ESS Standard for Quality Reports Structure (ESQRS)
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| Contact organisation | National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria |
| Contact organisation unit | Unit Non-financial national and regional accounts, Macroeconomic statistics Directorate |
| Contact name | Milen Kolev |
| Contact person function | head of unit |
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| Contact phone number | +359 2 9857 623 |
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| Statistical presentation | |
| Data description | National accounts for Bulgaria are compiled according to the main methodological recommendations of the documents "System of National Accounts, 2008" (SNA 2008), an issue of EUROSTAT, IMF, OECD, UN and the World Bank, and "European System of Accounts, 2010" (ESA 2010), an issue of EUROSTAT. Main macroeconomic indicator of the system of national accounts is the gross domestic product (GDP). GDP by final expenditure is calculated as a sum of individual consumption(including final consumption expenditure of households, final consumption expenditure of non-profit institutions serving households, final government expenditure on individual consumption ), collective consumption (final cost to the government for collective consumption , which satisfy the needs of society as a whole), gross fixed capital formation(investments made in fixed assets), changes in inventories, net exports of goods and services(the difference between exports and imports of goods and services). |
| Classification system | National accounts aggregates by industry (up to NACE A*64); Classification of Economic Activities (CEA-2008, for international use NACE.BG-2008). Nomenclature of Industrial Production (PRODCOM.BG); Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose (COICOP); Classification of the Purposes of Non-Profit Institutions Serving Households (COPNI); Combined Nomenclature. ESA2010 uses aggregation levels of the NACE Rev.2 classification to define industry breakdowns (NACE stands for Nomenclature générale des Activités économiques dans les Communautés Européennes). NACE Rev.2 is a classification of economic activities widely used in statistics and in other domains. Requirements for the transmission of NACE Rev.2 series have been specified in the Commission Regulation (EC) No 715/2010 of 10 August 2010 |
| Sector coverage | National accounts describe the total economy of a country. All units that have their centre of predominant economic interest in the economic territory of that country are covered. Two of the most important breakdowns are the breakdown by institutional sector and the breakdown by NACE Rev. 2 activity. Concerning the institutional sector breakdown, ESA 2010 distinguishes five mutually exclusive domestic institutional sectors: (a) non-financial corporations; (b) financial corporations; (c) general government; (d) households; (e) non-profit institutions serving households. The five sectors together make up the total domestic economy. Each sector is also divided into subsectors. Regarding the activity breakdown, ESA 2010 applies NACE Rev.2. Activities can be broken down into several levels of detail, for example into 3, 10, 21, 38, 64 or 88 activities. At the 'highest' level a breakdown into 3 categories is defined: (a) agriculture, forestry and fishing; (b) mining and quarrying, manufacturing, electricity gas steam and air conditioning supply, water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities, construction; (c) services. Annual national accounts refer to the whole economy, but breakdowns by sectors are provided by the annual sector accounts. |
| Statistical concepts and definitions | All statistical concepts and definitions to be used in national accounts are described in Annex A of the ESA 2010 Regulation (link to blue book on ESA 2010 methodology). The two main sets of tables concern: (a) the institutional sector accounts; (b) the input-output framework, and the accounts by industry. GDP by the method of the costs of final use includes the following components: Individual consumption of households, measured by:Final consumption expenditure of households, covering the following items:purchases of goods retailed incl. purchases between population purchases from catering and chairs, as well as pay for the repair of the goods; •Purchase of services - electricity, water and heat; •transport and communication services, residential rents, educational services paid health services, services related to leisure, culture and sport; •insurance and other services; •goods produced by households for their own consumption, represented by unincorporated activities and natural products consumed by the population; income in kind; •imputation of housing occupied by owners.Individual consumption of households is calculated in accordance with the so-called national plan, i.e. includes consumption of residents abroad and excludes the use of non-residents. Since 1997, household consumption expenditures are estimated classification SOISOR - An international classification of consumer spending used in the SNA and ESA '93 '95. Household consumption expenditures are presented in 12 major sections.Final consumption expenditure of government for Individual household for services provided include free services in health, social security, education, sport, culture and art. They are measured by the gross output of these activities, less the fees paid (if any) included