Author: Open Data Albania

Open Data Albania is carrying out investigations on electoral funds and expenditures used during election campaign of 2015 by the electoral entity, the Socialist Party (SP). In this campaign for the local elections, SP has been provided a fund of ALL 9.3 million. In the financial report that was submitted, SP claims to have spent ALL 109.7 million, indicating so that the funds had been…

Election entities are likely to be financed during election campaigns by private donors, local individuals or legal persons. Electoral Code has provided for the rules of donations to electoral entities and cases when donations from donor entities comprises a conflict of interest. Individuals, or legal entities can not donate larger amounts than one million. Each donation, which amounts more than one hundred thousand ALL is…

Open Data Albania is exploring on funding and expenditures made during elections campaign 2015 from the electoral entity, Democratic Party, DP. In this campaign for the local elections, the Democratic Party has been provided with a fund of ALL 81.1 million. In the financial report submitted, DP claims to have spent only 78.8 million ALL, marking so for the first time a surplus of funds…

Open Data Albania is updating the information regarding the exchange rates for such currencies as the British Pound, GBP, EUR, CHF, Swiss Franc and US Dollar, USD, against Albanian ALL during 2015, according to the official rate of the Bank of Albania. In a country with a small and opened economy as Albania, ALL exchange rate plays an important role in the price level and…

Open Data Albania is updating data on the representation of women in Parliament. On 1 January 2016, the Albanian Parliament had thirty-one female deputies. A year ago, the Parliament had only 26 deputies and the rate of their participation in the Assembly was 18.6%.  On January 1, 2016 the participation rate of women in the parliament was 22.14%. Fifteen female deputies are currently representing the…

Open Data Albania is publishing the rankings in Global Terrorism Index. The data concerning a period from 2006 up to 2014 are based on ratings of the Institute of Economics and Peace. The index measures and evaluates the direct and indirect impact of terrorist events, including victims, injuries, material damages and psychological effects they are triggering. The indicator shows only the current impact of terrorism…

Open Data Albania is investigating the level of unconditional and specific transfers to local government units for 2016. The unconditional transfer aims to supplement to local government units the difference between the needs for expenditures and revenues they are generating. In 2016, the unconditional transfer amounted to ALL 11.8 billion, from which 96.3% was allocated to municipalities and 3.7% to counties. In addition, the approved…

Statistics on court cases and offenders convicted of criminal offences related to corruption and abuse of office while exercising a public function. 1.1 Dynamics. The number of cases and offenders for this category of criminal offences is continuously increasing from year to year. The trend 2004-2009 is increasing.   More concretely, the following numbers of cases were registered by year:  Source: Ministry of Justice, Annual…

The team working at AIS organization, a promoter of Open Data Albania, is setting up a database called Transparent Procurement, which will contain well-structured data about public procurement procedures conducted at Local Government (Municipality) level. Monitoring of procurement procedures of local governments coincides with an interest to directly monitor proceedings related to services and public works, which have impacts on citizens’ daily life. On the…

Open Data Albania has updated data on the number of employees to be employed in the budgetary institutions in 2016. The data are extracted from the accompanying tables of the law on the state budget 2016. Budgetary Institutions are ministries, directories under direct subordination and independent and constitutional institutions. Their salaries are covered by the state budget. During 2011-2014, the number of budgetary employees has…

Open Data Albania is investigating on the types and rates of national taxes in the Republic of Albania. The law no.9632, dated 30.10.2006 as amended, provides for nine types of local taxes: Simplified income tax for small business; Tax on immovable property, which includes tax on buildings and tax on agricultural land and territory; Local  hotel bed occupancy fee; Local infrastructure impact tax due to…

Open Data Albania is collecting data on the value of the quotas, or shares in audiovisual media by their holders. The figures are based on information published by the National Registration Center, NRC, where each business is obliged to reveal such data. The information is an overview of the situation until November 2015. Audio Visual Media are called all those business companies which exercise their…

The following analysis from Open Data Albania is focused on the monthly expenses of a typical family by category of product and services in Albania for the 2007-2014 period. The data is based on survey data collected by INSTAT for the years 2007, 2009 and 2014. Expenses for consumption include every product and service bought, to fulfill individual needs of the family unit, without taking…

Thefollowing analysis from Open Data Albania is focused on the monthlyprivate consumption of an average family in Albania for the 2007-2014 period. Private consumption (also known as the Household final consumption expenditure) includes the total expense for products and services from resident families for their individual demands. This indicator doesn’t equal the Family Unit Expenses calculated by INSTAT based on its surveys, because of the…

Open Data Albania is investigating on indicators of the public procurement process in those municipalities where mayors have been reelected for another term during Local Government Elections of 21 June 2015. Mr Qazim Sejdini, Major of Elbasan Municipality, was re-elected for a third term. The research was focused on public procurements announced in the twelve months of 2014. The indicators provide information on the number…