National Statistical Institute

Consumer Prices, Housing prices and PPP Department

Albena Dancheva

Head of Department

2 Panayot Volov Str., 1038 Sofia

[email protected]

+359 2 9857 767

ESA 95 sector S. 14 (Household sector). HSI cover residential properties purchased by households in the reference period irrespective of the type of area in which they live, their position in the income distribution and their nationality status.

Market price of a dwelling purchased by a private household.

HSI covers all monetary transactions of residential properties (new and existing apartments) on the territory of the country, purchased by private domestic and nondomestic households. 

Not published.

Quarter

All relevant regulations can be found in the Housing Price Statistics section on Eurostat's website under => Legislation. 

National Statistical Programme .

House sales data are compiled on a voluntary basis.

None.

• 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.

  http://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/pages/LegalBasis_e/Consolidated_version_of_amended_Regulation_223_2009_EN.pdf

lndividual 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.

HSI are released quarterly - 85 days after the end of the reference quarter. Date of publication of the statistical information is specified at 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

HSI are published on the NSI website in section Housing price statistics 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.

Quarterly

None.

None.

HPI are available to all users on the NSI website under the heading Housing price statistics: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/13023

Microdata are not diseminated.

None.

EU and EC regulations:

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/housing-price-statistics/legislation

None.

All data are checked for completeness and consistency with statistical concepts and definitions.

According to Article 2, point 3 from the Law on Statistics the statistical information shall be produced in compliance with the following criteria for quality: adequacy, accuracy, timeliness, punctuality, accessibility and clarity, comparability and logical consistency.

None.

Not applicable.

Non-sampling errors are not quantified for the HSI. NSI tries to reduce non-sampling errors through continuous methodological improvements and validation methods which help us to avoid coding and typing errors.

Data are published according to NSI Release calendar - 85 days after the end of the reference quarter. 

Data are always delivered and published on the pre-announced release dates.

HSI data are calculated on both national and regional levels. The regional data are fully comparable with one another. 

Published data are comparable over time.

Only one HSI set is available. 

HSI are internally coherent.

HSI are revisable under the terms of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1921/2001 of 28 September 2001. Published HSI may be revised for mistakes, new or improved information and methodological improvements.

HSI are published as preliminary and are usually confirmed or revised in the following quarter.

HSI are based on the value and number of transactions from tha PR dataset in combination with data from the Cadastral Administrative-Information System.

Quarterly

No seasonal or calendar adjustments are made.