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Consumer confidence indicator | % | -37.7 |
Assessment of the financial situation of households over the last 12 months | balance | -26.4 |
Expectations about the financial situation of households over the next 12 months | balance | -18.5 |
Assessment of the general economic situation in the country over the last 12 months | balance | -47.0 |
Expectations about the general economic situation in the country over the next 12 months | balance | -34.2 |
Assessment about inflation over the last 12 months | balance | 42.4 |
Expectations about inflation over the next 12 months | balance | 36.8 |
Unemployment expectations over the next 12 months | balance | 33.7 |
Assessment of the advantage of making major purchases of durable goods in the present situation | balance | -46.6 |
Intentions of making major purchases of durable goods over the next 12 months | balance | -32.2 |
Assessment of the present situation to save money | balance | -47.9 |
Consumer expectations about savings over the next 12 months | balance | -64.3 |
Assessment of households' budget | balance | -4.2 |
Intentions of buying a car over the next 12 months | balance | -81.2 |
Intentions of building or purchasing a home over the next 12 months | balance | -91.0 |
Intentions of spending a large sum of money on home improvements or renovations over the next 12 months | balance | -75.8 |
Consumer survey

Contact | |
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Contact organisation | National Statistical Institute |
Contact organisation unit | Statistics on Tourism and Business surveys Department |
Contact name | Hristina Terziyska |
Contact person function | State expert |
Contact mail address | 2, P. Volov Str., 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria |
Contact email address | |
Contact phone number | +359 2 9857 628 |
Contact fax number | |
Metadata update | |
Metadata last certified | 27 July 2020 |
Metadata last posted | 27 July 2020 |
Metadata last update | 27 July 2020 |
Statistical presentation | |
Data description | The consumer survey contains standardized questions about the financial situation of households, general economic situation in the country, inflation, unemployment, saving, intentions of making major purchases on durable goods or purchasing/building a home or buying a car. The proposed options of answers give an opportunity to arrange them from optimistic, through neutral to pessimistic. The survey results are used to capture the direction of change of observed variables incl. "the consumer confidence level", which gives an opportunity to analyze the tendencies in the development of public opinions on significant economic phenomena in the country. |
Classification system | Respondents are categorized by 5 criteria: income, economic activity, education, age and gender. |
Sector coverage | The object of the survey are the persons aged 16 and over in Republic of Bulgsria. The sample method is random, clustered, and proportional to the population by regions, incl. urban/rural inhabitants. |
Statistical concepts and definitions | The consumer confidence indicator is an arithmetic mean of the balances of the expectations about the development over the next 12 months of the: financial situation of households, general economic situation in the country, savings and unemployment, as the last is taken with a negative sign. The proposed answer options are presented in a five-point category scale. The obtained results are in the form of balances, which are calculated as the difference between the relative shares of positive and the relative shares of negative opinions with the following feature: strongly positive and strongly negative opinion is given coefficient 1, and for the more moderately positive and more moderately negative opinions - coefficient 0.5. |
Statistical unit | Units of observation are households and their members. |
Statistical population | Reference population of the survey - the permanent population of the Republic of Bulgaria aged 16 years and more. |
Reference area | Total for the territory of Republic of Bulgaria. |
Time coverage | Time series of data are published from 2001 (at Information System INFOSTAT of the National Statistical Institute). |
Base period | Not applicable. |
Unit of measure | |
Balance and percentage. | |
Reference period | |
Quarter. | |
Institutional mandate | |
Legal acts and other agreements |
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Data sharing | The indicators are provided to state institutions in accordance with the requirements of concluded agreements. |
Confidentiality | |
Confidentiality - policy | The confidentiality of the individual data of interviewed persons in the consumer survey is guaranteed by:
(http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:087:0164:0173:bg:PDF)
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Confidentiality - data treatment | Individual data from the survey 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 Law on Statistics and Rules for provision of anonymized individual data for scientific and research purposes (http://www.nsi.bg/bg/node/575). |
Release policy | |
Release calendar | The date of publication of statistical information is indicated in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute. The data are announced in the first week after the reference period. |
Release calendar access | The calendar is available on the NSI website: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/488 |
User access | Consumer surveys data are published on the NSI website, section "Business Statistics" - "Business Surveys" in accordance with the Law on Statistics (Chapter 5) and the European Statistics Code of Practice respecting the professional independence and aimed at objectivity, transparency and equal treatment of all consumers. The access to the results of the statistical surveys of all users and equality of their rights are regulated in the Rules for dissemination of statistical products and services of the National Statistical Institute. |
Frequency of dissemination | |
Quarterly. | |
Accessibility and clarity | |
News release | NSI publishes regular press releases "Consumer survey" in the first week after the reference period. |
