National Statistical Institute

National Non-financial Accounts

Hadil Shehebar

Chief expert

2 P. Volov Str., Sofia 1038

[email protected]

+359 2 9857 537

According to the ESA 2010 employed covers all persons - both employees and self-employed, Engaged in some productive activity that falls within the production boundary of the system. Employees are defined as all persons who, by the agreement, work for another resident institutional unit and receive remuneration as a compensation of employees. The following categories are included: employees working under employment, civil or working without a contract. Self-employed persons are defined as persons who are the sole owners, or joint owners, of the unincorporated enterprises in which they work.

Classification of Economic Activities (CEA-2008, for international use NACE.BG-2008)

Total of economy

According to the ESA 2010 employed covers all persons - both employees and self-employed, engaged in some productive activity that falls within the production boundary of the system.

Employees are defined as all persons who, by the agreement, work for another resident institutional unit and receive remuneration as a compensation of employees. The following categories are included:

· persons engaged by an employer under a contract of employment;

· civil servants and other government employees whose terms and conditions of employment are laid down by public law;

· the armed forces, consisting of those who have enlisted for both long and short engagements and also conscripts;

· owners of corporations and quasicorporations if they work in these corporations;

· students who have a formal commitment whereby they contribute some of their own labor as an input into an enterprise?s process of production in return for remuneration and (or) education services;

· outworkers if there is an explicit agreement that the outworker is remunerated on the basis of the work done that is, the amount of labor which is contributed as an input into some process of production;

· disabled workers, provided the formal or informal relationship of employer to employee exists;

· persons employed by temporary employment agency;

· persons temporary not at work if they are in: the continued receipt of wage or salary, an assurance of return to work following the end of the contingency, or an agreement as the date of return.

Self-employed persons are defined as persons who are the sole owners, or joint owners, of the unincorporated enterprises in which they work. Self-employed persons also include the following categories:

· unpaid family workers, incl. those working in unincorporated enterprises engaged wholly or partly in market production;

· outworkers whose income is a function of the value of the outputs from some process of production for which they are responsible.

Employed resident

Employed

Bulgaria

from 1995 (Infostat)

Not applicable.

Thousands

Year

REGULATION (EU) No 549/2013 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

Eurostat program to provide data on national accounts, the IMF, the UN.

· Law on Statistics;

· REGULATION (EC) No 223/2009 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL (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.

The date of publication of statistical information is in the Calendar for the results of statistical surveys of NSI. Statistics published: 9 months after the reporting period.

The calendar is available on the NSI website: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480

Data is published on the NSI website, section Macroeconomic statistics - Gross Domestic Product 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.

Annually

Press Release

· Statistical Yearbook;

· Statistical Reference book;

· Publication ?Main Macroeconomic Indicators?.

Data are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Macroeconomic statistics - Gross Domestic Product - Employed persons, hours worked and labour productivity - Annual data - Employed persons- Total of economy: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/5519

Not applicable.

European system of accounts (ESA 2010)

· European Statistics Code of Practice;

· Common framework for quality management in the National Statistical System.

Questionnaire on the implementation of the principles of the European Statistics Code of Practice..

· The annual estimates - the sum of estimates of quarterly data - T +65 days after the reporting period;

· Updated annual data - T +9 months after the reporting period.

The data transmitted to Eurostat are in compliance with National Accounts Data Distribution Program Annex B and respective derogations for the country.

The comparability is ensured  through the implementation of common definitions of ESA 2010.

By using a common framework of the European System of Accounts  ESA 2010, the data can be comparable over time.

In certain cases, data from other domains of economic statistics, i.e. balance of payments statistics, business statistics, household budget statistics or external trade statistics can be used for cross-checking purposes. These economic statistics are also available from the appropriate domains on the NSI website.

In practice, the system of national accounts, there are two main types of revisions. The first type of audits is ongoing, regular characterized by the presence of new or updated statistical information based on statistical surveys or administrative sources. The second type of revisions is related to a change in the methodology and calculation procedures for specific statistical indicators.

National accounts data are subject to continuous routine revisions as new input data becomes available. This will typically also entail revisions of the national accounts aggregates, which are derived from these data. In BG national accounts two types of revisions are: regular –  preliminary, final data; and main - based on implementation of new methodology or GNI reservations.

Labour Force Survey;

• Statement of employee hours worked, wage and other labor costs.

Annually

Comprehensive

Implementation of validated procedures for assessing data quality.

