Finance tables for education - Public and private expenditure on education| Contact |
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| Contact organisation | National Statistical Institute |
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| Contact organisation unit | 'Education and Culture Statistics' Department |
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| Contact name | Dilyan Atanasov |
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| Contact person function | chief expert |
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| Contact mail address | 2, P. Volov Str.; 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria |
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| Contact email address | [email protected] |
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| Contact phone number | +359 2 9857 484 |
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| Statistical presentation |
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| Data description | Calculations on educational expenditure are done according to the UNESCO, OECD, Eurostat's methodology (UOE - Finance tables) which ensured international comparable data. Main subject of the survey is determination of the exact value of the public and private expenditure, distributed by the educational levels. |
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| Classification system | International Standard Classification of Education, 2011 version (ISCED 2011) |
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| Sector coverage | All public and private educational expenditure. |
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| Statistical concepts and definitions | |
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| Statistical unit | Educational expenditure by levels of ISCED. |
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| Statistical population | Public and private educational expenditure. |
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| Reference area | Whole country. |
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| Time coverage | 2000 - 2022 |
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| Base period | Not applicable. |
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| Statistical processing |
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| Source data | Ministry of Education and Science; Ministry of Finance; NSI departments: Education and Culture Statistics, Statistics on Living Conditions, National Non-financial Accounts, Statistics on Labour costs, Research and Development, Innovation and Information Society. |
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| Frequency of data collection | Annual. |
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| Data collection | Administrative data from Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Education and Science and NSI. |
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| Data validation | Data validation is done by the National Statistical Institute and quality tests are carried out by the Eurostat. |
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| Data compilation | Not applicable. |
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| Adjustment | Not applicable. |
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| Quality management |
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| Quality assurance | A set of quality criteria have been set up within the Commission Regulation (EU) No 912/2013. |
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| Quality assessment | The national quality report provides users with basic information on quality at national level. |
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| Relevance |
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| User needs | State and regional authorities, international organisations, national and foreign users. |
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| User satisfaction | Information is not available. |
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| Completeness | Information is not available. |
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| Data completeness - rate | Not applicable. |
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| Accuracy and reliability |
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| Overall accuracy | Not applicable (compilation of administrative data). |
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| Sampling error | Not applicable (compilation of administrative data). |
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| Sampling errors - indicators | Not applicable. |
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| Non-sampling error | Not applicable (compilation of administrative data). |
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| Coverage error | Not applicable. |
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| Over-coverage - rate | Not applicable. |
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| Common units - proportion | Not applicable. |
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| Measurement error | Not applicable. |
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| Non response error | Not applicable. |
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| Unit non-response - rate | Not applicable. |
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| Item non-response - rate | Not applicable. |
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| Processing error | Not applicable. |
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| Imputation - rate | Not applicable (no imputations). |
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| Model assumption error | Not applicable. |
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| Seasonal adjustment | Not applicable (no seasonal adjustments). |
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| Data revision - policy | Not applicable (preliminary data not published). |
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| Data revision - practice | Not applicable (preliminary data not published). |
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| Data revision - average size | Not applicable (preliminary data not published). |
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| Timeliness and punctuality |
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| Timeliness | · Data compilation: September - November of year T; · Transmission of data to Eurostat: November of year T; · Dissemination of national results: April of year T+1. |
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| Time lag - first results | 28 months. |
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| Time lag - final results | Not applicable (only final results published). |
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| Punctuality | All national disseminations and deliverables to the Eurostat in time. |
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| Punctuality - delivery and publication | Not applicable (data published on exact date). |
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| Coherence and comparability |
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| Comparability - geographical | Fully comparable with all EU Member States. |
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| Asymmetry for mirror flows statistics - coefficient | Not applicable (no flows). |
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| Comparability - over time | Partially comparable due to the changes of national legislation. |
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| Length of comparable time series | 22 years. |
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| Coherence - cross domain | Data is coherent with surveys conducted by the NSI departments: Education and Culture Statistics, Statistics on Living Conditions, National Non-financial Accounts, Statistics on Labour costs, Research and Development, Innovation and Information Society. |
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| Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics | Not applicable. |
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| Coherence - National Accounts | Data is partially reconcilable with National Accounts. |
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| Coherence - internal | Carried out quality tests, mainly on the coherency of the gathered information. |
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| Accessibility and clarity |
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| News release | Regular press release on the internet site. |
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| Publications | Statistical Reference Book; Statistical Year Book. |
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| On-line database | Data on public and private expenditure on education are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Education and Lifelong Learning (http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/4944) and in Informational System"Infostat" (https://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/module.jsf?x_2=166). |
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| Data tables - consultations | Not avaliable. |
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| Micro-data access | In accordance to the Rules on Provision of the Anonymised Individual Data for Scientific and Research purposes. |
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| Other | Information services by order in accordance to the Rules for Dissemination of Statistical Products and Services. |
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| Metadata - consultations | Not avaliable. |
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| Documentation on methodology | Methodological documents of UNESCO, OECD and Eurostat. |
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| Metadata completeness – rate | Not avaliable. |
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| Quality documentation | Quality report in accordance to the Commission Regulation (EU) No 912/2013. |
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| Cost and burden |
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Information is not available. |
| Confidentiality |
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| Confidentiality - policy | · 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. |
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| Confidentiality – data treatment | In compliance to the Law on Statistics (Articles 25 and 26). |
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