducing these changes in external trade statistics and informing reporting units for Intrastat about them.

External trade in 2016 was the highest in recent years. Exports exceeded the pre‐crisis level of 2008 already in 2011 and have been growing ever since, while imports exceeded the level 30 of 2008 in 2015.

29 See Classifications E‐search engine SKD 2008 (Slovene only). Available at: http://www.stat.si/SKD (27. 1. 2017). 30 See Exports and imports of goods, Slovenia, December 2016, 9 February 2017, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6492 (10.2.2017).

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Interinstitutional cooperation At the end of 2016 SURS and the Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Public Legal Records and Related Services (AJPES) signed a new framework agreement on cooperation between the two institutions in collecting and transmitting data from registers and records, and statistical data. AJPES implemented all planned surveys on annual accounts for various business segments. In addition to the administrative purpose, these data are an important data source for further use in various statistical surveys (e.g. national accounts statistics, business statistics).

In 2016, on average 4,597 legal entities with overdue outstanding obligations over five consecutive days were recorded, which is 14.8% fewer than on average in 2015, and on average 5,439 sole proprietors and other natural persons performing registered activities, which is 19.6% fewer than on average in the previous year.31

AJPES and SURS cooperated in conducting several statistical surveys, namely in the process of data collection, which was done electronically via the AJPES web portal (monthly report on payment of salaries by legal entities and holiday pay by legal entities, survey on paid dividends, survey on business services). Together with the BS AJPES was collecting data for the quarterly survey on performance of business entities and for the quarterly financial accounts. AJPES was also conducting the monthly survey on legal entities with overdue outstanding obligations over five consecutive days. AJPES’s representatives were actively cooperating in statistical advisory committees dealing with AJPES’s field of work. On its web portal32 AJPES was regularly publishing aggregated monthly data on payment of salaries by private sector entities. From collections of annual reports, AJPES prepared and published information on operation of companies in the Republic of Slovenia in 2015, information on operation of sole proprietors in the Republic of Slovenia in 2015, information on operation of non‐profit institutions – legal entities governed by private law in the Republic of Slovenia in 2015 and information on operation of societies in the Republic of Slovenia in 2015. AJPES also prepared and published information on operation of companies and sole proprietors for each statistical region.

Modernisation of price statistics As regards price statistics, in 2016 SURS continued to work on the project Modernisation of Price Statistics. The second objective was achieved, namely setting up the basis for comprehensive use of data from websites. The basis was also established for comprehensive use of data from traders’ databases, while the calculation of indices based on the new methodology will be the next project task after the data from all large traders are obtained. Negotiations with the largest traders continued, particularly regarding technical and legal solutions for taking over data from their databases. As regards the producer price index, SURS was striving for the transition to electronic data reporting. E‐reporting was set up for collecting data on services producer price indices. Procedures for the transition to e‐reporting for other producer price indices were prepared.

31 See Payment transactions statistics, 2016. Available at: http://www.ajpes.si/Statistike/Statistike_placilnega_prometa/Neporavnane_obveznosti/Porocila (14. 2. 2017). 32 See Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Public Legal Records and Related Services. Available at: https://www.ajpes.si/?language=english (14. 2. 2017).

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Bank of Slovenia’s Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises In 2016 the Bank of Slovenia conducted the Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises, this time in cooperation with the SID bank, to reduce the reporting burden. The survey provides an insight into the availability of external financing for enterprises. Survey results for 2015 were published on the BS website33 and included in the publication Economic and Financial Developments.

Science, technology and innovation Regular annual surveys on research and development (R&D) by sectors of performance for the reference year 2015 and on government budget appropriations or outlays for R&D for 2015 (final budget) and 2016 (provisional budget) were conducted and results of these two surveys were published. In addition, the two‐year survey on innovation activity for the 2012–2014 period was completed. Survey results were published in April 2016. Activities were implemented related to further rationalisation and upgrade of the data reporting method (e‐reporting) and the process of processing R&D data for reporting the data from the reference year 2017 on. In line with the revised international methodological manual Frascati methodological guidelines for completing the questionnaire will be improved. They will have to be applied for reporting data from the reference year 2016 on.

Government budget appropriations or outlays on R&D amounted to EUR 159.8 million or 0.41% of Slovenia’s GDP.34

Within the EU preparations were underway for the implementation of the next survey on innovation activity in 2017 (a module on innovation in logistics will be added to the questionnaire for the reference period 2014–2016). At the national level preparations were underway for the transition to reporting these data via the e‐questionnaire.

In 2012–2014 almost 46% of observed enterprises in Slovenia had innovation activity.35

SURS was included in the Eurostat Task Force for preparing the proposal of the future questionnaire on innovation (reference period 2016–2018) in line with the requirements of the revised international Oslo manual (which will be adopted by mid‐2017) and for testing this questionnaire.

In 2015, EUR 853.1 million was spent in Slovenia on R&D in all sectors, which is 2.21% of GDP. After several years of growth, for the second consecutive year less was spent on R&D 36 in Slovenia.

33 See Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises. Available at: http://www.bsi.si/financni‐ podatki.asp?MapaId=1803 (20. 2. 2017). 34 See Government budget appropriations or outlays on R&D, final budget 2015 and initial budget 2016, Slovenia, 28 September 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6238 (14. 2. 2017). 35 See Innovation activity in industry and selected services, Slovenia, 2012–2014, 22 April 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/5899 (14. 2. 2017). 36 See Research and Development Activity, Slovenia, 2015, 8 November 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6322 (14. 2. 2017).

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Statistics on the usage of information ‐ communication technologies (ICT) In 2016 SURS issued a publication entitled E‐Skills and Digital Economy presenting data on digital literacy of individuals aged 16–74 years and the impact of ICT and the Internet on the (digital) economy. By ICT usage expanding to all facets of society, mastery of new skills is becoming increasingly important. At the same time ICT is changing the operation of enterprises and offers new market opportunities. SURS started with activities in the Eurostat project on the development and testing of questions on ICT, the purpose of which is to design and test indicators for monitoring the development of information society. In 2016 the emphasis was on the development of indicators on the topic trust, security and privacy (and issuing invoices by enterprises) in using ICT. SURS led the group of countries participating in the project, the task of which was to design and test the indicators for enterprises and test the indicators with this content with individuals. In the annual survey on ICT usage in households and by individuals, in 2016 the emphasis was on indicators on transmission and protection of personal data on the Internet. In the survey on ICT usage in enterprises, the emphasis was on the extent of analysing big data in enterprises. At the Safer Internet Day in February 2016, the slogan of which was “Play your part for a better internet”, SURS prepared a special release entitled Safer Internet Day37.

