Retail sales
Group of goods | 2022 |
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Total | 65 060 927 |
Foods, beverages and tobacco | 23 293 086 |
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Fruit | 869 540 |
Vegetables | 1 895 202 |
Milk, milk products and eggs | 2 757 500 |
Meat and meat products | 3 297 364 |
Fish and fish products, crustaceans and molluscs | 444 107 |
Bread and bakery products, grain mill products | 2 291 287 |
Sugar and sugar confectionery | 1 634 225 |
Edible oils and fats of animal and vegetable origin | 674 943 |
Strong alcoholic beverages | 828 313 |
Wines | 436 834 |
Beers | 707 661 |
Soft drinks | 1 042 451 |
Tobacco products | 2 807 602 |
Coffee, tea and cocoa | 693 606 |
Durable ant other consumer goods | 41 767 841 |
of which: | |
Textile clothing materials and clothing accessories | 213 818 |
Clothing and fur goods | 2 689 003 |
Footwear | 658 631 |
Materials for repair of dwelling | 1 041 800 |
Heating fuels | 493 867 |
Furniture and furnishings, lighting equipment | 1 728 967 |
Carpets and other floor coverings | 205 266 |
Household textiles | 158 291 |
Household appliances | 1 311 294 |
Household articles | 1 523 121 |
Tools and equipment for house and garden | 1 011 794 |
Non-durable household goods | 906 573 |
Pharmaceutical, medical and orthopaedic goods | 4 361 031 |
Automobiles | 3 516 640 |
Motorcycles and bicycles | 132 809 |
Spare parts and accessories for personal transport equipment | 2 003 481 |
Fuels and lubricants for personal transport equipment | 9 520 242 |
Communications | 1 154 794 |
Radio and television sets | 453 252 |
Optical and photographic articles | 142 462 |
Computer and office equipment | 1 101 876 |
Records and compact discs for audio-visual, photographic and data processing equipment | 37 317 |
Major durables for indoor and outdoor recreation | 232 100 |
Games and toys; equipment for sport and camping; flowers and pets | 984 881 |
Books, newspapers and magazines; office materials | 738 299 |
Electric appliances for personal care; perfumery and cosmetics | 1 461 767 |
Personal effects n.e.c. | 726 125 |
Construction materials | 1 976 007 |
Contact | |
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Contact organisation | National Statistical Institute |
Contact organisation unit | 'Annual Business Statistics' Department |
Contact name | Desislava Todorova |
Contact person function | Senior expert |
Contact mail address | 2, P. Volov Str.; 1038 Sofia |
Contact email address | |
Contact phone number | +359 2 9857 586 |
Contact fax number | |
Metadata update | |
Metadata last certified | 15 February 2018 |
Metadata last posted | 15 February 2018 |
Metadata last update | 15 February 2018 |
Statistical presentation | |
Data description | The observation is annual and provides information for the Wholesale and Retail sales by commodity groups, content of which is in accordance with the Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose (COICOP). The sales are at prices of realization (incl. VAT and excises) and are realized by the non-financial enterprises in the country as main or secondary trade activity, independently from their branch classification according to Classification of Economic Activities (NACE.BG 2008, NACE.BG 2003 and NACE.BG 2001). The annual data of Wholesale and Retail sales are published as total and by groups of goods at country level. |
Classification system |
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Sector coverage | Non-financial enterprises. |
Statistical concepts and definitions | The main indicators are:
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Statistical unit | The basic unit of the survey is an enterprise. The enterprise is the smallest organisation unit producing goods or services which makes its own business decisions. The enterprise carries out one or more activities at one or more locations. The enterprise may be an independent legal unit. |
Statistical population | The statistical population includes all non-financial enterprises that are realised Wholesale sales and/or Retail sales independently from their branch classification according to the relevant Classification of Economic Activities (NACE.BG 2008, NACE.BG 2003 and NACE.BG 2001). The value of the Wholesale and Retail sales by commodity groups are obtained as an amount of the exhaustive survey on the non-financial enterprises, compiling balance sheets. For the non-financial enterprises, non-compiling balance the distribution of sales by commodity groups is done with a structure. |
Reference area | The data refer to the activities of non-financial enterprises carried out in the country. |
Time coverage | Since 2000 to the last reported year. |
Base period | Not applicable. |
Unit of measure | |
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Reference period | |
Calendar year | |
Institutional mandate | |
Legal acts and other agreements | Bulgarian legislation:
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Data sharing | The sharing of data is in accordance with signed agreements for the exchange of data, ensuring protection of confidential information. |
Confidentiality | |
