Quality Report- Country Name

/ QUALITY REPORT
ESSPROS PENSION BENEFICIARIES

(according to CommissionRegulation (EC) No 1322/2007 of 12 November 2007, published in OJ L294, 13.11.2007, p.5)

MEMBERSTATE:ROMANIA

REFERENCE YEAR:2009

REPORT ISSUED:April 2011

CONTACT DETAILS:

NAME:LAVINIA ELENA BALTEANU; CRISTINA AVRAM

INSTITUTION:NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS

E-MAIL ADDRESS:;

TELEPHONE NUMBER:004021 317 77 69

POSTAL ADDRESS:

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS, ROMANIA, BUCHAREST,

16TH LIBERTATII AV., COD 050706

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1. Accuracy and Reliability / Geographical coverage

1.1 Coverage of data sources*(part 1)

Name of data source / Type of data source used (1)
(see regulation point 1.1.1.1) / Frequency of the data source (2)
(see regulation point 1.1.1.1) / Timelag in months(2)(3)
(see regulation point 1.1.1.1) / Schemes covered (please indicate which scheme numbers are covered by this data source)
(see regulation point 1.1.1.1)

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National House of Public Pensions (CNPP) – (former National House of Pensions and Other Social Insurance Rights) and Ministry of Culture / -Administrative data: stock data at 31st of December
-Estimates based on Household Budget Survey / Monthly data collection at the administrative data source level / One month
Stock data at 31st of December for previous year (N-1) is available at the end of January current year (N).
All necessary information for computing the estimates is available in the same time. / Scheme 21 (SPP):
Scheme regarding the public system of pensions and other social other social insurance rights
Pensions House of Lawyers / -Administrative data: stock data at 31st of December
-Estimates based on Household Budget Survey / Monthly data collection at the administrative data source level / One month
Stock data at 31st of December for previous year (N-1) is available at the end of January current year (N).
All necessary information for computing the estimates is available in the same time. / Scheme 22 (PAVOC):
Scheme regarding the pension system of lawyers
Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Interior and Administration, Romanian Intelligence Service / -Administrative data: stock data at 31st of December
-Estimates based on Household Budget Survey / Monthly data collection at the administrative data source level / One month
Stock data at 31st of December for previous year (N-1) is available at the end of January current year (N).
All necessary information for computing the estimates is available in the same time. / Scheme 23 (PMIL):
Scheme regarding the pensions of state military
Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Protection, National House of Public Pensions (CNPP) (former National House of Pensions and Other Social Insurance Rights) / -Administrative data: stock data at 31st of December
-Estimates based on Household Budget Survey / Monthly data collection at the administrative data source level / One month
Stock data at 31st of December for previous year (N-1) is available at the end of January current year (N).
All necessary information for computing the estimates is available in the same time. / Scheme 38 (PENSOC):
Minimum guaranteed social pension

*Please be exhaustive by mentioning all pension schemes

1. Please specify: "Administrative data", "Register based data", "National Accounts", "Survey", "Census", "Other". For category "Other", please specify the type

2. Please specify: "12 months" or "6 months", etc.

3. The time lag is the period between the reference date (in this collection 31st of December 2009 or 1st January 2010) and the moment in which data sources are available

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1.1 Coverage of data sources (part 2) – please note that part 1 and part 2 is in fact one table and have only been separated to facilitate the completion of the table

Name of data source
(Please indicate the same data sources as in table 1.1 part 1) / Any additional information regarding this data source (i.e. reports on problems -including delays- which lead to estimation of data) (4) (see regulation point 1.1.1.1) / Geographical coverage (i.e. which parts of the country are covered by this data source) (5)(see regulation point 1.2.1)

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Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Protection, National House of Public Pensions (CNPP) (former National House of Pensions and Other Social Insurance Rights) and Ministry of Culture / Scheme 21 (SPP):
Scheme regarding the public system of pensions and other social other social insurance rights
Not available data by gender and age groups for performing the transfer of number of beneficiaries of disability pension over the standard retirement age from disability function to old age function.
In order to compute estimates, data from Household budget survey used. / Full coverage:
Scheme 21 (SPP):
Scheme regarding the public system of pensions and other social other social insurance rights
Pensions House of Lawyers / Scheme 22 (PAVOC):
Scheme regarding the pension system of lawyers
Not available data by gender and age groups for performing the transfer of number of beneficiaries of disability pension over the standard retirement age from disability function to old age function.
In order to compute estimates, data from Household budget survey used. / Full coverage:
Scheme 22 (PAVOC):
Scheme regarding the pension system of lawyers
Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Interior and Administration, Romanian Intelligence Service / Scheme 23 (PMIL):
Scheme regarding the pensions of state military
Not available data by gender and age groups for performing the transfer of number of beneficiaries of disability pension over the standard retirement age from disability function to old age function.
In order to compute estimates, data from Household budget survey used. / Full coverage:
Scheme 23 (PMIL):
Scheme regarding the pensions of state military
Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Protection, National House of Public Pensions (CNPP) (former National House of Pensions and Other Social Insurance Rights) / Scheme 38 (PENSOC):
Minimum guaranteed social pension
Pension provided to the insured persons, beneficiaries of schemes 21, 22 and 23 of who’s level of pensions is below 350 RON (300 RON until October 2009).
This isdeterminedas differencebetweenthe pension level in payment for those beneficiaries and the amount above received by the target group.
Not available data by gender and age groups for performing the transfer of number of beneficiaries of disability pension over the standard retirement age from disability function to old age function.
In order to compute estimates, data from Household budget survey used.
/ Full coverage:
Scheme 38 (PENSOC):
Minimum guaranteed social pension

