Annual statistical yearbook
A print-ready volume and a matching set of web figures: chapter inventory, suppressed cells, chart redraws that survive greyscale photocopying, and source notes written so an auditor can follow them.
Batumi · Public-sector reporting
The yearbook still has to make sense on paper
Storage Routecore draws the charts, tables, and source notes that ministries, municipalities, and agencies in Georgia put in front of a council, a donor, or a citizen who will never open the spreadsheet.
Sample figure note, employment chapter
Figure 12. Registered unemployment by municipality, Adjara, 2024. Bars ranked, not a pie. Source: agency administrative register, extracted 11 February 2025. Grey cells are suppressed below ten observations.
Who sits across the table
We work with statistics units, finance offices, and programme teams that already hold the numbers. They need those numbers turned into a document a sakrebulo member can mark up, or a bilingual pack a visiting mission can take home without a briefing officer attached.
The desk is in Batumi. Drafting happens here; workshops happen in the agency’s own meeting room when the chapter list is still in dispute.
The yearbook is the main piece of work
Most enquiries start with an annual statistical publication that has slipped a year, or a first edition that must match what Geostat already publishes so the figures do not collide in a parliamentary question.
Related commissions
The same drawing discipline applies to shorter public packs. These are not product tiers; they are the jobs agencies actually send us.
Budget chart set
Figures for a published budget or a mid-year review: spending by function, capital versus current, and notes that survive a finance-committee question.
Chart review of an existing report
A written review of the figures in a report you already have: what to redraw, what to drop, and which footnotes will not survive a question.
Municipal performance briefing
A quarterly pack for a mayor’s office or sakrebulo: a short set of figures that can be marked up in the chamber.
Survey release figures
Charts and tables for a public survey or census-style release, including suppression, weighted notes, and a plain-language figure list.
How a chapter actually leaves the building
Inventory, not a mood board
We sit with the data owner and list every table that must appear, every cell that must be suppressed, and every comparison the minister has already promised in writing.
Draft figures before prose
Charts are drawn first, in the agency’s colours, tested on a black-and-white printer in our Rustaveli office. Captions are written after the figure can stand alone.
One review round that is real
Comments come back as a marked PDF from the named chapter owner. We do not collect opinions from an unnamed working group and then guess.
They replaced our three-dimensional columns with ranked bars and wrote the suppression rule in the footnote instead of a separate manual. The sakrebulo pack was twenty pages thinner. The first education chapter still arrived a week late.
What agencies say after the printer
Praise in this field is usually about whether a figure survived a hostile question. Read longer notes from finance desks, utilities, and programme offices.
From the journal
Notes on yearbook structure, photocopy-safe colour, and Georgia’s budget calendar — written for people who still send packs to a printer.
Source notes that survive an audit question
A footnote is not a dumping ground. It is the sentence you will have to read aloud when someone doubts the bar.
What belongs in a yearbook chapter, and what belongs in the annex
If a table cannot survive a question in the chamber, it is not a chapter. It may still be an annex.