in intermediate consumption of other sectors or in final consumption expenditure of households.Final consumption expenditure of NPISHs is measured by the production of this institutional sector. This is the cost of union, religious, charitable and other non-profit organizations to provide goods and services to households free or at not economically significant prices.Data on final consumption expenditure of households follow internationally accepted national concept in terms of consumption expenditure of foreign tourists in Bulgaria and the Bulgarians abroad. According to it, the cash expenditure of foreign tourists in the country are recognized in the revenue side of the balance as exports of goods and services , and monetary costs of Bulgarian citizens abroad are recognized in the expenditure side of the balance as imports of goods and services. The application of this methodological principle does not change the level of GDP, as it affects both besides the assessment of final consumption, and trade the balance of goods and services.Collective consumption is measured by final government expenditure on collective services provided to the public as a whole. Includes Maintenance of the settlements made by the municipalities, basic research, public administration, defense and security.Gross fixed capital formation includes the cost of acquiring these types of long-term financial assets, including the increase in construction in progress:•fixed assets, including perennials, productive livestock, buildings, machinery and equipment, vehicles, furniture and fixtures; intangible assets such as software, prospecting and exploratory work, design and more.Changes in inventories include: Change in inventories of raw materials, work in progress, finished goods and goods for resale businesses, young animals and animals for fattening. The assessment relates to their physical growth (reduction), i.e. the size of the holding gains / losses accumulated as a result of price changes rather than the actual production process;Changes in inventories of households resulting from unincorporated activities.The foreign trade balance (exports minus imports of goods and services) as a component of GDP by final use is the difference between the value of exported and imported goods and services. Exports and imports of goods are recorded at prices FOB. |
| Statistical unit | National accounts aim to capture economic activity within the domestic territory. They combine data from a host of base statistics, and thus they have no common sampling reference frame. The elementary building blocks of ESA 2010 statistics are statistical units and their groupings. ESA 2010, defines two types of units, institutional units and local kind-of-activity units (ESA 2010, 1.54). Following the ESA 2010 2010 guidelines, in national accounts two types of units and two corresponding ways of subdividing the economy are used: (a) institutional unit; (b) local kind-of-activity unit (local KAU). The first type is used for describing income, expenditure and financial flows as well as balance sheets. The second type of units is used for the description of production processes and for input-output analysis. An institutional unit is an economic entity characterised by decision-making autonomy in the exercise of its principal function. A resident unit is regarded as constituting an institutional unit in the economic territory where it has its centre of predominant economic interest if it has decision-making autonomy and either keeps a complete set of accounts, or is able to compile a complete set of accounts. A local KAU groups all the parts of an institutional unit in its capacity as producer which are located in a single site or in closely located sites, and which contribute to the performance of an activity at the class level (four digits) of the NACE Rev. 2. An institutional unit comprises one or more local KAUs; a local KAU belongs to one and only one institutional unit. |
| Statistical population | The national accounts population of a country consists of all resident statistical units (institutional units or local KAUs, see section 3.5). A unit is a resident unit of a country when it has a centre of predominant economic interest on the economic territory of that country — that is, when it engages for an extended period (one year or more) in economic activities on this territory. National accounts combine data from many source statistics. The concept of statistical population is not applicable in a national accounts context. |
| Reference area | The reference area for national accounts is the total economy of a country. The total economy of a country can be broken down into regions. The NUTS classification provides a single, uniform breakdown of the economic territory of (the Member States of) the EU. |
| Time coverage | data starting from 1995 |
| Base period | 2010 |
| Statistical processing | |
| Source data | Sources of data are statistical surveys are annual accounts of economic units and administrative data:Income and expenses, including statistical annexes; LFS, Annual statistical report on employees and wages and salary;Consolidated Statement of implementation of the state budget; Tax information and other. |
| Frequency of data collection | Quarterly. |
| Data collection | Exhaustively for all units |
| Data validation | Implementation of validated procedures for assessing data quality |
| Data compilation | Implementation of validated procedures for assessing the quality of data and the development of estimation of the completeness of the data. |