37 See Safer Internet Day, 2 February, Special Release: Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/5747 (16. 2. 2017).

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Data on foreign tourists released In 2016 SURS conducted the survey on foreign travellers at road border crossings with Croatia, which is conducted every three years. Foreign travellers were interviewed at selected border crossings with Croatia in April, between mid‐July and mid‐August, and in October. With this survey data are collected on the structure of foreign travellers by countries of residence, reasons for coming to Slovenia and type of vehicle in which they left Slovenia, as well as data on the amount and structure of expenditure of foreign same‐day visitors and transit travellers during their stay in Slovenia. Survey results are used for estimating the impact of income from tourism. Survey results will be published in April 2017. In June 2016 SURS published data from the survey on foreign tourists in Slovenia, which is also conducted every three years.

In the summer of 2015 three out of four foreign tourists came to Slovenia for holidays, mostly on recommendation of relatives and friends. Six out of ten tourists arrived by car. Their staying was most often organized by direct booking at a hotel or a campsite. They spent on average almost EUR 100 per day.

Cooperation in setting up electronic reporting on tourist arrivals and overnight stays In 2016 SURS continued to cooperate in the interinstitutional working group (with the Ministry of the Interior, Police, the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology and AJPES) on setting up the register of tourist accommodations and the single electronic reporting on tourist arrivals and overnight stays. The legal basis (Act Amending the Hospitality Industry Act, and the new Residence Registration Act) was adopted, which enabled AJPES to start setting up the register of accommodations and the system (application) for single reporting on tourism. The register and the application should be launched by 1 December 2017.

In 2016 a record number of arrivals and overnight stays were recorded in accommodation establishments: 4.2 million arrivals and 10.7 million overnight stays. Foreign tourists generated 2.9 million arrivals and 7 million overnight stays and domestic tourists 1.3 million arrivals and 3.7 million overnight stays.38

The survey on tourism travels of domestic population was conducted in 2016 as planned. At the same time SURS started to plan the transition to web interviewing, which should be added as a complementary method to the current telephone interviewing. In addition to the regular annual statistical survey on travel agencies, in 2016 SURS conducted the statistical survey monitoring financial data of travel agencies. These data are collected every three years and are necessary for preparing satellite accounts for tourism. At the World Tourism Day 2016, the slogan of which was Tourism for All, SURS published a special release39.

38 See Tourist arrivals and overnight stays, Slovenia, December 2016, 31 January 2017, provisional data. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6477 (21. 2. 2017). 39 See World Tourism Day, 20 September 2016, Special Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6188 (7. 2. 2017).

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2.3.2 People and the society

Survey on unregistered emigration Within the project “Usual residence population definition: feasibility studies’’, which was tendered and co‐financed by Eurostat, in 2016 SURS conducted the first survey on population statistics that was almost exclusively intended for evaluating the quality of input data from the administrative source (CRP) and as a result evaluate the quality of statistical data on the population. Two data collection methods were used: first the postal method (March–May 2016) and for the non‐response fieldwork interviewing with printed questionnaires, which took place in June 2016 in five selected areas. The key finding of the survey is that the data on the number of population – and this is a common problem of all countries preparing population data from administrative sources – are overestimated at the aggregate level by about 0.5% or 10,000 persons.

Release of two important brochures for the general public The brochure entitled Simply Not the Same: Women and Men From Childhood to Old Age monitors women and men through various periods (children/childhood, youth, adults/adulthood, elderly/old age) seeking similarities and differences between them, pointing out the main characteristics of individual periods and comparing data for Slovenia with data for the other 28‐EU Member States. Some solutions of graphical presentation will be used by Eurostat in preparing the European publication on gender statistics.

Average monthly gross earnings of women were 5.3% lower than average earnings of men. The gender pay gap was thus the lowest in the EU‐28. The ratio between 65‐year‐old 40 women and men is 1 : 1, while between women and men aged 100+ it is 6 : 1.

The publication Dad, Mom, Grandpa, Grandma … Households and Families in Slovenia clearly presents the differences between the two basic census units – households and families – in seven statistical stories. The publication, which is based on data from 2011 and 2015 register‐ based population censuses, brings many interesting data presented in

figures, text and various graphical presentations.

Consensual unions are the fastest growing family type. 39% of children in reconstituted families are biological children of both parents and 61% are biological children of only one 41 of the parents.

40 See Simply Not the Same: Women and Men From Childhood to Old Age, 8 March 2016. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/File/DocSysFile/8908/Simply‐not‐the‐same.pdf (14. 2. 2017). 41 See Dad, Mom, Grandpa, Grandma … Households and families in Slovenia, 10 May 2016. Available at: http://www.stat.si/dokument/8943/dad‐mom‐grandpa‐grandma.pdf (14. 2. 2017).

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Releases on the labour force In line with the Decree on the Standard Classification of Territorial Units (NUTS) 1319/2013 on changes in borders and naming of territory, in 2016 SURS published a recalculated series of data on labour force and inactive population by new NUTS 2 and NUTS 3 regions. Quarterly and annual calculations were published on the SI‐STAT Data Portal for 2010–2014.

Independent collection of data on job vacancies In 2016 SURS continued to collect data on job vacancies, which is a task that started in 2015. Based on the previous year’s results, we tried to optimise the sample for 2016, particularly in terms of the inclusion of business entities with 1–9 employees and distribution by sections of activities. In 2016 the publication time was shortened from about t+70 days (in 2015) to t+45 days after the end of the quarter.

In the third quarter of 2016 almost 12,000 job vacancies were registered in Slovenia, 170 more than in the previous quarter. The number of occupied post also increased to almost 42 705,100. The job vacancy rate remained the same.

