STRUCTURAL BUSINESS STATISTICS - NON-FINANCIAL ENTERPRISES
'Business Statistics' Directorate
'Annual Business Statistics and Business Registers' Department
Maya Simeonova
Head of Department
+359 2 9857 179
| Concept |
Presentation |
| Data description |
The SBS data is received from the Annual reports of non-financial enterprises, compiling and non-compliting balance sheets, according to the requirements of Regulation (EC) № 2700/98 - definition of characteristics. |
| Classification system |
• National Classification of Economic Activities (NACE.BG-2003);
• National Classification of Products by Economic Activities (CPA.BG 2003)
• Classification of territorial units for statistical purposes in Bulgaria (NUTS) - (version 19.06.2006). |
| Sector coverage |
The SBS survey includes all non-financial enterprises, classified in sections C to I and section K by NACE.BG-2003 for the period 2002 - 2007. |
| Units of measure |
Number and thousand levs |
| Reference Period |
Calendar year |
| Time coverage |
2002 - 2007 |
| Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements Regulatory requirements and rules (national and European) |
• Regulation (EC) № 58/97 of 20 December 1996 concerning SBS, complemented by:
- Regulation (EC) № 2700/98 of 17 December 1998 - definition of characteristics, amended by Regulation (EC) № 1670/2003 of 1 September 2003;
- Regulation (EC) № 2701/98 of 17 December 1998 - the series of data for SBS, amended by Regulation (EC) № 1669/2003 of 1 September 2003;
- Regulation (EC) № 2702/98 of 17 December 1998 - technical format for the transmission of SBS data, amended by Regulation (EC) № 1668/2003 of 1 September 2003;
- Regulation (EC) № 2699/98 of 17 December 1998 concerning derogations;
- Regulation (EC) № 1667/2003 of 1 September 2003 concerning derogations;
- Regulation (EC) № 1614/2002 of 6 September 2002 – amending Regulation (EC) № 58/97 and Regulation (EC) № 2700/98, (EC) № 2701/98 and (EC) № 2702/98;
- Regulation (EC) № 1618/1999 of 23 July 1999 - criteria for the evaluation of the quality of SBS data. |
| Timeliness |
• on national level – the SBS data are published in accordance with the deadline specified in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute;
• to Eurostat – preliminary data – 10 months after the reference year; final data – 18 months after the reference year. |
| Dissemination format |
• the NSI website: www.nsi.bg
• Statistical Yearbook;
• Statistical Reference Book;
• Bulgaria – Statistical Panorama. |
| Documentation on methodology |
Eurostat's methodological manual concerning SBS data |
| Source data |
The main data sources for calculating the SBS data are:
• Annual Report of the non-financial enterprises, compiling balance sheets;
• Annual Report of the non-financial enterprises, non-compiling balance sheets. |
| Frequency of data collection |
Yearly |
| Data collection |
Exhaustively for all non-financial enterprises covered in the SBS survey. |
