2018/2019 | |
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Total | 690 |
Correctional boarding schools | 66 |
Social-pedagogic boarding schools | 22 |
Schools for hard hearing children | 300 |
Schools for visually handicapped children | 302 |
Students in special schools by type

Euro-SDMX Metadata Structure (ESMS)
Contact | |
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Contact organisation | National Statistical Institute |
Contact organisation unit | 'Education and Culture Statistics' Department |
Contact name | |
Contact person function | Head of department |
Contact mail address | 2, P. Volov Str.; 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria |
Contact email address | |
Contact phone number | +359 2 9857 469 |
Contact fax number | |
Metadata update | |
Metadata last certified | 25 April 2019 |
Metadata last posted | 25 April 2019 |
Metadata last update | 25 April 2019 |
Statistical presentation | |
Data description | Statistics on basic and secondary education provide data on educational activity in all types of schools and vocational training after secondary education in vocational colleges. Main units of the survey are students (new entrants and graduates) and teaching staff. The main breakdowns of characteristics for collecting data on enrolled students are following: sex, year of birth, grade, repeating a grade, level of education, mode of attendance, type, profile and location of the basic (secondary) school, profession/specialty studied, studying of foreign languages, studying of mother tongue. The date of the observation is October 1. |
Classification system | · International Standard Classification of Education, 2011 version (ISCED 2011); · Classification of the fields of education and specialties taught in the vocational secondary schools and art schools; · Classification of the fields of education and profession taught in the vocational training schools and classes. |
Sector coverage | The survey covers all governmental, municipal and created according to the existing legal order private schools. |
Statistical concepts and definitions | A pupil/student 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. Newly enrolled pupils/students - pupils/students who have been enrolled for the first time in the initial grade or course of the respective educational level are considered newly enrolled. This means that those which have been enrolled in the same educational level previous years are not included to the number of the newly enrolled. Graduates are those pupils/students who have received a document for a completed level from a legitimate education institution, containing all the necessary records and stamps according to the law. Students who have left school are defined as students who were enrolled in the beginning of the previous school year but before its end due to some of the listed reasons had left the school. Those who have left school cannot be treated as dropouts from the educational system because they could continue their education during the next school year and those who were under 16 years of age are obliged to continue their education. 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/students (incl. newly enrolled and graduates) and education personnel. |
Statistical population | Participants in formal education. |
Reference area | Whole country. Data is published down to municipality level. |
Time coverage | 2000 - 2018 |
Base period | Not applicable. |
Unit of measure | |
Number and per cent. | |
Reference period | |
School year. | |
Institutional mandate | |
Legal acts and other agreements |
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Data sharing | Not applicable. |
Confidentiality | |
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. |
Confidentiality - data treatment | In compliance to the Law on Statistics (Articles 25 and 26). |
Release policy | |
Release calendar | In accordance to the dates defined in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute. |
Release calendar access | The calendar is available on the NSI website: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480 |
User access | In accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services. |
Frequency of dissemination | |
Annual | |
Accessibility and clarity | |
News release | Regular press release in the internet site. |
Publications | · Education in the · Statistical Yearbook; · Statistical Reference Book; · 'Bulgaria' (brochure). |
On-line database | Data on Basic and secondary education (primary, lower secondary and upper secondary) are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Education and Lifelong Learning: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/4810 and Informational System "Infostat": https://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/module.jsf?x_2=140 |
Micro-data access | In accordance to the Rules on Provision of the Anonymised Individual Data for Scientific and Research purposes. |
Other | Information services by order in accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services. |
Documentation on methodology | · Methodological documents of Eurostat; · Survey Methodology: http://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/metadata/Edu_Meth_en.pdf |
Quality documentation | Quality report in accordance to the Commission Regulation No 88/2011. |
Quality management | |
Quality assurance | A set of quality criteria have been set up within the Commission Regulation No 88/2011. |
