NSI

Regional Statistics and Geographical Information

Arslan Ahmedov

Head of Department

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• National Classification of Occupations and Positions, 2011
• Classification of Economic Activities (2008), fully compatible with the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community (NACE Rev. 2)
• International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 2011);
• Unified Classifier of Administrative-Territorial and Territorial Units in the Republic of Bulgaria (EKATTE).

Occupied managerial positions in public institutions and economic structures existing as of December 31, including the national parliament, ministries, state and executive agencies, territorial administrations, local government bodies, judicial authorities, higher education institutions and scientific organizations, public media, state-owned enterprises, commercial companies, and other independent structures.

For the study, the set of managerial positions is classified into three levels corresponding to the hierarchy of positions in the organisational unit.

• The position level "Head" includes the managers who are at the head of the organisational units and corresponds to the highest level of management in the hierarchical structure of each of the studied units. This group includes positions such as minister, chairperson, manager, director general, executive director, rector, and others.
• The position level "Deputy Head" includes the deputy managers of organisational units, representing the next level of senior management in the hierarchical structure. It covers positions such as deputy minister, deputy chairperson, deputy executive director, deputy rector, and others.
• The position level "Middle-level manager" includes middle-level management positions. It includes chief administrative secretary, director of directorate, director/head of regional unit, head of inspectorate, chief scientific secretary, head of university department, and others.

Gross earnings are the remuneration in cash paid to the employee directly and regularly by the employer, before deductions of any tax and social security contributions payable by the employee and withheld by the employer.

Employed persons comprise all persons aged 15 years or over who during the reference period - performed at least one hour of work for pay or profit, in cash or in kind, or were temporarily absent from a job in which they had already worked, due to illness or injury, holiday or vacation, maternity or parental leave, educational or training leave, strike or other reasons for absence.

Employees - persons who perform certain work based on a written contract or verbal agreement, for which they receive remuneration in cash or in kind in the form of a salary, wages, commission, and others.

Profession (position/occupation) - defined as a set of functions and obligations that a person performs at their workplace, including in their capacity as an employer or self-employed person. Individuals holding more than one position are classified according to the position they exercise in their main job.

Economic activity - refers to the type of production or activity of the enterprise (or similar entity) where a given employed person's place of work is located during the observed period.

Occupied managerial position.

All occupied senior and middle management positions. 

The data covers institutions within the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria and Bulgarian diplomatic missions abroad, as well as the country's representatives in the European Parliament.

Years: 2021 and 2024

• Numbers
• Percentage

Data as of December 31 of the reference year.

Aggregated data from the survey is provided to Eurostat, UNDP, UN Women, UNECE, and other international organizations upon request.

Statistics act.

The information is published at a summary (aggregated) level. Data at the hierarchical structure (individual institution) level is not provided or disseminated.

Data are published according to 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/bg/node/488

The data is published on the NSI website under the heading "Gender Equality."

Once per three years.

Not applicable.

Thematic publication.

Not provided.

An information service could be provided by request, according to the NSI Rules for dissemination of statistical information products and services http://www.nsi.bg/bg/node/564/

Survey methodology (described in detail in the publication).

Not applied.

Main users of statistical information from the research are:

• Executive authorities (ministries, agencies, etc.)
• International organisations
• Non-governmental and scientific organisations
• Interested parties.

No dedicated user satisfaction surveys has been conducted.

• Positions held by Bulgarian citizens in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, elected or appointed on the proposal or by decision of a Bulgarian state body;
• Positions held by Bulgarian citizens in management or control bodies of international organisations co-financed by the Republic of Bulgaria;
• Leadership positions in political parties not represented in the National Assembly as of the reporting date of the study;
• Lower-level (first line) management positions;
• Middle management positions in structures related to national security, in accordance with the Classified Information Act.

The statistics have good accuracy and reliability.

The survey is exhaustive, and no sampling errors exist.

Not applicable.

T+24 (number of months after the reference period)

Data are comparable at all territorial levels.

Data for 2021 and 2024 are fully comparable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

National policy allows the revision of already published data if there are serious reasons for doing so.

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

• Administrative Register (Integrated Information System of the State Administration)
• Databases and registers of the institutions and organizations included in the study
• Central Election Commission (open data)
• Eurostat
• European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)
• Register of Higher Education Institutions (NACID - National Centre for Information and Documentation)
• Supreme Judicial Council
• Commercial Register and Register of Non-Profit Legal Entities (Registry Agency)
• Statistical surveys of the National Statistical Institute

Once per three years.

• Partial validation of pre-collected data by the relevant institutions.
• Validation of data against the information available in the administrative register, commercial register, and register of non-profit legal entities.

Data processing includes classification of positions according to the National Classification of Positions and Professions, verification and logical control of the information provided/collected, and aggregation by position levels and categories. 

Not applicable.

• The number of occupied managerial positions does not match the physical number of individuals because, in certain cases, one person may hold more than one managerial position. Such cases include positions established by law in the judicial system, positions within the composition of parliamentary committees, persons temporarily performing a management position as of the reference date of the survey, and others.
• For the study, local governmental bodies (municipal councils) are included in the 'Territorial administration' sub-category.