National Statistical Institute

'Education and Culture Statistics' Department

David Milanov

Chief Expert

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

[email protected]

+ 359 2 9857 602

The data refer to the number of museums, and from 2018 the definition is in full accordance with the Cultural Heritage Act (Prom. in the SG 19 / 13 March 2009). In the data are included indicators for the organized events, stocks units (movable cultural values), visits and of which: in the day for free entrance and visits of foreigners, staff, incomes from European projects and programmes and expenditures, as well as data for the material basis of museums, number of museums which use a computer and number of museums with at least one specialized educational programme.

· By thematic scope of the museum;

· By territorial scope of the museum;

· By form of ownership of the museum;

· According to the scientific and cultural fields of the museum;

· Staff category of the museum;

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

Includes the activity of all registered museums, without collections with public importance (museum collections).

Museum is a cultural and science organisation which seeks out, studies, preserves and presents cultural values, natural specimens and anthropological remains with cognitive, educational and aesthetic purposes.

Units of observation are the museums, whose stocks units are movable cultural values.

The target populations are all open for visit museums whose stocks units are movable cultural values.

For the Republic of Bulgaria.

2002 - 2018

Not applicable.

Number; Thousand BGN.

Yearly.

· Law of Cultural Heritage;

· Law on Statistics;

· EUROSTAT, EGMUS (European Group for Museum 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: http://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.

Annual.

Regular press release, related to the data.

· Statistical Yearbook;

· Statistical Reference Book;

· 'Bulgaria' (brochure);

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

Data on museums are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Culture - Museums: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/4655

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: http://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/metadata/Culture_8_Methodology_en.pdf

Quality documents are under preparation.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

The main users of statistical information by the survey of museums are:

· Ministry of Culture;

· End users (including the media)  interested from activity of the museums in the Republic of Bulgaria.

Not applicable.

High degree of completeness is ensured according to the methodology.

NSI conducts an annual exhaustive survey which characterized the activity of the museums.

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

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

The data for museums are available in the form of tables 5 months after the end of the data collection.

The terms of the previous position are strictly observed.

Not applicable.

In 2018 there is a break in the time series of the data on the number of museums.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

The average length for filling the statistical report by the respondents is about 60 minutes.

Not applicable (preliminary data not published).

Not applicable (preliminary data not published).

Source data are all museums, whose collections are cultural values.

Yearly.

Data are collected via electronic questionnaire "Report on the activities of the museums". Respondents send the questionnaire by e-mail.

· The logical control of data in the RSO;

· The logic control of aggregate data in the head office of the NSI.

Data processing is performed with statistical software Access.

Not applicable.