National Statistical Institute

"Annual Business Statistics" Department

Boriana Nastanlieva

Chief expert

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

[email protected]

+359 2 9857 267

The survey provides data on industrial goods manufactured and sold, as well as industrial services rendered, according to the requirements of Council Regulation N 3924/91.

Indicators: volume of total production, volume of total production on the basis of contract processing, volume and value of sold production, volume and value of production sold on the domestic market, fee received by the subcontractor - total and received from the foreign principal.

The annual data at the geographical level of the whole country:

· at the level of a product specified in the Nomenclature of Industrial Production (PRODCOM.BG);

· aggregated by product subcategories of the Classification of Products by Economic Activities (CPA.BG 2008).

· The Nomenclature of Industrial Production (PRODCOM.BG) is identical to Prodcom List - the List of industrial products of the EU. It is revised each year reflecting the latest changes and modifications made in the Prodcom List. PRODCOM.BG is disaggregation of product categories and subcategories in the Classification of Products by Economic Activities (CPA.BG 2008) to product headings which can be measured by physical units;

· Classification of Products by Economic Activities (CPA.BG 2008).

Non-financial enterprises, manufacturing industrial products and/or rendering industrial services.

The main indicators:

· volume of total production - the actual production which has been carried out during the reference period, irrespective of whether this production has been sold, put on stocks or used for further processing by the same enterprise. Production of products on the basis of contract processing is also included. The enterprise physically carrying out the production, i.e. the (sub)contractor, reports the quantity of total production;

· volume of total production on the basis of contract processing - the actual production which has been carried out during the reference period by the (sub)contractor;

· volume of sold production - the own production sold during the reference period irrespective of when it has been manufactured. In cases of production on the basis of contract processing the principal who receives the finished goods and sells them reports the volume of sold production;

· value of sold production - the value of the own production sold during the reference period (thousand BGN, excluding VAT and excise duties). In cases of production on the basis of contract processing the principal who receives the finished goods and sells them reports the value of sold production;

· volume of production sold on the domestic market - the own production sold during the reference period irrespective of when it has been manufactured. In cases of production on the basis of contract processing the principal who receives the finished goods and sells them reports the volume of sold production;

· value of production sold on the domestic market - the value of the own production sold during the reference period (thousand BGN, excluding VAT and excise duties). In cases of production on the basis of contract processing the principal who receives the finished goods and sells them reports the value of sold production;

· total fee paid to the subcontractor - the fee received by the subcontractor for the work done (thousand BGN, excluding VAT and excise duties);

· fee paid to the subcontractor by the foreign principal - the fee received by the subcontractor for the work done (thousand BGN, excluding VAT and excise duties) from the foreign principal.

The enterprise is the observation unit surveyed by the NSI. The enterprise is the smallest organization unit carrying out one or more industrial activities at one or more locations.

The survey is based on a sample. The target population contains all non-financial enterprises which manufacture at least one product (commodity or service) included in the Nomenclature of Industrial Production (PRODCOM.BG).

The data refers to the industrial products, manufactured by non-financial enterprises on the territory of the country.

2001-2016

Not applicable.

· Physical measurement unit required by the Nomenclature of Industrial Production (PRODCOM.BG);

· Thousand BGN (for value indicators).

Calendar year

Bulgarian legislation:

· Statistics Act;

· National Statistical Program.

European Regulations:

•  Commission Regulation No 907/2012 of 20 August 2012 establishing for 2012 the "Prodcom list" of industrial products provided for by Council Regulation No 3924/91;
•  Commission Regulation No 830/2011 of 27 July 2011 establishing for 2011 the "Prodcom list" of industrial products provided for by Council Regulation No 3924/91;
•  Commission Regulation No 860/2010 of 10 September 2010 establishing for 2010 the "Prodcom list" of industrial products provided for by Council Regulation No 3924/91;
•  Commission Regulation No 163/2010 of 9 February 2010 establishing for 2009 the "Prodcom list" of industrial products provided for by Council Regulation No 3924/91;
•  Commission Regulation No 36/2009 of 11 July 2008 establishing for 2008 the "Prodcom list" of industrial products provided for by Council Regulation No 3924/91;
•  Commission Regulation No 1165/2007 of 3 September 2007 establishing for 2007 the "Prodcom list" of industrial products provided for by Council Regulation No 3924/91;
•  Commission Regulation No 294/2007 of 20 February 2007 establishing for 2006 the "Prodcom list" of industrial products provided for by Council Regulation No 3924/91;
•  Commission Regulation No 317/2006 of 22 December 2005 establishing for 2005 the "Prodcom list" of industrial products provided for by Council Regulation No 3924/91;
•  Commission Regulation No 210/2004 of 23 December 2003 establishing for 2004 the "Prodcom list" of industrial products provided for by Council Regulation No 3924/91;
•  Commission Regulation No 347/2003 of 30 December 2002 establishing for 2003 the "Prodcom list" of industrial products provided for by Council Regulation No 3924/91;
•  Commission Regulation No 973/2007 of 20 August 2007 amending certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains implementing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2;
•  Commission Regulation No 912/2004 of 29 April 2004 implementing Council Regulation No 3924/91 on the establishment of a Community survey of industrial production;
• Council Regulation No 3924/91 of 19 December 1991 on the establishment of a Community survey of industrial production;
• Commission Regulation (EU) No 936/2013 of 12 September 2013 establishing for 2013 the “Prodcom list” of industrial products provided for by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91;
• Commission Regulation (EU) No 842/2014 of 4 July 2014 establishing for 2014 the ‘Prodcom list’ of industrial products provided for by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91.
• Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/1711 of 17 September 2015 establishing for 2015 the "Prodcom list" of industrial products provided for by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91;
• Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1872 of 6 October 2016 establishing for 2016 the "Prodcom list" of industrial products provided for by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3924/91.
• Commission Regulation (EU) 2119/2017 of 22 November 2017 establishing for 2017 the "Prodcom list" of industrial products provided for by Council Reglation (EEC) № 3924/91

According to Council Regulation No 3924/91 the data are provided to Eurostat within six months after the end of the reference year in a required technical format. The same data are used for completion of international questionnaires (UN, FAO, IFA, ICSG, ITTO, WBMS, ICAC, TCQ, Wood Energy Enquiry, Eurostat MFA Questionnaire).

· Statistics Act;

· 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.

The primary data of enterprises are confidential according to the Statistics Act and European legislation. The national rules define as confidential information, which aggregates the data on less than three enterprises or population, in which the relative share of studied parameter of one enterprise is over 85 per cent of the total value of this parameter for all population units.

The data are published in accordance with the deadline specified 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 aggregated by product subcategories of the Classification of Products by Economic Activities (CPA.BG 2008) are posted on the NSI's website. Detailed information for all indicators and PRODCOM.BG product headings is accessible and provided on request. All users are treated equitably.

Annually, updated as required to publish revised data.

Preliminary data attached to the press release on SBS data.

· Statistical Yearbook;

· Statistical Reference Book;

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

Datasets on PRODCOM.BG on the latest reference year are available on the NSI website under the heading "Business Statistics - Annual Business Statistics - Other Annual Data - Industrial products in kind - Total production and sold production in volume and value terms": http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/6008. Datasets from 2008 are available in the on-line database INFOSTAT:https://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/reports/query.jsf?x_2=743

Not available.

Information service under signed agreements and on request.

Methodological notes to the survey. http://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/metadata/IND_PRODPROM_Methodology_en.pdf

Not applicable.

A number of arithmetical and logical controls are performed at the micro and macro level; data checks are made by comparing with historical data, export data and the results of other statistical surveys conducted by the NSI.

Eurostat validates the data and applies its own additional data checks at the level of the EU.

The main users are as follows:

· Eurostat and international organisations;

· State institutions under signed agreements;

· Research institutes, universities, economic analysts and students;

· Private non-governmental organisations, agencies, associations, media etc;

· Directorates and departments in the NSI.

There has been no study of user satisfaction.

In accordance with Council Regulation No 3924/91 the required data completeness is ensured for all variables.

The survey is based on a sample. The sampling design covers exhaustively all non-financial enterprises manufacturing industrial commodities and/or rendering industrial services with a specified threshold of receipts from sales of industrial production and industrial services. The sample model ensures 90% coverage of sold production in terms of value at the national level for each NACE.BG 2008 class.

