May 15 was declared International Family Day by a Decision of the UN General Assembly on September 20, 1993, and it has been officially celebrated since 1994. The holiday provides an opportunity to promote issues related to families and to raise awareness of the social, economic and demographic processes that affect them. Each year, a different theme is announced to commemorate that day. In 2023, the theme is 'Families and Urbanization'.
Twenty-seven high schools teams from Sofia, Varna, Plovdiv, Burgas, Pernik, Pazardzhik, Kozloduy, Troyan, Gorna Oryahovitsa, Silistra and Shumen participated in the first Statistical Datathon for students.
In the new competition organized by the National Statistical Institute, 10th to 12th-grade students from secondary schools in the country have the right to compete.
According to the Statistics Act, all individuals who have carried out economic activity during the accounting year have an obligation to submit an Annual Activity Report (AAR) to the National Statistical Institute (NSI).
The National Statistical Institute announces the first edition of the Statistical Datathon for students. Registration opens on April 24 and runs through May 8, 2023.
Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD, President of the National Statistical Institute, participated in “The Statistical Leadership in Emerging Digital Societies" meeting that took place in Stockholm last week. Organizers of the forum are Statistics Sweden and Eurostat. The meeting of the presidents and the directors general of the statistical institutes took place as part of the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
IMPORTANT: The Business Statistics Information System now allows the submission of annual reports for previous years (2019, 2020 and 2021) for which the official submission deadline has already passed.
Only certain surveys allow submission after the official deadline (The list of these surveys is available after logging in at: https://isbs.nsi.bg).
If you missed submitting a report for any of these years, you can do so now. Editing old reports is not allowed.
Two teams in the two categories, ‘DATAWAVE’ from the National Trade and Banking High School, Sofia, and ‘TEAM-PRО’ from the Professional Secondary School of Economics and Management, Pazardzhik, won first place in the public hearing, the final stage for participation in the European round of the Statistical Competition. The second place went respectively to the team ‘ANDROMEDA’ from the NSMHS ‘Akad. Boyan Petkanchin’, Haskovo, in category A, and to ‘VELOCITY’, the team of the Secondary School for Foreign Languages ‘Vassil Karagyozov’, Yambol, in category B.
World Health Day is celebrated every year on April 7, the date on which the World Health Organization (WHO) was established in 1948.
This year, the WHO celebrates 75 years since its founding.
Each year, a theme is chosen that highlights a priority area. This year's theme, ‘Health for All’, expresses the commitment stated by the WHO since the drafting of its founding Constitution, which uncompromisingly calls for health as a fundamental right of every human being and a basis for peace and security.