4. Please fill in this column only in cases of: delays, data source contains estimates, incomplete coverage for some schemes. In cases of schemes not complete covered, please, specify the number of the scheme and the code of the item for which no data are available and estimations are needed.

5. Please indicate "Full coverage" if the data source covers the whole country. If the data source contains data for some regions only, please specify the region.

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1.2 Geographical comparability*(see regulation point 2.2)

Degree of coverage in terms of schemes(6)
(if there are cases of schemes, to be potentially included in ESSPROS that are completely or partially missed or not available) / Degree of coverage in terms of beneficiaries
(whether for the schemes included that data provided are exhaustive or if a number of pension beneficiaries are not available (partial return) / Cases of non-application of the ESSPROS methodology in the form of a comprehensive list
(whether there are cases (both schemes and benefits) of possible non-adherence with the ESSPROS methodology: provision from specific sources, for example, could imply the use of definitions and methodologies not in line with our Manual)

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Scheme 21 (SPP):
Scheme regarding the public system of pensions and other social insurance rights - covered / Exhaustive data for all schemes from primary data source.
See also item 2.1 of quality report. / No
Scheme 22 (PAVOC):
Scheme regarding the pension system of lawyers- covered / Exhaustive data for all schemes from primary data source.
See also item 2.1 of quality report. / No
Scheme 23 (PMIL):
Scheme regarding the pensions of state military- covered / Exhaustive data for all schemes from primary data source.
See also item 2.1 of quality report / No
Scheme 38 (PENSOC):
Minimum guaranteed social pension - covered / Exhaustive data for all schemes from primary data source.
See also item 2.1 of quality report. / No

*Please note that this table is referred to coverage and consistency with ESSPROS methodology of final figures.

6. If a scheme is completely missed in final figures please specify its number in the first column and in the second column specify "Missing". If only some items are missing, please specify in the first column the number of the scheme and in the second column the items that are missing.

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2. Methodologies and assumptions used in the treatment of double counting and in estimates(please give details for all cases)

2.1 Estimates for schemes on which no data are available(see regulation point 2.1.2)

Schemes / Items (7) / Type of estimate(8) / Summary of estimation procedure

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Scheme 21 (SPP):
Scheme regarding the public system of pensions and other social insurance rights / 1131111 / - based on a survey / According to the ESSPROS methodology, the number of pension beneficiaries who receive disability pension, but who are over the standard retirement age have to be included under old age function.
Data by age groups is not available. This is the reason for which some estimates had to be performed while calculating the number of pension beneficiaries who receive disability pension, but who are over the standard retirement age.
The following estimation method was used:
-extracting from Household Budget Survey data on number of pension beneficiaries by types of pensions and by age groups;
-computing, from the above mentioned selection, the number of disability pensioners over the standard retirement age out of the total number of disability pensioners;
-applying the proportion mentioned-above to the number of disability pensioners collected from administrative data source and after
- making the transfer of the value obtained fromdisability function to old age function.
Scheme 22 (PAVOC):
Scheme regarding the pension system of lawyers / 1131111 / - based on a survey / The same estimation method used for Scheme 21.
Scheme 23 (PMIL):
Scheme regarding the pensions of state military / 1131111 / -based on a survey / The same estimation method used for Scheme 21.
Scheme 38 (PENSOC):
Minimum guaranteed social pension / 1132111 / -based on a survey / This pension isdeterminedas differencebetweenthe pension level in payment forthe insured persons, beneficiaries of schemes 21, 22 and 23 whose level of pensions is below 350 RON (300 RON until October 2009) and the amount above received by the target group.
According to the ESSPROS methodology, the number of pension beneficiaries who receive disability pension, but who are over the standard retirement age have to be included under old age function.
Data by age groups is not available. This is the reason for which some estimates had to be performed while calculating the number of pension beneficiaries who receive disability pension, but who are over the standard retirement age.
The following estimation method was used:
-extracting from Household Budget Survey data on number of pension beneficiaries by types of pensions and by age groups;
-computing, from the above mentioned selection, the number of disability pensioners over the standard retirement age out of the total number of disability pensioners;
-applying the proportion mentioned-above to the number of disability pensioners collected from administrative data source and after
-making the transfer of the value obtained from disability function to old age function.

