Hours worked by Regions

National Statistical Institute

Non-Financial National and Regional Accounts

Boryana Manolova

head of department

2 P. Volov Str., Sofia 1038, Bulgaria

[email protected]

+359 2 9857 623

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 of Economic Activities (NACE.BG) containing sectoral groups compatible in terms of NACE Rev.2 (Aggregated nomenclature A10)

Total of economy

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.

Enterprise (with information for local unit of enterprise)

Employed

Bulgaria

from 2013

• Labour force survey
• Survey on employees, time worked, salaries, wages and other labour costs

annual

annual

Validation of the data from Eurostat.

Implementation of validated procedures for assessing the quality of data and the development of estimation of the completeness of the data.

· European Statistics Code of Practice;
· Common framework for quality management in the National Statistical System.

Questionnaire on the implementation of the principles of the European Statistics Code of Practice.

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.

NSI follows up the interest perceived from users on the basis of databases and downloads of the data.

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24 months after the end of the reporting period.

The data transmitted to Eurostat are in compliance with National Accounts Data Distribution Program Annex B and respective derogations for the country.

The comparability is ensured  through the implementation of common definitions of ESA 2010.

By using a common framework of the European System of Accounts  ESA 2010, the data can be comparable over time.

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 ›

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European system of national and regional accounts 2010 (Eurostat)

European system of national and regional accounts 2010. The methodology is also available on NSI website.

· 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.