Open Data Albania is examining the data concerning Albanians seeking asylum in European Union and EFTA countries. The statistics for EU asylum seekers do not include UK asylum requests, having already left the Union. Asylum seeker is any third-country national or stateless person, who has submitted an application for international protection or has been included in such an application as a family member during a…
Open Data Albania has conducted a research on capital growth and earnings performance of second-tier banks operating in Albania. In the period under review, active banks operating in the country have been reduced from 14 at the end of 2018 to 11 in 2022. This reduction in number has come as a result of the merger and absorption of banks or liquidation at the will…
Open Data Albania is examining the data regarding the crime ratio in the country. This indicator reveals the incidence of criminal offenses (crimes or misdemeanors), pondering how the statistics we’ve retained compare versus a fixed number of people, trying to offer an much accurate overview of the distribution of crime in the country as possible. As a rule of thumb, the crime ratio expresses the…
AIS / Open Data Albania presented a Policy Paper on Integrity Control of Public Contractors, EU practice and the Albanian Context Aranita Brahaj, the head of the Organization, emphasized that many companies in the country that have acquired the status of Contractor in Public Procurement; Investor in State Assets or Public Licenses in Strategic sectors, are Shell or Offshore companies with unidentified beneficial owners, located…
February, the Month of Civil Engagement for European Integration, began with an event of the Organization AIS, whose purpose was to present a Policy Paper titled “Control of the Integrity of Public Contractors, EU practices and contracting in the Albanian Context”, drafted in the frame of the C1-EU- NPA Project. His Excellency, the ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Tirana, Mr. Reinout Vos,…
This article aims to draw attention to the planning of budget expenditures based on different functions for the year 2023 and their categorization by Government program. The data were extracted from the Plans approved by the Law on the 2023 Budget (Law No. 84/2022). For 2023, the planned expenditures amount to 698 billion Lek. The largest portion of expenditures is composed by the function of…
Open Data is looking into the number of Albanian asylum seekers in the United Kingdom, at the same time processing the data by gender and age group. The figures were obtained from the United Kingdom’s Office for Official Statistics. Asylum seeker is any third-country national or stateless person, who has submitted an application for international protection or has been included in such an application as…
Maritime transport is the main method for the transportation of goods in Albania and until 2021, this sector accounted for almost half of the total import – export transportation of goods. The situation headed towards a turning point in 2022, where the processing of goods through seaports showed a decrease in the volume, as well as share against the total transportation of goods. The data…
The European Sovereignty Index was built to measure the contribution of EU member states to the construction of European sovereignty. The latter is to be achieved by achieving a high level of implementation of common European policies, achieving the common objectives at European level by member states, but it also independent initiatives from member states designed to help in the strengthening of the European coordination…
Open Data Albania is bringing the statistical data related to criminal offenses against children, marriage and family uo to date. These offenses are provided for in section IX of the Penal Code. The research is based on data obtained from the Statistical Yearbooks of the Ministry of Justice. In total, this section consists of figures of criminal offenses provided for in twelve articles. Criminal offences,…
Open Data Albania is engaged in bringing up to date the shifts and volume of criminal offenses with an electoral background in Albania, during the last sixteen years. The data has been extracted from the Statistical Yearbooks of the Ministry of Justice. The current Penal Code contains twelve articles, which provide for crimes and criminal misdemeanors that affect electoral processes. Only in 2012, the legislator…
In 2021, 22% of those convicted for the criminal offense of corruption are women. This percentage is considerable, if we take into account that only 13% of the total number of convicted for criminal offenses are women. Open Data Albania, based on the Statistical Yearbook of the Ministry of Justice, has examined the data on corruption-related crimes through the 2013-2021 period, as well as gender…
Open Data Albania is examining the gender pay gap in Albania, in the Region, as well as EU. The study also aims to shed light on the gender gap among younger people, namely under 25 years old. The data assessed for the purpose of this article were obtained from the National Institute of Statistics (INSTAT) and the European Institute of Statistics (EUROSTAT). In 2021, in…
Companies linked to Socialist Party officials and a handful of businesses known for winning concessions or licenses are among the biggest beneficiaries of Reconstruction tenders, while work is dragging on beyond schedule. It’s 12:00 on a sunny March day and Evelina Zguro takes advantage of her lunch break to take a look at the pit, upon which her apartment building has just started to be…
AIS returns to its tradition of Datathon and Hackathon Albania. This November we started working with a group of young people for the DataThon that will be held in January 2023. DataThon comes from the words Data and Marathon. They are events where people meet to work together on an idea and to collect, analyze, visualize and communicate findings related to data. AIS has previously…
