Ever since 1996, the Republic of Macedonia has been receiving EU assistance for developing a sustainable statistical system harmonised with EU through successive assistance instruments: PHARE (national programme), CARDS and IPA (national and regional programme).
Please see our ongoing and finished projects.
Current projects
Multi-beneficiary statistical cooperation programme IPA 2017
Duration: 01.05.2019 – 31.10.2021
Description: The project’s main objectives are:
- To support the process of harmonisation of the beneficiaries’ statistical production for future EU membership by aligning their present methodologies and output with the statistical EU acquis and taking forward their integration into the European Statistical System.
- To intensify efforts to improve the quality of statistical information and to reinforce confidence in methods and professionalism, thus providing policy makers and the international community with unquestioned statistical data.
More: Statistical projects in Multi-beneficiary statistical cooperation programme IPA 2017
Statistical projects in Multi-beneficiary statistical cooperation programme IPA 2017
Grant contract:
Government Finance and Excessive Deficit Statistics
International Trade in Services Statistics (ITSS)
Price Statistics – HICP and HPI
Price Statistics – PPPs
Short-Term Statistics: Preparation for FRIBS
SBS-BD (Structural Business Statistics-Business Demography)
International Trade in Goods Statistics (ITGS)
Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics
Survey on Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
Environmental Accounts
Quality Management
Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP indicators) and Underlying Statistics
Service contract:
National Accounts – Methodology
Transmission Programme, Annual National Accounts (ANA), Quarterly National Accounts (QNA)
Regional Accounts
Sector Accounts
Agricultural Accounts
National Programme IPA 2017
Improving the Production and Dissemination of Statistics Project
On 29.03.2019, at the EU InfoCentre, Launch event was held to mark the official start of the EU Funded project "Improving the Production and Dissemination of Statistics".
The project aims to improve the quality and availability of statistical data in the Republic of North Macedonia and enhance their use in development and coordination of public policies.
During the next three years, the State Statistical Office of the Republic of North Macedonia will receive technical assistance, consultancy support and advice in their way to adapt to the best practices and requirements EU Statistics acquis. The target group of the project also includes the other official statistics producers like the National Bank and the Ministry of Finance, the data provides and the users of official statistics.
The project has 4 components:
-Component 1: Further alignment with the EU standards in the field of macro-economic statistics
-Component 2: Further alignment with EU standards in the field of business statistics
-Component 3: Further alignment with EU standards in the field of social statistics
-Component 4: Further improved Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure.
The Launch event was attended by the directors of the NSI Bulgaria and the SSO of the Republic of North Macedonia, representatives of the EU Delegation to the Republic of North Macedonia and the Public Administration of the Republic of North Macedonia and the institutions that constitute the statistical system in the country.
During the presentations and discussions it was stressed in many occasions the importance and significance of the improvement of the statistical system of the Republic of North Macedonia in accordance to the EU acquis, not only because it is a perquisite to start negotiations on other important chapters of the EU Acquis, but also because it supports better public policy decision-making based on solid evidence.
The Project is funded by the European Union under the IPA II 2017 Programme. It is for three years and will finish in February 2022. The budget is 1 648 500 EUR.
The project is implemented by a Consortium of BIM Consulting and the National Statistical Institute (NSI) of Bulgaria. For more information you may contact Ms. Elena Slavkoska at e.slavkoska@bim-bg.com
As for all Twinning projects, the project brings together public sector expertise from EU Member States and beneficiary countries with the aim of achieving concrete mandatory operational results through peer to peer activities. SSO, Istat, SURS and MIPA will have to jointly achieve the following mandatory results:
Duration: 1.12.2010-31.12.2012
Description: Improve the quality of statistical information and reinforce confidence in methods and professionalism, thus providing policy makers and the international community with unquestioned statistical data. Continue the process of progressively integrating the State Statistical Office into the European Statistical System (ESS) and continue to support sustainable capacity building.
Planned activities
have been completed for all seven pilot projects (foreign trade statistics, Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices, purchasing power parity statistics, national accounts statistics, Labour Force Survey, agromonetary statistics and energy statistics), and final reports have been submitted to Eurostat for each of the pilot projects. With the approval of Eurostat, the duration of the project has been extended for a month, until 31.12.2012.
IPA 2007 Technical Assistance to the State Statistical Office
Project funded by the European Union
Duration: February 2010 - March 2012
Description: The project addresses four priority areas for technical assistance that need further development and one for supply contract. The results expected are:
- development of a quality system for all processes in the production of statistics
- further harmonized national accounts and other monetary and financial statistics
- improved business statistics
- improved social statistics
- improved IT systems by providing IT equipment as to support SSO tasks successfully, and in particular some of the tasks envisaged in this project (i.e. the pilot surveys).
