National Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Moldova

Population and Migration Statistics Division

106 Grenoble Str, MD-2019 Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

Data and metadata are transmitted to Eurostat by the Member States in the framework of the Unified Demographic Data Collection which is in accordance with Regulation (EC) 862/2007 and Regulation (EU) 1260/2013 and their implementing regulations.

This Euro SDMX Metadata Structure is used for the purpose of quality reporting. The definition of the quality concepts and guidelines are described in the European Statistical System Handbook for Quality Reports.

The current regional breakdown of the countries in the regional demographic tables is according to:

1. Regulation (EU) No 868/2014 amending the annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS). The NUTS classification according to this regulation is shortly named NUTS-2013.

2. Agreements between Eurostat and Candidate countries as well as between Eurostat and EFTA countries, for which statistical regions have been coded in a way that resembles NUTS.

Not applicable.

3.4.1 Statistical concepts and definitions used in the statistics transmitted to Eurostat

3.4.2 Statistical concepts and definitions used in the statistics disseminated in the National Statistical Institute's website

3.4.3 Differences in statistical concepts and definitions between the statistics transmitted to Eurostat and those disseminated in the National Statistics Institute's website

Number of persons.

Population, live births and deaths data are available at national and regional level of geographical detail.

Data on Resident Population are available since 1900 (See 15.2 for details).

Not applicable.

Data is collected at unit (person) level

Number of persons.

The reference date for population data is the end of the reference period (midnight of 31December).
The reference period for vital and dual events data is the calendar year in which the events occurred. The reference period for migration flow data is the calendar year in which the migration occurred.

Law on official Statistics of the Republic of Moldova

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In the process of statistical data collection, processing and analysis and dissemination of statistical information, Statistics of Republic of Moldova fully guarantees the confidentiality of the data submitted by respondents (households, institutions, organizations and other statistical units).

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Statistical information is published on the http://www.statistica.gov.md/ according to the Official Statistics Calendar https://statistica.gov.md/ro/dissemination_calendar.

Official Statistics Calendar https://statistica.gov.md/ro/dissemination_calendar.

Statistical information is prepared and disseminated under the principle of impartiality and objectivity, i.e. in a systematic, reliable and unbiased manner, following professional and ethical standards (the European Statistics Code of Practice), and the policies and practices followed are transparent to users.

All users have equal access to statistical information. All statistical information is published at the same time – at 2 p.m. on the day of publication of statistical information as indicated in the calendar on the Official Statistics Portal.

Annual

All press releases available on NBS website, at the following URL https://statistica.gov.md/news.php?l=ro&idc=168&nod=1&.

Statistical information is published in the following statistical e-publications: Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Moldova Territorial statistics and Moldova in figures, statistical pocket-book https://statistica.gov.md/en/publications

Statistical indicators are published in the Statistics by themes -> Population and demographic processes or Statbank-> Population and demographic processes.

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  11.2.1. Quality assessment: Type of duration of stay used when counting a person as a migrant according to Art. 2(b) of Regulation (EC) 862/2007

11.2.2. Quality assessment: Type of duration of stay used when counting a person as a migrant according to Art. 2(b) of Regulation (EC) 862/2007

Main users of statistical information are State and municipal authorities and agencies, international organizations, the media, research and business communities, students, and Eurostat (the statistical office of the European Union), whose needs are satisfied without a breach of the confidentiality principle.

For more information on user surveys and their results, see section About NBS -->External assessments and user surveys --> Assessments reports  on the Statistics of Republic of Moldova website.

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According to Art 4 (2) of the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 205/2014, each year Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with data at national and regional level as described in Annex II and related standard reference metadata ( In the metadata structure definition defined for the Euro SDMX Metadata Structure) for the reference year within 12 months of the end of the reference year. According to Art 3 (2) of the Commission Regulation (EU) No 862/2007, Statistics on international migration, usually resident population and acquisition of citizenship shall be supplied to the Commission (Eurostat) within 12 months of the end of the reference year.

Not applicable.

Data are fully comparable between geographical areas.

Usual resident population is used for all statistical population and other statistical domains outputs (i.e. National Accounts, Labour Force Survey)

There is no difference in the definitions (data are used for international and national purposes). The demographic balancing equation is used

Not available.

Due to revision policy, usual resident population will be slightly revised with data regarding live births and deaths with late registration of demographic phenomena and resend to Eurostat.

In June of the year t, the provisional number of the population for year (t-1) and the final number of the population for year (t-2) are disseminated.

Usually Resident Population estimates are produced on an annual basis.

Vital statistics (live births and deaths, marriages and divorces) – data are collected monthly.

Legally induced abortions – data is collected yearly.

Migration statistics – data are collected once a year from administrative sources, and immigrants and emigrants are estimated annually.

Agreements on data provision has been signed between NBS and other institutions. Agreements include information on data provision time, way of data provision, structure of data, confidentiality, provisions for data quality.

Data from administrative sources are validate before use for population estimations. Final data on population, vital events and migration are validated before publication – mathematical and logical verification is used.

Vital events data are collected and validated at the central level (NBS) and contain individual records of vital events (live births, deaths, marriages and divorces) during a calendar year, considered by the date of event.

The data is processed yearly, in April, in the year following the reference year, as vital events legally should be registered in a 90 days interval.

In April of year t, the data for year t-1 are processed, resulting in provisional data, as there are cases of later registration comparing to the legal period. In the following year, the data are revised, so that the final data for year t-1 are available in February of year t+2.

Population of previous year plus natural change (live births minus deaths) plus net migration (immigrants minus emigrants) equals the population on 31 December of the reference year (the demographic balance for total population). This equation is not applied on population estimates by citizenship, country of citizenship, country of birth, marital status, educational attainment.

Adjustments are not applicable.

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