As regards job vacancies, SURS was intensively cooperating in the international ESSnet Big Data project. Procedures were prepared for web scraping of (semi‐)structured data on job vacancies from websites of job portals. However, these procedures cannot be used for scraping data from websites of enterprises as they are not structured because enterprises advertise job vacancies in various places on various web pages. With data mining we try to detect whether these are “commercials” or actual advertising of job vacancies. Data collected in this way will enable the production of additional rapid estimates of demand for labour force.

Rationalisation of surveys on earnings, working time structure and labour costs With data for November 2015, at the end of 2015 SURS used for the first time as the data source on earnings at budget users the Information System for the Transmission and Analysis of Data on Earnings, Other Payments and the Number of Employees in the Public Sector (ISPAP)43. This improved the quality of data as well as reduced the reporting burden. Within the project financed by European funds SURS studied additional possibilities whether ISPAP data could be used in labour market statistics44, namely in the labour cost index, hours worked and holiday pay. Within a project also financed by European funds, at the end of 2016 SURS started to study the possibility of using data collected with the form for withholding tax return from income from employment relationship (iREK form) in existing statistical surveys; activities will continue in 2017. Because data on earnings and holiday pay for the public sector stopped being collected via electronic questionnaires (data are now taken over from the ISPAP system), on 2 March 2016 SURS and AJPES

42 See Job vacancies and occupied posts, Slovenia, 3rd quarter 2016 , 10 November 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6335 (31. 1. 2017) 43 The interinstitutional working group of representatives of SURS, AJPES and MJU continued its work by monitoring ISPAP quality in 2016. The group found that ISPAP as the only source of data on earnings of public sector employees is adequate both for the needs of national statistics and for keeping records and preparing analyses by the competent ministry. 44 The most sought data on labour market statistics are data on earnings. In 2016 SURS was regularly publishing data on average monthly earnings based on the survey on earnings at legal persons, which has been conducted in cooperation with AJPES for a number of years.

32 National Statistics in 2016 signed two new agreements: agreement on cooperation in conducting the statistical survey “Monthly Report on Earnings by Legal Persons – 1‐ZAP/M« and agreement on cooperation in conducting the statistical survey »Holiday pay – ZAP‐REGRES«. In 2016 SURS published provisional45 and final46 data on the structure of earnings from the Structure of Earnings Survey for 2014. In October 2016 results of the mentioned survey were presented at the working group on labour market statistics in Luxembourg. SURS was publishing regularly quarterly data on hours worked; as an additional source SURS used data from the Survey on Working Time Structure. Based on existing data, SURS estimated and published provisional data on labour costs47 for 2015. Also based on existing data sources, SURS calculates and publishes regularly quarterly the labour costs index. In 2016 SURS prepared recalculations on the trends in earnings of public servants, on the basis of which a special indicator for measuring changes in purchasing power of national public servants is calculated. For monitoring labour market policy measures in Slovenia, in 2016, too, SURS prepared for the OECD data on the tax and benefit system in Slovenia, on the basis of which various indicators48 are calculated. By considering the OECD methodology, SURS published own calculations of some work incentive indicators49 for 2015 (tax wedge, unemployment trap and low wage trap).

Obtaining available administrative data on education is a result of successful interinstitutional cooperation An extensive analysis of data on participants in pre‐school, elementary, upper secondary and music education was made and of those who finished this education from the Central Record of Participants in Education and Training (CEUVIZ) at the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport (MIZŠ) and from other available administrative records (within the MIZŠ, National Examination Centre). The analysis showed appropriate quality of data in the CEUVIZ in combination with data from other administrative sources, so in 2016 SURS stopped obtaining these data from individual kindergartens, elementary, upper secondary and music schools with questionnaires and started to obtain these data entirely from available administrative sources. SURS also obtained data on teachers and other persons employed in education at all levels of formal education from available administrative and other sources (e.g. ISPAP), from other available human resource records at the MIZŠ and from the Statistical Register of Employment and no longer from individual schools. These activities take place in line with the project of improving the use of administrative sources, which is financed by European funds.

In 2015, 18,631 graduates completed tertiary education, mostly in social sciences. 46% of all graduates from higher undergraduate education were younger than 25 years, which is 50 much more than ten years ago.

45 See Earnings (by the Structure of Earnings Survey), provisional data, Slovenia, 2014, 29 June 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6052 (30. 1. 2017). 46 See Earnings (by the Structure of Earnings Survey), detailed data, Slovenia, 2014, 14 December 2016, Electronic Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6407 (30. 1. 2017). 47 See Labour costs, Slovenia, 2015 – provisional data, 27 October 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6313 (30. 1. 2017). 48 See OECD indicators. Available at: http://www.oecd.org/els/soc/benefits‐and‐wages.htm (30. 1. 2017). 49 See Work incentive indicators, Slovenia, 2015 – final data, 30 May 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/5970 (30. 1. 2017). 50 See Graduates from tertiary education, Slovenia, 2015, 26 May 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/5935 (7. 2. 2017).

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As regards statistics of formal education (participants, graduates, human resources), SURS made a transition to obtain the data almost entirely from administrative sources. Since the academic year 2012/13 (calendar year 2013), SURS has been receiving data on tertiary education students and graduates from the Record and Analytical Information System for Higher Education (eVŠ) at the MIZŠ, and the data on students of higher vocational education since the academic year 2014/2015 from the Central Record of Participants in Education and Training (CEUVIZ) at the MIZŠ. SURS is collecting with questionnaires from reporting units only the data on graduates of higher vocational education and monitors the quality and completeness of the coverage of these data in the CEUVIZ. When the quality and coverage are satisfactory, SURS will start to take them over entirely from this source.

Public expenditure for formal education in 2015 (EUR 1,907 million) in GDP was 0.4 of a percentage point lower than in the previous year.51

In addition, based on existing administrative sources such as annual accounts, budget records of the MIZŠ, the MF, the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (MDDSZ) and existing statistical surveys SURS prepares data on the financing of formal education. The data for the financial year 2014 (April 2016) and the financial year 2015 (December 2016) were prepared and published in 2016.

Further rationalisation in data monitoring In line with the new Scholarship Act, the Slovene Human Resources Development and Scholarship Fund (JSRKŠ) for the first time collected data on all types of scholarships for the school year 2014/15. Because a comparative analysis of data for this school year collected in this way with the data obtained with SURS’s questionnaire in cooperation with AJPES showed that JSRKŠ data are of high quality, in 2016 SURS (from the school/academic year 2015/16 on) abandoned the collection of the mentioned data. The only source of data on scholarships is thus the MDDSZ (i.e. JSRKŠ). SURS will obtain the data on scholarships from the MDDSZ as input for some of its statistical surveys.

