CENSUS OF POPULATION, HOUSEHOLDS AND DWELLINGS IN
THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA IN 2002 ACT (ZPPG01)
Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 66-3056/2000,
26-1584/2001
I.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1
This Act regulates the preparation, organisation and conducting the Census
of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Slovenia in
2002 (hereinafter: the Census), defines the bodies responsible for
conducting the Census, regulates the rights and obligations of the Census
participants, protection of personal data collected by the Census, publishing
the Census results and Census financing.
Article 2
The Census in the Republic of Slovenia shall be carried out in the period
from 1st to 15th April 2002.
Immediately after the Census has been finished, statistical control of the
coverage and quality of the data collected by the Census shall be done in
sample census districts.
The reference date of the Census and statistical control of the coverage and
quality of the data collected by the Census is 31st March 2002 at midnight.
II.
CENSUS UNITS, CENSUS CONTENTS AND DATA PROVISION
The following are covered by the Census:
1. persons
- citizens of the Republic of Slovenia with permanent or temporary
residence in the Republic of Slovenia, regardless whether they are
present in the Republic of Slovenia at the critical moment or not;
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- foreigners with permits for permanent or temporary residence in
Slovenia and persons with a temporary refuge in the Republic of
Slovenia, regardless whether they are present in the Republic of Slovenia
at the critical moment or not;
- other persons who are present in the territory of the Republic of Slovenia
during the Census;
2. households of persons from paragraph 1 of this Article;
3. dwellings and other inhabited premises in the Republic of Slovenia;
4. buildings in the Republic of Slovenia where dwellings or other inhabited
premises are located.
Article 4
Personnel at foreign diplomatic missions and consulates and representatives
of international organisations and bodies in the Republic of Slovenia, their
family members and dwellings owned by foreign countries in the Republic
of Slovenia are not covered by the Census.
Article 5
Identification is allocated to buildings and dwellings for the needs of the
Register of Buildings and Dwellings implementation.
Article 6
The following data about a person are collected by the census of persons:
- surname and name,
- personal identification number or date of birth,
- sex,
- address of the residence,
- address of the dwelling,
- number of the dwelling,
- presence / absence at the critical moment,
- place of residence one year prior to the Census,
- place of birth,
- place of residence at birth,
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migrations,
citizenship,
nationality,
religion,
mother tongue,
language that is used in the household (family),
marital status,
number of live-born children,
qualifications,
education,
activity status,
employment status,
occupation,
usual working time
place of work / education,
travelling to work / school,
main source of livelihood,
dependency relationship,
housing situation of the person,
other dwellings owned by the person (owner or co-owner of a dwelling).
Article 7
The following data are collected by the census of households:
- type of household,
- number of household members,
- household reference person,
- relationship to the private household reference person,
- number of families in the private household,
- person's family status,
- legal or other basis according to which the household resides in the
dwelling,
- member of the private household who is the owner, co-owner or tenant
of the dwelling,
- ownership or rent of the garage,
- production of food for own needs or for sale.
Article 8
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The following data are collected by the census of dwellings:
- type and use of the dwelling,
- ownership of the dwelling,
- floor space of the dwelling, number of rooms and number of rooms for
carrying out activities,
- whether the dwelling is equipped with a kitchen and its floor space,
bathroom and toilet,
- other premises within the dwelling,
- number of persons in the dwelling,
- number of households in the dwelling,
- year of the last renovation,
- installations,
- type and source of heating,
- location of the dwelling in the building,
- dwelling number in the building.
Article 9
The following data are collected by the census of buildings:
- type of building,
- number of floors in the building,
- bearing construction material,
- year when the building was constructed,
- type of roof covering and the year when it was last replaced,
- installations,
- type and source of heating,
- number of dwellings in the building.
Article 10
Respondents are obliged to give complete and correct answers to all the
questions in the Census questionnaire free of charge.
Data on absent household members shall be provided by the member who
knows the data the best, and data on children up to 15 years old shall be
provided by one of the parents, adopter or a guardian. For absent household
members who on the census day completed 14 years of age, the data on
religion and nationality shall be provided by presenting their written consent
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that these data can be disclosed for the purpose of the Census and their
written statement about their nationality and religion.
Respondents are not obliged to answer the question about nationality and
there shall be a legal remedy included in the questionnaire.
The interviewer is obliged to enter the data as given by the respondent into
the Census questionnaire.
Article 11
Data with identifications for a person, household, dwelling and building,
which are needed for the Census, can be collected or obtained from all the
existing official and other administrative records from public and private
sector.
Article 12
Database managers, who are authorised for their maintenance and keeping,
are obliged to communicate the necessary data from these registers to the
Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (hereinafter: the Office) free
of charge and within the period of time and in the way as defined by the
Office.
Article 13
Ministry for Health and public institutions which are engaged in social
security as well as other managers of social security databases shall provide
the Office the data on people, they keep databases for.
Ministry of the Interior shall provide the Office the data on people official
registers are kept for.
Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning and Government Office
for Local Self-Government shall provide the Office the data on buildings
and dwellings.
Ministry of Justice shall provide the Office the data on prisoners.
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Ministry of Education and Sport shall provide the Office the data on people
living at secondary school boarding houses and student hostels.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall provide the Office the data on people at
diplomatic missions and consulates, as well as on citizens of the Republic of
Slovenia who work abroad and people who live with them abroad.
Employment Service of Slovenia shall provide the Office the data on
unemployed people.
The Institute for Pension and Disability Insurance shall provide the Office
the data on recipients of pensions or any other financial assistance from
pension and disability insurance.
The Health Insurance Institute shall provide the Office the data on persons
covered by health insurance in the Republic of Slovenia.
III.
PREPARATION, ORGANISATION AND CONDUCTING THE
CENSUS
Article 14
The Census is prepared and organised by the Office in co-operation with
performers as stipulated by this Act.
The Office is responsible for co-ordination and reconciliation.
Article 15
The Office shall be responsible for the following tasks:
1. keeping, organisation, reconciliation and control of the preparation and
carrying out the Census,
2. preparation of the Census methodological bases,
3. providing translations of the Census questionnaires and instructions into
the languages of ethnic communities,
4. definition of the technology for data entry and processing and archives
of the data collected by the Census,
5. complete and timely informing about the Census,
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6. giving instruction to the authorised Census performers,
7. organisation and carrying out professional-methodological training for
state instructors,
8. providing expert methodological support for professionalmethodological training for district census boards, instructors and
interviewers, and preparation, organisation and carrying out
interviewing,
9. preparation of methodological bases and statistical quality control of the
data collected by the Census,
10. providing suitable premises for the Census material storage,
11. providing the Census material archiving,
12. preparing the Census material for processing and its processing,
13. defining control for error correction in the Census material and error
correction itself,
14. publication and archiving of the collected data,
15. disseminating the Census data to users.
Article 16
District census board is responsible for the organisation and conducting the
Census in census districts.
District census board consists of the president and at least three members
appointed by the Head of the Office.
Article 17
Public administration personnel, services and technical equipment are used
economically to support the district census boards to perform their tasks.
Article 18
The Office shall select and appoint district instructors, interviewers and
controllers on the basis of lists prepared by district census boards in cooperation with public administration.
District census board shall monitor the work of persons defined in the first
paragraph in the area for which it is responsible for conducting the Census.
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Article 19
Interviewing and other fieldwork shall be done by interviewers, district
census instructors, census controllers, members of district census boards and
state census instructors, who scrupulously follow the provisions of the
Census methodological bases and organisational instructions, which have
been prepared for the Census.
Article 20
State instructors shall be appointed by the Head of the Office.
State instructor tasks shall be defined in the Census methodological bases.
Article 21
In the area of municipalities where there are members of Italian or
Hungarian ethnic communities living, an appropriate number of district
census board members, district instructors and interviewers shall be
appointed also from among the representatives of self-governing ethnic
communities, proposed by the ethnic community and who speak Italian or
Hungarian.
An appropriate number of questionnaires in Italian or Hungarian shall be
provided for interviewing in municipalities with Italian or Hungarian ethnic
communities.
Article 22
Persons referred to in Article 19 of this Act shall have a written
authorisation for their work, which is issued by the Head of the Office. They
are obliged to show this authorisation to the respondent without being asked
to do that.
Authorisation issuer shall keep a register of the issued and returned
authorisations.
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When an authorisation expires, it shall be returned to the issuer, which
means when the work has been done or not later than on the day following
the expiry.
IV.
THE USE OF DATA, AND DATA PROTECTION AND
SECURITY
Article 23
The data collected by the Census shall be used for statistical purposes only,
except for the data that shall be used by the body, competent for the
implementation of the Register of Buildings and Dwellings, and the
Register of Households.
The data which shall be used for setting up the Register referred to in the
previous paragraph are:
- building identification and dwelling identification,
- address of the dwelling,
- personal identification number, surname and name, and the address of
the residence of the dwelling owner, eventual co-owner and tenant –
provided the latter also resides in the dwelling,
- personal identification number, surname and name, and the address of
the residence of other persons in the dwelling,
- household reference person,
- relationship to the private household reference person,
- ownership of the dwelling,
- legal or other basis according to which the household resides in the
dwelling,
- type and use of the dwelling,
- floor space of the dwelling
- number of rooms in the dwelling,
- kitchen, bathroom, toilet and other premises within the dwelling,
- year of the last renovation,
- installations in the dwelling,
- location of the dwelling in the building,
- number of the dwelling in the building,
- type of building,
- number of floors in the building,
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- bearing construction material,
- the year the building was constructed.
The data which are used for the implementation of the Registers referred to
in the first paragraph of this Article, shall bear the mark R on the Census
questionnaires.
