Moody's Analytics Data Buffet now offers an expanded selection of national and subnational data for Bulgaria, mainly from the National Statistics Institute (NSI).  These data reside in two database products, the Moody's Analytics Global Database and the Europe National and Subnational Database.

Covered economic sectors include banking, consumers, demographics, exchange and interest rates, personal and household income, industrial production, employment and wages, national and regional accounts, CPI, real estate, and international trade.  Coverage varies, but certain data is available as frequently as daily or with geographical granularity to the municipalities. For further detail, please browse the catalog, and see related articles in Data Buffet News or attached to time series via Mnemonic 411.

Table 1. Summary of economic indicators. For completeness, we have included previously public data sourced from the National Statistics Institute (NSI) and the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB). Series frequencies are annual, quarterly, monthly, or business-daily (A, Q, M, B), and geographical levels are described in Table 2.

Table 2. Geographical levels in our subnational dataset. These geography code patterns will help you create wild card basket retrievals. For example, to retrieve GVA for all NUTS 2 areas, use NALPAGDPSUA.IBGR_^^. (There is only one single-character basket wild card, the caret, but the table shows "a" and "n" to denote use of letters and digits.)

Section 3. Background and References. The Republic of Bulgaria (a.k.a. Balgariya, Bulgarija) is a member of the European Union (2004) but not the euro zone; its currency is the new lev (ISO 4217 BGN). The official language is Bulgarian and the written language is Cyrillic; consequently, transliterations of place names will vary. The time zone is UTC+2 and the Data Buffet geo code is .IBGN.  Bulgaria uses ESA 1995 for national accounts. Its economic activities classification is NACE.BG-2008, a localization of NACE Rev. 2; the previous version was NACE.BG-2003, from NACE Rev. 1.1. For geographies, it uses Eurostat NUTS 2006 (see table 2).

Web sites presenting useful overviews and supplemental detail about the country:

• Primary
  • National Statistics Institute (NSI)
  • Bulgarian National Bank (BNB)
  • Ministry of Finance
  • NUTS metadata by country at Eurostat RAMON
• Secondary
  • BBC News Profile
  • CIA World Factbook
  • U.S. State Department
  • Statoids
  • Wikipedia