ESS Standard for Quality Reports Structure (ESQRS)
| Contact | |
|---|---|
| Contact organisation | National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria |
| Contact organisation unit | Unit Non-financial national and regional accounts, Macroeconomic statistics Directorate |
| Contact name | Marin Gergov |
| Contact person function | State expert |
| Contact mail address | 2 P. Volov Str., Sofia 1038 |
| Contact email address | |
| Contact phone number | +359 2 9857 537 |
| Contact fax number | |
| 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.Population - average annual population. According to the ESA 2010 employed covers all persons - both employees and self-employed, engaged in some productive activity that falls within the production boundary of the system. Employees are defined as all persons who, by the agreement, work for another resident institutional unit and receive remuneration as a compensation of employees. The following categories are included: employees working under employment, civil or working without a contract. Self-employed persons - persons who are the sole owners, or joint owners of unincorporated enterprises in which they work. |
| Classification system | Population - average annual population. Total for economy Employed, Employees and Self-employed persons. |
| 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. National accounts data for employment refer to the whole economy. |
| Statistical concepts and definitions | According to the ESA 2010 employed covers all persons - both employees and self-employed, engaged in some productive activity that falls within the production boundary of the system. Employees are defined as all persons who, by the agreement, work for another resident institutional unit and receive remuneration as a compensation of employees. The following categories are included: · persons engaged by an employer under a contract of employment; · civil servants and other government employees whose terms and conditions of employment are laid down by public law; · the armed forces, consisting of those who have enlisted for both long and short engagements and also conscripts; · owners of corporations and quasicorporations if they work in these corporations; · students who have a formal commitment whereby they contribute some of their own labor as an input into an enterprise?s process of production in return for remuneration and (or) education services; · outworkers if there is an explicit agreement that the outworker is remunerated on the basis of the work done that is, the amount of labor which is contributed as an input into some process of production; · disabled workers, provided the formal or informal relationship of employer to employee exists; · persons employed by temporary employment agency; · persons temporary not at work if they are in: the continued receipt of wage or salary, an assurance of return to work following the end of the contingency, or an agreement as the date of return. Self-employed persons are defined as persons who are the sole owners, or joint owners, of the unincorporated enterprises in which they work. Self-employed persons also include the following categories: · unpaid family workers, incl. those working in unincorporated enterprises engaged wholly or partly in market production; · outworkers whose income is a function of the value of the outputs from some process of production for which they are responsible. |
| Statistical unit | According to the ESA 2010 employed covers all persons. |
| Statistical population | Employed and average Quarter population. |
| 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 from1995 |
| Base period | Not applicable. |
| Statistical processing | |
| Source data | Sources of data are statistical surveys are LFS and Quarterly statistical report on employees and wages and salary. |
| Frequency of data collection | Quarterly |
| Data collection | Sample surveys |
| 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 quarterly and 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 | 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 | NA |
| Model assumption error | Not applicable. |
| 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 | |
| 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 | Not available. |
| Publications | website of BG NSI |
| On-line database | Data are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Macroeconomic statistics and INFOSTAT datebase - https://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/reports/query.jsf?x_2=124 |
| Data tables - consultations | |
| Micro-data access | Not available. |
| Other | Not available. |
| 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 | Not available. |
| 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. |
| Comment | |
