Community clubs

National Statistical Institute

'Education and Culture Statistics' Department

Anzhelina Aleksieva

Junior Expert

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

[email protected]

+ 359 2 9857 519

The data refers to the number of chitalishta (also called community clubs, community cultural centers or cultural centers). In the survey are included indicators for the revenue and expenditure of chitalishta; courses - language, music, dance, etc.; amateur artistic creativity - type groups and schools, cultural and creative activities - organized celebration of important dates, discussions of books, organized museum collections and other, members, staff and material supplies.

· Staff category;

· Nomenclature of territorial units for statistical purposes in Bulgaria (NUTS).

Survey covers the activity of all registered community cultural centers according to the People’s Chitalishte Act.

Community cultural centers are traditional self-managed Bulgarian culture-educational organizations in the settlements which perform and public cultural and educational tasks.

Community cultural center.

Community cultural centers, opened according to the People's Chitalishte act.

Republic of Bulgaria.

In electronic format - 2005, 2007, 2012, 2017.

Not applicable.

Number, Percent

Once in every five years.

· People's Chitalishte Act;

· Law on Statistics.

There is an agreement to exchange data with Ministry of Culture.

· 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.

Individual data are not published in accordance with article 25 of the Law on Statistics. The publishing of individual data can be performed only in accordance with article 26 of the same law.

The date for publication of statistical information is listed 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: https://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480

Data is published on the NSI website, section Culture in accordance with the Law on Statistics and the European Statistics Code of Practice respecting the professional independence and aimed at objectivity, transparency and equal treatment of all consumers.

Once in every five years.

Regular press releases, related to the data

· Statistical Yearbook;

· Statistical Reference Book;

· 'Bulgaria' (brochure);

· Regions, districts and municipalities in the Republic of Bulgaria.

Data on community cultural centers are available to all users on the NSI website under the heading Culture - Community clubs (https://www.nsi.bg/en/node/4537), and also on Information System ‘Infostat’ (https://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/module.jsf?x_2=213).

Anonymised individual data can be provide for scientific and research purposes, and for individual request according to the Rules for the provision of anonymised individual data for scientific and research purposes.

Information service on request, according to the Rules for the dissemination of statistical products and services to NSI.

Survey Methodology: https://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/metadata/Culture_9_Methodology_en.pdf

Quality documents are under preparation.

Not applicable.

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The main users of statistical information by the survey of the community cultural centers activity are:

• Ministry of Culture;
• End users - including the media - interested is the community cultural centers activity in the Republic of Bulgaria.

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High degree of completeness is ensured according to the methodology.

The survey is exhaustive. There have been several preliminary estimates for incomplete or missing data, using final methods when it is possible.

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The most recent survey

Survey year: 2017

Fieldwork: February - March 2018

Processing: March - May 2018

Data dissemination: May 2018

The terms of the previous position are strictly observed.

Not applicable.

The data are comparable.

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The average length for filling the statistical report by the respondents is about 35 minutes.

Not applicable (preliminary data not published).

Not applicable (preliminary data not published).

Community cultural centers.

Once in every five years.

The study was conducted in two stages. First stage (1- 16 February 2018) - filling in the data by the respondents in the online survey application; Second Stage (19 February - 9 March 2018) - a paper form was provided for the respondents who did not submit data through the online survey application.

The application for data entry was designed with additional controls and filters, which assured the consistency between different elements of provided information. After the field work were conducted additional logical checks by the experts in the RSOs and in NSI.

Data processing is performed with statistical software SPSS.

Not applicable.