Economic Results of Non-profit Institutions
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METHODOLOGY FOR THE STATISTICAL SURVEY
ON ECONOMIC RESULTS OF NON-PROFIT INSTITUTIONS
(EMPLOYING 20+ PEOPLE)
FOR 2003
This publication includes results derived from the statistical survey on workers, wages, revenues, expenses, investments, assets, liabilities, and other financial indicators for the year 2003, for which Questionnaire NI 1b-01 was used. The survey was conducted in reporting units – non-profit institutions employing 20+ people – classified to Sector S.15 ‘Non-profit institutions serving households’ of the Nomenclature of Institutional Sectors and Subsectors’.
As independent institutional units of the private sector, the non-profit institutions are not established to make profits – their activity and principal function lies in ensuring mutually beneficial activities for households. Activities like these are mostly activities that cannot be pursued effectively in any other way and that are indispensable for the development of civil society. They are essential to ensure primary and/or secondary social needs. The membership of these institutions is voluntary. Profits made by the institution, if any, are not distributed to its members or entities, which founded, manage or control the institution. If made, they are allocated to programmes and/or activities of the institution or to individuals for whom the institutions was established be that for charitable or philanthropic reasons or for the need to support a specific group of persons in their business policy or other areas of social life (such as education or health and social care).
Activities of the non-profit institutions serving households are non-market in nature, occasional sales resulting from the secondary economic activity account for less than 50 % of operating costs. In pursuing an economic (secondary) activity, one should bear in mind that the secondary activity must not be at the expense of the primary activity and that the revenue from the former must be used to support principal (non-profit) intentions of the institution. Main financial resources of the non-profit institutions serving households include subsidies and financial aid (from the government, households or foreign funds), membership dues, gifts or property income. Supplementary resources may come from occasional sales of goods and services, i.e. from secondary economic (taxed) activities. Over 50 % of operating costs (linked with production and rendering of services in the framework of the principal activity) are financed and controlled by households.
In 2003, Sector S.15 comprised the following institutions: civic associations (unions, clubs, movements, societies, trade unions, etc), incl. their organizational components, political parties, political movements, church organizations, religious societies, foundations, endowment founds, generally beneficial companies, public schools (except for public universities), professional chambers, health establishments, associations of legal entities, and associations of owners of dwelling units.
Similarly to 2002, the statistical survey on non-profit institutions employing 20+ individuals run in 2003 was also exhaustive. The statistical questionnaire NI 1b-01 was circulated to all 472 active units coming under institutional sector S.15, of which about 465 responded. The response rate was thus 98,5 %. Non-response imputation was made for active units that failed to return the questionnaire.