The number of students is falling; in 2015 there were on average 39 students per 1,000 population. The age dependency ratio is increasing. In 2015, 48.5 children and old people 52 depended on 100 working‐age persons (15–64 years).

In 2016 SURS (for the school year 2015/16) collected for the last time data on further (non‐formal) education and training at providers of this education and training with the statistical questionnaire ŠOL‐NAD and published the results. Regarding the problems that influenced the quality of data (legal basis, definition of the reference population, lack of records at providers) and regarding the availability of such data also within other, internationally harmonised surveys such as the Adult Education Survey (AES), the Labour Force Survey, ŠOL‐ZAP, Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, it was decided that the survey should be abandoned in 2017 (from the school year 2015/16 on).

51 See Expenditure for Formal Education, Slovenia, 2015, 15 December 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6406 (7. 2. 2017). 52 See Sustainable development indicators, Slovenia, 2015, 21 December 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6045 (17. 2. 2017).

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Implementation of internationally harmonised multiannual surveys Two five‐year internationally harmonised surveys were conducted in 2016: AES (monitoring of data on participation in various forms of formal and non‐formal education and informal learning) and the Survey on Continuing Vocational Training in Enterprises (monitoring of data on the policy of enterprises on training their employees, participation of employees in various forms of vocational training and other aspects related to training of employees). Data publication is planned in June 2017.

Activities focusing on modernising culture statistics at the national level In 2016 regular annual surveys on culture statistics were conducted and results were published. Within the EU‐SILC for 2015, in 2016 data were published that were obtained with the additional module of questions on cultural participation. The working group for modernising culture statistics finished its work in mid‐2016. In addition to SURS, members of the working group were from the Ministry of Culture and some other institutions. The objective of modernising culture statistics was to establish comprehensive monitoring and publication of data on culture, taking into account primarily the needs for data at the national level (considering international guidelines for culture statistics), delimitation of work between national and sectoral statistics, and rationalisation of data monitoring. A result of modernisation is the agreement on taking over responsibilities by institutions for individual areas of culture statistics and subject‐matter modernisation of four SURS’s surveys that have been transformed into two and in which the entire statistical process will be technically modernised; data will be collected, processed and published in the new, modern way in 2017.

In 2015 theatrical performances were attended by 850,300 theatregoers, 30% of them children and youth53. In 2015, cultural institutions in Slovenia organised 15,763 performances, which were attended by about 4 million people.54 Museums and galleries prepared 3,502 exhibitions in 2015; 42% were permanent and 58% temporary. Exhibitions in museums and galleries were seen by almost 2.7 million people.55

Another implementation of the Household Budget Survey In 2015 SURS again conducted the Household Budget Survey to detect the level and structure of household expenditure. After 2012 when the survey was entirely revised this was the second implementation of this survey. At the same time all data from 2000 on were recalculated according to the new European Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose. As a future challenge, SURS selected the introduction of modern methods and sources of collecting data on household budget. To this end in 2017 SURS will be actively involved in Eurostat’s working group that will draft guidelines for this area.

For consumption expenditure households spent in 2015 on average EUR 1.444 per month. Compared to 2012 expenditure increased by 3.2%. Half of the consumption expenditure 56 was for transport, food, non‐alcoholic beverages and housing.

53 See Theatrical activity, Slovenia, 2015, 7 December 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6381 (7. 2. 2017). 54 See Cultural institutions, Slovenia, 2015, 7 December 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6383 (7. 2. 2017). 55 See Museums, museum collections, galleries and exhibition grounds, Slovenia, 2015, 17 November 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6333 (7. 2. 2017). 56 See Household Budget Survey, Slovenia, 2015, 6 October 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6259 (27. 1. 2017).

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Cognitive testing of questions on health Within the preparation for conducting the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU‐SILC), together with experts from the NIJZ SURS conducted cognitive testing of all questions relating to health. One of the purposes of cognitive testing was to unify the questions on health with the European Health Interview Survey, which is conducted by the NIJZ. Testing showed that the most difficult questions to understand were those regarding “limitations because of health problems in activities people usually do” and “unmet needs for dental or medical examination or treatment”. We decided to collect these data in two methodologically different ways and after the analysis of the answers make a decision which one to use in the coming years.

Implementation of surveys on health In 2016 the NIJZ conducted for the fifth time the survey Health Behaviour of Adult Population in Slovenia. The survey was conducted with a mixed mode of interviewing (a combination of a web survey and a postal survey). Data were collected and entered in November 2016 and will be processed and published in 2017. In autumn 2016 the NIJZ started to collect data within the National Survey of Sexual Lifestyles, Attitudes and Health in Slovenia, the purpose of which is to monitor sexual behaviour, the importance of sexual lifestyle and attitudes on sexual behaviour and on sexual and reproductive health of the adult population.

Results of surveys for the 2001–2012 period show that the use of olive oil is increasing. For food preparation, in 2012 olive oil was used the most frequently by older people, respondents with tertiary education and those living in western Slovenia. However, the use of lard (minced lard) and butter as a spread in increasing. The data show that respondents in the lower and working class eat more margarine (in 2012 8.1% every day), while butter is more frequently eaten by respondents from the middle and upper class.57

The pilot survey on the nutrition and dietary habits of children and adults in Slovenia was conducted in autumn 2016. The aim of the pilot survey was to test the instruments and processes used, since data are collected with the questionnaire and a special application which records twice the 24‐hour recall of the previous days’ menu (for young people, adults and the elderly) and the nutrition diary of the previous day (for children aged 3 months to 3 years for which their mothers are responsible). Data collection will start in 2017. In the school years 2015/2016 and 2016/2017 the NIJZ continued to conduct the survey evaluating the efficiency of the fruit and vegetable scheme among children in elementary schools in Slovenia included in the measure. As regards survey methodology, the NIJZ continued development work, particularly in analysing the impact of mixed mode surveying and proxy respondents on health indicators, which was presented at the meeting on mixed modes of surveying and at the European conference Quality in Official Statistics.

