Annual Report on Migration Reference Metadata in Euro SDMX Metadata Structure Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina
	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
	16. Cost and burden
	17. Data revision
	18. Statistical processing
	19. Comment
	1. Contact
	1.1. Contact organisation	Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina
	1.2. Contact organisation unit	Sector for Demography and Social statistics - Department of Population Statistics and Registers
	1.3. Contact name	Radoslav Ćorović
	1.4. Contact person function	Assistant Director in the Sector for Demography and Social Statistics
	1.5. Contact mail address	Zelenih beretki 26, 71 000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
	1.6. Contact email address	radoslav.corovic@bhas.gov.ba
	1.7. Contact phone number	+387 33 911 983
	1.8. Contact fax number	+387 (33) 220 622
	2. Metadata update
	2.1. Metadata last certified	02/12/2025
	2.2. Metadata last posted	02/12/2025
	2.3. Metadata last update	02/12/2025
	3. Statistical presentation
	3.1. Data description	Population data is published according by sex and age stucture, that preregistered  their place of residence,including movements between the Entities and Brcko District.
	3.2. Classification system	Law on permanent or temporary residence of citizens of  Bosnia and Herzegovina  (Official Gazette Bosnia and Herzegovina No.32/01 and 56/08).
	3.3. Sector coverage	All citizans of Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as foreigners who were granted permanent residence  and who have reported residence in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
	3.4. Statistical concepts and definitons	Migration represents spatial mobility of population. Migrant is a person which participates in the process of spatial mobility of population. Internal migration is relocation of persons within the teritory of Bosnia and Herzegovina,thus considering the place of deregistration as well as new place of residence. Net migration of population is a difference between the number of immigrants and emigrants of particular area. The municipality or district in which a citizen is placed with the purpose of permanent living is concidered as a permanent residence. (The Official Gazette of B&H,No32/01,article3,point7) . The municipality or district in which a citizen is placed with the purpose of temporary living is considerad as a temporary residence. (The Official Gazzete of B&H,No 32/01,article3,point10). Age of migrants is presented as an age reachd at the moment of migration. Each age group includes persons who reached the age within limits of an interval.
	3.5. Statistical unit	All citizans of Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as foreigners who were granted permanent residence  and who have reported residence in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
	3.6. Statistical population	Data is collected for level BiH, entites and District Brcko.
	3.7. Reference area	Data refer to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
	3.8 Time coverage	2008-2024
	3.9. Base period	Not applicable.
	4. Unit of measure	Number of persons.
	5. Reference period	The reference period is a calendar year.
	6. Institutional mandate
	6.1. Legal acts and other agreements	• Law on Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina, • Law on Residence and Stay of BiH Citizens • Law on Freedom of Access to Information in Bosnia and Herzegovina • Regulation (EC) No. 862/2007 of the European Parliament and the Council of 11 July 2007. on Community statistics on migration and international protection and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No. 311/76 on the creation of statistics on foreign workers and Commission Regulation (EU) No. 351/2010 of 23 April 2010 implementing Regulation (EC) No. 862/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on migration and international protection regarding the definition of categories of groups of countries of birth, groups of countries of the previous usual place of residence, group of countries of next habitual residence and group of citizenship.
	6.2. Data sharing	Law on freedom of access to B&H information,article 14; paragraf 2 (Database delivery of  IDDEEA)
	7. Confidentiality
	7.1. Confidentiality-policy	Confidentiality of statistical data is regulated by law and the personnel conducting statistical surveys has the legal obligation to protect confidentiality. Law on Statistics of BiH (Off. Gazette of BiH 26/04 and 42/04 - Chapter XI - Article 23.-29.) establishes the principle of confidentiality as one of the main principles. Agency for statistics of BiH distributes statistics in line with statistical principles of the European Statistics Code of Practice and in particular with the principle of statistical confidentiality.
	7.2. Confidentiality-data treatment	The document "Rules on the Protection of Statistical Data in the Agency for Statistics" lists procedures for ensuring confidentiality during collection, processing and dissemination - including protocols for securing individual data being accessed, rules for defining confidential cells in output tables and procedures for the detection and prevention of subsequent disclosures as well as access to microdata for research purposes.By signing the Memorandum of Understanding with Agency for statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina, data users having access to individual data are obliged to:treat individual anonymized data as confidential in accordance with the rules, regulations and procedures,ensure adequate protection of individual data in accordance with the rules, regulations and procedures,protect the transfer of microdata and destroy the media where the data are, as well as the accompanying documentation, five days after the publication of the results.
	8. Release policy
	8.1. Release calendar	At the end of December every year, BHAS announces the Release Calendar with the precise date and time of publication of the statistics for the following year.
