Annual Report on Pre-school Education 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 for Society Development Statistics
	1.3. Contact name	a) Gorana Knežević b) Vedrana Đerić
	1.4. Contact person function	a) Head of Department for Society Development Statistics b) Senior adviser for education statistics
	1.5. Contact mail address	Zelenih beretki 26, 71 000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
	1.6. Contact email address	gorana.knezevic@bhas.gov.ba
		vedrana.djeric@bhas.gov.ba
	1.7. Contact phone number	+387 33 943 851;   +387 33 911 990
	1.8. Contact fax number	+387 (33) 220 622
	2. Metadata update
	2.1. Metadata last certified	13/01/2026
	2.2. Metadata last posted	13/01/2026
	2.3. Metadata last update	13/01/2026
	3. Statistical presentation
	3.1. Data description	Pre-school education: number of pre-school institutions (public and private), number of children attending these institutions by sex and year of birth, children in nursery by age and sex, children who attended a preschool programme prior to enrolling in school, employed in pre-school institutions by sex and age, number of children per educator.
	3.2. Classification system	International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED-2011)
	3.3. Sector coverage	\
	3.4. Statistical concepts and definitons	Pre-school upbringing and education is an activity that includes upbringing and education, care and protection of children from six months of age to entering basic school. It is performed in public and private pre-school institutions. Work with children in pre-school institutions is organised in educational groups. Educational groups are formed based on the age of children, type and duration of programme and capabilities, needs and interests of children and parents. Educational groups can be: - nursery groups for children from six months until three years of age, - kindergarten groups for children from three years of age until the beginning of their basic school education, - mixed groups, formed only in cases when it is not possible to form groups of children of a same age.
	3.5. Statistical unit	Unit of observation is every pre-school institution, public and private, as well as any other institution implementing a programme of pre-school upbringing and education.
	3.6. Statistical population	The statistical population are children.
	3.7. Reference area	Data refer to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
	3.8 Time coverage	School years 2005/2006- 2024/2025.
	3.9. Base period	Not applicable.
	4. Unit of measure	Number of children.
	5. Reference period	The reference period is a school year.
	6. Institutional mandate
	6.1. Legal acts and other agreements	Law on statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina Multiannual statistical programmes and work plans of Bosnia and Herzegovina
	6.2. Data sharing	Federal office of statistics of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska Institute of Statistics, and Branch office Brčko District.
	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/?lang=en
	8.3. User access	The data is disseminated to all users through the official web site of Agency for statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina:
		https://bhas.gov.ba/Calendar/Category/15?lang=en
	9.  Frequency of dissemination	Education statistics data are published in an annual release. Preliminary education statistics data Agency for Statistics of BIH publishes in February, and final data are published in May of the current year (data refer to the previous school year).
	10. Accessibility and clarity
	10.1. News release	Annual release „Education statistics"
		https://bhas.gov.ba/data/Publikacije/Saopstenja/2025/EDU_07_2024_Y2_1_BS.pdf
	10.2. Publications	BiH in figures – section „Education“
		https://bhas.gov.ba/data/Publikacije/Bilteni/2025/NUM_00_2024_TB_1_EN.pdf
		Women and men in BiH - section "Education"
		https://bhas.gov.ba/data/Publikacije/Bilteni/2024/FAM_00_2023_TB_1_EN.pdf
	10.3. On-line database	bhas.gov.ba/data/Publikacije/VremenskeSerije/EDU_01.xlsx
	10.4. Micro-data access	Microdata are not available.
	10.5. Other	There are no other dissemination means.
	10.6. Documentation on methodology	Methodology can be found within the document Methodology of Education Statistics.
		EDU_00_2024_MD_0_EN.pdf
	10.7. Quality documentation	Quality reports are available at web page of BHAS at:
		bhas.gov.ba/Content/Read/92?title=Kvalitet&lang=en
	11. Quality management
	11.1. Quality assurance	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”. 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.  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/data/Dokumenti/Kvalitet/QM_Policy_and_Programme_BHAS.pdf
	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	Key users of the statistical survey data are: Ministry of civil affairs of BiH, UNESCO, Eurostat, OECD. Users of the data are also business entities, media and general public. Users' needs are various analysis, millennium goals, scientific papers and other needs.
	12.2. User satisfaction	One of the key elements in securing the quality of statistical data is monitoring user’s satisfaction.  There is no specific user satisfaction survey for this survey. The results of User Satisfaction Survey are available on:
		https://bhas.gov.ba
	12.3. Completeness	Data completeness rate is 100 %.
	13. Accuracy and reliability
	13.1. Overall accuracy	\
	13.2. Sampling error	\
	13.3. Non -sampling error	\
	14. Timeliness and punctuality
	14.1. Timeliness	Preliminary data on pre-primary education, Agency for statistics of BiH publishes in February, final data are published in May.
	14.2. Punctuality	The release was punctual, within the deadline.
	15. Coherence and comparability
	15.1. Comparability-geographical	\
	15.2. Comparability-over time	Education statistics data are produced and published since 2006 and are published in annual dynamics.
	15.3. Coherence-cross domain	Information is not available.
	15.4. Coherence-internal	Information is not available.
	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.
	17. Data revision
	17.1. Data revision-policy	Data revision was not conducted for pre-school education statistics.
	17.2. Data revision-practice	Data revision is not conducted for pre-school education statistics.
	18. Statistical processing
	18.1. Source data	The survey covers all pre-school institutions, public and private, as well as other institutions that implement programmes of pre-school upbringing and education.  Entity statistical offices and branch office of the Agency in Brčko District submit the collected data to the Agency for Statistics of BiH.
	18.2. Frequency of data collection	Data are collected once a year, for the whole school year.
	18.3. Data collection	Data on pre-school upbringing and education are collected through the annual statistical reports for preschool institutions-PŠV forms, at the beginning of the school year.  Statistical survey on pre-school education is conducted through a web application. The data obtained from the entity statistical offices and the Agency's branch in Brčko District, the Agency for Statistics of BiH publishes in aggregated (summary) form.
	18.4. Data validation	Agency for Statistics of BiH, entity statistical offices as well as the branch office of the Agency in Brčko District perform the data validation. After the collection of reports, control of the coverage, accuracy of data, logical and calculation control are performed in the Federal office of the Federation of BiH, in the Republika Srpska Institute of Statistics and the branch office of the Agency in Brčko District.
	18.5. Data compilation	No procedures are performed on the data which would serve for deriving new information in accordance with the given set of rules.
	18.6. Adjustment	Statistical procedures for series adjustment (methods for seasonal adjustment) are not used. Pre-school education statistics data are not subject to seasonal adjustment.
	19. Comment	\