The NSS development for the 2013–2017 period is founded on the vision that the National Statistical System produces and provides to all user groups high quality statistical products and services, produced based on harmonized European methodologies and standards and observes the principles of the European Statistics Code of Practice.
The main objective for NSS development for the 2013 – 2017 period is to improve the development, production and dissemination of quality statistical information about all user groups according to their information needs.
The official statistical information – product of NSS – is intended for analyses and scientific studies, planning, prognosis and making managerial decisions at micro and macro level. The statistical information products and services are directed to the:
The vision of NSS development implies observance of the UN Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics and the principles laid down in the European Statistics Code of Practice. The following principles play a leading role in the system‘s activity for the 2013–2017 period:
MAIN OBJECTIVES:
The development of NSS in the period 2013-2017 imposes the implementation of the following main objectives:
The information needs undergo constant changes. The statistical science regularly develops the methodology of statistical surveys. Everyday information and communication technologies provide new opportunities for speeding up and making easier the processing and analysis of statistical data. All this necessitates constant extension of the contents of the existing statistical surveys and implementation of new surveys and indicators in conformity with users’ needs. During the 2013–2017 period, the Bulgarian statistics will fulfill the engagements stemming from the Community Statistical Programme, 2013–2017 and the newly adopted EC Regulations relevant to conducting pilot statistical surveys within the Community and improving the statistical methodology in concrete thematic domains.
Production of statistical information is impossible without the timely and quality provision of primary data from the business, households and citizens. From the view point of society, an effective NSS is the system, which produces useful and important information about management on micro and macro level at the lowest costs possible. Crucial condition for the successful dissemination of statistical information is its provision in a form easy to interpret and convenient to access. Under the present-day conditions of utmost importance attached to the information about management and everyday life, NSI is also facing the necessity of providing additional statistical products and services, differentiated by user groups. All this puts in the foreground of NSS development the objective for the improvement of all stages of production of statistical information – from the methods, forms and organization of primary data collection, through the methods of data processing and data storage, and compilation of concrete statistical indicators up to the contents, coverage and ways of dissemination of produced statistical products and services.
The NSS sustainable development is impossible without an appropriate legal framework and functional environment. More effective cooperation with Eurostat and the national statistical systems of the other Member States is a crucial condition for full integration of the national statistics within ESS. Well-trained and motivated human resources are the key factor of carrying out the NSS mission and achieving the main development objective, laid down in the Strategy for the 2013-2017 period. The implementation of an appropriate information infrastructure and e-services needed for the production and dissemination of statistical information is also an important condition.
The main objectives of NSS development are predetermined by the following:
PRIORITIES
Priorities of NSS development, important for implementation of the main objectives for the 2013– 2017 period, are as follows:
Along with the general horizontal priorities, the NSS has specific priorities for development that are related to the methodology development, enrichment of the contents of the existing surveys, implementation of ad-hoc modules and enlargement of the existing surveys, implementation of new surveys and indicators in the following domains: