Eurostat experts will be on a working visit on the PRODCOM survey (Community Survey of Industrial Production) in the period 19-20 September 2011. The visit is carried out within the framework of the Eurostat Programme for Quality Visits to EU Member States. Among the Eurostat experts is Mr. Thierry Courtel – Head of the PRODCOM team. They will meet their Bulgarian colleagues from the “Structural Business Statistics” Department.

This kind of quality visits aims at deeper understanding of the organisation and implementation of national PRODCOM surveys. Analyzing the actual detailed information about the national PRODCOM surveys will help Eurostat to assess and improve the level of harmonization of PRODCOM data, as well as to find out the most effective ways for reducing burden of both NSI and enterprises.

The focus of the discussions will be on the following topics:

• Designing the sample of the PRODCOM survey
• National nomenclature and the PRODCOM List
• Indicators and their definitions
• Data collection methods
• Methods for dealing with missing data
• Data quality control

The Programme started in 2009 and up to now ten Quality Visits to EU Member States were carried out.