Basic and secondary education (primary, lower secondary and upper secondary)

National Statistical Institute

'Education and Culture Statistics' Department

Dilyan Atanasov

chief expert

2, P. Volov Str.; 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria

[email protected]

+359 2 9857 484

Statistics on basic and secondary education provide data on educational activity in all types of schools and vocational training after secondary education in vocational colleges. Main units of the survey are students (new entrants and graduates) and teaching staff. The main breakdowns of characteristics for collecting data on enrolled students are following: sex, year of birth, grade, repeating a grade, level of education, mode of attendance, type, profile and location of the basic (secondary) school, profession/specialty studied, studying of foreign languages, studying of mother tongue.

The reference date up to the 2021 is October 1. Data source: educational institutions.

The reference date for 2022 and forth December 1. Data sorce: The National Electronic System for Preschool and School Education.

· International Standard Classification of Education, 2011 version (ISCED 2011);

· List of professions for vocational education and training, approved by order № RD 09-413 of 12.05.2003 of the Minister of Education and Science;

· Classification of the fields of education and training 2015 (KOO 2015), promulgated in the State Gazette, no. 46 of 17.06.2016.

The survey covers all governmental, municipal and created according to the existing legal order private schools.

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 the educational programmes implement in the legitimate educational institutions created according to the existing legal order.

Newly enrolled pupils/students - pupils/students who have been enrolled for the first time in the initial grade or course of the respective educational level are considered newly enrolled. This means that those which have been enrolled in the same educational level previous years are not included to the number of the newly enrolled.

Graduates are those pupils/students who have received a document for a completed level from a legitimate education institution, containing all the necessary records and stamps according to the law.

Students who have left school are defined as students who were enrolled in the beginning of the previous school year but before its end due to some of the listed reasons had left the school. Those who have left school cannot be treated as dropouts from the educational system because they could continue their education during the next school year and those who were under 16 years of age are obliged to continue their education. Data on left students are available up to the 2019/2020 school year, due to lack of information about them in the administrative registers of the Ministry of Education and Science.

The teachers are official persons who directly conduct the training sessions according to curriculum irrespective of whether they are full or part time employees. Directors and assistant directors are observed separately although a great part of them may have lecturing functions as well.

The management personnel include official persons performing management functions at the level of the educational institution.

An educational institution is defined as a centre taking independent decisions, which performs educational services for persons and organizations and is created according to the rules of the law. This means that the institution has a manager (director, rector or another manager) i.e. that this is an 'independent' educational institution. 'Dependent' educational institutions are branches or units known under other names and are typically subordinate to an independent institution.

Pupils/students (incl. newly enrolled and graduates) and education personnel.

Participants in formal education.

Whole country. Data is published down to municipality level.

From 2000.

Number and per cent.

School year.

• Law on Vocational Education and Training;
• Law on National Enlightment and the Rules on its implementation (up to the 2016);
• Methodological documents of Eurostat;
• Regulation (EC) N 452/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the production and development of statistics on education and lifelong learning;
• Commission regulation (EU) No 88/2011;
• Law on Statistics;
• Law of the Level of Education, Educational Minimum and Curriculum.
• Pre-school and School education act (From 2016).

Not applicable.

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.

In compliance to the Law on Statistics (Articles 25 and 26).

In accordance to the dates defined in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute.

The calendar is available on the NSI website: https://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480

In accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services.

Annual

Regular press release in the internet site.

· Education in the Republic of Bulgaria;

· Statistical Yearbook;

· Statistical Reference Book;

· The regions, districts and municipalities in the Republic of Bulgaria.

Data on Basic and secondary education (primary, lower secondary and upper secondary) are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Education and Lifelong Learning: https://www.nsi.bg/en/node/4810 and Informational System "Infostat": https://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/module.jsf?x_2=140

In accordance to the Rules on Provision of the Anonymised Individual Data for Scientific and Research purposes.

Information services by order in accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services.

· Methodological documents of Eurostat;

· Survey Methodology: https://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/metadata/Edu_Meth_en.pdf

Quality report in accordance to the Commission Regulation No 88/2011.

A set of quality criteria have been set up within the Commission Regulation No 88/2011.

The national quality report provides users with basic information on quality at national level.

State and regional authorities, international organisations, national and foreign users.

Information is not available.

Information is not available.

Not applicable (census).

Not applicable (census).

Not applicable (census).

For the result published up to the 2021:

· Reference date: October 1;

· Conducting survey: October - November;

· Processing: December - March;

· Dissemination of national results: April;

· Transmission of data to Eurostat: September.

For the result published from 2022:

· Reference date: December 1;

· Reciving data from administrative source: February;

· Processing: February - April;

· Dissemination of national results: April;

· Transmission of data to Eurostat: September.

Data was disseminated at national level and delivered to Euorostat in time.

Fully comparable with all EU member states.

From 2000/2001 to 2016/2017 school year, there is partial comparability due to the changes of national legislation.

Since 2017/2018 school year, there is break in the time series due to changes in the national education system (Pre-school and School Education Act, promulgated SG No.79 of 13 October 2015). The data are not comparable to the previous school years.

From the academic year 2021/2022 there is a break in the time series due to a change in the data source and the reference date. The data are partially comparable with previous school years.

Data are coherent with 'Adult education survey'.

Carried out quality tests, mainly on the coherency of the gathered information.

Information is not available.

In accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services.

In accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services.

Up to 2021: All types of state, municipal and established by law established private schools from I to XII class and vocational colleges with admission after secondary education.

From 2022: The National Electronic System for Preschool and School Education (NEISE), maintained by the Ministry of Education and Science (MES) and vocational colleges with admission after secondary education.

Annual

Until 2021: Exhousive survey (census) via the statistical form "Report on Schools and Vocational Colleges".

From 2022: 1. Administrative data received from the Ministry of Education and Science (MES); 2. Comprehensive monitoring through the statistical form "Report of the Vocational Colleges"

Data validation is done by the National Statistical Institute and quality tests are carried out by the Eurostat.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.