Article 31 Statistics and Data Collection
363. The Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia publishes the data issued by the institutions in the field of social protection. The institutions concerned include those for placement of children and youth, for placement of adults, for professional rehabilitation of persons with disabilities and social welfare centres. The data are obtained through regular statistical researches carried out in two-year period and relate to the territory of the Republic of Serbia.
364. In the field of social protection, based on annual reports on the activities of the institutions for placement of children with disabilities, institutions for placement of persons with disabilities, institutions for placement of the old, the data are obtained about the number of institutions, number of placed beneficiaries – classified per sex, age, type of disability, parents, method of payment for placement, education, etc.
365. The annual reports on the activities of the institutions for professional rehabilitation provide the collection of data on rehabilitation and training of persons with disabilities at protection workshops, institutions and facilities for professional training.
366. The data on social protection of under-aged beneficiaries and beneficiaries of age are collected from the welfare centres each year on prescribed statistical forms.
367. Statistical monitoring by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy is carried out through an analysis of annual reports on the activities of the institutions for placement of beneficiaries as well as from the social welfare centres as the recipient bodies and custody bodies. The definitions of disability in accordance with strategic and legal objectives are used on the occasion of data collection.
368. The preparation of a by-law act on records and documentation of those rendering social protection has been in progress in accordance with the Law on Social Protection. Since the new Law on Social Protection shall ensure pluralism in the field of rendering of services of social protection (institutions and organizations of social protection financed from the budget, associations, entrepreneur, company, etc.), this by-law shall introduce an obligation of preparation of regular reports on the number of beneficiaries of services, types of rendered services, application of quality standards, number of appeals and claims by beneficiaries regarding the use of services, etc. All the above also includes the services intended for persons with disabilities.
369. At the same time, under the organization of the Social Protection Institute of the Republic of Serbia, an innovated reporting system is being introduced for all providers of social protection, which will ensure in future more efficient collection and processing of data about beneficiaries and rendered services, on spreading and coverage of services in the community, which are also intended for persons with disabilities, in compliance with indicators to be monitored in accordance with the international standards of protection of human rights.