57 Tomšič, S. et al., 2014, Challenges in improving behaviour style and health ‐ Ten years of CINDI research in Slovenia. NIJZ.

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Methodological and technical revision of data collection at the NIJZ The NIJZ started two projects of modernising regular data collection in 2014: revision of collecting data on outpatient treatment (e‐SZBO), including data on preventive and curative visits at primary and secondary levels, and data on health care providers. In 2015 it finished the revision of the methodology and prepared a technical solution for collecting data at the e‐SZBO, which was financed by e‐Health project. The key factors of the upgrade were rationalisation (reporting in one place for several data collections) and standardisation (harmonisation of records and classifications among various data collections). Unfortunately, due to the current introduction of different e‐Health solutions (e.g. e‐ prescription) at health care providers, the NIJZ was not able to implement the pilot testing of and preparation for the national introduction of the new system at providers. The Register of Health Care Providers and Health Care Workers, which is the key source of data the health system for national needs and for international reporting, was fully upgraded. The register was introduced in the second half of 2016; in 2017 the data collection point will be changed and printed questionnaires for health care providers will be abolished.

Pilot project of e‐certification of causes of death In 2013 the NIJZ obtained funds for the pilot project of e‐certification of causes of death, which took place until September 2016. Within the project a detailed analysis of the existing situation and proposals for technical upgrade of collecting data on causes of death were prepared.

In 2015, 56.9 per 1,000 male deaths and 39.6 per 1,000 female deaths were due to accidents. In 2014 the figure was 44.4 per 1,000 deaths (49 per 1,000 male deaths and 40.1 per 1,000 female deaths). The suicide rate also increased: in 2015, 21.4 per 1,000 deaths 58 were due to suicide; in 2014 the rate was 20.5 per 1,000.

In 2015 the NIJZ developed a two‐phase pilot data entry application. In the first phase the application replaces the paper and pen data collection by coroners. In the second phase it offers a direct link to the Central Population Register for electronic certification of death. In both phases the application was tested by coroners, who assessed it as excellent and a good way of improving the quality of data and simplifying work. Within the project the NIJZ together with the Institute for Forensic Medicine prepared training for coroners cooperating in the pilot. In 2016 the NIJZ prepared a proposal of the national implementation of the system of e‐certification of causes of death and the proposal was presented at two workshops with stakeholders. The first one joined all institutions included in the process of death certification and the second one the directors of community health centres as key institutions organising and implementing the coroner service. Within the workshops the implementation document was further improved. Eurostat assessed our project positively.

Development in the field of morbidity statistics In 2016 the NIJZ successfully finished cooperation in the Eurostat project monitoring the morbidity of the Slovene population according to the short list of diseases, the purpose of which is to set up regular monitoring of data on the morbidity of population from administrative data sources. In 2016, the final report was prepared on administrative data sources and their limitations in calculating individual

58 See NIJZ Data Portal. Available at: https://podatki.nijz.si/pxweb/sl/NIJZ%20podatkovni%20portal/NIJZ%20podatkovni%20portal__3%20Zdravstve no%20stanje%20prebivalstva__3a%20Umrli__4%20Umrli%20po%20vzroku%20smrti/3_3a_4_7.px/table/tableVi ewLayout2/?rxid=f078ee23‐b2f9‐46ae‐9f9a‐c418734e435a (7. 2. 2017).

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Development of the classification of health services Currently several code lists determining health services are being used in Slovenia. Together with the Ministry of Health and the Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia, in 2013 the NIJZ started to prepare a new classification of health services to replace all existing ones. The main purpose of the classification is to determine services on referrals and consequently for e‐referrals and monitoring the waiting time within the e‐referrals system and later to monitor outpatient services. The current version of the code list is available on the NIJZ website59; due to intensive implementation of e‐referrals the version is updated every three months.

Crime statistics – further rationalisation of monitoring crime statistics based on successful interinstitutional cooperation As in 2014 and 2015 , in 2016, too, SURS obtained data on denounced natural persons and legal entities from the revised information system of the Office of the State Prosecutor General, while data on accused and convicted natural persons and legal entities in 2016 (for the reference year 2015) were for the first time obtained from the information system for monitoring criminal proceedings of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia and no longer with paper questionnaires from district and local courts.

6,218 adults, 240 minors and 48 legal persons were convicted in 2015.60

SURS transmitted data on criminal justice statistics (on registered criminal offences, on the work of prosecutors and courts) to Eurostat and United Nations agencies; these data were partly collected by SURS and partly obtained from other institutions (the P0lice, the Prison Administration of the Republic of Slovenia at the Ministry of Justice).

Classifications in the field of social statistics In 2016 SURS continued and in December 2016 finished preparing the proposal of the Decree Amending the Decree on the Introduction and Use of the Education and Training Classification System, according to which the KLASIUS‐P classification is replaced by the KLASIUS‐P‐16 classification61.

59 See NIJZ data. Available at: http://www.nijz.si/sl/podatki/sifrant‐vrst‐zdravstvenih‐storitev (7. 2. 2017). 60 See Decisions of prosecutors and courts in criminal matters, Slovenia, 2015, 14 July 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6080 (7. 2. 2017). 61 SURS prepared the proposal of the Decree Amending the Decree on the Introduction and Use of the Education and Training Classification System, according to which the Classification of Types of Educational Activities/Outcomes KLASIUS‐SRV is preserved, while the Classification of Fields of Educational Activities/Outcomes KLASIUS‐P is replaced with the new KLASIUS‐P‐16 classification. The new KLASIUS‐P‐16 classification takes over the structure and categories of the revised new UNESCO international standard classification of fields of education and training ISCED‐F 2013. SURS thus follows the original concept and preparation of KLASIUS, according to which the categories of fields of education according to KLASIUS‐P were the same as (based on) the then version of ISCED fields of education and training (ISCED 1997).

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SURS submitted the proposal of the decree for formal procedure of interinstitutional coordination and government consideration in order to make the transition to the new classification smooth and particularly to exchange opinions with key stakeholders on the timeline and activities necessary for the implementation. This information‐consultation meeting took place in December 2016. As regards the preparation and completion of the proposal of the new KLASIUS‐P‐16 classification, in 2016 SURS was cooperating intensively with institutions from the field of education: the Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for Vocational Education and Training, the Slovenian Institute for Adult Education, and particularly higher education institutions within the Slovenian Rectors Conference. Cooperation with these institutions will continue in 2017 in preparing methodological explanations and descriptions of categories/fields of education according to the new classification. As in previous years, SURS regularly provided assistance to all users in understanding and using international and national standard social classifications in line with the established communication mechanisms.

