In February 2025, the National Statistical Institute launched the project ‘Improving the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices, Area 6: New Methodologies for HICP – Gambling’ under Grant Agreement with the European Commission No. 101199547-2024-BG-PRS.
The project includes the following activities:
Data collection activities have been launched under the ‘Sub-national and city statistics’ project, as signed in 2024 Grant agreement (No. 101145892, РД-10-1/19.01.2024) between the National Statistical Institute and the European Commission. The project duration is 36 months and is part of a series of projects known as ‘Urban Audit Data Collection’, in which Bulgaria has participated since 2004. In the current phase of the project, data on cities and functional urban areas (FUAs) will be collected.
In January 2025, the National statistical institute has started work on the project ‘Improvement of the methodology and data on packages placed on the market to ensure coverage of plastic packaging waste generation’. The implementation of the project is according to Grant agreement with the European Commission No 101198042-2024-BG-EGD.
The project is organized in two work packages.
In January 2025, the National Statistical Institute started work on the project ‘Statistics on the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) 2025’ in accordance with Grant agreement with the European Commission No. 1011197277 - 2024-BG-ICT.
The aim of the project is to provide reliable and internationally comparable data on the development and use of ICT among the population and businesses in 2025, which are not included in the mandatory scope of European regulations in the field, and to provide data on selected indicators for an additional age group 75 - 89 years.
The National Statistical Institute (NSI) has started work on the ‘European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) 2025 wave’ project since December 2024. The implementation of the project is in accordance with the Grant Agreement with the European Commission Nо. 101191410 - 2024-BG-EHIS.
In November 2024, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) started working on the project ‘Provision of basic information for calculating purchasing power parities (PPP)’ according to the Grant Agreement with the European Commission № 101193820-2024-BG-PPP.
The aim of the project is to provide basic statistical information for the calculation of PPP. This is a multilateral activity of the European Commission (Eurostat), which is part of the Community legislation (acquis communautaire), and contributes to the improvement of price statistics and national accounts.
The National Statistical Institute has started work on the ‘Income and Living Conditions - SILC 2025 module’ project since September 2024. The implementation of the project is in accordance with the Grant Agreement with the European Commission Nо. 101190892 - 2024-BG-SILC.
The implementation of the project activities will provide an opportunity to improve the data processing; fulfil the technical requirements for the new or revised sets of variables and characteristics implemented for the first time in 2025 ad hoc subject on ‘Energy and the environment’.
The National Statistical Institute has started work on the ‘2025 EU-LFS eight-yearly variables on ‘reconciliation of work and family life’ project. The implementation of the project is according to the Grant Agreement with the European Commission No. 101190819-2024-BG-LFS.
The additional variables on ‘reconciliation of work and family life’ are included in the regular 2025 Labour Force Survey following the requirements of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2447 of 30 September 2022 and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2312 of 25 November 2022.
In the beginning of August 2024, the National Statistical Institute completed the ‘Collection of Data for Cities and sub-national Statistics’ project under the grant agreement with the European Commission No. 101052213-2021-BG-CITY. This 27-month project continued a series of projects that Bulgaria has been participating in since 2004.
The project’s main goal is to provide reliable and comparable statistical information about the regions needed for implementing territorial policies in the European Union.
In February 2024, the National Statistical Institute completed successfully the work on the project ‘Provision of basic information for calculating purchasing power parities (PPP)’ according to the Grant Agreement with the European Commission № 101091474-22-BG-PPP.