	8.2. Release calendar access	The Calendar placed on:
		https://bhas.gov.ba/Calendar/
	8.3. User access	The data is disseminated to all users through the official web site of Agency for statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the same time new release is also e-mailed to the media and to the all users from user database:
		https://bhas.gov.ba
	9.  Frequency of dissemination	The Department for Population Statistics and Registers prepares an annual press release, according to the instructions of the Dissemination Department. Three language variants are being prepared in word format. The Dissemination Department proofreads the submitted announcements and prepares them for publication in PDF format. All prepared data can be found on the website of the BiH Agency for Statistics, along with time series tables and methodological information.
	10. Accessibility and clarity
	10.1. News release	1. Regular annual releases 2. Regular quarterly releases
		https://bhas.gov.ba/Calendar/Category/14?lang=en
	10.2. Publications	Demography, 2017 Demography, 2018 Demography, 2019 Women and men 2017 Women and men 2019
		https://bhas.gov.ba/Calendar/Category/14?lang=en
		https://bhas.gov.ba/Calendar/Category/32?lang=en
	10.3. On-line database	Data on migration statistics are not available in the BHAS online database.
	10.4. Micro-data access	No microdata available.
	10.5. Other	There are no other means of publication.
	10.6. Documentation on methodology	There is no link to online documents.
	10.7. Quality documentation	BHAS does not have quality documents (within the competence of IDDEEA)
	11. Quality management
	11.1. Quality assurance	Quality Management Policy as an element of the system of quality management generally is related to following components: product quality of process as well as other elements of system for quality management, such as planning and controls. To assure the quality of processes and products, Agency for statistics is in implementation of Quality management model (TQM) done using CAF tool. The Common Assessment Framework (CAF) is a total quality management tool developed by the public sector for the public sector, inspired by the Excellence Model of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM). Process of self-assessment identifies and monitors all organization results, provides feedback on organizational capacity and results of policy and planning processes. Scoring tool for self-assessment has 9 key indicators and 28 criteria based on which it is possible to measure management level achieved and determine which are the critical points for improvements in future. It looks at the organization from different angles at the same time: the holistic approach to organization performance analysis. BHAS use „The CAF guidelines for implementation“ and 10-step implementation plan therefore developed to help organizations to use it in the most efficient and effective way. Process of self-assessment identifies and monitors all-important organizational results and provides feedback on organizational capacities and results of policy and planning processes. This model of quality monitoring requires development of standardized questionnaire that includes all principles in model. Agency for statistics of BiH is committed to quality assurance in the production of official statistics based on the Article 19, Paragraph (1) “Law of Statistics BIH, Official Gazette of BiH 26/04; 42/04”. In order to ensure the quality of statistics Agency developed a document Policy and programme of the quality management which is available on web site:
		https://bhas.gov.ba/Content/Read/92?title=Kvalitet
	11.2. Quality assessments	Quality of official statistics’ products (main indicators/statistics) are regularly assessed in quality reports through calculation of quality indicators. On other hand, processes included in statistical production are assessed by specific process quality indicators in quality reports and additionally trough GSBPM documentation.
	12. Relevance
	12.1. User needs	Depends on the delivered data base.
	12.2. User satisfaction	There is no specific user satisfaction survey for this survey. One of the key elements in securing the quality of statistical data is monitoring user’s satisfaction. The results of User Satisfaction Survey are available on:
		https://bhas.gov.ba
	12.3. Completeness	Not calculated rate.
	13. Accuracy and reliability
	13.1. Overall accuracy	Not applicable.
	13.2. Sampling error	Not applicable.
	13.3. Non -sampling error	Not applicable.
	14. Timeliness and punctuality
	14.1. Timeliness	The Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina publishes data on internal migration in February. Data refer to the previous year.
	14.2. Punctuality	Publishing is on time.
	15. Coherence and comparability
	15.1. Comparability-geographical	Comparable between the entities and the Brcko District.
	15.2. Comparability-over time	Comparable by years.
	15.3. Coherence-cross domain	There is no relevant surveys conducted by another organization.
	15.4. Coherence-internal	Not applicable.
	16. Cost and burden	The annual operating costs for carrying out the research are reflected in the material costs and the number of hours worked by the employees of the Agency and the branches of the Brčko District Agency. The data are taken over from administrative sources and therefore there is no direct burden on respondents.
	17. Data revision
	17.1. Data revision-policy	The Agency for statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina does not have an official revision policy document.
	17.2. Data revision-practice	No audit was planned or conducted.
	18. Statistical processing
	18.1. Source data	The Agency for Identification Documents, Records and Data Exchange (IDDEEA) submits its administrative data to us according to the following criteria: previous and current inhabited place of residence/residence, previous and current municipality of residence/residence, date of birth, gender and publication date.
	18.2. Frequency of data collection	Yearly
	18.3. Data collection	The source of data for the creation of internal migration announcements is the IDDEE database. The IT department of the Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina performs data processing together with the department for population and registers.
	18.4. Data validation	Competence of IDDEEA
	18.5. Data compilation	Not applicable.
	18.6. Adjustment	Not applicable.
	19. Comment	-