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You in the EU

Tuesday, 8 December 2015 - 15:40
Did you know?

…that Bulgaria had the lowest mean age of women at childbirth (27.1 years) in the EU

…that Germany recorded the highest share of people in the EU renting their dwelling (47.5% of the population), compared with 29.9% in the EU

…that Denmark had the highest share of individuals aged 65 - 74 in the EU who used the internet for internet banking (71%), compared with 22% in the EU

…that Greece had the lowest proportion of births outside marriages (7% of all live births) in the EU

Meeting of the National Statistical Council

Tuesday, 1 December 2015 - 10:00
The National Statistical Council (NSC) at the second meeting for this year, held on November 30, 2015, discussed and adopted the Report on the implementation of the National Statistical Programme and the Activity of the NSI in 2015.

The Draft National Statistical Programme for 2016 prepared by the NSI was discussed and adopted also. The National Statistical Programme envisages 248 statistical surveys and activities to be carried out by the National Statistical Institute and respectively 46 statistical surveys and activities - by the Bodies of statistics.

Meeting of the National Statistical Council

Friday, 27 November 2015 - 10:00
On November 30 2015 at 14 p.m. in the premises of the NSI, under the chairmanship of Prof. Hristina Vucheva a meeting of the National Statistical Council (NSC), which is the highest advisory body in the field of statistics at the national level will be held.

The Report on the implementation of the National Statistical Programme and the Activity of the NSI in 2015 will be presented and discussed at the meeting.

NSI automatizes the processing of requests for statistical information

Thursday, 26 November 2015 - 14:15
The National Statistical Institute completed a project under OPAC for building an Information system for citizens and firms trough automatic fulfilment of on-line requests for statistical information

The project ”Development of instruments for possibilities of on-line definition and fulfilment of requests for statistical information by the BNSI website for citizens, businesses and administration through compilation of information from the BNSI surveys, tables’ generation and check of data confidentiality” was presented.

The European Statistical System Committee meets on 19 November 2015

Wednesday, 18 November 2015 - 09:30
On 19 November 2015 at Eurostat, Luxembourg, the 27th meeting of the European Statistical Committee (ESSC) will be held. This is the fourth and the last ESSC meeting for this year. It is chaired by Eurostat and attended by the Heads of the National Statistical Institutes of the EU Member States and representatives of ECB, OECD and EFTA countries. Mr. Sergey Tsvetarsky, President of the National Statistical Institute, will participate in the meeting on behalf of Bulgaria.

‘Labour Force Survey ad hoc module 2016 on young people on the labour market’ project

Monday, 26 October 2015 - 16:45
The National Statistical Institute has started work on the ‘Labour Force Survey ad hoc module 2016 on young people on the labour market’ project. The implementation of the project is according to the Grant Agreement with the European Commission No. 07153.2015.001-2015.421.

The aim of the project is to provide internationally comparable data for monitor and analyse the progress towards objectives set by the EU2020 Strategy:

Foreign Trade of Bulgaria in Digital Format

Tuesday, 20 October 2015 - 11:00
Digital Library of the National Statistical Institute provides free of charge online access to the whole collection ‘Foreign Trade Statistics of Bulgaria’ for the 1880 - 2009 period.

The collection contains more than 52 000 pages and provides opportunity to trace the development of Bulgaria's foreign trade, as well as changes and improvement of methods and technology of gathering, processing and presentation of statistical information in the 135-year history of the Bulgarian state statistics.