Statistics Estonia

Economic and Environmental Statistics Department

Statistics Estonia

51 Tatari Street

10134 Tallinn

ESTONIA

Construction Cost Index

NACE Rev2 and Classification of Types of Construction (CC) are used.

Section F of NACE Rev2.

The definition in this paragraph reflects the terminology used in the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197.

The objective of construction cost index is to show the development of costs incurred by the contractor to carry out the construction process.

Reporting unit is enterprise.

List of active industrial enterprises from business register for statistical purposes.

Construction enterprises in Section F of NACE Rev 2 with large share of own account works are selected. Wholesalers of construction materials and products are selected.

The whole country is covered.

From 1994.

Index reference period is 2021=100.

Index

Quarter

Official Statistics Act of 10.06.2010

https://www.riigiteataja.ee/en/eli/ee/506012015002/consolide/current

Pursuant to the Official Statistics Act, at the request of Statistics Estonia conducting official statistical surveys, respondents are required to submit, by specified due dates, to the extent established by a list of official statistical surveys approved by the Government of the Republic. In the case of failure to submit the data collected by official statistical surveys, a fine is imposed.

Data are transmitted to Eurostat.

The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in § 34 and § 35 of the Official Statistics Act.

The treatment of confidential data is regulated by the Procedure for Protection of Data Collected and Processed by Statistics Estonia: https://www.stat.ee/en/statistics-estonia/about-statistics-estonia/legal-acts.

Notifications about the dissemination of statistics are published in the release calendar, which is available on the website. On 1 October each year, the release times of the Statistical Database, news releases, main indicators by IMF SDDS and publications are announced in the release calendar (in case of publications – the release month).

The publication calendar of news releases and the statistical publications are available on the web site of Statistics Estonia www.stat.ee under the heading "Statistics Estonia".

www.stat.ee/en/calendar

All users have been granted an equal access to official statistics: this means that the dissemination dates of official statistics have to be announced in advance and no user category (incl. Eurostat, state authorities and mass media) can have access to the official statistics (results of official statistical surveys) before other users. Statistical information is first published in the Statistical Database. In case a news release is published based on the same data, the information provided in the relevant news release is simultaneously published in the Statistical Database. Official statistics are available on the website at 8.00 a.m. (7.00 a.m.CET) on the date announced in the release calender for all users.

Quarterly

The news release „Construction price index” once a quarter. The news release can be viewed on the website www.stat.ee/en/news.

Data are published on the Internet site www.stat.ee.

Data are published under the heading „Economy/Prices” in the Statistical Database in andmed.stat.ee/en/stat.

The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in § 34, § 35, § 36, § 37, § 38 of the Official Statistics Act. Access to micro-data and anonymisation of micro-data are regulated by Statistics Estonia’s „Procedure for dissemination of confidential data for scientific purposes”: https://www.stat.ee/en/statistics-estonia/about-statistics-estonia/legal-acts.

Data are sent to Eurostat both to be used in European aggregates as well as to be released as national data.

PPI https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/ppi/2010/manual/ppi.pdf

European Business Statistics Methodological Manual for Short-Term Business Statistics (2021 edition)

European Business Statistics Compilers’ Manual for Short-Term Business Statistics (2021 edition)

Not available.

To assure the quality of processes and products, Statistics Estonia applies the EFQM Excellence Model, EU Statistics Code of Practice and the ESS Quality Assurance Framework (QAF). Statistics Estonia is also guided by the requirements provided for in § 7. „Principles and quality criteria of producing official statistics” of the Official Statistics Act.

The quality assessment is based on quality requirements of the ESS (relevance, accuracy, timelines and punctuality, accessibility and clarity, coherence and comparability). The inspection of statistical survey, updating survey methodology and statistical questionnaire, self-assessment of survey manager are carried out.

Data are only published when they have a high degree of consistency.

Construction enterprises and professional associations 

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications

Government Offices

Eurostat

Users‘ suggestions and information about taking them into account are available on the website www.stat.ee/en/statistics-estonia/about-us/user-surveys.

Since 1996 Statistics Estonia conducts reputation surveys and user surveys. All results are available on the website www.stat.ee/en/statistics-estonia/about-us/user-surveys.

In compliance with the rules (regulations).

The type of survey and the data collection methods ensure sufficient coverage and timeliness.

Not applicable.

The response rate is about 95%. Non-sampling error is not measured.

The construction price index is published quarterly on the 21st day of the month following the end of the reference quarter or on the next business day.

The data have been published at the time announced in the release calender.

The data are comparable from country to another. However, the countries may apply different collection and calculation methods for the data. No geographical regions, Estonia as a whole.

The data are comparable across time.

Not available.

The aggregates are coherent with the total.

The assessment of cost and burden covers the statistis for NSI as well as STS needs.

NSI hours per year: not available

Burden (respondents) hours per year: 310

Data revision policy is described under item 2.3 of the Dissemination Policy of Statistics Estonia. Notification of corrections: https://www.stat.ee/en/statistics-estonia/about-us/strategy/principles-dissemination-official-statistics.

The same revision policy is applied to data released nationally and transmitted to Eurostat.

Methodological changes and revisions are announced at the same time as the changes.

A weighting system is based on statistical data prepared by Statistics Estonia on the volume of construction works and cost estimation documentation of representative construction structures.

About 7500 price quotations of 90 representative items are obtained monthly from 90 construction enterprises, 20 wholesale enterprises and price collectors.

Monthly

Data are collected through eSTAT (the web channel for electronic data submission). eSTAT is also used to monitor the completion of questionnaires. The questionnaires have been designed for completion in eSTAT by the respondents themselves and they include instructions and controls. The questionnaires and information about data submission are available on Statistics Estonia’s website at https://www.stat.ee/en/submit-data/about-data-submission (in Estonian). Data are collected with the monthly statistical questionnairy „Ehitushind”, also special questionnaire for price collectors is used.

Prices data are reviewed by the price statistics staff. In case of problems or doubtful cases the respondents are contacted by telephone for clarification. The price statistics staff verifies the computation of the index at various stages of its compilation.

The Laspeyres formula is used. Based on available information, the last observed price is carried forward or this is imputed by observing the movement in the index for similar products or product groups.

The construction price index is not seasonally adjusted.

None.