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On September 7, 2021, the 18^th census of the population and dwelling stock in Bulgaria begins. On the eve of the most comprehensive statistical survey, the National Statistical Institute and Sofia Municipality in partnership with the Archives State Agency are organizing an exhibition at the Lovers’ Bridge near the National Palace of Culture, which will present historical and contemporary data from all censuses in the country. Sofia residents and guests of the capital will be able to view the posters from August 23 to September 6.

This week in strict compliance with the anti-epidemic measures start the training sessions of the enumerators and controllers to be employed for Census 2021.

The training sessions are one-day and are organized by the municipal census commissions and the regional statistical offices. The first meetings with the enumerators will be held in all municipalities of the country during the period 17th August – 7th September in halls rented especially for this aim, which are with large enough capacity so that to meet the requirements for preventing the COVID-19 distribution.

Dear users,

The National Statistical Institute is pleased to announce that tomorrow - August 10, it launches its new website.

With more than 141 years of history as a state institution, we strive to provide high-quality and up-to-date statistical products and services for the benefit of society in respond to the ever-changing world of high technologies.

Our main goal while designing the website was to create a user-friendly and helpful source of information suited for all platforms and mobile devices.

Data on deaths due to COVID-19 (U07.1 - U07.2) in Bulgaria have been presented as well.

Peer Review of Eurostat by the European Statistics Governance Advisory Board (ESGAB)

• Data collection on ICT usage and e-commerce in enterprises 2021;
• Data collection on ICT usage and e-commerce in enterprises 2022;
• Data collection on the use of ICT in households and by individuals 2021;

An online conference on the project BGLD-3.001-0001 "New approaches to data generation for hard-to-reach groups of the population at risk of violation of their rights" was held on May 17 and 18, 2021, organized jointly by the National Statistical Institute (NSI) and the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency  (FRA).

The conference was entitled "First Results and Next Steps". Representatives of the European Commission, international organizations, state and local authorities, the scientific community and non-governmental organizations took part.

In April 2021, The National Statistical Institute has started work on the four-year project „Trusted Smart Statistics (TSS) – Web Intelligence Network (WIN)“ according to the Eurostat agreement № 101035829 - 2020-PL-SmartStat.

The National Statistical Institute has started work under the ‘Innovation tools and sources for diary-based surveys - Household Budget Survey and Time Use Survey - Test and Maintain’ project since April 2021. The implementation of the project is in accordance with Grant Agreement with the European Commission № 101034162 - 2020-BG-INNOV.

In April 2021, National statistical institute has started work on the project ‘Energy statistics: support to the Energy Union and further disaggregation of final energy consumption’. The implementation of the project is according to Grant agreement with the European Commission № 101034246-2020-BG-ENERGY.

The project is organized in 2 consecutive in time and independent work packages.