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The National Round of the first European Statistics Competition for students is over

Thursday, 5 April 2018 - 10:40
A total of 527 students from Bulgaria, distributed in 194 teams, declared their desire to participate in the first European Statistics Competition.

The competition for Bulgaria took place in two stages, and the students were distributed into two categories - Category A: students from X - XII grade and Category B: students from VIII - IX grade. In the first stage, the students had to work on a test, and in the second, each team had to analyse statistical data in the form of a presentation.

Sofia - a symbolic capital of the European Union

Monday, 2 April 2018 - 11:00
On April 3, 1879, at the suggestion of Prof. Marin Drinov, co-founder of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, due to the geographic location and the potential for socio-economic and cultural growth Sofia was declared the capital of Bulgaria.

Today, 139 years later, Sofia is already a symbolic capital of the European Union on the occasion of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

The NSI will conduct a survey on ‘Social Inclusion and Living Conditions 2018’ during the March - May 2018 period

Wednesday, 28 March 2018 - 14:40
In March, the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria launches conducting of the survey on ‘Social Inclusion and Living Conditions 2018’.

Regulation No. 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and the Council establishes a common framework for systematic production of statistics in the European Union on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) which includes comparable and timely information on current status and dynamics of income, as well as the level and structure of poverty and social exclusion at national and European level.

The National Statistical Institute starts a Household Budget Survey in new households

Wednesday, 21 March 2018 - 12:00
From the beginning of April 2018 the National Statistical Institute starts a Household Budget Survey in newly selected households.

The survey is annual and it is included in the National Statistical Programme 2018. In the survey take part 3 060 randomly chosen households divided in three sub-samples each containing 1 020 households. During the April - June period households from each sub-sample are consistently included in the Household Budget Survey. Each household participates in the survey four months during the 12-month period of the method of rotation sample.

UN Statistical Commission Annual Session

Thursday, 1 March 2018 - 17:00
Between 6th and 9th March 2018 at the UN Headquarters in New York, the President of the National Statistical Institute Sergey Tsvetarsky will participate in the highest forum in the global statistical system: the 49th Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission.

Study visit to NSI in the field of statistics on tourism

Thursday, 1 March 2018 - 14:30
In the period 27 - 28 February, 2018 the National Statistical Institute hosts a two-day training, where experts from ‘Statistics on tourism and Business surveys’ Department acquainted their colleagues from the State Statistical Office of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia with the Bulgarian experience in the field of statistics on tourism.

The study visit was organized within the framework of IPA 2015 Multi-Beneficiary Statistical Co-operation Programme of the European commission, with the beneficiary countries from Western Balkans and Turkey.