Sampling errors do not occur in the survey. The sample design applied is a cut-off sample, which means that it is a full coverage survey with a cut-off threshold.

Non-sampling errors are minimised by data verification and revisions. Missing data are completed and the unit non-response is adjusted by estimates.

The deadline for data publication at the national level is t+8 months for the preliminary data and t+11 months for the final data, where t is the reference year. To Eurostat data are required to be transmitted within six months after the end of the reference year.

The deadlines under item are strictly met.

The methodology for calculation of indicators is fully complied with the requirements of Council Regulation No 3924/91, which ensures comparability of data between EU Member States.

The data series are fully comparable for the period 2008 - 2016.

Logical control is applied and comparison is made with the results of the following statistical surveys conducted by the NSI: Annual Business Statistics. Foreign trade, Short Term Statistics

Not applicable.

The survey is conducted according to the EU recommendations on statistical burden reduction on respondents and in accordance with the Strategy for development of the National Statistical System 2013-2017. According to the article 5(3) of Council Regulation No 3924/91 for products within NACE Rev.2 class 10.51 "Operation of dairies and cheese making" is used data collected by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Agrostatistics Department.

For data collection an on-line based information system "Business Statistics" is used. The system saves time and efforts and makes participation in the survey more efficient. During the reporting campaign methodological and technical assistance to respondents is ensured.

The workload on respondents is studied by measuring time spent. A question on the time in minutes necessary for data preparation and completion of the questionnaire is included.

Revision of published data is allowed.

Revised data replaces the published data as soon as possible after the revision is made.

· The main source is the annual questionnaire on industrial products manufactured and sold;

· An administrative source - Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Agrostatistics Department (for products within NACE.BG 2008 class 10.51 "Operation of dairies and cheese making").

Annually

The data are provided on-line, by completing a paper questionnaire or via e-mail.

Data validation involves additional logical checks applied to the input data, comparison with the previous year data and additional controls between forms in the Annual Report. Detected erroneous or suspicious values are clarified and if necessary the data are corrected.

Data editing is performed and estimation of unit non-response is made.

Indicators are calculated at the product level (8-digit code) specified in the Nomenclature of Industrial Production (PRODCOM.BG) and at the level of product subcategories of the Classification of Products by Economic Activities (CPA.BG 2008).

Not applicable.

In order to be avoided data confidentiality at the product level (8-digit code), the data are posted on the NSI's website aggregated by product subcategories of the Classification of Products by Economic Activities (CPA.BG 2008).

National Statistical Institute

"Annual business statistics" Department

Tatyana Nikolova

State expert

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

[email protected]

+359 2 9857 153

The statistical survey of non-financial enterprises provides information by size of enterprises in terms of employed, by the following economic indicators: number of enterprises, number of persons employed, revenues, expenditure and tangible fixed assets.

The annual data of non-financial enterprises are aggregated by sections (the first sign of NACE.BG-2008)

The annual data, grouping by size class: the indicators are published on section level (the first sign of NACE.BG-2008) and by size class of employment.

Annual regional data: Three indicators are published on a regional level by sections (the first sign of NACE.BG-2008 and NACE.BG-2003) and by statistical regions (NUTS).

· Classification of Economic Activities (CEA-2008, for international use NACE.BG-2008) ? in force since 2008;

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

Non-financial enterprises, classified in sections A to S (excluding K) by NACE.BG-2008 from 2008 onwards.

The main economic indicators, published in this section are:

• 'Number of enterprises' all non-financial enterprises, which were active during whole or part of the reference year and have submitted their annual reports in the National statistical Institute or National Revenue Agency;
• 'Number of persons employed' All persons employed working in a given enterprise on full or part-time, including seasonal workers (converted into full-time equivalent), home workers, working owners, employees under contract for management and control, employees in civil contracts that do not work with another employer and unpaid family workers;
• 'Revenues' the sum of revenues from operating activity and financial revenues;
• 'Expenditure' - the sum of the expenditure for operating activity and financial expenditure;
•  'Tangible fixed assets'  the sum of tangible fixed assets of enterprises, compiling balance sheets, and data about tangible fixed assets of enterprises, non compiling balance sheets.