2.3.3 Environmental, agricultural and other sectoral statistics

Use of administrative sources in environmental statistics In addition to its data sources, in implementing its regular tasks SURS uses administrative data sources of other institutions with which it successfully cooperates: Slovenian Environment Agency, Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning, Financial Administration of the Republic of Slovenia, Surveying and Mapping Authority and others.

Upgrade of the overview of water statistics and first publication of total data In water statistics, SURS continued work that started in 2015 within the pilot project. A comprehensive overview of water statistics was prepared: water abstraction, supply, use and waste water discharge. Data publication was also upgraded.

In 2015, 877.8 million m3 of wastewater in Slovenia was discharged into the environment.62

As regards waste water and sewerage systems, in 2016 SURS again analysed in detail the data from the administrative source (Information System of the Public Services for Environmental Protection, which is managed by MOP). Results showed that the matching of data is significant and that the quality of data is sufficient so that the administrative source can start to be used. In the statistical survey on waste water and sewage systems, at the end of 2016 SURS started to take over the data form the administrative source and abandoned its own statistical survey; this change reduced the reporting burden and rationalised survey implementation.

In 2015, households generated 63.8 million m3 of urban waste water, which is 7.1% less than in 2014.63

62 See Statistical Water Balance, Slovenia, 2015, 27 October 2016, Electronic Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6275 (10. 2. 2017). 63 See Public sewage system, Slovenia, 2015, 11 August 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6114 (10. 2. 2017).

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The publication Food Among Waste brought first data on food waste In addition to its regular tasks on waste statistics, in 2016 SURS conducted a pilot project on food waste. Within this task the definition of food waste was prepared and the methodology for monitoring the amount of food waste in Slovenia was set up. In implementing this task SURS cooperated with many experts dealing with food and food waste. Within the project SURS obtained data on generated amounts of food waste, origin of food waste, types of food waste and treatment of food waste. We also estimated the shares of food waste within mixed municipal waste and biological waste and the edible and inedible part of food waste. However, these estimates will have to be upgraded. Within the pilot project a time series for 2013–2015 was prepared. Based on the collected data on food waste, SURS released a special publication entitled Food among Waste64, showing in the form of a statistical story the path of waste from generation to final treatment. Users received the publication very well, partly because it is written in a clear and understandable, but still professional, way.

In 2015 a resident of Slovenia threw away on average 73 kg of food, which is 13% more than in 2013. This wasted food was worth about EUR 163.65

Data on environmental protection expenditure a key source for producing environmental protection expenditure accounts (EPEA) SURS obtained data from enterprises in various activities, from specialised producers and from the government sector. The data serve as a basis for producing environmental protection expenditure accounts. They are no longer transmitted to Eurostat on joint OECD/Eurostat questionnaires, but within the extensive EPEA questionnaire. In 2016 the questionnaire was completed on a trial basis and sent to Eurostat. Regular reporting will start in 2017.

In 2015, gross investment for environmental protection was 9.1% higher and current expenditure for environmental protection 1.1% higher than in 2014.66

In 2016, too, SURS was preparing special releases at many special days related to the environment: at the World Water Day67 (the tweet had a very large number of views), at the World Earth Day68, at the World Climate Change Day69 and the World Environment Day70.

64 See Food among Waste. Available at: http://www.stat.si/dokument/9206/FOOD_AMONG_WASTE_internet.pdf (7. 2. 2017). 65 See Food among Waste, 18 November 2016, Special Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6347 (7. 2. 2017). 66 See Gross fixed capital formation and current expenditure for environmental protection, Slovenia, 2015, 12 January 2017, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6441 (17. 2. 2017). 67 See World Water Day, 15 March 2016, Special Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/5819 (16. 2. 2017).

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Implementation of the Farm Structure Survey in 2016 and cooperation with Eurostat in preparing new statistical legislation on this area for 2020 In 2016 SURS collected the data for the sample Farm Structure Survey, which was co‐financed by the European Commission (Eurostat). Final data will be published in 2017.

According to provisional data of the Farm Structure Survey, there were 70,063 agricultural holdings in Slovenia as of 1 June 2016, which is 2,314 fewer than in 2013.71

SURS was also active internationally, namely in connection with the preparation of the new EU Regulation, which will determine from 2020 on the collection of microdata on agricultural holdings and production on them. In cooperation with Eurostat, SURS was constantly striving for high quality of data and for non‐excessive burden of reporting units and emphasised and proposed the necessary upgrades of administrative data sources.

In agricultural production statistics all regular tasks implemented and statistics on eggs for consumption set up Within crop production statistics, SURS implemented all planned tasks and published the data as planned. It continued with technical improvement of e‐reporting within crop production statistics.

In Slovenia over 80% of total eggs production is used for human consumption. Their production has increased from 289 million eggs in 2013 to 329 million eggs in 2015.72

In autumn 2016 SURS collected data on market horticulture within the three‐year statistical survey Census of Market Horticulture. Final data will be published in 2017. Within statistics of livestock, milk and milk products, SURS implemented the planned regular tasks and published survey results within the announced deadlines. As regards livestock statistics, a pilot project was implemented, co‐financed by Eurostat, on setting up statistics on eggs for consumption. Project results were published on SURS’s website.

68 See World Earth Day, 15 April 2016, Special Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/5126 (16. 2. 2017). 69 See Climate Change Day, 10 May 2016, Special Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/5927 (16. 2. 2017). 70 See World Environment Day, 31 May 2016, Special Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWebArhiv/en/show‐news?id=5849&idp=13&headerbar=8 (16. 2. 2017). 71 See Farm Structure Survey, Slovenia, 2016, 29 September 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6208 (9. 2. 2017). 72 See Production of eggs for consumption, Slovenia, 2013–2015, 24 November 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6355 (9. 2. 2017).