Confidentiality - policy | Regulation (EC) № 223/2009 of 11 March 2009 defines common criteria for protection of confidential data and methods for sending the information to and its use by Eurostat. The Law on Statistics ensures the protection of statistical confidentiality and the use of individual data of enterprises for statistical purposes only. |
Confidentiality - data treatment | The individual (primary) data are confidential according to the Law on Statistics and European legislation. To ensure their protection and inability to be identified, the aggregated indicators are also defined as confidential when:
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Release policy | |
Release calendar | The data are published in accordance with the deadline specified in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute. |
Release calendar access | The calendar is available on the NSI website: https://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480 |
User access | Data are published on the NSI website and are available to all users of statistical information. |
Frequency of dissemination | |
Yearly | |
Accessibility and clarity | |
News release | Not applicable. |
Publications |
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On-line database | The data are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading: Business Statistic; Annual Business Statistics; Other Annual Data; Non-financial Enterprises; Domestic Trade:
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Micro-data access | Not available. |
Other | Information service on request, according to the Rules for dissemination of statistical products and services of NSI. |
Documentation on methodology | National legislation and developed statistical methodology: https://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/metadata/dTrade_Method_45_en.pdf |
Quality documentation | Not available. |
Quality management | |
Quality assurance | This includes the improvement of the on-line based information system 'Business statistics', which ensures strict arithmetical and logical input control. The additional output control is made when are registered the big differences in the value of given indicator between two consecutive years or in comparison with the results of other statistical surveys in NSI – 'Short-term statistics' and 'Prodcom' statistics. |
Quality assessment | This is made in accordance with the standard criteria for assessing the quality - relevance, accuracy and reliability, timeliness, comparability and coherence. |
Relevance | |
User needs | The main users of data for Wholesale and Retail sales are:
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User satisfaction | There has been no study of user satisfaction, but no cases of outstanding requests for information are registered. |
Completeness | Full compliance with the Bulgarian legislation. |
Accuracy and reliability | |
Overall accuracy | The information for calculation of wholesale and retail sales is based on the annual reports of the activity on non-financial enterprises, as full coherence of the input data is provided. |
Sampling error | The survey is exhaustive and there are no sampling errors. |
Non-sampling error | Not applicable. |
Timeliness and punctuality | |
Timeliness | The deadline for the publication of the data at national level is t+11 months for the final data, where t is the reference year. |
Punctuality | The deadlines for publication are strictly followed. |
Coherence and comparability | |
Comparability - geographical | For the country the data are comparable. |
Comparability - over time | The comparability of the data is not affected by using of different classifications of economic activities (NACE.BG 2008, NACE.BG 2003 and NACE.BG 2001), because the indicators are calculated totally from all non-financial enterprises in the country. |
Coherence - cross domain | Not applicable. |
Coherence - internal | Not applicable. |
Cost and burden | |
NSI of Bulgaria is making extraordinary efforts to reduce the respondents' burden. An example is the signed agreement called 'Single Entry Point' between NSI and the National Revenue Agency for a single providing of the annual reports and using the data from both institutions. Developed by NSI on-line based information system 'Business Statistics' and ensured methodological and technical assistance to respondents during the reporting campaign are highly appreciated by respondents and help to reduce their workload. | |
Data revision | |
Data revision - policy | The National policy allows the revision of already published data if there are serious reasons. |
Data revision - practice | The revised data replace the already published data as soon as possible after the revision is made. |
Statistical processing | |
Source data | The main data sources for calculating the indicators for Wholesale and Retail sales are:
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Frequency of data collection | Yearly |
Data collection | Exhaustively for all non-financial enterprises accomplished Wholesale and Retail sales in the reference year. |
Data validation | Data validation is made by additional logical input control and comparison between the output data and the results of the previous year and other surveys, carried out by NSI. |
Data compilation | The survey is exhaustive and further data evaluation is not made. |
Adjustment | Not applicable. |
Comment |
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