ESS Standard for Quality Reports Structure (ESQRS)
| Contact | |
|---|---|
| Contact organisation | National statistical instutute |
| Contact organisation unit | "Environmental and Energy accounts" Department |
| Contact name | Petar Petrov |
| Contact person function | State expert |
| Contact mail address | 2 Panayot Volov St., 1038 Sofia |
| Contact email address | |
| Contact phone number | +359 2 9857 499 |
| Contact fax number | Not applicable.
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| Statistical presentation | |
| Data description | Information is provided about the quantities of waste generated from all economic activities and what happens with it. Quantities of waste passed to other enterprises for further recovery or disposal, and those exported out of the country are shown. |
| Classification system | List of Wastes (the Ordinance No. 2/23.07.2014 on waste classification ); European Waste Catalogue. |
| Sector coverage | All economic sectors. |
| Statistical concepts and definitions | Waste means any substance, object or part thereof, which the holder disposes of, intends to dispose of or is required to dispose of, and is included into one of the categories listed in the Waste Management Act. |
| Statistical unit | Economic entities whose activity causes generation, recovery, disposal, collection or disassembling of waste. |
| Statistical population | All economic entities . |
| Reference area | Territory of Bulgaria |
| Time coverage | 2017-2021 |
| Base period | Not applicable. |
| Statistical processing | |
| Source data | · Sample survey covering enterprises with 10 and more employed combined with exhaustive survey for some economic sectors and activities; · Administrative data, received from Executive Environment Agency. |
| Frequency of data collection | Annual |
| Data collection | Environmental statistics information system. |
| Data validation | Comparing the data to those reported in previous years. |
| Data compilation | Via Excel and SPSS |
| Adjustment | Not applicable. |
| Quality management | |
| Quality assurance | European Statistics Code of Practice; A common framework for quality management in the National Statistical System. |
| Quality assessment | Good |
| Relevance | |
| User needs | Main users of survey's statistical |
| User satisfaction | No |
| Completeness | All statistical datа are available. |
| Data completeness - rate | Not applicable. |
| Accuracy and reliability | |
| Overall accuracy | |
| 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 | Partial |
| Model assumption error | Not applicable. |
| Seasonal adjustment | Not applicable. |
| Data revision - policy | Revision of the data is applied if necessary. |
| Data revision - practice | See previous position. |
| Data revision - average size | Not applicable. |
| Timeliness and punctuality | |
| Timeliness | The data is published according to the terms laid down in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute. |
| Time lag - first results | 7 months |
| Time lag - final results | Not applicable. |
| Punctuality | All publications are prepared timely, according to the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute. |
| Punctuality - delivery and publication | 7 months |
| Coherence and comparability | |
| Comparability - geographical | Not applicable. |
| Asymmetry for mirror flows statistics - coefficient | Not applicable. |
| Comparability - over time | Time series are available beginning 2015. |
| Length of comparable time series | Five years |
| Coherence - cross domain | Not applicable. |
| Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics | Not applicable. |
| Coherence - National Accounts | Not applicable. |
| Coherence - internal | Not applicable. |
| Accessibility and clarity | |
| News release | Нot published. |
| Publications | · Electronic Publication "Environment"; · Statistical Yearbook. |
| On-line database | Data on Generated waste from economic activity are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Environment: https://www.nsi.bg/en/node/5086 |
| Data tables - consultations | Not applicable. |
| Micro-data access | Not accessible. |
| Other | No. |
| Metadata - consultations | Not applicable. |
| Documentation on methodology |
· Sample survey combined with data obtained from the Executive Environmental Agency. |
| Metadata completeness – rate | Fully filled |
| Quality documentation | Quality report according to Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste statistics. |
| Cost and burden | |
Cost related to the collection and production of statistics on Waste are announced annually in the National Statistical Programme. | |
| 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. |
| Comment | |
