Kindergartens (Pre-primary education)| Contact |
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| Contact organisation | National Statistical Institute |
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| Contact organisation unit | 'Education and Culture Statistics' Department |
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| Contact name | Nikolay Nikolov |
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| Contact person function | chief expert |
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| Contact mail address | 2, P. Volov Str.; 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria |
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| Contact email address | [email protected] |
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| Contact phone number | +359 2 9857 487 |
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| Contact fax number | |
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| Statistical presentation |
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| Data description | Statistics on pre-primary education provides data on activity of the kindergartens and pre-school grades in schools. Main statistical units are children, teachers, educators and other category personnel. Main breakdowns of characteristics for collecting data on children and pedagogic personnel are: sex and year of birth. The date of the observation is December 31. |
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| Classification system | International Standard Classification of Education, 2011 version (ISCED 2011) |
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| Sector coverage | The survey covers all state, municipal and created according to the established legal order private kindergartens. |
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| Statistical concepts and definitions | A pupil/student (incl. children in kindergartens) 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. The teachers are official persons who directly conduct the training sessions according to curriculum irrespective of whether they are full or part time employees. Directors and assistant directors are observed separately although a great part of them may have lecturing functions as well. The management personnel include official persons performing management functions at the level of the educational institution. 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. |
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| Statistical unit | Pupils and education personnel. |
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| Statistical population | Participants in formal education. |
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| Reference area | Whole country. Data is published down to municipality level. |
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| Time coverage | starting from 2018 |
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| Base period | Not applicable. |
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| Statistical processing |
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| Source data | All kindergartens and pre-school grades in schools, which conduct compulsory pre-school training of the children. |
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| Frequency of data collection | Annual |
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| Data collection | Census via statistical questionnaire 'Report on kindergarten' |
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| Data validation | Data validation is done by the National Statistical Institute and quality tests are carried out by the Eurostat. |
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| Data compilation | Not applicable. |
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| Adjustment | Not applicable. |
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| Quality management |
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| Quality assurance | A set of quality criteria have been set up within the Commission Regulation No 88/2011. |
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| Quality assessment | The national quality report provides users with basic information on quality at national level. |
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| Relevance |
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| User needs | State and regional authorities, international organisations, national and foreign users. |
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| User satisfaction | Information is not available. |
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| Completeness | Information is not available. |
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| Data completeness - rate | Not applicable (census). |
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| Accuracy and reliability |
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| Overall accuracy | Not applicable (census). |
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| Sampling error | Not applicable (census). |
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| Sampling errors - indicators | Not applicable (census). |
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| Non-sampling error | Not applicable (census). |
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| Coverage error | Not applicable (census). |
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| Over-coverage - rate | Not applicable (census). |
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| Common units - proportion | Not applicable (census). |
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| Measurement error | Not applicable (census). |
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| Non response error | Not applicable (census). |
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| Unit non-response - rate | Not applicable (census). |
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| Item non-response - rate | Not applicable (census). |
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| Processing error | Not applicable (census). |
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| Imputation - rate | Not applicable (no imputations). |
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| Model assumption error | Not applicable (census). |
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| Seasonal adjustment | Not applicable (no seasonal adjustments). |
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| Data revision - policy | In accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services. |
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| Data revision - practice | In accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services. |
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| Data revision - average size | Not applicable (preliminary data not published). |
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| Timeliness and punctuality |
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| Timeliness | · Reference date: December 31; · Fieldwork: December - January; · Processing: February - March; · Dissemination of national results: May; · Transmission of data to Eurostat: September. |
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| Time lag - first results | 20 weeks. |
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| Time lag - final results | Not applicable (only final results published). |
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| Punctuality | Data was disseminated at national level and delivered to Euorostat in time. |
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| Punctuality - delivery and publication | Not applicable (data published on exact date). |
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| Coherence and comparability |
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| Comparability - geographical | Fully comparable with all EU member states. |
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| Asymmetry for mirror flows statistics - coefficient | Not applicable (no flows). |
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| Comparability - over time | Partially comparable due to the changes of national legislation. |
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| Length of comparable time series | From 2000 year. |
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| Coherence - cross domain | Not applicable. |
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| Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics | Not applicable (annual survey). |
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| Coherence - National Accounts | Not applicable. |
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| Coherence - internal | Carried out quality tests, mainly on the coherency of the gathered information. |
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| Accessibility and clarity |
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| News release | Regular press release in the internet site. |
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| Publications | · Education in the Republic of Bulgaria; · Statistical Yearbook; · Statistical Reference Book; · "Bulgaria" (brochure). |
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| On-line database | Data on Kindergartens (Pre-primary education) are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Education and Lifelong Learning: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/4792 and Informational System "Infostat": https://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/module.jsf?x_2=66 |
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| Data tables - consultations | Not available. |
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| Micro-data access | In accordance to the Rules on Provision of the Anonymised Individual Data for Scientific and Research purposes. |
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| Other | Information services by order in accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services. |
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| Metadata - consultations | Not available. |
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| Documentation on methodology | · Methodological documents of Eurostat; · Survey Methodology: http://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/metadata/Edu_Meth_en.pdf |
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| Metadata completeness – rate | Not avaliable. |
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| Quality documentation | Quality report in accordance to the Commission Regulation No 88/2011. |
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| Cost and burden |
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Information is not available. |
| Confidentiality |
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| 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. |
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| Confidentiality – data treatment | In compliance to the Law on Statistics (Articles 25 and 26). |
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