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

The postal network covers post stations and postal agencies in towns and villages by statistical zones, regions and districts.

· Classification of Economic Activities (CEA-2008, for international use NACE.BG-2008) - Class 53.10 "Postal activities under universal service obligation";

· Classification of Territorial Units for Statistical Purposes in Bulgaria - NUTS.

The postal network covers post stations and postal agencies in towns and villages.

The post stations and postal agencies are places where postal services for the population are provided.

Post station (post) - is a building where letters and parcels are received, storage, redistributed and delivered. PO boxes, which are used from citizens and firms that do not have permanent address or do not want to receive their mail at home are situated there.

Postal agencies - are offices of the providers of universal postal services and serve as places for receiving, storage and delivery of letters and parcels as well for postal orders.

PO boxes - are used from citizens and firms that do not have permanent address or do not want to receive their mail at home. They are situated in the post stations or postal agencies.

Data are collected annual from the Bulgarian postal services providers, which perform universal postal services and have an issued individual license for such activity or part of it.

The survey is exhaustive.

For the Republic of Bulgaria.

Since 1995

Not applicable.

Number

annual

· Postal service law OG, issue 64 from 04.08.2000 (last amended, OG issue 61 from 25.07.2014);

· Order No 4 on postal services (OG, issue 97 from 1979, last amended, issue 64 from 2000);

· Directive 2008/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 February 2008 amending Directive 97/67/EC with regard to the full accomplishment of the internal market of Community postal services;

· Universal postal convention published in OG, issue 35 from 11.05.2010 (drawn up in Geneva on 12.08.2008 and ratified by law by the 41-National assembly on 11.03.2010, in force from 01.01.2010).

Not applicable.

Keeping the statistical secret by following the regulations for confidentiality of individual data according to Law on Statistics (Chapter VI "Protection of secrecy").

According to Art. 2 (5) from the Regulations for publishing statistical products and services of NSI (protecting individual data of one or more enterprises) the published information on the internet site of NSI is aggregated.

Data are published according to the deadlines set in the Release calendar - 5 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

Data on Postal network are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Domain statistics - Transport and Communications - Other annual data - Communications: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/7215

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

· Postal service law OG, issue 64 from 04.08.2000 (last amended, OG issue 61 from 25.07.2014);

· Directive 2008/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 February 2008 amending Directive 97/67/EC with regard to the full accomplishment of the internal market of Community postal services.

Not available.

Quality checks and data validation are performed during the whole process of data collection and aggregation. Checks for data completeness, arithmetic and logical controls of the primary data are made. By identifying errors, the necessary corrections are made with the cooperation of the respondents.

Not applicable.

Main users are state institutions and enterprises from the observed sector.

No information.

All providers, which perform universal postal services (NACE.BG-2008 - Class 53.10 "Postal activities under universal service obligation"), are included in the survey.

The survey is exhaustive and data reflect accurately the condition of the postal network.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Data are annual and are published 5 months after the reference period.

Data are published according to the deadlines set in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute.

Not applicable.

Data are from 1995 without any breaks in the time series.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Cost and Burden are defined according to the National Statistical Program for the reference year. The response burden is just one time per year.

According to the rules for data publishing revision of data can be made for past periods. Data revisions are based on changes in the primary data of the respondents.

Data revisions are based on changes of the primary data of the respondents.

Data are collected from the Bulgarian postal services providers, which have an issued individual license for such activity (NACE.BG-2008 - Class 53.10 "Postal activities under universal service obligation").

annual

The survey is exhaustive.

Arithmetic and logical checks of the received data are made.

The data are handled in Excel.

Not applicable.