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From the beginning of April 2022, the National Statistical Institute starts a Household Budget Survey in newly selected households.

The survey is annual and it is included in the National Statistical Programme 2022. In the survey take part 3 060 randomly selected households divided into three sub-samples each containing 1 020 households. During the April - June 2022 period households from each sub-sample are consistently included in the Household Budget Survey. Each household participates in the survey four months during the 12-month period of the method of rotation sample.

In March, the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria launches conducting of the survey on ‘Social Inclusion and Living Conditions 2022’.

Refugees from Ukraine are to be accommodated in the hotel part of the training centre of the National Statistical Institute (NSI) in the village of Slivek, in the Lovech Region. In this way, NSI takes part in the campaign for the support of Ukrainian citizens who left their homes because of the war.

‘We wanted to help these people in a purely human way. It is good that we managed to quickly unite our efforts with the municipality of Lovech,’ said the NSI President, Sergey Tsvetarski.

The European Statistical Governance Advisory Board (ESGAB) published 18 recommendations for Eurostat

The NSI passed a successful audit and was recertified according to the leading international standards for information security and quality management - ISO 27001 and ISO 9001. On January 19, the President of the Institute Mr. Sergey Tsvetarski received the Certificate for Integrated Management System from Mr. Kalin Panev, head of RINA Bulgaria.

The online seminar dedicated to the “Challenges faced by the official statistics during the COVID-19 pandemic” was organized by the National Statistical Institute of the Republic of Bulgaria (NSI) in accordance with the Action Plan for 2021 of the Working Group on Exchange of Statistical Data and Economic Information (WGESDEI) at the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC).

The European Commission is working on a new regulatory framework for European statistics on population (ESOP), aimed at bringing together demographic, migration and census data. In this context, it is carrying out a public consultation to gather input from stakeholders.

The National Statistical Institute starts two control surveys for Census 2021. More than 400 experts who work at the NSI statistical departments throughout the country will make rounds of 14 000 dwellings and will interview the households living therein. It is a random sample and the surveys will last until 31st October 2021.

Enumerator rounds last until 10th October

2 404 979 people distributed in 1 060 335 households got counted electronically by Census 2021 Information System.

1 082 314 people have registered as the greatest is the number of women of the group of ages 40 to 49 - 139 777.

The most are the people counted online in Sofia - 790 408 people which is a little more than 60% of the population of the capital city.

The enumerators will be able to visit households, buildings and dwellings until 8 p. m. on 10th October 2021. At its meeting today, the government amended Decision № 61 dated 21st January 2021 and extended the deadline for the enumerator rounds by one week.