Snezana Remikovic Statistical office of Montenegro

1. Challenges in data collection and dissemination of migration and ethnic cultural characteristics in Montenegro Census 2011 Snezana RemikovicStatistical office of Montenegro

2. It is situated in the south of Balkan Peninsula • southern European and Mediterranean country • 620 thousand inhabitants • on 13 thousand km² • Since 2006 - independent country • before 2006 it was in state union with Serbia and before one of the six Republics within Yugoslavia.

3. Census 2011 in Montenegro • Census 2011 - first Census that Montenegro Statistical office organized, conducted and disseminated from the first to final phase. • Census covered core topic UN recommended variables and some non-core topic variables requested by national lows.

4. Census 2011 in Montenegro • Traditional method –”Door to door” • Enumerators collected data • Manual data entry

5. Census 2011 in Montenegro • “Migration characteristics “as core topic was include in Montenegro census • Ethnic variables are obliged through the Low of national minority

6. Challenges related to migration characteristics

7. Challenges related to migration characteristics • Problem with understanding of question • Treatment of student of third category related to migration –(traditional approach for reporting that students of third category are a member of household) • Treatment of people who was in army

8. Challenges related to Ethnic-cultural characteristics - Ethnic affiliation • Enumerators must input everything the respondent reports • Problem with creation of classification • How many cases? • How to treat some “non ethnic” words with enough cases? – (Džedaj) • How to classify double ethnic affiliations

9. Challenges related to Ethnic-cultural characteristics - Ethnic affiliation • Treatment of some ethnicity from other ethnicity ( Montenegrin, Bosniaks, Muslim) • Historical approach of ethnicity

11. Challenges related to Ethnic-cultural characteristics • Sentence “person is not obliged to declare about following questions.” • “Does not want to declare”- NO “empty lines“ • On the question on ethnicity 4.9% of inhabitants gave as an answer “do not want to declare” and this was also given by 4% for mother tongue and 2.6% for religion

12. Religion • same problems when it comes to classification • “Islam and/or Muslim” - Are these two categories the same? Who should make the decision that they are the same? The Statistical Office? Religions institutions? • the connection between religion with ethnicity –Muslim – Religion or ethnicity?

13. Mother tongue • one of the most sensitive questions in Montenegro • double declaration for mother tongue

14. Other language

15. Other language • Montenegrin, Serbian, Bosnian or Croatian languages • Final results from the Census showed that only 0.2% declared knowledge of a foreign language as some of above mention”

16. Questions of Ethnic-cultural characteristics

17. Dissemination phase -disclosure control • Disclosure control applied and protected all cells with frequency under six for ethnic-cultural variables at the settlement level • Due to primary and secondary confidentiality we protected about: - 8% of the cells in tables for ethnicity at the settlement level - 9% for mother tongue and - 11% for religion

19. Dissemination phase • According to request of political parties Statistical office of Montenegro published data by ethnic-cultural variables less then two months after filed work finished.

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