Quality assessment | The national quality report provides users with basic |
Relevance | |
User needs | State and regional authorities, international organisations, national and foreign users. |
User satisfaction | Information is not available. |
Completeness | Information is not available. |
Accuracy and reliability | |
Overall accuracy | Not applicable (census). |
Sampling error | Not applicable (census). |
Non-sampling error | Not applicable (census). |
Timeliness and punctuality | |
Timeliness | · Reference date: October 1; · Fieldwork: October - November; · Processing: December - March; · Dissemination of national results: April; · Transmission of data to Eurostat: September. |
Punctuality | All deliverables were sent in time. |
Coherence and comparability | |
Comparability - geographical | Fully comparable with all EU member states. |
Comparability - over time | From 2000/2001 to 2016/2017 school year, there is partial comparability due to the changes of national legislation. Since 2017/2018 school year, there is break in the time series due to changes in the national education system (Pre-school and School Education Act, promulgated SG No.79 of 13 October 2015). The data are not comparable to the previous school years. |
Coherence - cross domain | Data is coherent with 'Adult education survey'. |
Coherence - internal | Carried out quality tests, mainly on the coherency of the gathered |
Cost and burden | |
Information is not available. | |
Data revision | |
Data revision - policy | In accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services. |
Data revision - practice | In accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services. |
Statistical processing | |
Source data | All types of state, municipal and private (created according to the existing legal order) schools, from I to XII grade and the vocational colleges after secondary education. |
Frequency of data collection | Annual |
Data collection | Census via statistical questionnaire 'Report on schools'. |
Data validation | Data validation is done by the National Statistical Institute and quality tests are carried out by the Eurostat. |
Data compilation | Not applicable. |
Adjustment | Not applicable. |
Comment |
ESS Standard for Quality Reports Structure (ESQRS)
Contact | |
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Contact organisation | National Statistical Institute |
Contact organisation unit | 'Education and Culture Statistics' Department |
Contact name | |
Contact person function | Head of department |
Contact mail address | 2, P. Volov Str.; 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria |
Contact email address | |
Contact phone number | +359 2 9857 469 |
Contact fax number | |
Statistical presentation | |
Data description | Statistics on basic and secondary education provide data on educational activity in all types of schools and vocational training after secondary education in vocational colleges. Main units of the survey are students (new entrants and graduates) and teaching staff. The main breakdowns of characteristics for collecting data on enrolled students are following: sex, year of birth, grade, repeating a grade, level of education, mode of attendance, type, profile and location of the basic (secondary) school, profession/specialty studied, studying of foreign languages, studying of mother tongue. The date of the observation is October 1. |
Classification system | · International Standard Classification of Education, 2011 version (ISCED 2011); · Classification of the fields of education and specialties taught in the vocational secondary schools and art schools; · Classification of the fields of education and profession taught in the vocational training schools and classes. |
Sector coverage | The survey covers all governmental, municipal and created according to the existing legal order private schools. |
Statistical concepts and definitions | A pupil/student 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. Newly enrolled pupils/students - pupils/students who have been enrolled for the first time in the initial grade or course of the respective educational level are considered newly enrolled. This means that those which have been enrolled in the same educational level previous years are not included to the number of the newly enrolled. Graduates are those pupils/students who have received a document for a completed level from a legitimate education institution, containing all the necessary records and stamps according to the law. Students who have left school are defined as students who were enrolled in the beginning of the previous school year but before its end due to some of the listed reasons had left the school. Those who have left school cannot be treated as dropouts from the educational system because they could continue their education during the next school year and those who were under 16 years of age are obliged to continue their education. 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/students (incl. newly enrolled and graduates) and education personnel. |
Statistical population | Participants in formal education. |
Reference area | Whole country. Data is published down to municipality level. |
Time coverage | 2000 - 2018 |
Base period | Not applicable. |
Statistical processing | |
