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1.1. Contact organisation | National Statistical Institute |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Population and Housing Fund Statistics Department |
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1.5. Contact mail address | 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria, 2, P. Volov Str. |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 30/08/2023 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 30/08/2023 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 30/08/2023 |
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3.1. Data description | |||
Total usual residence population for the purposes of qualified majority voting in the Council. |
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3.2. Classification system | |||
Not applicable. |
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3.3. Coverage - sector | |||
Total usual residence population at national level. |
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3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | |||
People usually living at the country territory and who have not left it officially as of 31.12 of the reference year for a period more than 12 months. Illegaly staying persons are not included. |
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3.5. Statistical unit | |||
Person. |
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3.6. Statistical population | |||
Not applicable. |
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3.7. Reference area | |||
Data are available at national level of geographical detail. |
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3.8. Coverage - Time | |||
Not applicable. |
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3.9. Base period | |||
Not applicable. |
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Person. |
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The reference date for population data is the end of the reference period (midnight of 31 December). |
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6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | |||
Law on the Statistics EU Regulation 1260/2013 EU Regulation 862/2007 EU Regulation 2020/851 |
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6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |||
Not applicable. |
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
Not applicable. |
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
Not applicable. |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
Final data on population and demographic events are made available 4 months after the end of reference year |
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
Not applicable. |
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8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
Not applicable. |
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Annual |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
Not applicable. |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
Not applicable. |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
Not applicable. |
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10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
Not applicable. |
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
Not applicable. |
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
See the information in the Annex file. |
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
Not applicable. |
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11.1. Quality assurance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Quality of data is assured through procedures for data validation, editing, coding and verifying. The procedures are performed following clearly prescribed rules. |
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
Data requested in Art. 4.1 of Reg. 1260/2013. |
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12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | |||
Not applicable. |
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12.3. Completeness | |||
Data transmitted as requested in Art. 4.1 of Reg. 1260/2013. |
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||
no reasons exist for any unreliabilty of data. |
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13.2. Sampling error | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3. Non-sampling error | |||
Not applicable. |
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14.1. Timeliness | |||
For the purposes of qualified majority voting in the Council, Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with data on the total population at national level at the reference time, in accordance with Article 2 ( c ), within eight months of the end of the reference year. |
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14.2. Punctuality | |||
Not applicable. |
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | |||
Not applicable. |
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15.2. Comparability - over time | |||
Not applicable. |
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | |||
The total usual residence population transmitted by the national statistical offices to Eurostat in the framework of the Usual Residence Population data collection may differ from those available in National Accounts, Labour Force Survey or in the survey on Income and Living Conditions. The difference is given by the population coverage (see metadata specific to each domain). |
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15.4. Coherence - internal | |||
The total usual residence population transmitted by the national statistical offices to Eurostat in the framework of the Usual Residence Population data collection may differ from those available in the rest of the Demographic domain. The difference is given by the population definition (see metadata specific to each domain). |
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Population and demographic statistics data production is included in the National Programme for Statistical Surveys, financed by the State budget |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
Not applicable. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
Not applicable. |
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18.1. Source data | |||
Population Register, Ministry of Interior, National Revenue Agency, National Social Security Institute |
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18.2. Frequency of data collection | |||
Monthly of births and deaths Annually of migration data |
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18.3. Data collection | |||
Administrative data sources are used for production of official statistics. Data files are provided to NSI containing information on demographic events - births, deaths, marriages, divorces, change of address in the country, intenational migration |
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18.4. Data validation | |||
Data validation is performed at three stages: At data transmission – preliminary checking and processing, the proper application of the criterion for length of stay of 12 months. At the data processing stage - criteria for doubling, correctness, validation rules for each record’s characteristic. Before data release - checking the frequencies of separate variables, consistency of table and cross-tabulations. |
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18.5. Data compilation | |||
Data are processed, edited and validated through the Information System Demography, respecting the settled in advance system and logic criteria. Records linkage is done based on Identification Number of the persons subject of a demographic event. |
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18.6. Adjustment | |||
Estimates and assumptions concerning the volume of emigrants are done to improve figures produced both for emigration and population number. Since 2022 sign of life method is used for estimation of the emigration and the number of population. Еstimates (based on NSI sample survey on trips of Bulgarians abroad and visitors to Bulgaria) are done in production of breakdowns of emigrants by destination countries. |
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Metadata on 2022 usual residence population |
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DEMOMIGR_UREESMS_A_BG_2022 |