Euro-SDMX Metadata Structure (ESMS)
Contact | |
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Contact organisation | National Statistical Institute |
Contact organisation unit | 'Education and Culture Statistics' Department |
Contact name | |
Contact person function | State expert |
Contact mail address | 2, P. Volov Str.; 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria |
Contact email address | |
Contact phone number | +359 2 9857 511 |
Contact fax number | |
Metadata update | |
Metadata last certified | 24 April 2020 |
Metadata last posted | 24 April 2020 |
Metadata last update | 24 April 2020 |
Statistical presentation | |
Data description | Statistics on tertiary education (educational-qualification degrees ‘Professional bachelor’, ‘Bachelor’, ‘Master’) provide data on educational activity in the higher schools. Main units of observation are students (enrolled, newly enrolled and graduates) and academic staff. The main breakdowns of characteristics for collecting data on enrolled students are sex, year of birth, level of education, mode of attendance, specialty, citizenship and country of prior education. Academic staff in tertiary schools is studied by sex, age, type of employment, position. Their number is determined as of a given date of observation – November 15. |
Classification system |
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Sector coverage | The survey covers all authorized higher schools (colleges, universities and equivalent higher schools) according to the Law on Higher Education and the private spiritual higher schools, opened under regulation of the Law on Religion. |
Statistical concepts and definitions | A student is every person enrolled in an educational program of formal education according to ISCED irrespective of the mode of attendance. Formal education includes the educational programmes implement in the legitimate educational institutions created according to the existing legal order. Foreign students are those students who are not citizens of the Republic of Bulgaria as well as those who have dual citizenship and have been enrolled under the regulations for foreign citizens. The student mobility is measured by country of prior education which means that mobile student is a student who has graduated secondary education abroad. Graduates are those students who have received a document for a completed level from a legitimate education institution, containing all the necessary records and stamps according to the law. The academic staff are official persons who directly conduct the training sessions according to curriculum irrespective of whether they are full or part time employees. The academic staff in tertiary education (ISCED - 6 and 7) includes persons whose main engagement is teaching and research work. This staff includes the officials such as rectors, vice rectors, deans, heads of departments, etc. if their main engagement is teaching. The management personnel include official persons performing management functions at the level of the educational institution - rectors, deans and their assistants, heads of departments. An educational institution is defined as a centre taking independent decisions, which performs educational services for persons and organizations and is created according to the rules of the law. This means that the institution has a manager (director, rector or another manager) i.e. that this is an 'independent' educational institution. 'Dependent' educational institutions are branches or units known under other names and are typically subordinate to an independent institution. |
Statistical unit | Students and academic staff. |
Statistical population | Participants in formal education. |
Reference area | Whole country. |
Time coverage | 2001 - 2019 |
Base period | Not applicable. |
Unit of measure | |
Number and per cent. | |
Reference period | |
Academic year. | |
Institutional mandate | |
Legal acts and other agreements | · Regulation (EC) N 452/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the production and development of statistics on education and lifelong learning; · Methodological documents of Eurostat; · Law on Statistics; · Law on Higher education. |
Data sharing | Not applicable. |
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 | In compliance to the Law on Statistics (Articles 25 and 26). |
Release policy | |
Release calendar | In accordance to the dates defined in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute. |
Release calendar access | The calendar is available on the NSI website: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480 |
User access | In accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services. |
Frequency of dissemination | |
Annual | |
Accessibility and clarity | |
News release | Regular press release in the internet site. |
Publications | · Education in the Republic of Bulgaria; · Statistical Yearbook; · Statistical Reference Book; · 'Bulgaria' (brochure). |
On-line database | Data on tertiary education (educational-qualification degrees 'Professional bachelor', 'Bachelor', 'Master') are available to all users on the NSI website under heading Education and Lifelong Learning: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/4892 and on Informational System Infostat: https://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/module.jsf?x_2=164 |
Micro-data access | In accordance to the Rules on Provision of the Anonymised Individual Data for Scientific and Research purposes. |
Other | Information request in accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services. |
Documentation on methodology | · Methodological documents of Eurostat; · Survey Methodology: http://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/metadata/Edu_Meth_en.pdf |
Quality documentation | Quality report in accordance to the Commission Regulation No 88/2011. |
Quality management | |
Quality assurance | A set of quality criteria have been set up within the Commission Regulation No 88/2011. |
Quality assessment | The national quality report provides users with basic |
Relevance | |
User needs | State and regional authorities, international organisations, national and foreign users. |
User satisfaction | Information is not available. |
Completeness | Information is not available. |
Accuracy and reliability | |
Overall accuracy | Not applicable. |
Sampling error | Not applicable (census). |
Non-sampling error | Not applicable. |
Timeliness and punctuality | |
Timeliness | · Reference date: November 15; · Data collection: November - December; · Data processing: January - March; · Dissemination of national results: April; · Transmission of data to Eurostat: September. |
Punctuality | All deliverables were sent in time. |
Coherence and comparability | |
Comparability - geographical | Fully comparable with all EU member states. |
Comparability - over time | Partially comparable due to the changes of national legislation. |
Coherence - cross domain | Data is coherent with 'Adult education survey'. |
Coherence - internal | Carried out quality tests, mainly on the coherency of the gathered |
Cost and burden | |
Information is not available. | |
Data revision | |
Data revision - policy | In accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services. |
Data revision - practice | In accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services. |
Statistical processing | |
