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From 1^st until 28^th February 2011, the 17^th Population and Housing Census is conducted in Bulgaria. This is the first census since the country is a member-state of the EU. For the first time Internet census is applied. Electronic census is accepted with a great interest and an extremely high participation rate is observed.

The total number of persons enumerated by Internet is 3 100 023 which presents 41.2% of the total number of persons living in Bulgaria.

On 7^th February 2011 the NSI President Assoc. Prof. Mariana Kotzeva will participate in two summit meetings at the European Commission in Brussels.

On January 27^th 2011 the Council of Ministers adopted a Decision approving the position of Bulgaria as a regular observer in the Statistics Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the determining of the President of the National Statistical Institute to represent the country in meetings of the Statistics Committee.

Working Meeting of the Directorate General for Regional Statistics of the European Commission

On 1^st December 2010 the President of the NSI Assoc. Prof. Mariana Kotzeva will participate in the meeting of the Directorate General for Regional Policy at the European Commission in Brussels.

Experts from the State Statistical Office of the Russian Federation (ROSSTAT), working in the field of retail trade statistics were on a three-day mission (30 November – 2 December 2010) to BNSI.

The President of NSI – Assoc. Prof. Mariana Kotzeva will take part in the 7th Meeting of the European Statistical System Committee (ESSC), which will be held on 18 November 2010 in Eurostat, Luxembourg.

According to the agenda, the Committee will take decisions on 7 comitology items – proposals for Commission Regulations as regards labour statistics, healthcare, social protection benefits and accidents at work.

A delegation from the National Statistical Institute, headed by its President Assoc. Prof. Mariana Kotzeva, will visit the National Statistics Office of Malta on 11th and 12th November. Members of the delegation are the Secretary General of NSI Mr. Tsvetan Nanov and experts. The purpose of the visit is to obtain technical and methodological assistance on designing a web-based “School in Statistics”, like the one already developed there.

In October 2010 in NSI a seasonal adjustment of business surveys’ time series was carried out for the first time. The procedure was carried out with the help of the software developed by Eurostat Demetra, where the algorithm TRAMO / SEATS was applied.

On October 22, 2010, the National Statistical Institute held a final workshop on Quality Assurance in the National Statistical System. The workshop was financed by NSI and Eurostat within the frame of the Grant Agreement No 80201.2009.006-2009.318.).

The NSI Deputy President, Gergana Mihaylova opened the forum, welcomed all participants and emphasized the importance the National Statistical System to provide timely and accurate statistical information, respecting all principles of the European Statistics Code of Practice.