The basic unit of survey is an enterprise. The overall main economic indicators and the data by size class of employment are calculated from the annual data of the enterprises.

The enterprise is the smallest organisation unit producing goods or services which makes its own business decisions. The enterprise carries out one or more activities at one or more locations. The enterprise may be an independent legal unit.

The survey is exhaustive and the statistical population includes all non-financial enterprises classified in sections A to S (excluding K) by NACE.BG-2008 from 2008 onwards.

The data refer to the activities of non-financial enterprises carried out in the country.

Since 2008.

Not applicable.

• Number (enterprises, persons employed);
•  Thousand BGN (all other indicators).

Calendar year

Bulgarian legislation:

• Law on Statistics;
• National Statistical Programme;
•  Accounting and tax legislation.

Not applicable.

Regulation (EC) ? 223/2009 of 11 March 2009 defines common criteria for protection of confidential data and methods for sending the information to and its use by Eurostat. The Law on Statistics ensures the protection of statistical confidentiality and the use of individual data of enterprises for statistical purposes only.

The individual (primary) data are confidential according to the Law on Statistics and European legislation. To ensure their protection and inability to be identified, the aggregated indicators are also defined as confidential when:

· Criterion A - the indicator is calculated from one or two enterprises;

· Criterion B - one enterprise forms 85% or more of the total value of this indicator.

The date for publication of statistical information is given 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 are published on the NSI website and are available to all users of statistical information.

Yearly

Not applicable.

•  Statistical Yearbook;
•  Statistical Reference Book;
• Regions, districts and municipalities in the Republic of Bulgaria.

The data are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Business Statistic;Annual Business Statistics; Other Annual Data; Non-financial Enterprises: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/8228

Not available.

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

Law for SMEs, national accounting legislation and developed statistical methodology: http://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/metadata/Methodology_NF_Ent_en.pdf

Not available

This includes the improvement of the on-line based information system 'Business statistics', which ensures strict arithmetical and logical input control. The additional output control is made when are registered the big differences in the value of given indicator between two consecutive years or in comparison with the results of other statistical surveys in NSI - Short-term statistics, statistics Prodcom, Foreing trade, Labor force.

This is made in accordance with the standard criteria for assessing the quality - relevance, accuracy and reliability, timeliness, comparability and coherence.

The main users of data are:

· International organisations;

· Interested state institutions under signed agreements;

· Research institutes, universities, economic analysts and students;

· Private non-governmental organisations, agencies, associations, media, etc.;

· Directorates and departments in the NSI.

There has been no study of user satisfaction, but no cases of outstanding requests for information are registered.

Full compliance with the Bulgarian legislation.

The Information of the calculation of economic indicators is based on the annual accounts of non-financial enterprises, as full coherence of the input data is provided.

The survey of non-financial enterprises is exhaustive and there are no sampling errors.

Not applicable.

The deadline for the publication of data on national level is t+11 months for the final data, where t is the reference year.

The deadline under item 15.1 is strictly followed.

For the country data are comparable.

The data series are fully comparable for the period 2008 - the last reference year.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

NSI of Bulgaria is making extraordinary efforts to reduce the respondents' burden. An example is the signed agreement called "Single Entry Point" between NSI and the National Revenue Agency for a single providing of the annual reports and using the data from both institutions. Developed by NSI on-line based information system "Business Statistics" and ensured methodological and technical assistance to respondents during the reporting campaign are highly appreciated by respondents and help to reduce their workload.

The National policy, as well as Eurostat's, allows the revision of already published data if there are serious reasons.

The revised data replace the already published data as soon as possible after the revision is made.

The main data sources for calculating the economic indicators are:

· Annual Reports of the non-financial enterprises, compiling balance sheets;

· Annual Reports of the non-financial enterprises, non-compiling balance sheets.

Yearly.

Exhaustively for all non-financial enterprises.

Data validation is made by additional logical input control and comparison between the output data and the results of the previous year and other surveys, carried out by NSI.

The survey is exhaustive and further data evaluation is not made.

Not applicable.