Annual statistical yearbook
A full public yearbook: chapter inventory, suppressed cells, print-safe charts, and source notes an auditor can follow.
The annual statistical yearbook is the piece of work Storage Routecore is set up to finish. It is for a ministry department, a municipal statistics unit, an independent agency, or a donor-funded office in Georgia that must publish a yearly volume of figures — and that will be asked, in a sakrebulo or a parliamentary committee, where a number came from.
Who it is for
The named data owner inside the public body: the person who already extracts the registers, not the communications office. We need access to that person, a written list of chapters the minister or mayor has already promised, and the visual rules the body already uses on letterhead (or an honest admission that there are none).
The result
You receive a complete yearbook ready for the printer and a matching set of figures for the agency website. Every chart has a caption that states the unit, the year, the source, and the suppression rule. Tables carry the same footnotes. We do not hand over a folder of untitled exports.
What is included
- A chapter inventory workshop (half a day in Batumi or at your office in Adjara or Tbilisi) that locks the table list before any drawing begins.
- Cleaning and reshaping of the extracts you supply. We do not run a new survey.
- Charts redrawn for print: ranked bars, small multiples, and maps only where a map answers a geographic question.
- Greyscale checks on the office printer at Level 8, 39 Rustaveli Street, Batumi 6010.
- Source notes written in the language of the volume (Georgian, English, or both).
- One consolidated review round on a marked PDF from named chapter owners.
- Print-ready PDF, web-resolution figures, and a caption spreadsheet.
What is excluded
Primary data collection, enumerator training, software licences, website hosting, and legal advice on whether a cell may be published. If a cell must be suppressed, you decide; we apply the rule consistently and record it.
Who does the work
Tamara Beridze leads yearbooks. Nino Kvirikashvili draws the figures. Giorgi Tskitishvili writes source notes and checks that a footnote in chapter 4 does not contradict a footnote in chapter 9. The three of them remain the contacts until the files leave.
How the weeks run
- Inventory workshop and a written chapter list you countersign.
- Data extracts in the agreed formats, with a cut-off date.
- Draft tables, then draft charts — not the other way round.
- Agency review on a single PDF, with comments attributed to a person.
- Final files and a short handover note for the printer and the webmaster.
Duration and place
Eight weeks is realistic for a volume of six to eight chapters when extracts arrive on the date in the inventory. Fourteen weeks is typical when bilingual captions are required or when a chapter is still being invented in week three. Drafting is done in Batumi. We travel for the inventory and for a review meeting if the chapter owners cannot mark a PDF.
Preparation we ask of you
A named chapter owner for each chapter, last year’s volume if it exists, the suppression rule your lawyers already use, and a printer specification (trim size, colour or black, whether the pack will be photocopied for the sakrebulo).
Constraints
We will not draw three-dimensional columns, exploded pies, or dual-axis charts that hide a scale. We will not publish a map as decoration. If a comparison was promised in a speech and the register cannot support it, we write that in the note rather than invent a line.
Price
Quoted after the inventory. Starting figures are on the rates page. A deposit of forty percent is due when you countersign the chapter list; the balance is due on delivery of the final files. The yearbook is not sold by subscription.
Next step
Write to the Batumi desk with last year’s table of contents, the languages required, and the date the printer must receive the PDF. Ask for a scoping meeting, not a demonstration.