NSI expert is a trainer in an international training course for the Balkan countries in the field of Business Statistics

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NSI expert is a trainer in an international training course for the Balkan countries in the field of Business Statistics

NSI expert is a trainer in an international training course for the Balkan countries in the field of Business Statistics
Elena Petrova, expert in the NSI Business Statistics Directorate, together with her Dutch colleague Nino Platteel, is training statisticians from the National Statistical Offices of the Balkan countries. It is a three-day training course and is carried out in Cologne, Germany, on 4-6 July 2011. The course organizer is ICON-INSTITUT Public Sector GmbH – Germany, which manages statistical cooperation programmes through the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) of the European Commission.
For the first time NSI expert is conducting such a training course. Ms Petrova, proposed by Eurostat as a trainer, is presenting to the audience the national characteristics in the implementation of the requirements of Council Regulation (EEC) 3924/91 on the establishment of a Community survey of industrial production (PRODCOM survey) in different EU Member States. The following topics are covered:
• Use of the Statistical Business Register as a source for drawing the samples of the PRODCOM survey
• Sampling, census or a mix approach
• Variables used in the national survey and their definition
• Kinds of questionnaires
• Dealing with missing data
• Data checking and verification
• National confidentiality rules
Selecting a Bulgarian expert as a trainer in an international training course is considered as acknowledgement of the Bulgarian statistics and appreciation of NSI as an institution with capacity to provide expertise to countries in a process of harmonizing their legislation with the statistical acquis communautaire.