Metadata
| Category: | Demographic and social statistics |
| Area: | Judiciary |
| Survey / data collection: | Crime indicators |
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| Reference metadata |
| 1. Contact |
| 2. Metadata update |
| 3. Statistical presentation |
| 4. Unit of measure |
| 5. Reference period |
| 6. Institutional mandate |
| 7. Confidentiality |
| 8. Release policy |
| 9. Frequency of dissemination |
| 10. Accessibility and clarity |
| 11. Quality management |
| 12. Relevance |
| 13. Accuracy and reliability |
| 14. Timeliness and punctuality |
| 15. Coherence and Comparability |
| 17. Data revision |
| 18. Statistical processing |
| 19. Comment |
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| 1. Contact Vrh | |
| 1.1. Contact organization: | Statistical Office of Montenegro - MONSTAT |
| 1.2. Contact organization unit: | Department of Education, Culture and Judiciary |
| 1.2. Contact organization unit: | IV Proleterske 2, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro |
| 2. Metadata update Top | |
| 2.1. Metadata last certified: | |
| 2.2. Metadata last posted: | 24 December 2025 |
| 2.3. Metadata last update: | 28/11/2025 |
| 3. Statistical presentation Top | |
| 3.1. Data description: | The purpose of survey is to collect the data on reported crimes, accused persons, convicted persons, population in prison, due to examination of scope and prevalence of crime in Montenegro. Crime indicators are collected based on administrative sources and transmitted to Eurostat - in accordance with the Gentleman''s Agreement made within the working group for crime and criminal justice. |
| 3.2. Classification system: | The International Classification of Crimes for Statistical Purposes (ICCS) |
| 3.3. Sector coverage: | Not relevant. |
| 3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions: | Recorded criminal acts - statistics on recorded criminal offences give a comprehensive view of the cases inflow to the police during one year. It shows the number of offences that have been reported and recorded as criminal offences by the police. Persons in formal contact with the police - persons suspected, arrested or cautioned for a criminal offence. Data on suspected persons refer to persons whom the police suspect of having committed a criminal offense. One perpetrator may be present in several criminal acts. Prosecuted persons -alleged perpetrators against whom prosecution commenced in the reporting year. All persons for which prosecution starts should be counted, irrespective of the case-ending decision. Convicted persons - persons found guilty by any legal body authorized to pronounce a conviction under national criminal law. Persons in prison - persons held in prisons on 31 December of the reference year. Adult perpetrators of a crime are those persons who were 18 or over at the time of committing criminal acts. Juvenile perpetrators of a crime are persons who reached the age of 14 but not yet 18 at the time of committing the crime. |
| 3.5. Statistical unit: | Police Directorate, Prosecutor''s Council, Secretariat of the Judicial Council, Directorate for Execution of Criminal Sanctions. |
| 3.6. Statistical population: | Perpetrators of criminal offenses. |
| 3.7. Reference area: | Montenegro. |
| 3.8. Time coverage: | Not available. |
| 3.9. Base period: | Not relevant. |
| 4. Unit of measure Top | |
| Number of perpetrators of criminal offenses. | |
| 5. Reference period Top | |
| Calendar year. | |
| 6. Institutional mandate Top | |
| 6.1. Legal acts and other agreements: | The Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 18/12, 47/19, 23/25) defines provisions for collection, processing, and dissemination of data. The Law provides to the Statistical Office clear and wide legal powers to collect and access the data necessary for the implementation of Programme and Annual Plan. The Law gives a priority to the use of administrative data and right of access to individual data that are a result of survey of other official statistical producers. |
| 6.2. Data sharing: | Signed agreement on cooperation with the official statistical producers: 1. Customs Administration 2. Tax Administration 3. Ministry of Finance 4. Central Bank of Montenegro 5. Trilateral agreement (MONSTAT, Ministry of Finance, and Central Bank of Montenegro) International institutions: 1. EUROSTAT 2. UN organizations 3. IMF 4. World Bank. |
| 7. Confidentiality Top | |
| 7.1. Confidentiality - policy: | Articles 53-60 of the Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 18/12, 47/19, 23/25) provide a framework for protection, use, and transmission of confidential data. MONSTAT has produced two comprehensive rulebooks that cover the procedures for individual data protection as well as keeping individual records. With purpose of the meeting legal framework on functioning of security system and statistical confidentiality there was adopted the Rulebook on Keeping Statistical Data by which Manner, Time, Technical Conditions and Organization of Statistical Data Storage to Prevent Their Destroying, Misappropriation, and Unauthorized Use is Regulated as well as the Rulebook on Contents and Manner of Keeping Records on Users of Individual Statistical Data by which contents and manner of keeping records on users of individual statistical data is regular. Pursuant to the Article 59, an access to the confidential data is limited to persons performing duties and tasks of official statistical producer and up to the stage the data are necessary for official statistical production. Persons that performs duties and tasks within official statistical producers must sign the statement on respecting the principle of confidentiality. Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System is aligned with the Regulation No 223/2009 and the Regulation (EU) 2015/759 from 29 April 2015 that also regulate confidentiality provisions. The Government of Montenegro adopted the Statement on Commitment of Confidence in Official Statistics (Commitment of Confidence). |
| 7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment: | Data are published as aggregate without an identifier. The rules for accessing micro data are defined by Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System of Montenegro, articles 58 and 59. |
| 8. Release policy Top | |
| 8.1. Release calendar: | The Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 18/12, 47/19, 23/25) stipulates that official statistical producers prepare, update, and publish Statistical Release Calendar. It is published on the website of Statistical Office not later than 20 December for the next year, for all official statistical producers that includes date of releasing statistical data. Any change in date of releasing in the Calendar is published in advance in accordance with the Procedure on Unplanned Revisions. |