Source data | All types of state, municipal and private (created according to the existing legal order) schools, from I to XII grade and the vocational colleges after secondary education. |
Frequency of data collection | Annual |
Data collection | Census via statistical questionnaire 'Report on schools'. |
Data validation | Data validation is done by the National Statistical Institute and quality tests are carried out by the Eurostat. |
Data compilation | Not applicable. |
Adjustment | Not applicable. |
Quality management | |
Quality assurance | A set of quality criteria have been set up within the Commission Regulation No 88/2011. |
Quality assessment | The national quality report provides users with basic |
Relevance | |
User needs | State and regional authorities, international organisations, national and foreign users. |
User satisfaction | Information is not available. |
Completeness | Information is not available. |
Data completeness - rate | Not applicable (census). |
Accuracy and reliability | |
Overall accuracy | Not applicable (census). |
Sampling error | Not applicable (census). |
Sampling errors - indicators | Not applicable (census). |
Non-sampling error | Not applicable (census). |
Coverage error | Not applicable (census). |
Over-coverage - rate | Not applicable (census). |
Common units - proportion | Not applicable (census). |
Measurement error | Not applicable (census). |
Non response error | Not applicable (census). |
Unit non-response - rate | Not applicable (census). |
Item non-response - rate | Not applicable (census). |
Processing error | Not applicable (census). |
Imputation - rate | Not applicable (no imputations). |
Model assumption error | Not applicable (census). |
Seasonal adjustment | Not applicable (no seasonal adjustments). |
Data revision - policy | In accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services. |
Data revision - practice | In accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services. |
Data revision - average size | Not applicable (preliminary data not published). |
Timeliness and punctuality | |
Timeliness | · Reference date: October 1; · Fieldwork: October - November; · Processing: December - March; · Dissemination of national results: April; · Transmission of data to Eurostat: September. |
Time lag - first results | 26 weeks. |
Time lag - final results | Not applicable (only final results published). |
Punctuality | All deliverables were sent in time. |
Punctuality - delivery and publication | Not applicable (data published on exact date). |
Coherence and comparability | |
Comparability - geographical | Fully comparable with all EU member states. |
Asymmetry for mirror flows statistics - coefficient | Not applicable (no flows). |
Comparability - over time | From 2000/2001 to 2016/2017 school year, there is partial comparability due to the changes of national legislation. Since 2017/2018 school year, there is break in the time series due to changes in the national education system (Pre-school and School Education Act, promulgated SG No.79 of 13 October 2015). The data are not comparable to the previous school years. |
Length of comparable time series | Until 2016/2017 school year - 17 years. From 2017/2018 school year - 2 years |
Coherence - cross domain | Data is coherent with 'Adult education survey'. |
Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics | Not applicable (annual survey). |
Coherence - National Accounts | Not applicable. |
Coherence - internal | Carried out quality tests, mainly on the coherency of the gathered |
Accessibility and clarity | |
News release | Regular press release in the internet site. |
Publications | · Education in the · Statistical Yearbook; · Statistical Reference Book; · 'Bulgaria' (brochure). |
On-line database | Data on Basic and secondary education (primary, lower secondary and upper secondary) are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Education and Lifelong Learning: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/4810 and Informational System "Infostat": https://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/module.jsf?x_2=140 |
Data tables - consultations | Not available. |
Micro-data access | In accordance to the Rules on Provision of the Anonymised Individual Data for Scientific and Research purposes. |
Other | Information services by order in accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services. |
Metadata - consultations | Not available. |
Documentation on methodology | · Methodological documents of Eurostat; · Survey Methodology: http://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/metadata/Edu_Meth_en.pdf |
Metadata completeness – rate | Not avaliable. |
Quality documentation | Quality report in accordance to the Commission Regulation No 88/2011. |
Cost and burden | |
Information is not available. | |
Confidentiality | |
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. |
Confidentiality – data treatment | In compliance to the Law on Statistics (Articles 25 and 26). |
Comment |
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Thursday, 25 April 2019 - 11:00
The main results from the National Statistical Institute (NSI) annual comprehensive surveys characterizing the activity of educational institutions are as follows:
- In the 2018/2019 academic year in kindergartens are enrolled 218.8 thousand children or with 1.0% less in comparison with the previous year.
- In 2018, high school graduates from general and vocational schools are respectively 26.5 and 23.0 thousand students.
