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A team from the State Statistical Office of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia visited the NSI for training in the field of harmonized consumer price indices

Wednesday, 26 September 2018 - 11:55
In the period 19 - 21 September 2018, the National Statistical Institute hosted a three-day training course where experts from ‘Consumer prices, Housing prices and Purchasing Power Parities’ Department introduced their colleagues from the State Statistical Office of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia with Bulgarian experience in the field of Harmonized Indices of Consumer Prices.

The training was organised in the framework of IPA 2015 Multi-Beneficiary Statistical Co-operation Programme with beneficiaries Balkan countries.

The National Statistical Institute of the Republic of Bulgaria and the National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus signed an Agreement on the cooperation in the field of statistics

Thursday, 2 August 2018 - 15:35
The National Statistical Institute of the Republic of Bulgaria and the National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus (Belstat) signed an Agreement on the cooperation in the field of statistics on July 19, 2018 in Minsk, Belarus. Mr. Sergey Tsvetarski, President of the National Statistical Institute signed the Agreement on behalf of Bulgaria and Mrs. Inna Medvedeva, Chairperson of the National Statistical Committee signed the Agreement on behalf of Belarus.

NSI starts the preparation for 2021 Population and Housing Census

Tuesday, 10 July 2018 - 09:00
The National Statistical Institute held an information meeting with the central media where the start of the preparation for the 18th population and housing census in the Republic of Bulgaria was announced.
The census will be conducted in 2021.  The census year is the same for all EU Member states and it is determined in the Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/712 establishing the reference year and the programme of the statistical data and metadata for population and housing censuses.              

National Statistical Institute releases updated population projection up to 2080

Tuesday, 3 July 2018 - 11:00
National Statistical Institute releases updated population projection up to 2080. A starting point of the projection is the population as of 31.12.2016, and the projection takes into account the number of demographic events in 2017. The projected population is distributed by sex and single ages for every year of the projected period. Data is published by five-year age groups and calendar periods. The population projection by districts and sex up to 2080 is also updated.
 

Bulgaria handed over the Presidency of the Council of the EU in the field of statistics to Austria

Wednesday, 27 June 2018 - 16:50
On 26 June 2018 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, the President of the NSI Sergey Tsvetarsky officially handed over the Presidency of the Council Working Party on Statistics to the Director General of Statistics Austria Dr. Konrad Pesendorfer.

Mr. Tsvetarsky made an overview of the main results of the Bulgarian Presidency’s work on the legislative proposals in the field of statistics with a focus on the last tripartite negotiations with the European Parliament and the European Commission and the possible next steps for making progress on the open files.

Another regulation in the field of statistics successfully goes through trilogue

Friday, 22 June 2018 - 12:30
On 21 June 2018 at the European Parliament’s premises in Brussels, tripartite negotiations (trilogue) were held between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission on the proposal for a Regulation on Integrated European Social Statistics (IESS).

The aim of the regulation is to create a common framework for European statistics relating to persons and households, based on data at individual level collected from samples.

‘Better Cooperation, Better Data Quality’ Conference will be held in Sofia

Wednesday, 20 June 2018 - 10:10
The National Statistical Institute and Eurostat will host a Conference for the European statistical data users in Bulgaria - Better Cooperation, Better Data Quality, which will be held on June 25th, 2018 at Hilton Hotel in Sofia.

The event is held within the framework of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and on the occasion of the 138th anniversary of the establishment of the official statistical institution in Bulgaria.