Source data | Universities, equivalent higher schools and colleges. |
Frequency of data collection | Annual |
Data collection | Exhaustive survey via electronic questionnaire 'Report on tertiary education for educational-qualification degrees 'Master', 'Bachelor' and 'Professional bachelor'. |
Data validation | Data validation is done by the National Statistical Institute and quality tests are carried out by the Eurostat. |
Data compilation | Not applicable. |
Adjustment | Not applicable. |
Comment |
Contact | |
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Contact organisation | National Statistical Institute |
Contact organisation unit | 'Education and Culture Statistics' Department |
Contact name | |
Contact person function | State expert |
Contact mail address | 2, P. Volov Str.; 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria |
Contact email address | |
Contact phone number | +359 2 9857 511 |
Contact fax number | |
Metadata update | |
Metadata last certified | 24 April 2020 |
Metadata last posted | 24 April 2020 |
Metadata last update | 24 April 2020 |
Statistical presentation | |
Data description | Statistics on tertiary education (educational and scientific degree ‘Doctor’) provide data on the number of enrolled PhD students, newly enrolled and graduates in educational and scientific degree 'Doctor'. The main breakdowns of characteristics for collecting data on PhD students are sex, age, mode of attendance, specialty, citizenship and country of prior education. Their number is determined as of a given date of observation – December 31. |
Classification system |
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Sector coverage | The survey covers all authorized higher schools and scientific organisations. |
Statistical concepts and definitions | A PhD student is every person enrolled in an educational program of formal education according to ISCED irrespective of the mode of attendance. Formal education includes the educational programmes implement in the legitimate educational institutions created according to the existing legal order. Ph.D. students in scientific organisations are also included, irrespective of the mode of attendance. Foreign students are those students who are not citizens of the Republic of Bulgaria as well as those who have dual citizenship and have been enrolled under the regulations for foreign citizens. The student mobility is measured by country of prior education which means that mobile student is a student who has graduated secondary education abroad. Graduates are those students who have received a document for a completed level from a legitimate education institution, containing all the necessary records and stamps according to the law. An educational institution is defined as a centre taking independent decisions, which performs educational services for persons and organizations and is created according to the rules of the law. This means that the institution has a manager (director, rector or another manager) i.e. that this is an 'independent' educational institution. 'Dependent' educational institutions are branches or units known under other names and are typically subordinate to an independent institution. |
Statistical unit | PhD students. |
Statistical population | Participants in formal education. |
Reference area | Whole country. |
Time coverage | 2001 - 2019 |
Base period | Not applicable. |
Unit of measure | |
Number and per cent. | |
Reference period | |
Academic year. | |
Institutional mandate | |
Legal acts and other agreements | · Regulation (EC) N 452/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the production and development of statistics on education and lifelong learning; · Methodological documents of Eurostat; · Law on Statistics; · Law on Development of the Academic Staff in the Republic of Bulgaria. |
Data sharing | Not applicable. |
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 | In compliance to the Law on Statistics (Articles 25 and 26). |
Release policy | |
Release calendar | In accordance to the dates defined in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute. |
Release calendar access | The calendar is available on the NSI website: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480 |
User access | In accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services. |
Frequency of dissemination | |
Annual | |
Accessibility and clarity | |
News release | Regular press release in the internet site. |
Publications | · Education in the Republic of Bulgaria; · Statistical Yearbook; · Statistical Reference Book; · 'Bulgaria' (brochure). |
On-line database | Data on tertiary education (educational and scientific degree ‘Doctor’) is available to all users on the NSI website under heading Education and Lifelong Learning: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/4912 and on Informational System Infostat: https://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/module.jsf?x_2=164 |
Micro-data access | In accordance to the Rules on Provision of the Anonymised Individual Data for Scientific and Research purposes. |
Other | Information request in accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services. |
Documentation on methodology | · Methodological documents of Eurostat; · Survey Methodology: http://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/metadata/Edu_Meth_en.pdf |
Quality documentation | Quality report in accordance to the Commission Regulation No 88/2011. |
Quality management | |
Quality assurance | A set of quality criteria have been set up within the Commission Regulation No 88/2011. |
Quality assessment | The national quality report provides users with basic |
Relevance | |
User needs | State and regional authorities, international organisations, national and foreign users. |
User satisfaction | Information is not available. |
Completeness | Information is not available. |
Accuracy and reliability | |
Overall accuracy | Not applicable. |
Sampling error | Not applicable (census). |
Non-sampling error | Not applicable. |
Timeliness and punctuality | |
Timeliness | · Reference date: December 31; · Data collection: January - February; · Data processing: March - April; · Dissemination of national results: April; · Transmission of data to Eurostat: September. |
Punctuality | All deliverables were sent in time. |
Coherence and comparability | |
Comparability - geographical | Fully comparable with all EU member states. |
Comparability - over time | Partially comparable due to the changes of national legislation. |
Coherence - cross domain | Data are coherent with 'Adult education survey'. |
Coherence - internal | Carried out quality tests, mainly on the coherency of the gathered |
Cost and burden | |
Information is not available. | |
Data revision | |
Data revision - policy | In accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services. |
Data revision - practice | In accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services. |
Statistical processing | |
Source data | Higher schools and scientific organisations. |
Frequency of data collection | Annual |
Data collection | Exhaustive survey via electronic questionnaire 'Report on PhD students'. |
Data validation | Data validation is done by the National Statistical Institute and quality tests are carried out by the Eurostat. |
Data compilation | Not applicable. |
Adjustment | Not applicable. |
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