Traffic Accidents in Albania

Open Data Albania has conducted a reseach on the number of traffic accidents in Albania, as well as the number of injured in these accidents, based on data provided by INSTAT. Starting with year 1995, the number of traficc related accidents and injuries has varied as follows in the chart below:   Source: INSTATAnalysis and Comments: Open Data Albania As you can see in the…

Open date Albania has conducted a research on an indicator set to “survival up to age 65”. Survival up to age 65 is an estimate on the percentage of newborn babies who survive up to age 65. This provision is estimated if all the days of the newborn do not alter the conditions of mortality. This indicator is considered different for the two sexes and…

Open date Albania has conducted a research on maternal mortality in Albania. Maternal mortality rate is the number of women who die during pregnancy and childbirth per 100.000 live births. The report is based on World Bank data for the period 1992-2011. For the period 2007-2011 the maternal mortality rate stands at 31 deaths per hundred thousand births. This indicator has been in decline from…

Open Data Albania has conducted a research on the economic damages caused in the main municipalities of the country. Research analysis includes period during 2007-2010. The average frequency of auditing is an audit is exercised in 2.5 years. The data are taken from reports on the activity of the Supreme State Audit (SSA) and the State Budget, published by the Ministry of Finance. According to…

Open Data Albania has analyzed the dynamics and characteristics of the economic damages related to the sale and leasing of state property. The economic damages related to the sale and leasing of state property are identified as incorrect calculation or enforcement of tariffs when leasing public property. Furthermore failure to collect the rent of the leased objects which are being used by private entities without…

Economic Damages in the Public Procurement Field are generally identified in: calculations of the contract value; respecting of the monetary limits/selection of the public procurement procedure; preparation of the tender documents; listing of the technical specifications and evaluation criteria; submission and acceptance of offers presented; ensuring the validity of the offer; notification of the winner and administrative revision of the complaints; contract signing and relationship…

Debt taken from one state to finance a part of its expenditures, whether current or capital expenditures is associated with the obligation to pay the interest, which is often known as the cost of debt. Cost of public debt is one of the most financed functions from the state budget and for that reason the attention to this indicator is increasing continuously. A very important…

Debt per capita is an indicator that is calculated as the ratio of total public debt issued domestically and abroad (which has not yet been paid) by the population of that country. It serves to identify the amount of public debt that belongs to every citizen and is considered one of the key indicators that reflect a country’s ability to continue to pay the debt…

Open Data Albania has conducted an analysis on the value of economic damages for the period of 2005-2010. The total amount of economic damages is 31,402,373,000 Albanian Lek. Source: Supreme State Audit (SSA)Comments and Analysis: Open Data Albania (ODA) The behaviour of economic damages appears erratic. The highest value of economic damages was in 2009 reaching the level of 7,305,656,000 Albanian Lek, followed by the…

Economic damages in the tax sector is mainly caused as a result of violation of tax and fiscal legislation. Financial discipline violations were noted as deviations in the declaration of value added taxes (VAT) and income taxes; introducing several unknown cost in the balance sheet for the calculation of corporate taxes, failure to declare and to pay income taxes; failure of payments of income tax…

Open Data Albania has conducted a research on the number and causes of abortions in Albania. The gathered data for this indicator refer to all modes of pregnancy interruption, including spontaneous (involuntary miscarriage) and voluntary interruption (clinical intervention). Since 1994 voluntary abortion was legalized in Albania, reducing the cases of maternal mortality as a result of performing abortions in unsafe and primitive conditions. Abortion cases…

Open Data Albania has conducted a research on birth rate in Albania for the period of time 1960–2009, based on World Banka data. Crude birth rate indicates the number of live births occurring during the year, per 1,000 population estimated at midyear. Year 2009 marks the lowest level of birth rate for Albanians, with 12.8 births per 1000 inhabitants. This indicator has been steadily declining,…

Malnutrition is measured as the percentage of children under five who’s weight or height is more than two standard deviations below the corresponding median of the World Health Organization (WHO) international reference population. Open Data Albania has researched malnutrition in Albanian children, based on data obtained from World Bank and World Health Organization. Referring to the table below, it results that in 2009, the percentage…

Open Data Albania has conducted a research about the economic damages in the customs sector during the period 2005-2010. Economic damages are caused in the customs sector as a result of actions: avoidance of customs duties and erroneous calculations of tariffs, the difference in calculating the customs clearance and transportation costs, reduction of fines values without legal basis; non application or poor application of penalties…

According to the research of Open Data Albania, the economic damages caused in public administration is represented by the economic damages in the area of operating expenditures, wages system, bonuses and other expenditures. Economic damages noted in the area of operating expenditures results as a consequence of illegal actions such as travel expenses and per diem, expenses exceeding the limits for mobile and unjustified costs…