Statistics Estonia

Economic and Environmental Statistics Department

Statistics Estonia

51 Tatari Street

10134 Tallinn
ESTONIA

Number of registered enterprises.

Number of bankrupt enterprises.

The number of registrations and bankruptcies are classified by their main activity in the following NACE rev 2.0 breakdowns:
BTE (sections B to E)
F
G
H
I
J
KTN (sections K to N)
PTSXS94 (sections P to S except S94)

All economic units active in Estonia, except households and embassies of foreign countries.

Registered enterprise – legal unit entered in the registrations register at any time during the reference quarter, according to the respective administrative or legal procedure.

Bankrupt enterprise – legal unit that has started at any time during the reference quarter, by court decision, bankruptcy declaration processings (which is often provisional and does not always mean cessation of activity).

Enterprise.

Economic units, including sole proprietors.

The whole country is covered.

Data transmitted to Eurostat from 2010.

Data published nationally from 2021.

Not applicable because data are sent in absolute figures.

Number of registered and bankrupt enterprises.

Quarter.

Regulation (EC) No 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 on European business statistics, repealing 10 legal acts in the field of business statistics (Text with EEA relevance).

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 § 32, § 34, § 35, § 38 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 of Statistics Estonia. Every year on 1 October, the release times of the statistical database, news releases, main indicators by IMF SDDS and publications for the following year are announced in the release calendar (in the case of publications – the release month).

The publication calendar of news releases and the statistical publications are available on the website of Statistics Estonia https://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. on the date announced in the release calendar.

Quarterly.

Not published.

Not published.

Data are published under the heading "Economy/Economic units/Business demography” in the Statistical Database in https://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 § 33, § 34, § 35, § 36, § 38 of the Official Statistics Act. Access to microdata and anonymisation of microdata are regulated by Statistics Estonia’s procedure for dissemination of confidential data for scientific purposes: https://www.stat.ee/sites/default/files/2020-08/Procedure%20for%20dissemination%20of%20confidential%20data%20for%20scientific%20purposes.pdf

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

Regulation (EC) No 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 on European business statistics, repealing 10 legal acts in the field of business statistics (Text with EEA relevance).

The Quality Report sent to Eurostat is available at the address: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/short-term-business-statistics/methodology

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

Statistics Estonia performs all statistical activities according to an international model (Generic Statistical Business Process Model – GSBPM). According to the GSBPM, the final phase of statistical activities is overall evaluation using information gathered in each phase or sub-process; this information can take many forms, including feedback from users, process metadata, system metrics and suggestions from employees. This information is used to prepare the evaluation report which outlines all the quality problems related to the specific statistical activity and serves as input for improvement actions.

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications

State and local government institutions

Non-profit organisations

Entrepreneurs

Research and educational institutions

Eesti Pank (central bank of Estonia)

Eurostat

Since 1996, Statistics Estonia has conducted reputation and user satisfaction surveys. All results are available on the website of Statistics Estonia in the section https://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.

Not measured because of the usage of administrative data.

The data are published 40 days after the end of the reporting quarter (T + 40).

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

The data are comparable with the data of other European Union (EU) countries.

The data transmitted to Eurostat are comparable since 2010.

The data published nationally are comparable since 2021.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not measured.

The data revision policy and notification of corrections are described in the section https://www.stat.ee/en/statistics-estonia/about-us/strategy/principles-dissemination-official-statistics of the website of Statistics Estonia.

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

The published data may be revised if the methodology is modified, errors are discovered, new or better data become available.

Data from the Centre of Registers and Information Systems.

Quarterly.

Data are gained from the Centre of Registers and Information Systems through Data Exchange Layer X-Road.

Arithmetic and qualitative controls are used in the validation process, including comparison with other data.

Published indicators are calculated on the basis of received data (Centre of Registers and Information Systems).

Not applied.

Not applicable.