National Statistical Institute

'Education and Culture Statistics' Department

Dilyan Atanasov

chief expert

2, P. Volov Str.; 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria

DAtanasov@nsi.bg

+359 2 9857 484

Calculations on educational expenditure are done according to the UNESCO, OECD, Eurostat's methodology (UOE - Finance tables) which ensured international comparable data. Main subject of the survey is determination of the exact value of the public and private expenditure, distributed by the educational levels.

International Standard Classification of Education, 2011 version (ISCED 2011)

All public and private educational expenditure.

Educational expenditure by levels of ISCED.

Public and private educational expenditure.

Whole country.

2000 - 2021

Not applicable.

Thousand BGN.

Year.

· 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;

· Commission Regulation (EU) No 912/2013;

· Methodological documents of Eurostat;

· Law on Statistics.

Not applicable.

· 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.

In compliance to the Law on Statistics (Articles 25 and 26).

In accordance to the dates defined in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute.

The calendar is available on the NSI website: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480

In accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services.

Annual.

Regular press release on the internet site.

Statistical Reference Book; Statistical Year Book.

Data on public and private expenditure on education are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Education and Lifelong Learning (http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/4944) and in Informational System"Infostat" (https://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/module.jsf?x_2=166).

In accordance to the Rules on Provision of the Anonymised Individual Data for Scientific and Research purposes.

Information services by order in accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services.

Methodological documents of UNESCO, OECD and Eurostat.

Quality report in accordance to the Commission Regulation (EU) No 912/2013.

A set of quality criteria have been set up within the Commission Regulation (EU) No 912/2013.

The national quality report provides users with basic information on quality at national level.

State and regional authorities, international organisations, national and foreign users.

Information is not available.

Information is not available.

Not applicable (compilation of administrative data).

Not applicable (compilation of administrative data).

Not applicable (compilation of administrative data).

· Data compilation: September - November of year T;

· Transmission of data to Eurostat: November of year T;

· Dissemination of national results: April of year T+1.

All national disseminations and deliverables to the Eurostat in time.

Fully comparable with all EU Member States.

Partially comparable due to the changes of national legislation.

Data is coherent with surveys conducted by the NSI departments: Education and Culture Statistics, Statistics on Living Conditions, National Non-financial Accounts, Statistics on Labour costs, Research and Development, Innovation and Information Society.

Carried out quality tests, mainly on the coherency of the gathered information.

Information is not available.

Not applicable (preliminary data not published).

Not applicable (preliminary data not published).

Ministry of Education and Science; Ministry of Finance; NSI departments: Education and Culture Statistics, Statistics on Living Conditions, National Non-financial Accounts, Statistics on Labour costs, Research and Development, Innovation and Information Society.

Annual.

Administrative data from Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Education and Science and NSI.

Data validation is done by the National Statistical Institute and quality tests are carried out by the Eurostat.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.