Implementation of validated procedures for assessing the quality of data and the development of estimation of the completeness of the data.

Not applicable.

National Statistical Institute

National Non-financial Accounts

Hadil Shehebar

Chief expert

2 P. Volov Str., Sofia 1038

[email protected]

+359 2 9857 537

According to the ESA 2010 employed covers all persons - both employees and self-employed, Engaged in some productive activity that falls within the production boundary of the system. Employees are defined as all persons who, by the agreement, work for another resident institutional unit and receive remuneration as a compensation of employees. The following categories are included: employees working under employment, civil or working without a contract. Self-employed persons are defined as persons who are the sole owners, or joint owners, of the unincorporated enterprises in which they work.

Classification of Economic Activities (CEA-2008, for international use NACE.BG-2008)

Total of economy

According to the ESA 2010 employed covers all persons - both employees and self-employed, engaged in some productive activity that falls within the production boundary of the system.

Employees are defined as all persons who, by the agreement, work for another resident institutional unit and receive remuneration as a compensation of employees. The following categories are included:

· persons engaged by an employer under a contract of employment;

· civil servants and other government employees whose terms and conditions of employment are laid down by public law;

· the armed forces, consisting of those who have enlisted for both long and short engagements and also conscripts;

· owners of corporations and quasicorporations if they work in these corporations;

· students who have a formal commitment whereby they contribute some of their own labor as an input into an enterprise?s process of production in return for remuneration and (or) education services;

· outworkers if there is an explicit agreement that the outworker is remunerated on the basis of the work done that is, the amount of labor which is contributed as an input into some process of production;

· disabled workers, provided the formal or informal relationship of employer to employee exists;

· persons employed by temporary employment agency;

· persons temporary not at work if they are in: the continued receipt of wage or salary, an assurance of return to work following the end of the contingency, or an agreement as the date of return.

Self-employed persons are defined as persons who are the sole owners, or joint owners, of the unincorporated enterprises in which they work. Self-employed persons also include the following categories:

· unpaid family workers, incl. those working in unincorporated enterprises engaged wholly or partly in market production;

· outworkers whose income is a function of the value of the outputs from some process of production for which they are responsible.

Employed resident

Employed

Bulgaria

from 1995 (Infostat)

Not applicable.

Labour Force Survey;

• Statement of employee hours worked, wage and other labor costs.

Annually

Comprehensive

Implementation of validated procedures for assessing data quality.

Implementation of validated procedures for assessing the quality of data and the development of estimation of the completeness of the data.

Not applicable.

· European Statistics Code of Practice;

· Common framework for quality management in the National Statistical System.

Questionnaire on the implementation of the principles of the European Statistics Code of Practice..

In practice, the system of national accounts, there are two main types of revisions. The first type of audits is ongoing, regular characterized by the presence of new or updated statistical information based on statistical surveys or administrative sources. The second type of revisions is related to a change in the methodology and calculation procedures for specific statistical indicators.

National accounts data are subject to continuous routine revisions as new input data becomes available. This will typically also entail revisions of the national accounts aggregates, which are derived from these data. In BG national accounts two types of revisions are: regular –  preliminary, final data; and main - based on implementation of new methodology or GNI reservations.

· The annual estimates - the sum of estimates of quarterly data - T +65 days after the reporting period;

· Updated annual data - T +9 months after the reporting period.

The annual estimates - the sum of estimates of quarterly data - T +65 days after the reporting period.

Updated annual data - T +9 months after the reporting period.

The data transmitted to Eurostat are in compliance with National Accounts Data Distribution Program Annex B and respective derogations for the country.

The comparability is ensured  through the implementation of common definitions of ESA 2010.

By using a common framework of the European System of Accounts  ESA 2010, the data can be comparable over time.

In certain cases, data from other domains of economic statistics, i.e. balance of payments statistics, business statistics, household budget statistics or external trade statistics can be used for cross-checking purposes. These economic statistics are also available from the appropriate domains on the NSI website.

Press Release

· Statistical Yearbook;

· Statistical Reference book;

· Publication ?Main Macroeconomic Indicators?.

Data are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Macroeconomic statistics - Gross Domestic Product - Employed persons, hours worked and labour productivity - Annual data - Employed persons- Total of economy: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/5519

Not applicable.

European system of accounts (ESA 2010)

· Law on Statistics;

· REGULATION (EC) No 223/2009 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL (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.