ESS Standard for Quality Reports Structure (ESQRS)
| Contact | |
|---|---|
| Contact organisation | National Statistical Institute |
| Contact organisation unit | Education and Culture Statistics Department |
| Contact name | Elena Tsankova |
| Contact person function | State expert |
| Contact mail address | 2, P. Volov Str.; 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Contact email address | |
| Contact phone number | +359 2 9857 511 |
| Contact fax number | |
| Statistical presentation | |
| Data description | Statistics on vocational training in Vocational Training Centers, Vocational Gymnasiums and Vocational Colleges provide data on vocational training against payment for persons aged 16 years and over for the attainment of professional qualification level. |
| Classification system | · International Standard Classification of Education, 2011 version (ISCED 2011); · Eurostat Fields of Education and Training, 1999 (FOET) and list of professions for vocational education and training; · ISCED Fields of Education and Training 2013 (ISCED-F 2013). |
| Sector coverage | The survey covers all licensed Vocational Training Centers, Vocational Gymnasiums and until 2021 Vocational Colleges in Bulgaria, according to the Law on Vocational Education and Training. |
| Statistical concepts and definitions | A pupil/student is every person enrolled in an educational program of formal education according to ISCED irrespective of the mode of attendance. Formal education includes educational programmes implemented in legitimate educational institutions created according to the existing legal order. Graduates are those pupils/students who have received a document for a completed level of education and/or professional qualification level from a legitimate educational institution, containing all the necessary records and stamps according to the law. |
| Statistical unit | Pupils/students |
| Statistical population | Participants in formal education. |
| Reference area | Whole country. |
| Time coverage | 2005 - 2023 |
| Base period | Not applicable. |
| Statistical processing | |
| Source data | Vocational Gymnasiums and Vocational Colleges. Vocational Training Centres provide data to the National Agency for Vocational Education and Training (NAVET), which are aggregated and processed by the NSI. |
| Frequency of data collection | Annual |
| Data collection | Exhaustive survey via electronic questionnaire 'Report on vocational training against payment for attaining a level of professional qualification from Vocational Gymnasiums and Vocational Colleges'. Exhaustive survey of Vocational Training Centres in collaboration with NAVET via |
| Data validation | Data validation is done by the National Statistical Institute and quality tests are carried out by Eurostat. |
| Data compilation | Not applicable. |
| Adjustment | Not applicable. |
| Quality management | |
| Quality assurance | A set of quality criteria have been set up within the Commission Regulation No 88/2011. |
| Quality assessment | The national quality report provides users with basic |
| Relevance | |
| User needs | State and regional authorities, international organisations, national and foreign users. |
| User satisfaction | Information is not available. |
| Completeness | Information is not available. |
| Data completeness - rate | Not applicable. |
| Accuracy and reliability | |
| Overall accuracy | Not applicable. |
| Sampling error | Not applicable. |
| Sampling errors - indicators | Not applicable. |
| Non-sampling error | Not applicable. |
| Coverage error | Not applicable. |
| Over-coverage - rate | Not applicable. |
| Common units - proportion | Not applicable. |
| Measurement error | Not applicable. |
| Non response error | Not applicable. |
| Unit non-response - rate | Not applicable. |
| Item non-response - rate | Not applicable. |
| Processing error | Not applicable. |
| Imputation - rate | Not applicable. |
| Model assumption error | Not applicable. |
| Seasonal adjustment | Not applicable. |
| Data revision - policy | In accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services. |
| Data revision - practice | In accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services. |
| Data revision - average size | Not applicable. |
| Timeliness and punctuality | |
| Timeliness | · Reference date: December 31; · Fieldwork: January - February (Vocational Gymnasiums and Vocational Colleges); · Processing: March - April; · Dissemination of national results: April; · Transmission of data to Eurostat: September. |
| Time lag - first results | 16 weeks. |
| Time lag - final results | Not applicable. |
| Punctuality | Data are published at national level and delivered to Eurostat in time. |
| Punctuality - delivery and publication | Not applicable. |
| Coherence and comparability | |
| Comparability - geographical | Fully comparable with all EU member states. |
| Asymmetry for mirror flows statistics - coefficient | Not applicable. |
| Comparability - over time | Partially comparable due to changes in the national legislation. |
| Length of comparable time series | Since 2005 year. |
| Coherence - cross domain | Data are coherent with Adult Education Survey and Continuing Vocational Training Survey. |
| Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics | Not applicable. |
| Coherence - National Accounts | Not applicable. |
| Coherence - internal | Carried out quality tests, mainly on the coherency of the gathered |
| Accessibility and clarity | |
| News release | Regular press release on the NSI's webpage. |
| Publications | · Education in the Republic of Bulgaria; · Statistical Yearbook; · Statistical Reference Book; · 'Bulgaria' (brochure). |
| On-line database | Data for Vocational training in Vocational Training Centers, Vocational Gymnasiums and Vocational Colleges are available to all users on the NSI's website under the heading Education and Lifelong Learning: https://www.nsi.bg/en/node/4919 and via Information System Infostat: https://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/module.jsf?x_2=165 |
| Data tables - consultations | Not avaliable. |
| Micro-data access | In accordance to the Rules for Provision of Anonymised Individual Data for Scientific and Research purposes. |
| Other | Information services on request in accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services. |
| Metadata - consultations | Not avaliable. |
| Documentation on methodology | · Methodological documents of Eurostat; · Survey Methodology: https://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/metadata/Edu_Meth_en.pdf |
| Metadata completeness – rate | Not avaliable. |
| Quality documentation | Quality report in accordance to the Commission Regulation No 88/2011. |
| Cost and burden | |
Information is not available. | |
| 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 | In compliance to the Law on Statistics (Articles 25 and 26). |
| Comment | |
