National Statistical Institute

Population and Housing Fund Statistics

Kameliya Blagoeva

Chief expert

2, P. Volov Str.; 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria

[email protected]

+359 2 9857 205

Dwellings by number of the rooms, type of settlement (town, village), useful floor space by type of settlement (town, village).

· Classification of Territorial Units for Statistical Purposes in Bulgaria (NUTS);

· Unified Classification of the Administrative-Territorial and Territorial Units in Bulgaria (UCATTU).

The survey covers all residential buildings and dwellings in the country.

Residential buildings are the buildings which by initial building or after reconstruction are suitable for living and consists of one or more dwellings which take at least 60% from the total area. In the coverage of the survey ”Housing fund at the end of the year” are included inhabited and uninhabited residential buildings, campuses and buildings of institutional households.

Residential building are divided into following types:

• House - residential buildings with one to three floors (free standing, with common wall, twin-house (duplex), terraced, row houses and etc.) in which every dwelling has its own entrance directly from the adjoining terrain. This category includes buildings up to three floors with one dwelling on every floor and common entrance from the street/yard. This category includes also guest houses and family hotels in which at least 60% of the space is used for usually residence to some persons and responds to the definition of house.
• Block of flats, cooperation - building with low floors (2 or 3 floors), medium floors (4 and 5 floors) or high floors (6 and more floors) and which has one or more entrances with common stairs to the individual dwellings in every entry. This category includes buildings with 2 or 3 floors with 2 or more dwellings on every floor. Blocks of flats which have more than one entrance and are built by sections (stepwise) are considered as one building. This category includes guest houses and family hotels in which at least 60% of the space is used for usually residence to some persons and responds to the definition of block of flats, cooperation.
• Building of a mixed type (over 60% floorage) - building in which more than 60% of the total area is used for residential purposes and less than 40% - for no residential purposes (commercial, administrative and etc.)
• Campus, dormitory - residential building intended for temporary satisfaction of the residential necessities of students, PhD students or employees.
• Country house - buildings that are situated in regulated or unregulated country areas, private properties (vineyards, gardens) and etc., which by initial construction are intended for satisfaction of specific needs to the persons - dwelling for recreation, for seasonal or temporary use.
• Building of institutional household - boarding school, boarding house, monastery, home for children, home for elderly, prisons and other buildings in which collective households reside.

The dwelling is separate and independent in the terms of construction place, which by initial building or after reconstruction is suitable for living, has one or several rooms (housing or service) and has one or several separate exits to a generally accessible part (stairs, yard or straight to the street), irrespective of whether a kitchen has been built.

A dwelling which is situated on two or three floors in one residential building where live one household is counted as one dwelling. However, each floor is counted as a separate dwelling if separate household lives on each floor.

The rooms in the hotel type constructions (hall system) in which live separate households are counted as separate dwellings. All rooms and services in the buildings in which are accommodated people from the joint household (boarding-houses, specialized homes, cloisters, prisons, etc) form one dwelling place.

Living floor space is the floor area of living-rooms, bedrooms, children's rooms, recesses for sleeping, dining-rooms, the rooms for day-stay, cabinets and libraries of scientists, drawing-rooms and kitchens over 4 sq. m. floor area. Тhe space of the kitchens with over 4 sq. m floor area was presented separately before 31.12.2018.

A room is defined as a space in the dwelling enclosed by walls reaching from the floor to the ceiling or roof, of a size large enough to hold a bed for an adult (4 sq. meters at least) and at least 2 meters high over the major area of the ceiling.

From 2025 the total area of the dwellings in the building serves as a source of information on the useful floor space. Until the end of 2024 the useful floor space of the dwellings is calculated as the sum of the living floor space and the service floor space.

The living-floor-space per capita is calculated on the base of the number of the population at the end of the year.

The data about the residential buildings and the dwellings in them are presented according to the administrative division of Bulgaria as of 31.12. of the reference year.

The data of the housing fund as of 31.12. is obtained on the basis of results from the last conducted Census of housing fund and to them every year is added the number of newly constructed residential buildings and dwellings and are taken out destroyed during the reference year.

The object of the survey are the residential buildings and the dwellings in residential buildings in the country.

The statistical survey on Housing fund is exhaustive - the residential buildings and the dwellings in residential buildings in the country.

The Republic of Bulgaria's territory.

2004-2024

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Number, Square meter.

Year

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· 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.

Individual data are not published in accordance with article 25 of the Law on Statistics. The publishing of individual data can be performed only in accordance with article 26 of the same law.

Statistical information is published according to the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute. Data for Housing fund is published on the NSI website annually, seven months after the reference period.

The calendar is available on the NSI website: https://www.nsi.bg/bg/node/488

Data is published on the NSI website, section Housing fund 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

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· Statistical Reference Book;

· Statistical Yearbook;

· Regions, districts and municipalities in the Republic of Bulgaria.

Data on Dwellings and Useful floor space are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Housing fund: https://www.nsi.bg/bg/node/3143 и в Информационна система Инфостат:https://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/external/login.jsf?lang=bg

Anonymised individual data can be provide for scientific and research purposes, and for individual request according to the Rules for the provision of anonymised individual data for scientific and research purposes.

Information service on request, according to the Rules for the dissemination of statistical products and services in NSI.

Survey Methodology: http://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/metadata/HFund_2_Methodology_EN.pdf

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Satisfaction survey among the users is not conducted.

High level of completeness in accordance with the methodology.

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Statistical data on housing fund is published annually, five months after the reference period.

Data are disseminated according to the ARC timelines.

Data are prepared at national level.

Data are comparable. In order to ensure comparability of the data, for the space of kitchens from Census 2021, the space of kitchens was imputed for unoccupied dwellings and for dwellings with no specified one. There is a break in the dynamic series of housing fund data in 2011 and 2022.

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Data source of information for the Balance of housing fund as of 31.12. are data from the last conducted Census of housing fund, as well as a statistical form “Card for residential building”, which collects data for newly built and destroyed residential buildings and dwellings in the reference reporting year.

Annually

The Balance of the housing fund data as of 31.12. is obtained on the basis of results from the last conducted Census of housing fund and to them every year is added the number of newly constructed residential buildings and dwellings and are taken out destroyed during the reference year.

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The data processing is centralized at the national level.

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