Hours worked by Regions

Time series

GDP_2.1.5_en.xlsx

Hours worked by Regions
Contact
Contact organisation	National Statistical Institute
Contact organisation unit	National Non-financial Accounts
Contact name	Hadil Shehebar
Contact person function	Chief expert
Contact mail address	2 P. Volov Str., Sofia 1038, Bulgaria
Contact email address	[email protected]
Contact phone number	+359 2 9857 537
Contact fax number
Metadata update
Metadata last certified	04 February 2025
Metadata last posted	04 February 2025
Metadata last update	04 February 2025
Statistical presentation
Data description	Hours worked, are defined as hours actually worked by the employee or self-employed person during the reporting period, whose output was within the production boundary.
Classification system	• Classification of Economic Activities (NACE.BG) containing sectoral groups compatible in terms of NACE Rev.2 (Aggregated nomenclature A10)
Sector coverage	Total of economy
Statistical concepts and definitions	Regional distribution of employees are based on the concept of residency of an institutional unit - employer. Hours worked, are defined as hours actually worked by the employee or self-employed person during the reporting period, whose output was within the production boundary.
Statistical unit	Enterprise (with information for local unit of enterprise)
Statistical population	Employed
Reference area	Bulgaria
Time coverage	from 2013
Base period
Unit of measure
Reference period
Institutional mandate
Legal acts and other agreements
Data sharing
Confidentiality
Confidentiality - policy	· Law on Statistics; · Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.
Confidentiality - data treatment
Release policy
Release calendar
Release calendar access
User access
Frequency of dissemination
Accessibility and clarity
News release
Publications
On-line database	Data are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Macroeconomic statistics - Employment and Hours worked - by Regions › Employed persons, hours worked and labour productivity › Annual data ›
Micro-data access	Not applicable.
Other
Documentation on methodology	European system of national and regional accounts 2010 (Eurostat)
Quality documentation	European system of national and regional accounts 2010. The methodology is also available on NSI website.
Quality management
Quality assurance	· European Statistics Code of Practice; · Common framework for quality management in the National Statistical System.
Quality assessment	Questionnaire on the implementation of the principles of the European Statistics Code of Practice.
Relevance
User needs	National Accounts data are key information for economic policy monitoring and decision making, forecasting, for administrative purposes and for information of the general public and for economic research. Users of annual national accounts data are typically interested in analysing structural changes in the economy from a medium-term perspective.
User satisfaction
Completeness	NSI follows up the interest perceived from users on the basis of databases and downloads of the data.
Accuracy and reliability
Overall accuracy	Not applicable.
Sampling error	Not applicable.
Non-sampling error	Not applicable.
Timeliness and punctuality
Timeliness	24 months after the end of the reporting period.
Punctuality	The data transmitted to Eurostat are in compliance with National Accounts Data Distribution Program Annex B and respective derogations for the country.
Coherence and comparability
Comparability - geographical	The comparability is ensured through the implementation of common definitions of ESA 2010.
Comparability - over time	By using a common framework of the European System of Accounts ESA 2010, the data can be comparable over time.
Coherence - cross domain
Coherence - internal
Cost and burden
Data revision
Data revision - policy
Data revision - practice
Statistical processing
Source data	• Labour force survey • Survey on employees, time worked, salaries, wages and other labour costs
Frequency of data collection	annual
Data collection	annual
Data validation	Validation of the data from Eurostat.
Data compilation	Implementation of validated procedures for assessing the quality of data and the development of estimation of the completeness of the data.
Adjustment
Comment

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Methodology

Hours worked by Regions
Contact
Contact organisation	National Statistical Institute
Contact organisation unit	National Non-financial Accounts
Contact name	Hadil Shehebar
Contact person function	Chief expert
Contact mail address	2 P. Volov Str., Sofia 1038, Bulgaria
Contact email address	[email protected]
Contact phone number	+359 2 9857 537
Contact fax number
Statistical presentation
Data description	Hours worked, are defined as hours actually worked by the employee or self-employed person during the reporting period, whose output was within the production boundary.
Classification system	• Classification of Economic Activities (NACE.BG) containing sectoral groups compatible in terms of NACE Rev.2 (Aggregated nomenclature A10)
Sector coverage	Total of economy
Statistical concepts and definitions	Regional distribution of employees are based on the concept of residency of an institutional unit - employer. Hours worked, are defined as hours actually worked by the employee or self-employed person during the reporting period, whose output was within the production boundary.
Statistical unit	Enterprise (with information for local unit of enterprise)
Statistical population	Employed
Reference area	Bulgaria
Time coverage	from 2013
Base period
Statistical processing
Source data	• Labour force survey • Survey on employees, time worked, salaries, wages and other labour costs
Frequency of data collection	annual
Data collection	annual
Data validation	Validation of the data from Eurostat.
Data compilation	Implementation of validated procedures for assessing the quality of data and the development of estimation of the completeness of the data.
Adjustment
Quality management
Quality assurance	· European Statistics Code of Practice; · Common framework for quality management in the National Statistical System.
Quality assessment	Questionnaire on the implementation of the principles of the European Statistics Code of Practice.
Relevance
User needs	National Accounts data are key information for economic policy monitoring and decision making, forecasting, for administrative purposes and for information of the general public and for economic research. Users of annual national accounts data are typically interested in analysing structural changes in the economy from a medium-term perspective.
User satisfaction
Completeness	NSI follows up the interest perceived from users on the basis of databases and downloads of the data.
Data completeness - rate
Accuracy and reliability
Overall accuracy	Not applicable.
Sampling error	Not applicable.
Sampling errors - indicators	Not applicable.
Non-sampling error	Not applicable.
Coverage error	Not applicable.
Over-coverage - rate	Not applicable.
Common units - proportion	Not applicable.
Measurement error	Not applicable.
Non response error	Not applicable.
Unit non-response - rate	Not applicable.
Item non-response - rate	Not applicable.
Processing error	Not applicable.
Imputation - rate
Model assumption error	Not applicable.
Seasonal adjustment
Data revision - policy
Data revision - practice
Data revision - average size
Timeliness and punctuality
Timeliness	24 months after the end of the reporting period.
Time lag - first results
Time lag - final results
Punctuality	The data transmitted to Eurostat are in compliance with National Accounts Data Distribution Program Annex B and respective derogations for the country.
Punctuality - delivery and publication
Coherence and comparability
Comparability - geographical	The comparability is ensured through the implementation of common definitions of ESA 2010.
Asymmetry for mirror flows statistics - coefficient
Comparability - over time	By using a common framework of the European System of Accounts ESA 2010, the data can be comparable over time.
Length of comparable time series
Coherence - cross domain
Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics
Coherence - National Accounts
Coherence - internal
Accessibility and clarity
News release
Publications
On-line database	Data are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Macroeconomic statistics - Employment and Hours worked - by Regions › Employed persons, hours worked and labour productivity › Annual data ›
Data tables - consultations
Micro-data access	Not applicable.
Other
Metadata - consultations
Documentation on methodology	European system of national and regional accounts 2010 (Eurostat)
Metadata completeness – rate
Quality documentation	European system of national and regional accounts 2010. The methodology is also available on NSI website.
Cost and burden
Confidentiality
Confidentiality - policy	· Law on Statistics; · Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.
Confidentiality – data treatment
Comment