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Activity of Non Financial Enterprises for 2010 (preliminary data)
According to the preliminary data 315 819 non-financial enterprises have submitted their annual reports for 2010 at the National Statistical Institute, employing 1 934 544 persons, generating 32 138 million BGN of value added and making 12 776 million BGN gross investments in tangible goods.
Producer Price Indices in Industry, July 2011
Producer Price Index on Domestic Market in July 2011 increased by 0.7% compared to the previous month, while compared to the same month of 2010 the domestic prices grew by 8.4%. Total Producer Price Index rose by 0.9% compared to the previous month, compared to the same month of 2010 the prices went up by 9.4%.
Business Conjuncture, August 2011
In August 2011 the total business climate indicator increases by 1.1 percentage points compared to its level from the previous month. In industry and retail trade a better business climate is observed, while in construction and service sector a certain deterioration of the business conjuncture is recorded. To reach the long-term average level of the indicator still remains 8.8 percentage points.
Trips of Bulgarian Residents Abroad and Arrivals of Visitors from Abroad to Bulgaria in July 2011
In July 2011 the number of the trips of Bulgarian residents in abroad was 378.3 thousand, which was 6.3% more than the number of the trips in July 2010. In July 2011, the number of arrivals of visitors from abroad to Bulgaria was 1 609.9 thousand or 2.6% more than the number of trips in the corresponding month of 2010.
Goods and Passengers Carried and Transport Performance by Mode of Transport in the Second Quarter of 2011
According to preliminary data during the second quarter of 2011 in comparison with the correspondence period in 2010 the transported goods rose with 3 111.3 thousand tons or by 13.5% while the transport performance measured in tonne-kilometres drops by 12.1%, due to the decreased volume of the carriages by the international maritime transport. The transported passengers in the second quarter of 2011 were by 3.5% less than the corresponding quarter of previous year, while the transport performance registered an increase by 3.1%.
Main Labour Force Survey Results, Second Quarter 2011
In the second quarter of 2011 the employment rate for population aged 15 - 64 was 58.2%, by 2.0 percentage points lower than in the second quarter of 2010. For the same period the unemployment rate went up by 1.2 percentage points to 11.2%.
Tourist Trips and Tourism-related Expenditure of the Population in the Second Quarter of 2011
By preliminarily data, 1 010.7 thousand Bulgarian residents were travelled to the country or abroad in the second quarter of 2011. A person of 15 years and over spent on the average 168.9 BGN for its private domestic trip and 652.7 BGN for outbound trip.
Indices of producer prices and means of production in agriculture, second quarter in 2011
The index of producer prices in agriculture increases by 36.0% in the second quarter of 2011 as compared to the same quarter 2010. Increases were registered in the crop production by 56.2%, and in the livestock – by 15.0% compared with the corresponding quarter of previous year.
The index of prices of means of production used in agriculture in the second quarter of 2011 is 10.2% above the same quarter of 2010.
Activity of Accommodation Establishments for the period April - June 2011
In the second quarter of 2011, 3 226 accommodation establishments - hotels, motels, camping sites, mountain chalets and other establishments for short-term accommodation with more than 10 bed places were functioned in the country.
The total number of the nights spent in all accommodation establishments in the second quarter of 2011 was 4 524.0 thousand and rose by 760.9 thousand (20.2%) compared to same period of 2010.