National Statistical Institute

„Short-term business statistics “ Department

Julia Georgieva

State expert

2, P.Volov Str. Sofia 1038, Bulgaria

[email protected]

+359 2 9857 194

Data on national road network refers to:

• Road category - motorways, category I, II, III roads;
• Type of pavement - bituminized, cobblestones, crushed stones, coarse aggregate and unpaved roads.

· The classification of National roads is made by conditions and order set by the Council of Ministers;

· Glossary for transport statistics· Classification of Territorial Units for Statistical Purposes in Bulgaria - NUTS ;

· Glossary for transport statistics - - Geneva 2003.

The National road network (NRN) ensures the connections between the built-up areas in the country and those with other countries for transport of goods and passengers. National roads are classified according to their administrative and economic importance and functions for the transport system in the following classes: motorways and roads of the first, second and third class, which ensure national significance transport connections and give the length of the state road network. Separate national roads are included in the Trans-European road network.

According to road category NRN includes:

Motorways - roads designed exclusively for high-speed vehicular traffic.  

They have separate carriageways for traffic in each direction with a dividing strip between them, emergency stopping lane and crossing other roads or railroads at a different level. The maximum speed is 140 km / h.

 I-st category roads –designed for transit traffic on big distances /mainly from border to border/. They service big territories and coincide with the major transport fluxes in the country.

II-nd category roads - designed for transit traffic on medial distances. They have distributing functions and provide optimal routes for transit traffic to different country regions.

III-rd category roads - roads within the boundaries of built-up areas that are part from roads higher category. Ensure the connection between the different municipalities as well those to local roads.

According to type of pavement:

Bituminized road surface - for all types of traffic;

Cobblestones - often used for roads with major traffic;

Crushed stones - used for local roads with light traffic;

Coarse aggregate - used for local roads with very light traffic.

Unpaved roads. Usually these are forest, tractor and cart roads without a special coating.

Source of data is "Road Infrastructure" Agency. Data are transmitted annually.

The survey is exhaustive.

For the Republic of Bulgaria.

Since 1995.

Not applicable.

Kilometres

Annual

· Law on roads (29.03.200) SG, issue 26/2000 (last amended, SG issue 53 from 13.07.2012);

· Regulation for implementation of Law on roads (Decree No 245 of Council of Ministers from 24.11.200) in force from 01.12.2000.

Not applicable.

Data are published aggregated by districts and are not confidential.

Not applicable.

Data are published according to the deadlines set in the Release calendar - 6 months after the reference period.

The calendar is available on the NSI website: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480

Data are published on the Internet site of NSI and can be accessed from all users of statistical information.

Annual

Not applicable.

· Statistical Yearbook;

· Statistical Reference Book;

· "Bulgaria" (brochure);

. International questionnaries.

Data on National road network are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Domain statistics - Transport and Communications - Other annual data - Transport: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/7201

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

· Law on roads (29.03.200) SG, issue 26/2000 (last amended, SG issue 53 from 13.07.2012);

· Regulation for implementation of Law on roads (Decree No 245 of Council of Ministers from 24.11.200) in force from 01.12.2000.

Not available.

After receiving the information quality checks and data validation are made. By identifying errors, the necessary corrections are made with the cooperation of "Road Infrastructure" Agency.

Not applicable.

Main users are state and international institutions.

No information.

All roads part from NRN are covered.

The survey is exhaustive and is conducted by "Road Infrastructure" Agency.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Data are annual and are published 6 months after the reference period.

Data are published according to the deadlines set in the Release calendar of NSI.

Comparable at European level.

Data are from 1995 without any breaks in the time series.Since 2002 IV category roads have been excluded from the National Road Network and have been included in municipality roads network.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Cost and Burden are defined by "Road Infrastructure" Agency.

According to the rules for data publishing revision of data can be made when it is necessary.

See 19.1.

Source of data is "Road Infrastructure" Agency.

Annual

The survey is exhaustive.

Not applicable.

The primary data checks are made by "Road Infrastructure" Agency. Additional treatment of the information is necessary for publication purposes.

Not applicable.

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.