Yesterday's newsletter article on income per capita in Bulgaria mentioned a figure of LV 1242 or € 633 per household member for the 3rd quarter 2013.

This implies an annual income of approx. LV 5000 or € 2500 or $ 3250.

However, the most recent World Bank's data publication listed an annual income of $ 6966 per capita for Bulgaria in 2012....more than double your figure.

Sounds intriguing.

From Berry GELDER

Reply from Novinite.com:

Dear Reader,

The information in the article is based directly on official data, released, sent to media and published on the site of the National Statistics Institute, NSI.

The Methodological Notes of NSI say the following:

The source of data is the quarterly household budget survey. It is sample survey. The sample used for the survey is a random sample.

A regular household are two or more persons who live in one dwelling or part of a dwelling, having their meals together and having a common budget irrespective of the fact whether they are relatives.

A household is also one person living alone, having meals separately and having his/her separate budget.

Institutional households are not studied by the household budgets survey.

The main indicators for income, expenditure and consumption are estimated quarterly and annual as average values and relative share.

Household income in cash and kind includes all receipts of household members from: wages and salaries, pensions, entrepreneurship, unemployment benefits, social benefits, etc. Other regular or irregular transfers from other households and property sale are also included.

Household expenditure includes expenditure for food, beverages, tobacco, housing (water, electricity, heating, furnishing and maintenance), transport, communications, health, taxes, social insurance contributions, etc.

Consumption average per household member includes the quantities of foods and beverages consumed at home. The catering data are not included.

More information on the household budget survey and its results could be found on NSI web site under the heading of Households Income and Expenditure (http://www.nsi./otrasal.php?otr=21 - in Bulgarian)

Respectfully,

The Editorial Team

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