Sectors	Democracy and governance
EU Acquis Chapters	Statistics
EU funds	1 389 442 €
Implementation period	2018 - 2024
Categories	Climate action ;  Digital ;  Civil society;  Gender (Mouse hover to see significance)

This project aimed to strengthen the statistical system in BiH and to increase the number of statistics harmonised with EU standards (within economic and business statistics). Project website: www.dst.dk/bosnia2018-20; FB page: EUtwinningStatisticsBiH.

Implementation of this project will result in: - Regional accounts, as a subsystem of national accounts, introduced and regional indicators at NUTS 2 level produced in line with EU standards was partly achieved, since it was only possible to produce a test version of the regional accounts, - Volume of characteristics in the Statistical Business Register increased and quality of data improved in line with EU standards, - Use of administrative data for producing structural business statistics established was partly achieved, since it was difficult to access the needed administrative in the Federation of BiH, - Construction producer price index for division F42 – Civil engineering works produced, - New indicators for producer prices in services produced, - New indicators on demand-side tourism statistics, in accordance with EU Regulation 692/2011 (Annex II – National tourism) produced and made available to users, was partly achieved, since the analysis of data was delayed. However, the statistics was published after the project completed and therefore the result is achieved, - Quality criteria and quality reporting on balance payments statistics produced, - Quarterly international investment position statistics developed, - Potential administrative data sources have been mapped for all four beneficiary institutions and their importance for producing statistics have been prioritized by each of the institutions, - Administrative data on VAT has been analyzed for use in business statistics, - Training courses in the statistical programming software R were conducted for non-IT staff in order to make them less dependent on IT staff for processing data; - The beneficiary institutions have increased their capacity of its staff and have taken further steps towards aligning with EU standards on the compilation and dissemination of statistics.