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Between February 24 and March 24, 2003 the sociological agency Vitosha Research conducted a survey on corruption among the representatives of business organizations in Bulgaria. Representatives of 447 companies and organizations in the country were interviewed employing the method of personal standardized interview.
The March survey of the "hidden economy" in the business sector covered 537 companies accross the country. It involved an expanded sample comprising another joint-stock companies. To ensure proper comparative analysis, the main conclusions in the present paper are based on data excluding the added joint-stock companies, i.e. covering 437 companies.
Fieldwork took place in the period february 28 - March 24, 2003. The survey employed the method of the face-to-face interview.
On March 14, 2003 the Center for the Study of Democracy hosted a round table on Public-Private Partnerships in Preventing Drug Abuse and Trafficking. Experts from government agencies and non-governmental organizations were invited to the discussion.
Experts from the Working Group on the Abuse and Trafficking of Drugs at the Center for the Study of Democracy presented the results of the first national representative survey on drugs consumption in Bulgaria.
In the period January 23 - February 02, 2003, Vitosha Research conducted a national representative survey of the "hidden economy" in the country, covering 1107 respondents aged 18 and over. The survey employed the method of the face-to-face interview.
National survey of public officials, conducted in 1999 among 320 officials and in 2002 among 412 officials. The research method is face-to-face interview.
The main objective of the IT monitoring conducted by Vitosha Research is to observe periodically and in a systemic way the distribution and use of PCs and Internet by Bulgarians.
Coalition 2000 is an initiative of Bulgarian
non-governmental organizations launched in the spring of 1997 with
the aim to counter corruption in Bulgarian society through a
partnership between state institutions, non-governmental
organizations and individuals, who developed and have been
implementing an Anti-Corruption Action Plan, a Corruption
The main goal of the research project outlined in the present paper is to initiate systematic monitoring of the size and dynamics of the hidden economy in Bulgaria (HEM).
The project envisions conducting a series of representative surveys of the country's adult population and of the business sector at three-month intervals. This will make it possible not only to examine the dynamics of the problem, but also to collect reliable information about the differences in the attitudes of the general population and the business community to the manifestations and reasons for the development of the hidden economy in this country.
Vitosha Research conducted a research of the "hidden" economy among the business sector which encompasses 530 companies throughout the country. The fieldwork was carried out during the period November 25 - December 02, 2002. The survey method is personal standard interview.
The conference report with papers and articles
about the informal economy in the accession countries
is published in the framework of the project "The
Informal Economy in the EU Accession Countries:
Size, Scope, Trends and Challenges in the Process
of EU Enlargement". It includes papers presented
at an International
informal economy conference, organized
by the Center for the Study of Democracy on 29th
and 30th of November, 2002 in Sofia.
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