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Consolidation of Romanian Statistical System, Romania
Consolidation of Romanian Statistical System, Romania

CATEGORY: Environment

LOCATION: Romania

START/END: 2005-2007

CLIENT: Romanian Ministry of Public Finance, CFCU

ORIGIN OF FUNDING: PHARE

Consolidation of Romanian Statistical System, Romania

Type of Services

LDK, being the leading partner of the project, was responsible for the overall management and quality control. Furthermore, LDK was responsible for carrying out the component D1 on "Satellite account on environmental protection expenditure", as well as the organisation of all events that took place throughout the project's duration (workshops, seminars, study visits, etc.). More specifically, LDK carried out following tasks:
1. Analysis and evaluation of the environment protection field in Romania;
2. Setting up a national methodology according to European System for the Collection of Economic Information (SERIEE) and compiling the satellite account of environment protection expenditure;
3. Design a specialized survey necessary to collect the new data requested by the EPEA compilation. The specific activities for the above-mentioned specialized survey include: the development of methodological and organization principles, drawing up the survey questionnaires and of the guidelines for filling in the questionnaires and the format of the data presentation (tables, charts, etc.)
a. Development of methodological and organizational principles;
b. Design of Survey questionnaire;
c. Drawing up the guidelines for filling in the questionnaires;
d. Drawing up the format of the data presentation;
4. Design and setting up a multi-user IT application to process the data in the specialized survey (provided with the user guide). The IT application will comprise from two modules: at country level and at central level;
5. Drawing up and editing a study on EPEA compilation in Romanian and English;
6. Training seminar of the experts, in order to communicate the problems concerning the net cost of environmental protection measures undertaken by the producers, as well as the environmental -related taxes paid by them; effectiveness and efficiency of environmental protection measures.

Description

The overall objective of this project is to strengthen the institutional capacity of the Romanian Institute of National Statistics (INS) and of the statistical infrastructure in order to meet the user needs and provision of a stock of reliable and comprehensive data in statistical fields. The project was grouped in the following components:
A. Information society and new economy statistics:
Aim of the project was the construction of the entire set of indicators for the information society as a result of the design and to conduct surveys addressed to enterprises, public administration, local authorities, public health services, education services and non-profit organisations. The project covered the design and the set up of the management system of time series in respect to the information society, the design and set up of an electronic system allowing data collection on internet or email, data warehouse, data processing. Furthermore, the design and set up of the database for Information Communication Technology (ICT) statistics was implemented allowing analysis of the information society evolution in Romania and dissemination of the data through Internet, editing and publication of the survey results.
B. Social Statistics:
Task of the project was to design, conduct and implement an income and living conditions survey according to the European Regulations with special attention given to poverty and social exclusion. Editing and publication of the results of the survey were also performed.
C. Road transport passenger statistics:
Task of the project was to prepare and implement a survey on the road transport of passengers using the vehicle unit as an observation unit, that being not taking into account vehicles of urban transport and regional vehicles. The survey obtained data on the road transport of passengers representative for the whole country and the regions. Editing and publication of the survey results, as well as design and set up of the statistical register of national operators of interurban and international road passengers transport / motor vehicles were also included in the project task.
D1. Environmental protection satellite account:
The task of this project component was to set up a specific methodology for Romania to compile EPEA according to the European System for the Collection of Economic Information (SERIEE). Furthermore, another task was to compile the satellite account on environment protection expenditure experimentally for the year for which necessary data were available, including the national environmental protection expenditure, the production of services specific to environment protection and the financing of the environment protection expenditure.
D2. Social accounting matrix:
Project task was to set up a specific methodology for Romania in order to compile the SAM, to conduct a statistical survey addressed to a representative number of agents from all activity domains and households. The data collected during the survey completed the necessary information used for the SAM compilation.
E. Web-site application:
Project task was to redesign the INS web-site and web-site software application, to develop the web application for e-commerce (management the customer\'s orders), to implement the web application for customer\'s monitoring and accountancy.
F. Media relation:
Project task was to create the media-support office of INS, as well as train media in statistical culture.

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