The meeting with Azerbaijani colleagues was opened by the President of the National Statistical Institute Mr. Sergey Tsvetarsky, who is also a Junior Member State Project Leader. He expressed satisfaction with mutual benefit for both statistical offices from implementing process of similar projects and expressed confidence for deepening bilateral cooperation during the forthcoming visit of the President of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The mission of the statisticians of the Republic of Azerbaijan started with two days training at Head Office of BNSI. It will be focused under following topics:
- Processing of metadata from the SILC survey and forming of target variables;
- Indicators Database and Variables description;
- Bulgarian SILC sample frame and sample design;
- Non-response adjustment and adjustment to external sources (calibration);
- GSBPM – SILC and HBS.
The Bulgarian team is headed by Bogdan Bogdanov PhD., Deputy President of the BNSI and Component 3 Leader “Statistics on income and living conditions” and is consisted of experts from Statistics on Living Conditions Department.
During the study visit statisticians from the State Statistical Committee will be acquainted with the experience of the Regional Statistical Office - Yug and Regional Statistical Office - Severoiztok in the organization and conduction of the SILC survey.
The implementation period of Twinning project “Support to the State Statistical Committee in Harmonisation of the National Statistics System of the Republic of Azerbaijan in line with European standards” is 24 mounts and is funded by the European Union.