- Enrolled in the varying degrees of higher education in 2018/2019 academic year are 229.5 thousand persons.
- As of 31.12.2018 for acquiring educational and scientific degree ‘Doctor’ in the country are trained 6 467, of which 504 foreign citizens.
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Friday, 27 April 2018 - 11:00
The main results from the National Statistical Institute annual comprehensive surveys characterizing the activity of educational institutions are as follows:
- In the 2017/2018 academic year in kindergartens are enrolled 220.9 thousand children or with 1.6% less in comparison with the previous year.
- In 2017, upper-secondary graduates in general and vocational schools are respectively 26.6 thousand and 21.7 thousand students.
- Enrolled in the varying degrees of higher education in 2017/2018 academic year are 236.3 thousand.
- As of 31.12.2017 for acquiring educational and scientific degree ‘Doctor’ in the country are trained 6 564 persons, of which 529 foreign citizens.
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Friday, 15 September 2017 - 11:10
Adult Education Survey is conducted once every five years in all EU Member States through a common methodology and a harmonized toolkit that provides comparable data for assessment on lifelong learning.
The National Statistical Institute presents final results from the survey conducted in the end of 2016.
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Thursday, 27 April 2017 - 11:00
The main results from the National Statistical Institute (NSI) annual comprehensive studies characterizing the activity of educational institutions are as follows:
• In the 2016/2017 academic year in kindergartens are enrolled 224.4 thousand children or with 3.3% less in comparison with the previous year.• In 2016, high school graduates in general and vocational schools are respectively 24.4 and 20.6 thousand students.• Enrolled in the varying degrees of higher education in 2016/2017 academic year are 249.9 thousand.• As of 31.12.2016 for acquiring educational and scientific degree ‘Doctor’ in the country are trained 6 738, of which 503 foreign citizens. -
Thursday, 28 April 2016 - 11:00
The main results from the National Statistical Institute (NSI) annual comprehensive studies characterizing the activity of educational institutions are as follows:
• In the 2015/2016 academic year in kindergartens are enrolled 232.0 thousand children or with 3.8% less in comparison with the previous year.• In primary education (I - IV grade) 262.0 thousand pupils were enrolled and in the lower secondary (V - VIII grade) - 216.4 thousand.• In 2015, high school graduates in general and vocational schools are respectively 27.0 and 23.3 thousand students.• Enrolled in the varying degrees of higher education in 2015/2016 academic year are 266.7 thousand.• Continues the trend for increasing the number of Ph.D. students, as of 31.12.2015 for acquiring educational and scientific degree ‘Doctor’ in the country trained 6 750. -
Tuesday, 28 April 2015 - 11:00
The main results of the yearly exhaustive surveys that characterize the activity of the educational institutions, conducted by the National Statistical Institute (NSI), are:
• The number of children in kindergartens for 2014/2015 was 241.1 thousand as an increase of 0.2% is observed in comparison with the previous school year.• In 2014, 27.3 and 26.2 thousand students graduated secondary education in respectively general and vocational schools.• For the 2014/2015 academic year, the number of enrolments in higher education was 279.0 thousand persons, which is a decrease with 1.5% in comparison to the previous year.• Significant increase of the number of Ph.D. students is observed. As of 31.12.2014, 6 671 Ph.D. students were enrolled in the country, or 9.3% more than the previous year. -
Wednesday, 30 April 2014 - 11:00
The main results of the yearly exhaustive surveys that characterize the activity of the educational institutions, conducted by the National Statistical Institute, are:
- The number of children in kindergartens for 2013/2014 was 240.6 thousand as an increase of 2.4% is observed in comparison with the previous school year.
- In 2013, 28.9 and 27.4 thousand students graduated secondary education in respectively general and vocational schools.
- For the 2013/2014 academic year, the number of enrollments in higher education remained almost unchanged in comparison with the previous academic year - 277.2 thousand persons as a decrease in the number of students in private universities is registered.
- Significant increase of the number of Ph.D. students is observed. As of 31.12.2013, 6 055 Ph.D. students were enrolled in the country, or 12.7% more than the previous academic year.