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Regular work on statistics on agricultural production methods As regards pesticide statistics, SURS published in cooperation with the UVHVVR annual data on the sale of plant protection products in Slovenia. As regards the consumption of plant protection products in agriculture, it published in early 2016 final detailed results of the first iteration of the statistical survey and started to prepare the second iteration of the five‐year statistical survey on the consumption of plant protection products by crops, which will take place in 2017 and 2018. In this task cooperation between SURS and the UVHVVR was crucial. In October 2016 SURS participated in the conference on agricultural statistics ICAS VII and presented a paper entitled Meta Driven Approach to Editing Administrative Data in the Case of the Slovenian Survey on Pesticide Use in Agriculture. We presented our experience with statistical editing of data on monitoring pesticide use in agriculture.

It is estimated that in 2015 about 136,000 tons of mineral fertilisers were available to or used by agricultural producers in Slovenia. The fertilisers contained 49,278 tons of main 73 plant nutrients or 2% more than a year before.

As regards consumption of mineral fertilisers in agriculture, SURS conducted the regular annual statistical survey and collected data on consumption of mineral fertilisers by crops with a demanding two‐year statistical survey (the telephone survey was implemented in November 2016). Data will be published in 2017. SURS continued its activities for providing data for calculating agri‐environmental indicators. Worth pointing out is the preparation of data on the gross nitrogen surplus and the gross phosphorous balance. Data are calculated by KIS, mostly based on SURS’s data, in line with the updated OECD/Eurostat methodology. Reporting of Member States to Eurostat is thus harmonised with reporting to United Nations according to the UN Convention on Climate Change and reporting to the UN Economic Commission for Europe according to the Convention on Long‐range Transboundary Air Pollution.

Release of data on the prices of arable land and permanent grassland and on rents of agricultural land As regards agricultural price statistics, which includes monitoring the prices of products and services for current consumption and investment in agriculture, and sale and purchase of agricultural products and wood, SURS implemented all regular tasks and published the data within the planned deadlines. In the development task Prices and Rents of Agricultural Land, which takes place within the European pilot project, in 2016 SURS upgraded and stabilised procedures for providing these data, and calculated and published average prices and average rents of arable land and permanent grassland for 2015 at the level of cohesion regions and Slovenia. Results of the pilot project are based on data from administrative sources (for prices of agricultural land: GURS, for the record of the real estate market and the real estate register: the MKGP, for the record of graphical units of land use and for rents of agricultural land: the Farmland and Forest Fund of the Republic of Slovenia).

73 See Consumption of mineral fertilizers, Slovenia, 2015, 18 August 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6110 (6. 2. 2017).

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The task is being implemented on the basis of the contract on financing by the EU. In 2016 SURS formalised cooperation with GURS and the Farmland and Forest Fund of the Republic of Slovenia regarding the use of their data in statistical surveys.

The value of agricultural products purchased in 2015 was EUR 472.9 million, 7% lower than in 2014.74

Forestry statistics in 2016 As regards basic forestry statistics, in 2016 SURS conducted the regular annual survey on forestry activity of business entities and published survey results within the planned deadlines. In line with the plan, it also published annual data on export and import of roundwood. Preparations for setting up a new survey on forestry on agricultural holdings were necessary; the survey will be conducted for the first time in 2017. The survey will partly replace the data previously provided by SURS in the framework of the Farm Structure Survey.

According to external trade data, 2.7 million cubic meters of roundwood were exported in 2015 or almost 13% more than in 2014. Compared to the previous year, in 2015 the exports of sawlogs and veneer logs increased the most (by 32%), while the exports of pulpwood and other industrial roundwood and of wood fuel were lower by 2% and 10%, respectively.75

Fisheries statistics without major changes in 2016 SURS implemented all regular tasks in close cooperation with the MKGP and the Fisheries Research Institute of Slovenia. The MKGP is the source of databases for conducting statistical surveys on marine commercial fishing/landing and mariculture. In 2016 SURS, the MKGP and the Fisheries Research Institute were to update the Agreement on Cooperation between the MKGP, the Institute and SURS in fisheries statistics based on the agreement signed within the special working group in 2015. The draft of the new agreement is still being coordinated.

In 2015 the aquaculture production grew by 10% over 2014. In the same period the total market value of aquaculture production increased by 6%.76

74 See Purchase of agricultural products, Slovenia, 2015, 25 February 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWebArhiv/en/show‐news?id=5780&idp=2&headerbar=14 (6. 2. 2017). 75 See Roundwood export and import, Slovenia, 2015, 26 September 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6202 (9. 2. 2017). 76 See Aquaculture, freetime and sport fishing, Slovenia, 2015, 25 August 2016, First Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6138 (13. 2. 2017).

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Preparation and publication of data on fuel poverty In 2016 SURS again conducted the survey on fuel and energy consumption in households. Model data on final energy consumption in households by purpose and energy sources for 2015 were published. SURS again prepared and published data on fuel poverty. The data refer to 2015 and include the data on income and prices of energy products and their use.

In 2015, households in Slovenia consumed 46,513 TJ of energy. Most of the energy in households was consumed for space heating, 29,773 TJ or 64%.77

SURS strived to strengthen cooperation with the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Energy Agency regarding the unification and completion of data on district heating.

In 2015, households in Slovenia spent on average 6.7% of their disposable income on electricity, gas and other fuels. Households with the lowest income spent for this purpose 78 almost 18% of their total disposable income.

Transport statistics As regards transport statistics, in 2016 a regulation amending Regulation (EC) No. 91/2003 on rail transport statistics were adopted and published in the Official Journal of the European Union EU L317/2016. The first reference year for data transmission in line with the amended regulation will be 2017. The new regulation brings: – Introduction of new data sets L1 (only for transporters whose total volume of goods transport is less than 200 million tonne‐km or less than 500,000 tonnes and do not submit detailed reports) and L2 (only for transporters whose total volume of passenger transport is less than 100 million passenger‐km and do not submit detailed reports); – Only reporting of final data on transport of passengers by rail is kept (in Tables C3 and C4); – Data sets B (simplified reporting on the volume of goods transported by rail), C1 and C2 (provisional data on transport of passengers by rail), D (simplified reporting on passengers transported), H (data on railway accidents) and I (basic data on transporters) are abolished.

