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The President of the National Statistical Institute (NSI), Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD and the Director of Multi-Domain Statistics, Methodology and Registers Directorate, Antoaneta Ilkova, took part in the 11th European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics (Q2024) in Estoril, Portugal. The event was hosted by Statistics Portugal in close collaboration with Eurostat under the theme “Official Statistics as a Pillar of Democracy”.

Eurostat is happy to announce the winners of the European Statistics Competition 2024, held in the 2023-2024 school year. 

Over 22 000 students from 20 countries signed up for the seventh edition of this statistical literacy contest, which was the highest number since the competition’s inception.

The President of the NSI Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD and Mrs. Maria Gochova – Acting Head of the International Relations and Projects Department, participated in the 56th meeting of the European Statistical System Committee (ESSC), which was held in Luxembourg.

In the period 15-17 May 2024, a seminar on the topic of “Development, production and distribution of data in the field of Government Finance Statistics” was held in the National Statistical Institute’s training center in the village of Slivek. The seminar was chaired by Ms. Nina Stoimenova, Director of Macroeconomic Statistics Directorate of the NSI.

The President of the National Statistical Institute (NSI), Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD took part in the 19th Conference of the International Association of Official Statistics and the International Statistical Institute (IAOS-ISI), which was held on 15-17 May 2024 in Mexico City under the theme “Improving Decision-Making for All”. This year the event was hosted by Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI).

The Deputy President of the NSI Svilen Kolev, PhD opened a training course on seasonal adjustment of data with the use of the JDemetra+ specialized software, which is held in the Library of the NSI under the “STACE – Statistical methods and tools for time series, seasonal adjustment and statistical disclosure control” project.

Statistical literacy in Europe was discussed at an international conference in Bruges, Belgium. The National Statistical Institute was represented at the conference by the President Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD and the Director of Multi-Domain Statistics, Methodology and Registers Directorate Mrs. Antoaneta Ilkova. The event took was jointly organized by the Belgian statistical office STATBEL and Eurostat within the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU.

The President of the National Statistical Institute (NSI), Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD together with experts from the International Relations and Projects Department took part in an online meeting of the Working Group on Exchange of Statistical Data and Economic Information (WGESDEI) of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC).

The peer review mission of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which was held at the National Statistical Institute (NSI) in the period 26-28 March 2024, was completed successfully with a unanimous high assessment of the work of the NSI and the progress achieved in the last 12 months. The mission was part of the accession procedure for full membership in the Committee on Statistics and Statistical Policy (CSSP), of which the NSI has been an associate member since 2019.

In the period 26-28 March 2024, a peer review mission of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is being held at the National Statistical Institute (NSI) as part of the accession procedure for full membership in the Committee on Statistics and Statistical Policy (CSSP), of which the NSI has been an associate member since 2019. Participants in the mission on behalf of the OECD again are Ms. Asa Johansson, Deputy Director of the Statistics and Data Directorate, and Mr. Julien Dupont, Accession Coordinator of the CSSP.