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Short-term Statistics Department

Tasks of the Short-term Statistics Department

 

1. Areas of expertise of the Short-term Statistics Department:
1.1. infra-annual surveys of industry and construction of the HCSO,
1.2. other surveys of economic statistics on industrial and construction enterprises,
1.3. statistics on producer prices in industry, construction and service prices.
2. Tasks of the Short-term Statistics Department according to the statistical data production process:
2.1. professional planning, preparation. full-scope covering, including that of connected data collections (including maintaining relations with respondents), in relation with interim industry, construction and service divisions related data entry of the HCSO, data processing, quality control, correction;
2.2. professional planning, preparation. full-scope covering, including that of connected data collections (including maintaining relations with respondents), in relation with other industry, construction related data collections (product statistics, professional construction statistics), data processing, quality control, correction;
2.3. maintenance of the Classification of Industrial Products and the Classification of Types of Constructions as professional nomenclatures, carrying out classification tasks;
2.4. the planning, technical preparation, implementation of surveys of producer prices in industry and construction of the HCSO, processing, quality control and correction of the data, and organising them into a database as well as liaising with data providers;
2.5. professional planning, preparation. full-scope covering, including that of connected data collections (including maintaining relations with respondents), in relation with services producer prices related data entry of the HCSO, data processing, data reception from other sources and inclusion into the set of indices, quality control, correction, and their ordering into databases;
2.6. validating of the data collected and received;
2.7. participating in the development of electronic data collection techniques, the development, elaboration and quality control of the adoption of new data sources;
2.8. documenting and developing the methodology of the specialised areas falling within the remit of the department;
2.9. Coordinating short-term and connected business statistics related tasks within the profile of the department;
2.10. producing data compilations, analyses and first releases on the subject matter statistics within the remit of the department;
2.11. contributing to the compilation of HCSO publications relating to multiple statistical areas;
2.12. national and international dissemination and data transmission as well as ensuring access to data.