In 2015 over 14.5 million passengers and over 17.8 million tons of goods were transported by trains in Slovenia. Almost 95% of passengers were transported in national transport. Most passengers who came to Slovenia or left Slovenia by train were from Croatia, Austria and Germany. As regards goods transport, the main partners of Slovenia were Austria, Slovakia and Hungary. 83% of goods were transported in international transport and transit.79

77 See Energy, detailed data, Slovenia, 2015, 10 October 2016, Electronic Release. Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6254 (15. 2. 2017). 78 See Fuel poverty, Slovenia, 2015, 24 November 2016, First Release: Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6319 (7. 2. 2017). 79 See Images of Transport in Slovenia, 24 October 2016, Special Release: Available at: http://www.stat.si/StatWebArhiv/en/show‐news?id=6298&idp=22&headerbar=21 (7. 2. 2017).

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Development of mobility statistics and monitoring of road transport In 2016 SURS applied for a Eurostat grant for conducting the Passenger mobility survey. The application was accepted, so SURS will conduct for the first time the survey on the travel habits of people in Slovenia: on the trip purpose (e.g. work, education, personal business, etc.), the number of trips per day, travel time, travel distance, etc. Data will be collected in October 2017 and results will be published in the second half of 2018. Within the mentioned Eurostat grant SURS applied for the project of calculating vehicle kilometres (Module 3). To this end it studied the requested statistics, reviewed the existing data and examined statistical sources. SURS also studied the possibility to cooperate in the project with subcontractors. The application was accepted.

Changes in monitoring public passenger transport In 2016 the MZI started to implement the pilot project on integrated public passenger transport (IJPP). Within the project from 1 September on beneficiaries can for the purpose of travelling to school and back use a combined subsidised ticket. The number of passengers using the ticket in the new IJPP system (currently pupils and students) and the number of passenger kilometres are monitored by the MZI. Due to the introduction of the new IJPP system, SURS will have to adjust the methodology of monitoring the data on passengers and passenger kilometres in public scheduled transport. In 2017 SURS will obtain part of these data from bus transporters and part from the administrative sources at the MZI.

2.3.4 Spatial statistics (geostatistics)

STAGE – topical spatial data The STAGE application is a simple interactive web tool for presenting data on maps. Due to the visualisation of their spatial dimension, data presented in such a way can be easily visualised and understood, and interactive management of the tool makes searching information on Slovenia more interesting. In 2016 SURS started to cooperate in the international project Merging Statistics and Geospatial Information in Member States; results will be published in 2017. Within the project, in 2016 activities were carried out for setting up two relational databases: the income database, a spatial presentation of some income indicators, is being set up by SURS, while the health statistics database is being set up by the NIJZ. Within the project new possibilities of protecting statistical data as well as designing statistical indicators with the emphasis on their dissemination at lower spatial levels are being studied and the STAGE web application is being upgraded.

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Review of the growing share of separately collected municipal waste in Slovene statistical regions in the 2013–2015 period80

80 See STAGE client site. Available at: http://gis.stat.si/index.php (20. 2. 2017).

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Statistical legislation adopted in 2016

- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1253 of 29 July 2016 amending Regulation (EU) No 92/2010 as regards the data exchange between customs authorities and national statistical authorities and the compilation of statistics (CELEX: 32016R1253). - Regulation (EU) 2016/1724 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 September 2016 amending Regulation (EC) No 471/2009 on Community statistics relating to external trade with non‐member countries as regards conferring of delegated and implementing powers upon the Commission for the adoption of certain measures (CELEX: 32016R1724). - Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1872 of 6 October 2016 establishing for 2016 the ‘Prodcom list’ of industrial products provided for by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91 (CELEX: 32016R1872). - Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/2119 of 2 December 2016 amending Regulation (EC) No 471/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Regulation (EU) No 113/2010 as regards the adaptation of the list of customs procedures and the definition of the data (CELEX: 32016R2119). - Regulation (EU) 2016/792 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on harmonised indices of consumer prices and the house price index. - Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/8 of 5 January 2016 specifying the technical characteristics of the 2017 ad hoc module on self‐employment. - Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1851 of 14 June 2016 adopting the programme of ad hoc modules, covering the years 2019, 2020 and 2021, for the labour force sample survey provided for by Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98. - Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/2236 of 12 December 2016 specifying the technical characteristics of the 2018 ad hoc module on reconciliation between work and family life. - Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/114 of 28 January 2016 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning Community statistics on income and living conditions (EU‐SILC) as regards the 2017 list of target secondary variables on health and children's health. - Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2016 on European statistics on natural gas and electricity prices and repealing Directive 2008/92/EC. - Regulation (EU) 2016/2032 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2016 amending Regulation (EC) No 91/2003 on rail transport statistics, as regards the collection of data on goods, passengers and accidents.

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List of abbreviations

AES Adult Education Survey AJPES Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Public Legal Records and Related Services AZN Insurance Supervision Agency BS Bank of Slovenia CEUVIZ Central Record of Participants in Education and Training CMFB Committee on Monetary, Financial and Balance of Payments Statistics CPA Statistical Classification of Products by Activity CRP Central Population Register EAA Economic Accounts for Agriculture ECB European Central Bank EGR EuroGroups Register EPEA Environmental Expenditure Protection Accounts ESA European System of Accounts ESCB European System of Central Banks ESS European Statistical System ESSC European Statistical System Committee ESTP European Statistical Training Programme EU European Union EU‐SILC Statistics on Income and Living Conditions GURS Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia ICT information and communication technology IJPP integrated public passenger transport (pilot project) IMF International Monetary Fund ISPAP information system for transmitting and analysing data on earnings, other payments and the number of employees in the public sector JSRKŠ Slovene Human Resources Development and Scholarship Fund KIS Agricultural Institute of Slovenia MDDSZ Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities MF Ministry of Finance MIZŠ Ministry of Education, Science and Sport MJU Ministry of Public Administration MKGP Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food MOP Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning MZI Ministry of Infrastructure NIJZ National Institute of Public Health NUTS Classification of Territorial Units for Statistics OECD Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development PG Partnership Group PRODCOM International classification of products R&D research and development

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RSP Register of Enterprise Groups S_PRS Statistical Business Register SKD Standard Classification of Activities STAGE web cartographic application of statistical data (STAtistics and GEography) SURS Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia UVHVVR Administration of the Republic of Slovenia for Food Safety, Veterinary and Plant Protection