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The President of the National Statistical Institute Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD opened the first meeting of the inter-institutional working group for coordination of development and updating of the national indicator framework for monitoring and reporting on progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The meeting, attended by more than 50 people - live and online, was held in a hybrid format in the Granite Hall of the Council of Ministers. The meeting was attended by Assoc. Prof.

The National Statistical Institute and The Bulgarian Stock Exchange Group will cooperate in sharing and providing quick and easy access to data and services for all users. This is provided for in an agreement signed by the President of the National Statistical Institute Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, Ph.D. and the management of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange Group - Assoc. Prof. Manyu Moravenov, Ph.D.

Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD, President of the National Statistical Institute, participated in “The Statistical Leadership in Emerging Digital Societies" meeting that took place in Stockholm last week. Organizers of the forum are Statistics Sweden and Eurostat. The meeting of the presidents and the directors general of the statistical institutes took place as part of the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

“This first mission of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Bulgaria was very successful and laid a very good foundation for future cooperation between Bulgaria and our organisation”, said Ms Asa Johansson, Deputy Director of the Statistics and Data Directorate at the Organsation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

On March 28, 2023, a three-day mission of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to the National Statistical Institute (NSI) begins. The purpose of the visit is a technical review of Bulgaria in the process of joining the international organisation.

From the beginning of April 2023, the National Statistical Institute starts a Household Budget Survey in newly selected households.

The survey is annual and it is included in the National Statistical Programme 2023. In the survey take part 3 060 randomly chosen households divided into three sub-samples each containing 1 020 households. During the April - June period households from each sub-sample are consistently included in the Household Budget Survey. Each household participates in the survey four times for a month during the 12-month period of the method of rotation sample.

The NSI President Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD, participated in the 54th Session of the UN Statistical Commission (UNSC), which was held in New York from 28th February to 3rd March 2023. During the meeting, the reports of working groups in various fields were discussed and decisions were taken as follows on:

The President of the National Statistical Institute Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD met with the Chairman of the Management Board of the Union for Private Economic Enterprise Vaska Baklarova.

The meeting was also attended by Svilen Kolev, PhD – NSI Deputy President and Assoc. Prof. Noncho Dimitrov from UPEE.

During the conversation, opportunities for cooperation and future joint projects were discussed. Both sides agreed that concluding a cooperation agreement would be a new step in joint activities.

NSI President Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD, was a lecturer in a training workshop on Economic Diplomacy, which was held at the Diplomatic Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The topic of the presentation was "NSI - how to read the numbers". For one hour, Assoc. Prof. Atanasov presented the activities of NSI, the basic principles of statistics, the ways and channels of dissemination of statistical data, the main information systems of NSI, errors made when reading the information and others.

On 9 February 2023, in Luxembourg, the Directors-General of EU National Statistical Institutes gathered for a high-level workshop on the topic: "Data Governance Act - Challenges and Opportunities for National Statistical Institutes".

The meeting discussed issues of access to public data and private holders’ databases to be used for statistical purposes.

The summarized results of the implementation of the Data Governance Act in the field of official statistics in individual countries were presented.