| Adjustment | |
| Quality management | |
| Quality assurance | Quality is assured by strict application of ESA 2010 concepts and by thorough validation of the data. |
| Quality assessment | |
| Relevance | |
| User needs | National Accounts data is key information for economic policy monitoring and decision making, forecasting, for administrative purposes and for information of the general public and for economic research. Users of annual national accounts data are typically interested in analysing structural changes in the economy from a medium-term perspective |
| User satisfaction | |
| Completeness | BG NSI follows up the interest perceived from users on the basis of databases and downloads of the data. |
| Data completeness - rate | |
| Accuracy and reliability | |
| Overall accuracy | BG NSI publishes all revision and explanations of the data. |
| Sampling error | |
| Sampling errors - indicators | NA |
| Non-sampling error | NA |
| Coverage error | NA |
| Over-coverage - rate | NA |
| Common units - proportion | NA |
| Measurement error | NA |
| Non response error | NA |
| Unit non-response - rate | NA |
| Item non-response - rate | NA |
| Processing error | NA |
| Imputation - rate | NA |
| Model assumption error | NA |
| Seasonal adjustment | Jdemetra+ |
| Data revision - policy | National data are revised according to national schedules, and revisions are transmitted to Eurostat. Figures for the quarterly aggregates are revised on the base of new annual information and seasonally adjusted data are revised once per year on the base of new method revised once per year. These dates are pre-announced in the release calendar on BG NSI's web-site. On these occasions, previously published figures are subject to revision for all variables and all quarters. |
| Data revision - practice | National accounts data are subject to continuous routine revisions as new input data becomes available. This will typically also entail revisions of the national accounts aggregates, which are derived from these data. In BG national accounts two types of revisions are: Regular – quarterly, preliminary, final data; and Major - based on implementation of new methodology or GNI reservations. |
| Data revision - average size | |
| Timeliness and punctuality | |
| Timeliness | |
| Time lag - first results | The data transmitted to Eurostat are in compliance with ESA 2010 DTP and respective derogations for the country. |
| Time lag - final results | The data transmitted to Eurostat are in compliance with ESA 2010 DTP and respective derogations for the country. |
| Punctuality | |
| Punctuality - delivery and publication | The data transmitted to Eurostat are in compliance with ESA 2010 DTP and respective derogations for the country. |
| Coherence and comparability | |
| Comparability - geographical | The comparability is insured by the application of common definitions of ESA 2010 |
| Asymmetry for mirror flows statistics - coefficient | |
| Comparability - over time | By using a common framework, the European System of Accounts ESA 2010, data can be comparable over time. |
| Length of comparable time series | |
| Coherence - cross domain | In certain cases, data from other domains of economic statistics, i.e. balance of payments statistics, business statistics, household budget statistics or external trade statistics can be used for cross-checking purposes. These economic statistics are also available from the appropriate domains on BG NSI's website. |
| Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics | Annual and quarterly data for all sub domains of national accounts should be coherent. |
| Coherence - National Accounts | Annual and quarterly data for all sub domains of national accounts should be coherent. |
| Coherence - internal | Annual and quarterly data for all sub domains of national accounts should be coherent. |
| Accessibility and clarity | |
| News release | NA |
| Publications | Publication "Main Macroeconomic Indicators"; Statistical Yearbook; Statistical Reference book; Electronic publication |
| On-line database | Data are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Macroeconomic statistics -Gross Domestic Product - Annual data - GDP by final use expenditures approach - Total of economy: http://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/reports/query.jsf?x_2=1171 |
| Data tables - consultations | |
| Micro-data access | NA |
| Other | NA |
| Metadata - consultations | |
| Documentation on methodology | European System of Accounts (2010) (Eurostat). The methodology is also available on BG NSI website. |
| Metadata completeness – rate | |
| Quality documentation | Quality is assured by strict application of ESA 2010 concepts and by thorough validation of the data |
| Cost and burden | |
NA | |
| 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. The European Statistics Code of Practice provides further conditions that have to be respected by statistical offices in regard to statistical confidentiality (Principle 5): The privacy of data providers (households, enterprises, administrations and other respondents), the confidentiality of the information they provide and its use only for statistical purposes are absolutely guaranteed. |
| Confidentiality – data treatment | If data are with a confidentiality flag or are under an embargo date, these data are not published. |
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