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Tuesday, 30 April 2013 - 11:00
The main results of the yearly exhaustive surveys that characterize the activity of the educational institutions, conducted by the National Statistical Institute (NSI), are:
• The number of children in kindergartens for 2012/2013 was 235.0 thousand as an increase of 3.1% is observed in comparison with the previous school year.
• In 2012, 30.3 and 29.4 thousand students graduated secondary education in respectively general and vocational schools.
• For the 2012/2013 academic year, the number of enrollments in higher education remained almost unchanged in comparison with the previous academic year - 278.6 thousand persons as a decrease in the number of students in colleges (education-qualification degree "Professional Bachelor") and in private universities is registered.
• Significant increase of the number of Ph.D. students is observed. As of 31.12.2012, 5 371 Ph.D. students were enrolled in the country, or 14.2% more than the previous academic year. -
Wednesday, 26 September 2012 - 11:00
Adult Education Survey covers broad range of topics, connected to the education and training of adults, like participation in different forms of Lifelong Learning (formal, non-formal and informal), reasons for non-participation, access to information on possibilities for education and training, use of computers, language skills, participation in cultural and social events.
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Wednesday, 2 May 2012 - 11:00
The educational structure of population aged 7 and more improves considerably, following the clearly expressed tendency of increase of the number and share of population with tertiary and upper secondary education and decrease the number of people with lower secondary or lower education.
As of 1.02.2011 the Population census results shows 1 348.7 thousand persons with tertiary education, or each fifth person (19.6%). With upper secondary education are 2 990.4 thousand persons (43.4%). The proportion of persons with primary or lower education is 13.9% (or every seventh in 100).
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Education in the Republic of Bulgaria 2019
The National Statistical Institute presents to the attention of users interested in social statistics the newest annual bilingual (Bulgarian and English) electronic publication Education in the Republic of Bulgaria 2019.
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Statistical Yearbook 2018 in infographics
The National Statistical Institute presents to your attention the 86th edition of the Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Bulgaria in infographics.
In 2018, for the first time, we presented the results of the statistical surveys through graphics, images and other visualization tools, which resulted in a positive response among a wide range of users. We believe that this modern way of presenting statistical information will trigger the interest in those who for the first time encounter the meaning of numbers revealing important aspects of socio-economic life.
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Statistical Reference Book 2019
The National Statistical Institute presents to users of statistical information the annual publication - Statistical Reference Book 2019 in English.
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Statistical Reference Book 2019 (Bulgarian version)
The National Statistical Institute presents to users of statistical information the annual publication - Statistical Reference Book 2019 in Bulgarian.
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Statistical Yearbook 2018
The National Statistical Institute (NSI) has the pleasure to present to the attention of national and foreign users of statistical information the 86th edition of the ‘Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Bulgaria’ in printed and electronic format.
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Education in the Republic of Bulgaria 2018
The National Statistical Institute presents to the attention of users interested in social statistics the newest annual bilingual (Bulgarian and English) electronic publication Education in the Republic of Bulgaria 2018.
The publication contains main data from the five carried out annual comprehensive statistical surveys, which characterizing the activity of educational institutions in Bulgaria for the period from 2013/2014 to 2017/2018 school (academic) years.
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Statistical Reference Book 2018
The National Statistical Institute presents to users of statistical information the annual publication - Statistical Reference Book 2018 in English.
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Statistical Yearbook 2017 in infographics
The National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria offers a different view of the statistical information included in the 85th edition of the Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Bulgaria.
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The current state and changes in the socio-economic and cultural life in the country are presented not in the traditional way in tables and text, but through infographics - images, graphics and other visualization tools.
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Statistical Reference Book 2018 (Bulgarian version)
The National Statistical Institute presents to users of statistical information the annual publication - Statistical Reference Book 2018 in Bulgarian.
The Statistical Reference Book presents topical information on the demographic processes as well as the economic, social and cultural development of the Republic of Bulgaria for the 2014 - 2017 period.
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Statistical Yearbook 2017
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