Euro-SDMX Metadata Structure (ESMS)
| Contact | |
|---|---|
| Contact organisation | National Statistical Institute |
| Contact organisation unit | 'Education and Culture Statistics' Department |
| Contact name | Dilyan Atanasov |
| Contact person function | chief expert |
| Contact mail address | 2, P. Volov Str.; 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Contact email address | |
| Contact phone number | +359 2 9857 484 |
| Contact fax number | |
| Metadata update | |
| Metadata last certified | 25 April 2019 |
| Metadata last posted | 25 April 2019 |
| Metadata last update | 25 April 2019 |
| Statistical presentation | |
| Data description | Calculations on educational expenditure are done according to the Eurostat's methodology (UOE - Finance tables) which ensured international comparable data. Main subject of the survey is determination of the exact value of the public and private expenditure, distributed by the educational levels. |
| Classification system | International Standard Classification of Education, 2011 version (ISCED 2011) |
| Sector coverage | All public and private educational expenditure. |
| Statistical concepts and definitions | |
| Statistical unit | Educational expenditure by levels of ISCED. |
| Statistical population | Public and private educational expenditure. |
| Reference area | Whole country. |
| Time coverage | 2000 - 2020 |
| Base period | Not applicable. |
| Unit of measure | |
Thousand BGN. | |
| Reference period | |
Year. | |
| Institutional mandate | |
| Legal acts and other agreements | · 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; · Methodological documents of Eurostat; · Law on Statistics. |
| Data sharing | Not applicable. |
| 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). |
| Release policy | |
| Release calendar | In accordance to the dates defined in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute. |
| Release calendar access | The calendar is available on the NSI website: https://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480 |
| User access | In accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services. |
| Frequency of dissemination | |
Annual | |
| Accessibility and clarity | |
| News release | Regular press release in the internet site. |
| Publications | · Education in the Republic of Bulgaria; · Statistical Reference Book. |
| On-line database | Data on public and private expenditure on education are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Education and Lifelong Learning (https://www.nsi.bg/en/node/4944) and in Informational System"Infostat" (https://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/module.jsf?x_2=166). |
| Micro-data access | In accordance to the Rules on Provision of the Anonymised Individual Data for Scientific and Research purposes. |
| Other | Information services by order in accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services. |
| Documentation on methodology | · Methodological documents of Eurostat; · Survey Methodology. |
| Quality documentation | Quality report in accordance to the Commission Regulation No 88/2011. |
| 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 information on quality at national level. |
| Relevance | |
| User needs | State and regional authorities, international organisations, national and foreign users. |
| User satisfaction | Information is not available. |
| Completeness | Information is not available. |
| Accuracy and reliability | |
| Overall accuracy | Not applicable (compilation of administrative data). |
| Sampling error | Not applicable (compilation of administrative data). |
| Non-sampling error | Not applicable (compilation of administrative data). |
| Timeliness and punctuality | |
| Timeliness | · Data compilation: September - November; · Dissemination of national results: April; · Transmission of data to Eurostat: November. |
| Punctuality | All national disseminations and deliverables to the Eurostat in time. |
| Coherence and comparability | |
| Comparability - geographical | Fully comparable with all EU member states. |
| Comparability - over time | Partially comparable due to the changes of national legislation. |
| Coherence - cross domain | Data is coherent with surveys conducted by the NSI departments: 'Education and Culture Statistics', 'Statistics on Living Conditions', 'Finance Statistics', 'Non-financial National Accounts', 'R & D, Innovation and Information Society'. |
| Coherence - internal | Carried out quality tests, mainly on the coherency of the gathered information. |
| Cost and burden | |
Information is not available. | |
| Data revision | |
| Data revision - policy | Not applicable (preliminary data not published). |
| Data revision - practice | Not applicable (preliminary data not published). |
| Statistical processing | |
| Source data | Ministry of Education and Science; Ministry of Finance; NSI, departments: 'Education and Culture Statistics', 'Statistics on Living Conditions', 'Finance Statistics', 'Non-financial National Accounts', 'R & D, Innovation and Information Society'. |
| Frequency of data collection | Annual |
| Data collection | Administrative data from Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Education and Science and NSI. |
| Data validation | Data validation is done by the National Statistical Institute and quality tests are carried out by the Eurostat. |
| Data compilation | Not applicable. |
| Adjustment | Not applicable. |
| Comment | |
