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In December 2013 the total business climate indicator decreases by 3.4 percentage points compared to its level from the previous month due to the worsening business climate in industry, construction and retail trade (a decrease by 3.2, 9.1 and 2.9 percentage points respectively). Only in service sector the indicator is improved (by 1.4 percentage points).

In November 2013, the number of the trips of Bulgarian residents abroad was 245.0 thousand or by 2.9% under the registered in November 2012. The trips with other purposes (as guest, education and visit the cultural and sport events) composed the greatest share of the total number of trips of Bulgarian residents abroad - 51.1%, followed by the trips with holiday and recreation purposes - 25.1% and with professional purpose - 23.8%.

In November 2013, the number of arrivals of visitors from abroad to Bulgaria was 416.2 thousand which was by 2.9% above the level of November 2012. An increase was registered in the visits by all observed purposes: for holiday and recreation purpose - by 6.7%, professional - by 2.9%, and with other purposes - by 0.1%. 

The National Statistical Institute presents results from annual surveys in the domain of environmental statistics for 2012. Detailed data by particular topics are placed under the heading "Environment" on the NSI web page: https://www.nsi.bg.

Preliminary data of NSI for the third quarter of 2013 indicated that the total hourly labour cost has risen by 2.8% compared to the third quarter of 2012. 

The poverty line for 2011 is BGN 279.67 average per month per household. At this amount of the poverty line 1 558.8 thousand persons or 21.2% of the population were below the poverty threshold. This is what the data from the 2012 survey on “Social Inclusion and Living Conditions” (EU-SILC) shows.

In January 2013 the relative share of enterprises having internet access reached 89.1%, or with 1.7 percentage points more in comparison with the previous year. Information communication technology was most widely used by the largest enterprises (250 or more employed), 99.1% of them had an internet access, while in small enterprises (10 – 49 employed) this relative share was 87.4%. More than half of the enterprises (52.3%) maintained their own webpage or website.

The results of the survey on the information communication technology usage by households and individuals for 2013 show that more than a half of the households (53.7%) in Bulgaria had access to the internet at home, which was a growth of 2.8 percentage point, compared to the previous year. There also was a stable trend for growth of the regular usage of internet by individuals and 51.2% of the population aged 16-74 years was using internet every day or at least once a week.

According to the first estimates on economic accounts for agriculture of the National Statistical Institute, prepared as of November 2013, the real income index (net value added at factor cost) in agriculture has decreased by 0.3% as compared with 2012.

The consumer price index in November 2013 compared to October 2013 was 99.8%, i.e. the monthly inflation was -0.2%.