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PUBLIC STATEMENT REGARDING MISSUSE OF STATISTICAL DATA
23.06.2016

 Respected users,

As the leading authorised body of the statistical system of the Republic of Macedonia, the State Statistical Office is obliged to produce public statements in case of missuse or misinterpretation of the statistical data.

Namely, in the last days some of the media in the Republic of Macedonia have presented data from the publication “Household Consumption in the Republic of Macedonia, 2015”, which was recently published by the State Statistical Office.

In the news that was released by some of the media, the following has been stated “almost 30% of the households in Macedonia have around 100 euros at their disposal per month”. These data do not correspond at all to the data published in the publication of the State Statistical Office, since they are unfounded and, most probably, a result of the personal incorrect calculations of the author of the article.

Namely, the total estimated number of households in the Republic of Macedonia, 561 693, is divided into 10 decile groups, and the first decile group includes 56 006 households that have annual average of 78 654 denars at their disposal, which calculated on a monthly level is 6555 denars. This number of households represents 9,97% of the total number of households in the Republic of Macedonia, and not 30%, as stated by the author of the article.

SSO would like to advise the users to take into consideration the public statement when using the data from the publication “Household Consumption in the Republic of Macedonia, 2015”.



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