There is still limited gender desegregated data in Bulgaria. However, statistics on different issues divided by gender are compiled by the National Statistical Institute (NSI). Since 1998 a special publication of the NSI “Employment and Unemployment“ is being published on a three-months basis, where different, primary issues desegregated by gender through these systems are available. Theses issues are: level of employment, unemployment rate, reasons for unemployment, educational level, employment in an independent activity, share in the employment and unemployment, employment by sectors and types of activities, involvement in independent activities (i.e. self-employment), participation in qualification courses, participation in small business alternatives of unemployment, breakdown of unemployment by age groups of women, data about long-term unemployed.

NSI provides also data about some demographic indicators by gender. The most recent data about population, fertility, life expectancy, deaths, migration increase, migration flows, etc.is from the last Census in 2001. In 2002 the NSI published its most detailed evaluation of the equality in social possibilities and positions between women and men so far – Women and Men in the Republic of Bulgaria, which is based on main statistical data both in the field of demographic and social development, and in the field of employment and unemployment.