The data referred to in the second paragraph of this Article for the
implementation of the Registers referred to in the first paragraph of this
Article shall not be used for the period longer than two years after the
Census has been finished.
Article 24
The Office and other performers who are collecting, processing, storing and
providing data, which refer to a particular or definable individual, shall
adopt and provide organisational and logical technical procedures and
precautions for data protection in accordance with the Act regulating
personal data protection.
Article 25
Protection of the data collected by the Census, which refer to a particular or
definable individual, is provided in accordance with the Act regulating the
personal data protection.
Article 26
People who take part in the Census and know the contents of the data
collected by the Census, which refer to a particular or definable individual,
shall protect it as an official secret.
Article 27
There shall be a clear mark on the questionnaires that all the data in the
questionnaires are an official secret.
Article 28
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When the data collected by the Census have been processed, the Office
designs the Census database.
The Office shall design, keep and maintain the Census database with linking
data from the Census database with the data from administrative and other
databases.
V.
DATA PUBLICATION
Article 29
It is not allowed to publish or bring to public the data, collected by the
Census, which refer to a particular or definable individual.
Article 30
Census statistical data can be published only in aggregates and all users
shall have the same access to them.
Within one year after this Act comes into force the Head of the Office shall
define the programme of data dissemination to the Census data users.
Article 31
The Census results shall be published by the Office not later than:
1. the first results within 60 days after the Census has been finished,
2. basic data one year after the Census has been finished,
3. complete and detailed Census results two years after the Census has been
finished.
VI.
PROVISION OF FINANCIAL RESOURCES
Article 32
Financial resources for the preparation, organisation and conducting the
Census are provided for the Office within the state budget for 2001, 2002,
2003 and 2004.
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Total financial resources amount to 3,335,302,000 Slovenian tolars and
shall be allocated by individual year in the following amounts:
1. for 2001: 326. 202.000 tolars,
2. for 2002: 2.606.218.300 tolars,
3. for 2003: 252.781.700 tolars,
4. for 2004: 150.000.000 tolars.
Financial resources from the previous paragraph shall be revalued in
accordance with the growth of consumer prices in the Republic of Slovenia.
Article 33
Financial resources for the preparation, organisation and conducting the
Census shall be used to pay material costs, payment to the Census
performers and purchase of the necessary equipment.
VII. PENALTY PROVISIONS
Article 34
A legal person which does not provide the data required by the Census, or
does not provide them in due time (Article 12) shall be liable to pay a fine in
the amount from 500,000 to 1,000,000 Slovenian tolars for the offence.
A person responsible at the legal person, who commits an offence referred
to in the previous paragraph of this Article, shall be liable to pay a fine in
the amount from 50,000 to 100,000 Slovenian tolars.
Article 35
A fine in the amount from 50,000 to 100,000 Slovenian tolars shall be paid
for the offence committed by:
- an individual who does not provide the data required by the Census, or
gives incorrect data (Article 10, the first paragraph),
- an interviewer who forces the respondent against his or her will to
declare nationality (Article 10, the third paragraph),
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- an interviewer who does not enter the data given by the respondent into
the Census questionnaire, or enters wrong data (Article 10, the fourth
paragraph).
VIII. FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 36
Head of the Office shall prescribe the contents of the Census questionnaires
and methodological bases as well as all organisational instructions
necessary for conducting the Census.
Article 37
It is not allowed to change street, settlement and town names or house
numbers in the period from 1st January 2002 to 30th June 2002.
Article 38
Upon the proposal made by the Office, the Surveying and Mapping
Authority of the Republic of Slovenia shall revise the existing census
districts, the size of which should enable the interviewer to finish
interviewing within 15 days. This revision shall be completed when the
preparation of cartographic documentation is commenced.
Article 39
The Office shall report to the Government of the Republic of Slovenia and
general public about the tasks completed and about the financial resources
which have been spent on the Census preparation, organisation and
conducting every year not later than on 31st March for the previous year.
The Office shall submit the final report and final account of the spent
resources to the Government of the Republic of Slovenia and general public
not later than on 31st December 2004.
Article 40
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This Act comes into force on the fifteenth day after the publication in the
Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia.
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Act Amending the Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in
the Republic of Slovenia in 2001 Act (ZPPG01-A) (Official Gazette of
the Republic of Slovenia, No. 26-1584/2001),
published on 12 April 2001 and valid from 27 April 2001 on, stipulates
also:
Article 1
In the title of the Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the
Republic of Slovenia in 2001 Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of
Slovenia, No. 66/00) and in Article 1 of this Act the year 2001 shall be
changed into 2002.
Article 14
Within three months of the enforcement of this Act, the Government of the
Republic of Slovenia shall adopt the Decree on Identification of Buildings
and Dwellings from Article 4 of this Act.
Note: Article 4 of the amendments and modifications refers to article 5 of
the Act.
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the Republic of Slovenia in 2002 Act (ZPPG01) (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia,
No. 66-3056/2000 and 26-1584/2001)
Last change: 21 December 2001
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