7. Specify only the codes of the items concerned. In cases of breakdowns, please specify: "breakdown of a total by gender", or "breakdown of a total between MT and NMT pensions", etc.

8. Specify one of the following estimation methods:"based on known distributions", "based on previous data", "based on a hypothesis", "based on a survey", "based on extrapolation", and "other". For category "other", please specify the method.

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2.2 Information on the treatment of double counting (please indicate all types of double counting occurring in your country and specify the treatment, if any, for each of these cases)(see regulation point 2.1.2)

(a) for a pension category inside a single scheme

Item / Scheme / Treatment
(yes or not) / Type of treatment(9) / Summary of the treatment
1121111 / - / No / - / -
1121112 / - / No / - / -
1122111 / - / No / - / -
1122112 / - / No / - / -
1131111 / - / No / - / -
1131112 / - / No / - / -
1131113 / - / No / - / -
1132111 / - / No / - / -
1132112 / - / No / - / -
1132113 / - / No / - / -
1141111 / - / No / - / -
1141112 / - / No / - / -
1161113 / - / No / - / -
1162113 / - / No / - / -

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9. Specify one of the following methods: "using a personal identification number", "using micro level data", "estimation based on previously known data", "estimation based on a hypothesis", "estimation based on a survey", "other".For category "other", please specify the method.

Comments on this type of double counting:

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No double counting: a person is not entitled (allowed) to receive more than one pension in the same time.

The only case of receiving two pensions is the case of beneficiaries of scheme 38 (PENSOC). The pension granted on the base of scheme 38 is provided to the insured persons, beneficiaries of schemes 21 or 22 or 23 whose level of pensions is below 350 RON. The exact number of pension beneficiaries entitled to scheme 38 (PENSOC) and also one of scheme 21, 22, 23 is known. Thus, no treatment of double counting needed but in order to avoid the double counting at total level, the number of beneficiaries of scheme 38 was not included (once again) in total schemes.

For 2009, only some beneficiaries of scheme 21 had pensions below the established level.

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(b) between schemes (a pension category for all schemes):

Item / Schemes / Treatment
(yes or not) / Type of treatment(10) / Summary of treatment
1121111 / - / No / - / -
1121112 / - / No / - / -
1122111 / - / No / - / -
1122112 / - / No / - / -
1131111 / - / No / - / -
1131112 / - / No / - / -
1131113 / - / No / - / -
1132111 / - / No / - / -
1132112 / - / No / - / -
1132113 / - / No / - / -
1141111 / - / No / - / -
1141112 / - / No / - / -
1161113 / - / No / - / -
1162113 / - / No / - / -

10. Specify one of the following methods: "using a personal identification number", "using micro level data", "estimation based on previously known data", "estimation based on a hypothesis", "estimation based on a survey", "other".For category "other", please specify the method.

Comments on this type of double counting:

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No double counting: a person is not entitled (allowed) to receive more than one pension in the same time.

For 2009, only some beneficiaries of scheme 21 had pensions below the established level.

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Item / Double counting
(yes or not) / Treatment
(yes or not) / Type of treatment(11) / Summary of treatment
1121111 - 1122111 / No / No / - / -
1121112 - 1122112 / No / No / - / -
1131111 - 1132111 / No / No / - / -
1131112 - 1132112 / No / No / - / -
1131113 - 1132113 / No / No / - / -
1141111 - 1142111 / No / No / - / -
1161113 - 1162113 / No / No / - / -

11. Specify one of the following methods: "using a personal identification number", "using micro level data", "estimation based on previously known data", "estimation based on a hypothesis", "estimation based on a survey", "other".For category "other", please specify the method.

Comments on this type of double counting:

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No double counting: a person is not entitled (allowed) to receive more than one pension in the same time.

For 2009, only some beneficiaries of scheme 21 had pensions below the established level.

(d) between categories in aggregation:

To obtain functions at "all schemes" level

Item / Double counting
(yes or not) / Treatment
(yes or not) / Type of treatment(12) / Summary of treatment
1120111 – 1120112 / No / No / - / -
1130111 – 1130112 – 1130113 / No / No / - / -

To obtain the totals of survivors and old age pensioners and the total of pensioners in the country

Item / Double counting
(yes or not) / Treatment
(yes or not) / Type of treatment(12) / Summary of treatment
1190110 / No / No / - / -
1120110 - 1130110 - 1140111 - 1160113 / No / No / - / -

12. Specify one of the following methods: "using a personal identification number", "using micro level data", "estimation based on previously known data", "estimation based on a hypothesis", "estimation based on a survey", "other".For category "other", please specify the method.

Comments on this type of double counting:

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No double counting: a person is not entitled (allowed) to receive more than one pension in the same time.