National Statistical Institute

'Education and Culture Statistics' Department

Nikolay Nikolov

chief expert

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

[email protected]

+359 2 9857 487

Statistics on pre-primary education provides data on activity of the kindergartens and pre-school grades in schools. Main statistical units are children, teachers, educators and other category personnel. Main breakdowns of characteristics for collecting data on children and pedagogic personnel are: sex and year of birth. The date of the observation is December 31.

International Standard Classification of Education, 2011 version (ISCED 2011)

The survey covers all state, municipal and created according to the established legal order private kindergartens.

A pupil/student (incl. children in kindergartens) 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.

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.

Pupils and education personnel.

Participants in formal education.

Whole country. Data is published down to municipality level.

starting from 2018

Not applicable.

Number and per cent.

School year.

• Law of the Level of Education, Educational Minimum and Curriculum;
• Law on Statistics;
• Commission regulation (EU) No 88/2011;
• Regulation (EC) N 452/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the production and development of statistics on education and lifelong learning;
• Methodological documents of Eurostat;
• Law on National Education and the Rules on its implementation;
• Pre-school and school education act.

Not applicable.

· 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.

In compliance to the Law on Statistics (Articles 25 and 26).

In accordance to the dates defined 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

In accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services.

Annual

Regular press release in the internet site.

· Education in the Republic of Bulgaria;

· Statistical Yearbook;

· Statistical Reference Book;

· "Bulgaria" (brochure).

Data on Kindergartens (Pre-primary education) are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Education and Lifelong Learning: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/4792 and Informational System "Infostat": https://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/module.jsf?x_2=66

In accordance to the Rules on Provision of the Anonymised Individual Data for Scientific and Research purposes.

Information services by order in accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services.

· Methodological documents of Eurostat;

· Survey Methodology: http://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/metadata/Edu_Meth_en.pdf

Quality report in accordance to the Commission Regulation No 88/2011.

A set of quality criteria have been set up within the Commission Regulation No 88/2011.

The national quality report provides users with basic information on quality at national level.

State and regional authorities, international organisations, national and foreign users.

Information is not available.

Information is not available.

Not applicable (census).

Not applicable (census).

Not applicable (census).

· Reference date: December 1;

· Fieldwork: December - January;

· Processing: February - March;

· Dissemination of national results: April;

· Transmission of data to Eurostat: September.

Data was disseminated at national level and delivered to Euorostat in time.

Fully comparable with all EU member states.

Partially comparable due to the changes of national legislation.

Not applicable.

Carried out quality tests, mainly on the coherency of the gathered information.

Information is not available.

In accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services.

In accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services.

All kindergartens and pre-school grades in schools, which conduct compulsory pre-school training of the children.

Annual

Census via statistical questionnaire 'Report on kindergarten'

Data validation is done by the National Statistical Institute and quality tests are carried out by the Eurostat.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.