| 8.2. Release calendar - access: | http://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=12&pageid=12 |
| 8.3. User access: | General aim of official statistical producer is to meet the needs of users, and to make an access to statistical data to users in an understandable manner, simultaneously and under the same conditions. Statistical Office is obliged to produce and disseminate official statistics in objective, transparent and professional manner, so that all users are equally treated. |
| 9. Frequency of dissemination Top | |
| Annual, final data. | |
| 10. Accessibility and clarity Top | |
| 10.1. News release: | The release is published annually and is available on the following web site: https://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=1999&pageid=1 |
| 10.2. Publications: | Statistical Office publishes data for perpetrators crime in the following regular publications: Statistical Yearbook, Montenegro in Numbers, Women and Men in Montenegro. All publication published by Statistical Office are available at the following link: http://monstat.org/eng/publikacije.php |
| 10.3. Online database: | Not available. |
| 10.4. Micro-data access: | The Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 18/12, 47/19, 23/25) regulates rules under which external users can obtain an access to individual data for needs of research. Article 58 defines types of scientific and research organizations that can obtain such data. Providing individual data without identifier is possible only upon a written request of scientific and research institutions, with purpose of performing scientific and research activities as well as international statistical organizations and statistical producers from other countries. Research entity signs the agreement with Statistical Office, and it signs the statement on respecting the confidentiality principle. Official statistical producers keeps a separate records on users and purpose of using the statistical data given to these users. |
| 10.5. Other: | Not relevant. |
| 10.6. Documentation on methodology: domain: | https://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=1788&pageid=109 |
| 10.7. Quality documentation: | The Law on Official Statistics and the Official Statistical System ("Official Gazette of Montenegro" No. 18/12, 47/19, 23/25) defines the commitment to quality, which ensures that producers of official statistics in Montenegro work and cooperate in accordance with international principles of quality of the statistical system. In accordance with the ESS Quality Declaration, Article 338 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, Regulations 759/2015 and 223/2009 and the European Statistics Code of Practice, the following documents are adopted: 1. Quality Strategy of the Statistical Office 2. Guide for the implementation of the Quality Strategy in the Statistical Office; 3. Implementation plan. |
| 11. Quality management Top | |
| 11.1. Quality assurance: | Statistical Office has chosen the implementation of elements of TQM (Total Quality Management) model that foster development and improvement of functioning of: - Institution, - Official statistical result production, and - Individual. Within middle-term deadline, Statistical Office has chosen the TQM implementation through the following objectives: 1. Strong commitment to users and other interested parties, 2. Quality statistical processes and products, 3. Professional orientation of staff members, 4. Constant improvements, 5. Reduction of overburden of reporting units. |
| 11.2. Quality assesment: | Not available. |
| 12. Relevance Top | |
| 12.1. User needs: | International users: - Eurostat, - World Bank, - UN organizations, - International Monetary Fund National users: - Ministries and other public administration bodies, - Local government, and other local government bodies. - Non-governmental organizations, - Students, - Researchers, - Media. |
| 12.2. User satisfaction: | The Statistical Office has adopted the Quality Management Strategy, the Guidebook to the Implementation of the Quality Management Strategy, as well as the Plan for the Implementation of the Quality Policy. In order to measure the degree to which fulfills obligations towards users and within the new quality policy, the Statistical Office conducted User satisfaction survey. The results of the survey are available on the Statistical Office website, link: https://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=1502&pageid=1 |
| 12.3. Completeness: | Not available. |
| 13. Accuracy and reliability Top | |
| 13.1. Overall accuracy: | The data source is administrative. |
| 13.2. Sampling error: | Not relevant. |
| 13.3. Non-sampling error: | Not relevant. |
| 14. Timeliness and punctuality Top | |
| 14.1. Timeliness: | The data are published in accordance with the Annual Plan of Official Statistics and the Calendar of publishing statistical data of Statistical Office. The data are published on the date determined by the Calendar of publishing statistical data in the form of a regular annual release. |
| 14.2. Punctuality: | The data is published on the day that is defined by Annual Plan of Statistical Surveys and Statistical Data Release Calendar. Indicator TP3 is 0, i.e. there is no difference between planned and actual announcement. |
| 15. Coherence and Comparability Top | |
| 15.1. Comparability - geographical: | Comparability of data with all countries using the same methodology is provided. |
| 15.2. Comparability over time: | Not relevant. |
| 15.3. Coherence - cross domain: | Not relevant. |
| 15.4. Coherence - internal: | Not relevant. |
| 17. Data revision Top | |
| 17.1. Data revision - policy: | Statistical Office has adopted the revision policy and it is available on the website: http://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=1411&pageid=1411 |
| 17.2. Data revision - practice: | The annual plan of official statistics foresees the final publication of data. There were not data revision. |
| 18. Statistical processing Top | |
| 18.1. Source data: | Administrative sources: Police Directorate, Prosecutor''''s Council, Secretariat of the Judicial Council, Directorate for Execution of Criminal Sanctions. |
| 18.2. Frequency of data collection: | Yearly. |
| 18.3. Data collection: | Administrative method. |
| 18.6. Adjustment: | Not relevant. |