Macedonian Swedish partnership in statistics 2009-2011
Project funded by the Swedish International Development and Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
Duration: 1.04.2009 – 31.01.2012
Description: Within this last phase of the project following areas are included: structural agricultural statistics and farm register, some areas of environmental statistics, PC Axis tools and metadata component.
IPA 2008 Multi-beneficiary statistical cooperation programme
Project funded by the European Union
Duration: 1.12.2009- 30.09.2011
Description: Areas concerned are macro-economic statistics, price statistics external tirade statistics, agricultural statistics, demographic and social statistics and business statistics. This programme will continue to reinforce the regional integration and cooperation among statistical systems of the beneficiary countries.
Automatization and technical assistance to the State Statistical Office
Project funded by the European Commission within the national programme PHARE 1996
Duration: 10.1997 – 01.2000
Description: Project provided technical assistance to the SSO concerning classifications, national accounts and external trade statistics, as well as equipment for modernisation of the office.
Technical assistance to support the reform of the statistical system in the Republic of Macedonia within the national programme PHARE 1998
Project funded by the European Commission
Duration: 10.04.2000 – 31.12.2002
Description: The project was focused on improving the statistical registers and links between statistical registers and administrative data sources, and improving statistics in the area of agriculture, external trade and labour market.
Support to the Population Census
Project funded by the European Commission within the national programme PHARE 2000
Duration: 10.2002-12.2004
Description: The project assisted the SSO with the processing of data from the Population Census conducted in November 2002 (software licences, furniture and equipment, security system installation).
Technical assistance to support the State Statistical Office
Project funded by the European Commission within the National Programme CARDS 2005
Duration: 30.6.2006-28.6.2008
Description: The project assisted SSO in capacity building, harmonisation of national accounts to meet EU standards, improvement of the statistical programme, with a focus on business and social statistics, strengthening the capacity of the information and communication technology (ICT) of the SSO, strengthening the performance and quality monitoring practices in the SSO, enhancing the overall consultation, cooperation and communication strategy of the SSO vis-à-vis public stakeholders, the end-users and the media.
Regional CARDS Programme 2001
Project funded by the European Commission
Duration: 31.12.2003 - 30.06.2005
Description: The programme covered 3 pilot projects: purchasing power parities, external trade and business statistics. This programme also delivered training to the SSO in the form of experts’ missions to SSO, participating in seminars, international meetings and Eurostat working groups.
2003 CARDS Regional Programme on Statistics
Project funded by the European Commission
Duration: 14.07.2006- 13.03.2008
Description: this programme started in July 2006 and ended in March 2008. It covered: pilot projects in the areas of purchasing power parities, external trade statistics, migration statistics and labour market statistics, as well as transfer of know-how by training, traineeships, study trips, consultations and participation in Eurostat working groups.
IPA 2007 Multi-beneficiary statistical cooperation programme
Project funded by the European Union
Duration: July 2008 – March 2010
Description: The project was a horizontal one, with an objective to upgrade and strengthen the statistical systems in the beneficiary countries, thereby improving the availability, quality, comparability and timeliness of statistical data to be achieved through implementation of the seven sector pilot projects: external trade statistics, price statistics- Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) and Purchasing Power parities (PPPs), national accounts, preparation of the population and housing censuses 2011, preparation of agricultural censuses or farm structure and transmission of statistical data.
Satellite accounts for cooperatives and mutuals
Project co-funded by the European Union
Duration: 03.2010 – 12.2010
Description: As a result of the project, a separate publication was produced which will be of interest to the subject-matter staff the Office, because it contains the methodological bases and the data sources for preparation of satellite accounts for the cooperatives. The acquired knowledge from the work on the project is a good foundation for further planning of the activities for increasing the data fund about these cooperatives and for cooperation with other institutions.
Grant – 2010 Labour Force Survey ad hoc module on Reconciliation between work and family life
Project funded by the European Union
Duration: 07.07.2009 – 31.03.2011
Description: The objective is to ensure a methodologically sound and valid implementation of the ad hoc module. This module aims at improving the knowledge on reconciliation between work and private life.
Grant - Joint Harmonised European Union Programme of Business and Consumer Survey
Project funded by the European commission
Duration: May 2008 – April 2011
Description: The survey programme is designed to gather information on the state of the economies and to be able to compare their business cycles for EMU (Economic and Monetary Union) management purposes.
SSO provider of foreign assistance
Duration: 10.2009 - 07.2011
Description: As a result of its positive experiences gained within its international activity, SSO was a consortium partner with ICON Institute in the project “Assisting Montenegro in Approximating EU Standards in Statistics” by providing short-term expert assistance.