Publications | Analytical publication "Bulgaria 2011 - statistical panorama". |
On-line database | Quarterly Consumer survey results are available in the informational system for online statistical queries INFOSTAT: Topic "Business Statistics", Subtopics "Business Surveys": https://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/module.jsf?x_2=33. |
Micro-data access | Not applicable. |
Other | Information services on request, according to the Rules for dissemination of statistical products and services by the NSI http://www.nsi.bg/bg/node/564/. |
Documentation on methodology | Manual to the Joint harmonized EU programme of business and consumer surveys. |
Quality documentation | Not applicable. |
Quality management | |
Quality assurance | The applied statistical practice of providing data is according to the harmonized European Union programme for business and consumer surveys. |
Quality assessment | It is performed according to the standard criteria for quality assessment - applicability, accuracy and reliability, timeliness, comparability and coherence. |
Relevance | |
User needs | Main users of the data are national and international organizations and institutions. |
User satisfaction | The users' satisfaction survey is not carried out. |
Completeness | Consumer survey in the Republic of Bulgaria covers all mandatory variables, according to the general harmonized program of the European Union. |
Accuracy and reliability | |
Overall accuracy | In sample surveys may be mistakes in the registration of answers, processing, and others. |
Sampling error | |
Non-sampling error | |
Timeliness and punctuality | |
Timeliness | The NSI presents information about survey in the first week after the reference period. |
Punctuality | The data are disseminated according to the planned schedule. |
Coherence and comparability | |
Comparability - geographical | The data are prepared at national level. |
Comparability - over time | The data in the time series are comparable over time. |
Coherence - cross domain | Not applicable. |
Coherence - internal | Not applicable. |
Cost and burden | |
Data revision | |
Data revision - policy | Not applicable. |
Data revision - practice | Not applicable. |
Statistical processing | |
Source data | Main data source are questionnaires. |
Frequency of data collection | Quarterly. |
Data collection | The data are collected using a questionnaire by conducting a personal interview with the households included in the sample, and with all persons aged 16 years and over - members of the household. |
Data validation | Data validation is performed at two levels:
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Data compilation | The data processing is performed by developed application software. |
Adjustment | Not applicable. |
Comment |
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Wednesday, 30 December 2020 - 11:00
In December 2020, the total business climate indicator decreases by 1.7 percentage points in comparison with the previous month. A reduction of the indicator is observed in retail trade and in service sector, in construction preserves its level from November, and in industry an increase, is registered.
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Tuesday, 22 December 2020 - 13:50
Main results from the short business survey amongst the non-financial enterprises, aiming at presenting to the society and policy makers information on the economic effects from the declared state of emergency and the ensuing epidemic situation in the country due to COVID-19.
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Monday, 30 November 2020 - 11:00
In November 2020, the business conjuncture in the country is assessed as unfavourable. The total business climate indicator decreases by 4.1 percentage points compared to its October level, as a reduce of the indicator is registered in construction and retail trade.
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Tuesday, 24 November 2020 - 14:40
Main results from the short business survey amongst the non-financial enterprises, aiming at presenting to the society and policy makers information on the economic effects from the declared state of emergency and the ensuing epidemic situation in the country due to COVID-19.
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Friday, 13 November 2020 - 11:00
The investment business inquiry of NSI carried out among industrial enterprises in October 2020 shows that the entrepreneurs expect the investments in the current year to be with 20.9% less in comparison with the previous 2019. The forecasts over 2021 are for a decrease of the volume of investments in industry by 7.6% compared to 2020.
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Friday, 6 November 2020 - 11:00
In October 2020, the total consumer confidence indicator increases by 0.8 percentage points compared to its level 3 months ago, which is due entirely to the increased confidence among the urban population.
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Thursday, 29 October 2020 - 11:00
In October 2020, the total business climate indicator increases by 0.5 percentage points in comparison with the previous month. An improvement of the business conjuncture is registered in construction, retail trade and service sector, while in industry the indicator is decreased.
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Monday, 26 October 2020 - 12:44
Main results from the short business survey amongst the non-financial enterprises, aiming at presenting to the society and policy makers information on the economic effects from the declared state of emergency and the ensuing epidemic situation in the country due to COVID-19.
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Wednesday, 30 September 2020 - 11:00
In September 2020, the total business climate indicator increases by 0.8 percentage points compared to August as a result of the improved managers’ opinions in the retail trade.
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Friday, 25 September 2020 - 16:15
Main results from the short business survey amongst the non-financial enterprises, aiming at presenting to the society and policy makers information on the economic effects from the declared state of emergency and the ensuing epidemic situation in the country due to COVID-19.