ESS Standard for Quality Reports Structure (ESQRS)
Contact | |
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Contact organisation | National Statistical Institute |
Contact organisation unit | Education and Culture Statistics Department |
Contact name | Nikolay Nikolov |
Contact person function | Chief Expert |
Contact mail address | 2, P. Volov Str.; 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria |
Contact email address | |
Contact phone number | + 359 2 9857 487 |
Contact fax number | |
Statistical presentation | |
Data description | The data refer to the number of museums and since 2018 the definition is in full accordance with the Cultural Heritage Act (Prom. in the SG 19 / 13 March 2009). In the data are included indicators for the organized events, stocks units (movable cultural values), visits and of which: in the day for free entrance and visits of foreigners, staff, incomes from European projects and programmes and expenditures, as well as data for the material basis of museums, number of museums which use a computer and number of museums with at least one specialized educational programme. |
Classification system | · By thematic scope of the museum; · By territorial scope of the museum; · By form of ownership of the museum; · According to the scientific and cultural fields of the museum; · Staff category of the museum; · Nomenclature of territorial units for statistical purposes in Bulgaria (NUTS). |
Sector coverage | Includes the activity of all registered museums, without collections with public importance (museum collections). |
Statistical concepts and definitions | Museum is a cultural and science organisation which seeks out, studies, preserves and presents cultural values, natural specimens and anthropological remains with cognitive, educational and aesthetic purposes. |
Statistical unit | Units of observation are museums, whose stocks units are movable cultural values. |
Statistical population | The target population is all open for visit museums whose stocks units are movable cultural values. |
Reference area | The whole country.
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Time coverage | From 2002. |
Base period | Not applicable. |
Statistical processing | |
Source data | Data source are all museums, whose collections are cultural values. |
Frequency of data collection | Yearly. |
Data collection | Data are collected via electronic questionnaire "Report on the activities of the museums". Respondents send the questionnaire by e-mail. |
Data validation | · The logical control of data in the RSO; · The logic control of aggregate data in the head office of the NSI. |
Data compilation | Data processing is performed with Microsoft Access. |
Adjustment | Not applicable. |
Quality management | |
Quality assurance | Not applicable. |
Quality assessment | Not applicable. |
Relevance | |
User needs | The main users of statistical · Ministry of Culture; · Users (including media) interested in the activity of museums in the Republic of Bulgaria. |
User satisfaction | Not applicable. |
Completeness | High degree of completeness is ensured according to the methodology. |
Data completeness - rate | Not applicable (census). |
Accuracy and reliability | |
Overall accuracy | NSI conducts an annual exhaustive survey which characterized the activity of the museums. There have been several preliminary estimates for incomplete or missing data, using final methods when it is possible. |
Sampling error | Not applicable. |
Sampling errors - indicators | Not applicable (census). |
Non-sampling error | Not applicable. |
Coverage error | Not applicable (census). |
Over-coverage - rate | Not applicable (census). |
Common units - proportion | Not applicable (census). |
Measurement error | Not applicable (census). |
Non response error | Not applicable (census). |
Unit non-response - rate | Not applicable (census). |
Item non-response - rate | Not applicable (census). |
Processing error | Not applicable (census). |
Imputation - rate | Not applicable (no imputations). |
Model assumption error | Not applicable (census). |
Seasonal adjustment | Not applicable (no seasonal adjustments). |
Data revision - policy | Not applicable (preliminary data not published). |
Data revision - practice | Not applicable (preliminary data not published). |
Data revision - average size | Not applicable (only final data is published). |
Timeliness and punctuality | |
Timeliness | The data for museums are available in the form of tables 5 months after the end of the data collection. |
Time lag - first results | 18 weeks |
Time lag - final results | Not applicable (only final results published). |
Punctuality | The terms of the previous position are strictly observed. |
Punctuality - delivery and publication | Not applicable (data published on exact date). |
Coherence and comparability | |
Comparability - geographical | Not applicable. |
Asymmetry for mirror flows statistics - coefficient | Not applicable (no flows). |
Comparability - over time | In 2018 there is a break in the time series of the data on the number of museums. |
Length of comparable time series | From 2002. |
Coherence - cross domain | Not applicable. |
Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics | Not applicable (annual survey). |
Coherence - National Accounts | Not applicable. |
Coherence - internal | Not applicable. |
Accessibility and clarity | |
News release | Regular press release. |
Publications | · Statistical Yearbook; · Statistical Reference Book; · 'Bulgaria' (brochure); · Regions, districts and municipalities in the Republic of Bulgaria. |
On-line database | Data on museums are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Culture - Museums: https://www.nsi.bg/en/node/4655 and Informational System "Infostat": https://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/module.jsf?x_2=37 |
Data tables - consultations | Not avaliable. |
Micro-data access | Anonymised individual data can be provide for scientific and research purposes, and for individual request according to the Rules for the provision of anonymised individual data for scientific and research purposes. |
Other | Information service on request, according to the Rules for the dissemination of statistical products and services to NSI. |
Metadata - consultations | Not avaliable. |
Documentation on methodology | Survey Methodology: https://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/metadata/Culture_8_Methodology_en.pdf |
Metadata completeness – rate | 100% |
Quality documentation | Quality documents are under preparation. |
Cost and burden | |
The average length for filling the statistical report by the respondents is about 60 minutes. | |
Confidentiality | |
Confidentiality - policy | · Law on Statistics; · Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society. |
Confidentiality – data treatment | Individual data are not published in accordance with article 25 of the Law on Statistics. The publishing of individual data can be performed only in accordance with article 26 of the same law. |
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